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NON MFC: Round 06

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Nascent    738

Nascent
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Lions

Hawks

Saints

Eagles

Demons

Bombers

Giants

Tigers

Bulldogs

 

 

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Tarax Club    440

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24 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Lions

Hawks

Saints

Eagles

Demons

Bombers

Giants

Tigers

Bulldogs

 

 

Toss in the winning tattslotto numbers too!

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Diamond_Jim    5,656

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Metricon with four games over the weekend.

Will be interesting to see how the surface holds up.

15mm predicted for Sunday and 45-60mm for Monday...lucky that wasn't Saturday and Sunday !

Cats and Pies for the first two matches

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P-man    10,905

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Hope Lions thump these pretenders. They almost lost to us ffs.

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Mister Ed    118

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Say whatever you want about our man Dan but he’s not only leading the tipsters, he also picked 11 winners last week from just 9 games.05C3EF0D-E273-4CDD-8E75-46F2C36F7E79.thumb.jpeg.dc9e108626e2755eebcb29a04116cf02.jpeg

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Redleg    20,603

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Never seen a team whinge more to the umpire and beg for frees than the Cats. Actually sickening.

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whatwhatsaywhat    7,640

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Just now, Redleg said:

Never seen a team whinge more to the umpire and beg for frees than the Cats. Actually sickening.

don't watch the hawks much?

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Lord Travis    4,539

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Cats showing that kicking skills reign supreme. They barely handball, always looking for short kick options.

Interestingly 4 of the top 5 teams have the lowest play on percentage. They mark, stop and create uncontested marking chains with short kicks.
Conversely we have the highest play on percentage in the league and are the worst team in the league over the last 18 months. Basically proof our gameplan is completely wrong and we need to slow down and hit a [censored] target.

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Redleg    20,603

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1 hour ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

don't watch the hawks much?

This mob mentor them. I think they asked for a free at halftime.

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trout    196

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Sadly that was a very good quarter of footy from Geelong, there leaders all standing up. 

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Win4theAges    1,538

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9 goals in a row and they were playing ring a ring a rosie against us. They are making the Lions look like pretenders.

It sound like I've been on the whaky tabaki but if we make the necessary adjustments and clean our foot skills up we arent that far off.

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Dee Zephyr    7,575

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Remember seeing a stat here last week. The team sitting second on the ladder has not won a game in 2020. The curse continues.

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Robbie57    1,368

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May be we weren't bad, just Geelong are very good.(i just threw up in my mouth).

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Wiseblood    22,428

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Lions would be much better if they had any decent tall forwards.  Hipwood and McStay are very average.  If you keep Cameron quiet then you go a long way to beating them.

33 minutes ago, Win4theAges said:

9 goals in a row and they were playing ring a ring a rosie against us. They are making the Lions look like pretenders.

It sound like I've been on the whaky tabaki but if we make the necessary adjustments and clean our foot skills up we arent that far off.

We have actually played some decent teams to kick off the year.  It's no excuse in terms of our skills and so forth, but I agree that if we can fix up the skills enough then we'll win more than we lose.

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Bring-Back-Powell    4,262

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10 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Lions would be much better if they had any decent tall forwards.  Hipwood and McStay are very average. 

Except for the afternoon Hipwood kicked 5 goals either side of 3 qtr time last year against us....grr!

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dl4e    1,885

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Brisbane swithced off after 1/2 time and that was it.

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Spirit of '87    197

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25 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

We have actually played some decent teams to kick off the year.  It's no excuse in terms of our skills and so forth, but I agree that if we can fix up the skills enough then we'll win more than we lose.

But are skills something that can just be “fixed up” or do skills = say natural ability that can’t be improved? 

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Return to Glory    5,245

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54 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Remember seeing a stat here last week. The team sitting second on the ladder has not won a game in 2020. The curse continues.

Phew, we dodged a bullet

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Pates    4,933

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1 hour ago, Win4theAges said:

9 goals in a row and they were playing ring a ring a rosie against us. They are making the Lions look like pretenders.

I honestly feel like we are the confidence building team. Teams comes up against us, the players in the middle give them enough of a tough run to make them compete hard but our skills and decision making is so bad that the other team ends up getting the win. They go on with confidence and play better, while we continue our trajectory of going nowhere.

You watch Richmond will hit some form now.

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