Great result.

Oliver hitting his target.  Petracca kicks the sealer.  What an unbelievable sequence of events.  Literally,  unbelievable.

 

Goody has been on the receiving end of a lot of harsh words this week from me included but at least he made some moves in the game which was good to see. 
 

Small steps and will see what happens next week. 

1 hour ago, Wiseblood said:

We were due after it seemed as though they'd been kissed on the [censored] by a fairy for their first 7 goals.

Yes, they'd have a hard time repeating those goals. While they were doing that, we missed our opportunities. Could have been a very different score line if luck had gone the other way.

Ah this is that winning feeling, I’ve forgetting how it feels. 

Things to like about tonight, but plenty still needing to be addressed. I’ll do the classic “good, bad, ugly” with a tweak at the end. 

The Good

More kicks inside 50 with purpose, execution still needs work but A LOT better. 

Weiderman didn’t have a huge game but in the face of becoming our main tall he did some good things. Hopefully it gives him confidence. 

Fritta used more HFF than deep forward, it’s his natural position. He could’ve had a really good night with better kicking. 

Viney and Gawn having big influences at big times. 

Oliver kicking more and better, though still some shockers in there. 

Petracca having a poor night by foot but not letting it get him down. Kicked truly when he needed to. (Except for one obvious incident)

Oscar playing mostly ok and Lever also looking better. Lever taking marks is a massive difference. 

Salem continuing to show his class, I’d love him to be averaging 20+ posies because he mostly doesn’t waste it. 

The Bad

Brayshaw being quiet again, he just doesn’t seem to have much urgency about him. Looks flat footed. 

Dip in form from Pig, he’s been good the last couple of weeks but today wasn’t so good. 

Mostly poor day from AvB, first choice to get dropped. Possibly for ANB? EDIT or Jones

Kicking is still awful at times and our players continue to handball to players flat footed putting them under pressure. It’s not keeping the ball moving it’s passing on responsibility. 

The Ugly

May’s disposals and decision making, he looked way out of it all day. Amazingly clunked some goods marks but the kicking and handballs were awful. 

TMac’s eye, really hope he’s ok. I want us to continue using the 2 tall forwards structure so bring in Brown if Tom needs time to heel. Looked nasty. 

Petracca’s fresh-air, when there’s a kid up the other end kicking them from opportunistic chances out of nothing seeing Trac botch that gimmie seemed to deflate the team a bit. 

Rankin looks incredible but the ugly here are two ridiculous free kicks he got, one for taking on Langdon and clearly ducked his head and the other is the baffling one against Oliver. 

The Just Plain Awesome

Bennell kicking the goal after the siren and seeing the players get around him. It meant a lot to him and here’s to many more!

Edited July 11, 20205 yr by Pates

42 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Moment in the first quarter where I seriously considered turning the sound off: TMac is on haunches on the turf with his eyeball on the ground in front of him. Jonathan Brown, while watching the slo-mo: bit of a delayed reaction there. 

One day they’ll raise the standards in the commentary box beyond intellectually deficient oafs who were good at footy when they were young, but it clearly hasn’t happened yet.

Jono Brown absolutely hates Melbourne. I can’t stand when he commentates our games. He continually barracks for the opposition and is so biased it’s borderline repulsive. McDonald almost had his eyeball ripped out and he was ready to play the “Melbourne are soft..” while he Huddo and Gaz had a circle jerk about Rankine, he got the softest of frees and Ellis another a moment before when he dove. All it drew from the commentators was a groan. He is a tool and knows stuff all about the current game. He should stick to trying to be funny on breakfast FM radio, which is mostly cringeworthy stuff as well.

7 minutes ago, deanox said:

TMac averages 8 disposals,  0.8 goals,  3.4 marks, 2.6 score involvements this season. 

Today Weid kicked 2 goals from 7 disposals, took 3 marks and had 3 score involvements. 

 

TMac hasnt been in form but if he kicked 2 goals per week we'd have been happy. In addition, although Weid didn't take many marks and also ran under the ball a free times, I feel he hit and halved contests much more often than TMac has over the last 4 weeks, creating more ground ball opportunities.

Our structure looked so much better with Weid deep and TMac leading up between the 50s to be the link at half forward. Sucks that he got injured when he was starting to find the ball, hopefully he'll be right for next week. If not brown has to come in for our structure if nothing else.

OMac was also good, structurally he tightens us up down back. I think the others defenders (lever and Jetta mainly) trust him down there whatever else you might think of him which is a plus for the back 6. He blanketed Day while May did the same to King.

1 minute ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

Jono Brown absolutely hates Melbourne. I can’t stand when he commentates our games. He continually barracks for the opposition and is so biased it’s borderline repulsive. McDonald almost had his eyeball ripped out and he was ready to play the “Melbourne are soft..” while he Huddo and Gaz had a circle jerk about Rankine, he got the softest of frees and Ellis another a moment before when he dove. All it drew from the commentators was a groan. He is a tool and knows stuff all about the current game. He should stick to trying to be funny on breakfast FM radio, which is mostly cringeworthy stuff as well.

Right............

If this club has any balls, we need to ask the AFL for a few please explains about tonight’s umpiring. Always looks better when you question calls after a win, as it’s not sour grapes. Rankine one against Oliver was non-existent. There was nothing that constituted a free kick and the kid has a real smugness about him. A talent no doubt, but he is going to be lined up in the weeks to come. 

Undefeated when this bloke is in the team...

Welcome back Weid. Promising signs. 

Viney was immense.

