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Just now, monoccular said:

Hawkins has a history of “carelessly concussing and otherwise injuring opponents faces and heads. 
Of course “accidental” and the head isn’t really all that sacrosanct all the time. 

any news on Mays' injury??

 
 

Is this the same old Melbourne or have we improved. Cats are severely undermanned. It ours to win no excuses really.

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    Christ Maxy gets the rough end of it.

     

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    If we throw away this game we are the same old Melbourne and all supporters might as well switch off for the rest of the season and all future seasons

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    1 minute ago, Kent said:

    any news on Mays' injury??

    Taken to hospital amaze if it not a break

    1 minute ago, Kent said:

    any news on Mays' injury??

    Gone to hospital. Whole check/eye looks fractured. Not good.


    How does geelong with less possessions have 30 precent more frees than the other side?

    6 frees more in that qrt made a huge difference.

    Always happens against this yeam. Is it the crowd?

     

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    This will be won and lost in coaches box.

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    Goody needs to point out it’s raining and over handballing when not required is silly. We can and should win this. But as always we make it as hard as possible. Cmon dees!!!


    Come on let's change the narrative a bit. It's going to be a workhorse effort 

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    Let’s see some of that maturity and resilience they keep harping on about. 

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    1 minute ago, DSP said:

    Gone to hospital. Whole check/eye looks fractured. Not good.

    surely the review committee will look at this

    1 hour ago, The heart beats true said:

    Fritsch has made 3 mistakes that all cost us goals. Get those right and we’d be at least 3 in front.

    It’s hard to know how difficult it is to mark the ball, but we just dropped 3-4 marks that would have put us in a much better 

    Umpiring a disgrace.

    But we lost our defence structure late in that quarter. For the last smith goal, when we lost the ball we had 3 mids all forward of the contest cheating.   Hopefully Goody resets them at 3 qtr time.

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    Some awful decision making / execution that quarter.  The kick from outside 50 on the boundary from Chunk.  Tmac's decision to play on.  Jordan's decision to handball instead of taking the tackle at HF.

    Sprargo's inability to finish at goal earlier.  The kick from Ed on the flank was woeful

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    Cant someone let an elbow go crazy on selwood?

    Kozzie and Jackson by themselves up fwd.

    Just now, leave it to deever said:

    How does geelong with less possessions have 30 precent more frees than the other side?

    6 frees more in that qrt made a huge difference.

    Always happens against this yeam. Is it the crowd?

     

    Loved the holding the ball against Oliver in that quarter. It followed about 6 tackles on Geelong players in the same passage of play which were all called a ball up. 

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