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POSTGAME: Rd 14 vs St. Kilda

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1 minute ago, Wiseblood said:

Someone mentioned it earlier, but how did the umpire justify calling play on for the Brown kick that clearly went at least 25 metres in those last 30 seconds?

I've seen kicks go 8 metres and get paid.

That was unbelievable call. Smart play by brown (i assume he had nothing forward). Pay he mark as he should and langdon golds that for 10 seconds and then down the line and its game over. Gave them a chance.

It was actually a really smart kick by Langdon to get it so deep under pressure. It was great he was switched on as he could of easily just assumed the mark was going to be paid and got tackled. 

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    5 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

    No way that wasnt a goal to Trac.......Ratten alluding it was touched

    It was touched.  Just after the line.

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    2 minutes ago, A F said:

    I've read a lot of posts now saying how good the backline was, and yes, they were brilliant, but we play 18 man defence FFS. It was a team effort. We had stand out performances in May, Petracca and arguably Langdon too, but the team defended the ground and prevented constant slingshot most of the night.

    Agree, but they did have 16 more inside 50s than us. The defenders held up repeatedly when St Kilda were mindlessly bombing it in (which was happening in part because they couldn't get through the zone).

    The defence is what was missing from last week. We couldn't stop the Dogs' run, but we stopped the Saints' brilliantly.

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    Melbourne said Viney needed the rest rooms. I mean fair play. When you gotta go you gotta go ?

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    Huge win. Did not see that. Goodwin coached well I thought.

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    23 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Also, Viney did not attend the team song in the end.

    Walking off he looked like he cracked the sads..

    Did anyone notice this?

    Just said on Fox that he had a call of nature, and had to make a rush for the loo...

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    I'll be the first to admit I was disappointed how we finished the 2nd quarter but also I'm happy to have lost the $50 I had on the Aiints to pocket  another 4 points. Pleased they really gutsed it out for a win. Anyone else like paying for a win. Does anyone remember the Demons incentive plan. Mine normally goes to the TAB these days. 

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    Rapt to win and there’s a lot of room for improvement, mainly because we have actually lost the clearances three weeks in a row, yet consider that a strength of ours

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    8 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

    Makes it even sweeter that they think that. Let them sook.

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    It was a supreme snsp. Better than his first 70m torp.

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    Still getting over Mays game.....

    Been watching this club for a long time and its hard to remember a more complete game from a defender

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    1 minute ago, praha said:

    Huge win. Did not see that. Goodwin coached well I thought.

    Probably sums up the feeling of about 90% of Demonland.

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    57 minutes ago, drdrake said:

    Lucky I went to the bottle shop and stocked up today.   Ugly game,  take the win,  turnover still a massive issue

    Turn overs were dreadful. This is the area of our game we need to clean up. Clean those up, bring consistent effort like most of tonight and we take the next step.

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    Just now, titan_uranus said:

    vandenBerg, Hannan, Jones and Pickett laid 3 tackles between them.

    I love vandenBerg's intent but if he's not tackling, I'm just not sure why he's playing.

    I'd like to see the pressure act stat (does anyone know if it's available anywhere), as I'm sure the FD look at it, and it might be what keeps Pickett in the side.

    AFL stats keep once percenters, which interlude pressure acts i think - but i think it takes a day for it to come up

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    7 minutes ago, Trisul said:

    It was touched.. past the goal line.

    That was my call. Close. But we got it

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    Big Maxy, what a great captain.  When asked in an interview what does a big win like this mean, Max's response was that he was  "I'm just proud that we can put a smile on some people's faces back in Melbourne".   Maxy has such a great connection with us supporters with his down to earth, easy going approach.  Love ya Maxy.

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    19 minutes ago, My name is legion said:

    You’ve never seen MFC kick so badly around the ground? How long have you been following them? 1 week???

    About 30 years.  But that was pretty bad - I can't remember kicking directly to opponents more than today.

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    37 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

    Was Salem on him? If so gave him an absolute footy lesson

    Rivers seemingly

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    6 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    Big Maxy, what a great captain.  When asked in an interview what does a big win like this mean, Max's response was that he was  "I'm just proud that we can put a smile on some people's faces back in Melbourne".   Maxy has such a great connection with us supporters with his down to earth, easy going approach.  Love ya Maxy.

    True leader.

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    6 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

    No way that wasnt a goal to Trac.......Ratten alluding it was touched

    Ratten does himself no favours pouting about it. I thought better of him than that. It was a clear goal. Yes it was touched, after it crossed the line. He should accept it. The goal umpire was right there. Ratten's team also got the benefit of some doubtful free kicks. Funny how no coach complains about that.

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    2 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    vandenBerg, Hannan, Jones and Pickett laid 3 tackles between them.

    I love vandenBerg's intent but if he's not tackling, I'm just not sure why he's playing.

    I'd like to see the pressure act stat (does anyone know if it's available anywhere), as I'm sure the FD look at it, and it might be what keeps Pickett in the side.

    But but but... doesn’t he just make everyone stand taller*?!

    I said after the Pies game he was not great. 
     

    *besides Spargo, even on his tippy toes he can’t stand taller. His toes are double jointed, the wrong way, and when he stands on them he actually gets shorter.

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    13 minutes ago, Marty said:

    I think we can give Richardson a fair amount of that credit!

    I had been thinking the same thing.

    Sure they ran free at times and certainly got too many “easy” clearances and switches, but having their recent coach on our side of the bench surely made a bit of difference ... and there was only a bit of difference. 

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    1 minute ago, Buzzy said:

    About 30 years.  But that was pretty bad - I can't remember kicking directly to opponents more than today.

    saints did it more often than we did. both teams played a half-back game and had multiple players playing intercept roles. Our skills were good for the most part today I thought.

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    10 minutes ago, Vagg said:

    Just said on Fox that he had a call of nature, and had to make a rush for the loo...

    For shame.

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    1 minute ago, Buzzy said:

    It was touched.  Just after the line.

     Ratten should go back to Carlton he doesn't belong in St.Kilda. Cleary his eyesight is gone, I saw it over the line and called a goal but why wasn't it paid a mark it was wasnt it or do I have Rattens glasses on. Close to goal of the year. 

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    3 May 2 Petracca 1 Goodwin

    Fantastic defensive structure.

    They wanted to pick us apart the way Geelong did and we didn't let them.

    We had a few that did everything they could to give the ball back to them but our setup was so good it didn't hurt us.

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