Players got the memo about slowing the game down when they needed to and it paid dividends.

GC are no mugs. That was an honest, hard fought win. Now to build on it.

10 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

Undefeated when this bloke is in the team...

Certainty to be dropped.

Maxy - warrior.

Viney - pulled his head out of his [censored] this week.   Good on him.

OMac - solid as a rock.  Looked a presence dare I say it.

Vanders - always been a big fan.  Love him in the team.

Hannan - ditto

May - love him.  Lost the plot in the last but redeemed himself late.

Lever - better, but i still dont get him.

Clarry - disposal atrocious.  except the one time.

Harley - One of those 'cups it in one hand types, class act skilled football freaks' that we rarely have

Weid - can kick straight

Nev. - I'm a fan.  so so tonight though

langdon - liked his game

Umpires - [censored] ****house

Goodwin - coached.  cheers for that

Brayshaw - love him.  quietish tonight

Kossy - ran around like a young talented rookie should.  Love him.  He'll light us all up soon enough.

Harmes - Harmes of 2018 a few times there.   Also late.

TMAC - Warrior but no impact, and no eye

Love the dees though.  Love' em.  But definately the most frustrating team in the history of world sports to support.  Its not even close.

 

Coupla points from tonight:

Great to see Hibberd back to his best lately. Not as big on rebounding tonight but destroyed Sexton.

OMac played his role beautifully. Even a cheeky run through a pack and spot up kick that I enjoyed. Always thought he had played to soon looking like a baby giraffe. He seems stronger and more confident now.

Love AVBs intensity but far out he’s still a liability with the pill. I’m all for him playing still but he needs to get better.

Weid still gets pushed off in the contest a little bit but I loved how he hit a few contests and finished two shots off. Just keep playing him.

Felt oddly calm during the match feeling we were always going to win but got frustrated by some bull crap goals they kept pulling off. 

That Rankine kid is going to give defenders nightmares over his career. Enjoyed his spunk.

They have some serious talent on the Coast. If they keep them all they could be up for a strong run from 2022ish.

1 hour ago, Greendale said:

He ran under the ball a few times and let Ballard mark it. I think with some confidence and consistency that shouldn't be an issue though. The whole forwardline certainly looked better though with a tall target down the line.

He didn't run under it.  That was just BS from the commentators because they weren't game to say he was pushed in the back and not given the free.  There were three contests in a row where he was shoved out and they marked behind him.  Not a peep from the Umps. 

46 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

The umps were horrific. 
 

One in particular when Rankine was caught cold by Langdon when he tried to run around after he marked it and the ump called it high. Should have gone to us. 
 

There were others but I can’t remember them atm. 

And the random one outside the boundary against Oliver that nobody knows what it was for... 

4 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Certainty to be dropped.

Important to manage him

17 minutes ago, Ham said:

Right............

You disagree ?

Maxy was great, BOG for me. Was everywhere and took the pack/contested marks we need from him. Great game.

Hey @jnrmac another win by more than a goal one week at a time

1 hour ago, Optimus D said:

Its a beautiful thing.

Good to see Weids in the side contesting and kicking goals.

Just love AVB's attack on the ball.

 

It is indeed a beautiful thing to see a win

I didn't see the game but from comments here there's still much that was not an improvement.

We must realise that Hawks play a completely different game. Different structures and personnel. We need to adjust to exploit their game.

Another test for Goodwin.

Maybe we'll be on the TV next game?

3 minutes ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

There were three contests in a row where he was shoved out and they marked behind him.  Not a peep from the Umps. 

He was also grabbed by the ankle and tripped in one contest, after being pushed, but the umpire's view was 'play on'.

4 minutes ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

He didn't run under it.  That was just BS from the commentators because they weren't game to say he was pushed in the back and not given the free.  There were three contests in a row where he was shoved out and they marked behind him.  Not a peep from the Umps. 

And the random one outside the boundary against Oliver that nobody knows what it was for... 

Oliver gave Rankine a little rabbit punch to the ribs. Soft as butter but knowing our luck he'll get a week

It's also worth saying that OMac and the Weid made a big difference to the structure today.  Oscar frees up May and Lever to play a more attacking brand and having Sam up front means we have someone contesting in the packs which means that the blind kick in hope isn't quite as disastrous for us as it normally is.  Well worth persistingwith both of them. 

Is it just me or was Kozzie trying to set up Bennell all game? 

we don't win without weid.. also, as someone that hates to watch o-mac trot around half-assed normally. that was one of his most physical games. it was really good. if he can play to that level consistently, he can stay. still need more tackles from players. brayshaw a real worry. weid NEEDS to play rest of the season.

1 hour ago, DubDee said:

We saw improvement and a change in mindset - that is all you can ask

Viney - better

Oliver - kicking more and trying to lower eyes

AVB - getting match fit and scaring the bejesus out of opposition

Lever - taking a few marks and gaining confidence

Fristch - kicking straight

G'day DD. Any interest in revisiting this post and the related discussion:

'O Mac is good kick. Mostly under not much pressure. His decision making is still not great though. 
petracca is a far superior kick. I’m amazed I have to even argue this point'

(just joking btw - sorry, not sorry, couldn't resit )  

Edited July 11, 20205 yr by binman

all this talk about Rankine is [censored] me !

[censored] him !! 

We won the game - that is all that matters.

2 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

all this talk about Rankine is [censored] me !

[censored] him !! 

We won the game - that is all that matters.

Agree. He has [censored] haircut too!!!

go dees