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NON MFC: Round 05

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5 minutes ago, John Demonic said:

And it's still looking like we should have traded 1 of our surplus inside mids to outbid and overpay Hill to have his sublime kicks to advantage. Worth the money.

Ordinary last night.

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    Don’t you love how Bruce gives BT positive feedback on his commentating?

    in what other sport do commentators compliment themselves?! Ridiculous!

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    29 minutes ago, Sydney Pennski said:

    It’s not just us who have long periods without scoring. Collingwood kicked 3 goals to nothing in the first five minutes and one more point to half time. Essendon are five goals straight.

    Demonland would be in meltdown if that was us. 

    The Pies are also showing how not to use a mid/small forward line.  They're bombing it in there in the hope they can pull something out of their back pocket, and it's not working.

    If we want our experiment to work, then we had better use it a little more efficiently than this.

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    12 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

    I knew this thread would start up the whole Dean Kent thing.

    We did nothing wrong in moving him on, and he's not playing as well as this thread suggests anyway. We don't make decisions with the benefit of hindsight, we make them at the time we make them, and at the end of 2018 moving Kent along was a completely justifiable decision, as was keeping vandenBerg.

    The tendency of MFC supporters to complain the moment an ex-Melbourne player kicks a goal is so incredibly frustrating.

    Kent asked to be traded plain and simple. We may well have kept him if they didn’t make a better offer. The revisionism on here is also quite frustrating. 
     

    https://amp.theage.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-s-dean-kent-wants-to-be-a-saint-20180925-p505zp.html

     

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    Yep - and if you put Melbourne jumpers on the pies tonight this site would be in meltdown about players, game plan and coach. The gap between the best and worst teams is so minimal, and a bit of confidence or a couple of good games could see a team like ours get on a big roll.

    i know most here disagree, and I’ve read it in every other topic in the last week so please don’t feel the need to tell me why I’m wrong and we’re stuffed with Goody in charge. 

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    Pies over handballing due to having nothing in front of them.

    Cox will be dropped

    Jamie Elliot ( post contract season)

    Pendlebury not his usual wonderful self... could he be slowing down

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    See ya Collingwood. Umps couldn’t get them home. Even when a bloke threw it in the goal square the blind umpire missed it. Hate both sides, but the Filth just a  little more

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    Just now, Leoncelli_36 said:

    See ya Collingwood. Umps couldn’t get them home. Even when a bloke threw it in the goal square the blind umpire missed it. Hate both sides, but the Filth just a  little more

    It's like choosing between typhoid and cholera.

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    I don’t know who’s got the nicer hair style.

    Dylan Shiel or Daisy Pearce.  

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    Couple of interesting things.

    Stephenson is a bit of a seagull...picks up the scraps real quick if you give him some space but pretty poor in tight.

    Crisp must have been out on the turps with Sidebottom...must have had the DT's tonight, fumbled everything that came at him.

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    28 minutes ago, spalding said:

    Yep - and if you put Melbourne jumpers on the pies tonight this site would be in meltdown about players, game plan and coach. The gap between the best and worst teams is so minimal, and a bit of confidence or a couple of good games could see a team like ours get on a big roll.

    i know most here disagree, and I’ve read it in every other topic in the last week so please don’t feel the need to tell me why I’m wrong and we’re stuffed with Goody in charge. 

     

     

    51 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

    The Pies are also showing how not to use a mid/small forward line.  They're bombing it in there in the hope they can pull something out of their back pocket, and it's not working.

    If we want our experiment to work, then we had better use it a little more efficiently than this.

    If allowed they use it better into the forward half than us but as Daisy (the only special comments person that makes special comments and doesn't state the obvious) noted early EFC were determined not to give them an easy path out of the back half.

    Like us they don't have an effective forward line...their back half has been weakened with the loss of Howe and no Sidebottom means more pressure to Pendles. All that adds up to poor ball use going forward.

    Plus a couple of short steps tonight that Bucks wouldn't have missed.

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    This year is a lottery. 

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    Those umpiring decisions were a disgrace.  Trying to keep pies in it.  Worth 2 additional goals (brown +1, Treloar -1 to bombers).

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    I thought Grundy was just average tonight.  Bombers dominated clearance and Phillips at least neutralized Grundy, yet lo and behold, according to the Herald Sun Grundy scores 2 votes as second best on ground! I reckon there were at least 10 players who were more influential in the result tonight - in no particular order Shiel, Hooker, Hurley, Stringer, Ridley, Ham, Langford, Phillips, Treloar, Daicos, Maynard.  How the Collingwood cheer squad get into the Herald sun voting panel has me beat! 

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    3 minutes ago, Swooper1987 said:

    I thought Grundy was just average tonight.  Bombers dominated clearance and Phillips at least neutralized Grundy, yet lo and behold, according to the Herald Sun Grundy scores 2 votes as second best on ground! I reckon there were at least 10 players who were more influential in the result tonight - in no particular order Shiel, Hooker, Hurley, Stringer, Ridley, Ham, Langford, Phillips, Treloar, Daicos, Maynard.  How the Collingwood cheer squad get into the Herald sun voting panel has me beat! 

    Really! Grundy got 2 votes

    That is a joke

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    11 hours ago, Wiseblood said:

    The Pies are also showing how not to use a mid/small forward line.  They're bombing it in there in the hope they can pull something out of their back pocket, and it's not working.

    If we want our experiment to work, then we had better use it a little more efficiently than this.

    Agreed.

    But they changed tack in the last quarter.  Stopped bombing it in and started working the ball down the boundary with hand ball and short kicks which resulted in faster movement and Ess didn't have time to fall back.  Buckley is a clever coach and knows when and what levers to pull.  It nearly worked.

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    Did others notice the Ess fill in ruckman put out a straight arm to stop Grundy going for the ball at centre bouncers?  Put him off balance a few times? 

    Max was penalised for that many times in 2018, in particular vs Saints.  I recall he trained with one arm tied down to stop himself. 

    And while I'm on umpiring:  since when has two handed scooping the ball not a free kick?  Saw it a few times last night.  Bulldogs have mastered the art.

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    Rant for the day.

    A Selwood/Mathieson clone in Callum Brown. The amount of times he throws his head back staging for a head high free is increasingly annoying. 

    Edited by Dee Zephyr

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    West Coast saving its season against the Swans

    Back in WA for the next 4-5 weeks at least on front of home crowds could see them firmly back in the eight.

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