35 minutes ago, Deestroy All said:

All things considered, I’ll take it. Can we never play there again please. 

 

I’ve never seen so many hack miskicks hit a target, I was convinced luck was against us. 

 

Heartbroken for Tomlinson. Leave Tomald back there. 

 

Kozzie and Fritsch kept us in it. Couple of cool customers. 

 

Jackson outstanding. Gawn possibly drunk. 

 

That’s about all I got out of it. Regroup, structure up, move on. 
 

Tomlinson ?

I'll certainly take it. Horrible place to play. And I note - Geelong beat North by 30 points very recently ... at Geelong. Nothing at all wrong with today's result. Tomlinson is the dark cloud.

The umpiring was very poor.

Norf lose by a fair margin but get 25% more free kicks.

Mmmm.

Just now, Engorged Onion said:

Cool (I don't really care, about people I don't know) - but was GH more supportive of The Dees or was AH salty re: Geelong's loss?

It seemed like all three of them wanted to see the Dees lose. Healy sweats on us getting beaten.

Good sides grind out those games.  North played good footy in the first half.  Gawn, Petracca, Oliver and nearly everyone else was well below their best.  Jackson, Pickett, Jordon, Langdon and Salem got us back int the game and Fritsch was outstanding as a target.  Him kicking straight today made a huge difference.

5 minutes ago, ProperDee said:

It seemed like all three of them wanted to see the Dees lose. Healy sweats on us getting beaten.

They were very unprofessional. Huddo with his premptive calls the worst.

After such an ordinary start and sub-par first half deliberately steered clear of the DL game day thread.

As part of our post-game cool off curiosity won regrettably.

Going backwards into the thread  was not unlike being aboard with Captain Willard going up river seeking Colonel Kurtz.

1 minute ago, leave it to deever said:

The umpiring was very poor.

Norf lose by a fair margin but get 25% more free kicks.

Mmmm.

What was with the calling of play on when players hadn't deviated off their line ?

Thrilled to be 7-0, and we worked hard in the 2nd half for the 4 points. But stuff me that was horrible to watch. Flat and lifeless, error riddled, and what appeared to be a lack of energy. Luke Jackson is amazing, along with Kozzie and Fritta, and Oliver in the last quarter was immense.

Get on the plane, forget all about it until the review, and move on to the Swans.

And Melksham was atrocious.

I think our devious plan all along was to play North into form so they can beat the pies next week. I hope we succeeded.

15 minutes ago, Big Col said:

% is points for / points against x 100
In order to increase percentage we would need to win by a greater amount than our current %. 
Any other result will result in a decrease in %

The longer the season goes on, though, the less impact an individual game will have on % though the principle remains the same.

 

  Perhaps an alternative way to understand is to think of an extreme case.  What would happen to our percentage if the score today was a ridiculous 5001 points to 5000, a score totally dominating all the points scored for and against earlier in the year?  

Then your percentage is (5001+a relatively tiny bit) divided by (5000+ another tiny bit)  which is close to 5001/5000 =near as dammit to 1.  And so your percentage heads towards 100% no matter where it started.     So your percentage can go down even if you win - unless you win by enough.    And similarly if you have a bad percentage and lose in a very high scoring match, it is possible your percentage can rise despite the loss.

A win’s a win, but gee we struggled against the bottom team.

Things I’ll take away from this match:

Hopefully it’ll be a wake up call coming down from our Richmond win that we are not unbeatable.

We have the ability to come back in danger.

Hobart is never kind to us.

North may not be as bad as we believe they are.

We need to stick to our handballing game.

 

 

Now I’ve said that, I’m going to enjoy the win and be proud of being top of the ladder for the first time since 2004.

GO DEES!

We play like that again we will not win another game of footy. The only time they showed up was for about 7 or so minutes in the third. Most of them played like they had taken a shot of smack before the game, just running up and down on the spot.

5 minutes ago, ProperDee said:

It seemed like all three of them wanted to see the Dees lose. Healy sweats on us getting beaten.

I thought Healy had been quite pro MFC lately in the media I have seen. Often advocates us and seems to be enjoying what we are doing, which is a pleasant change. 

9 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

What is with the language of 'dragging us down'? To anyone who says it, not just you @Mazer Rackham

 

Well, not trying to have a shot at you, but before his game, North's highest score was 65. Our lowest was 80. Their percentage was 45.9. They'd lost every game and we'd won every game including beating both last year's grand finalists.

Their only shot was to play an ugly flooding, scragging, double-teaming, arm holding, head punching, rugby maul game. To nullify our considerable skill advantage. A bit like parking the bus. The way we used to play under Neeld to prevent 10 goals blowouts. (And we couldn't even do that.)

So, in the spirit of correct and legal football barracking, North can go [censored] themselves and we'll point at the scoreboard, sing the team song, and continue to dream of glory.

GO DEMONS!!!!!

A lot of our stars had a shocker today, Gawn, Trac, Oliver, Lever and May weren’t their usual selves, especially in the first half.  Forward pressure looked off with the inclusion of BBB.  Once Tom Mac went back it seemed to work better.  Our 2019 draft stood up today, I was really impressed with Kozzie, Jacko and Riv.  Fritsch was the difference.

 

no way Fritsch gets suspended, high, low impact $1000 find.

Geez we never make it easy for our fans to we.  A first half to review and forget.

 

7-0 go Dee’s

Well done Dees, turned it around again. Good pressure, kept running, and out-muscled them.

Good change by the coaches. Put a stoper on Cunnington, I think it was Brayshaw. Created a hold it in, in the forward area, and rebounded it back in when they punced it out. 

North gave us some turnovers with poor skills and perceived pressure, after half time.

Oliver fights his tag, and gets his kicking game going.

Jackson best game to date. Stood up when Maxy struggled.

Salem came into the game.

Tmac is so flexible. Can play anywhere. 

Thought Baker did alright. He will be better when his passes go quicker to the free players.

Worried about Melksham and ANB, they need to be quicker with decisions and actions. You would think that experienced players would know the pace required!

Well done, Kossie and Fritta. 

Jordon, Jones (director of the mids) solid games. The Trac is hard to stop. Eventually we started getting the clearances. 

Langdon great game, always beats his opponent, gives a target and runs the ball well.

Rivers, Hibbo, May and Lever stood up when needed. 

Won in the second half, when North fell off the pace they set earlier.

Top of the ladder, no losses, we will be hunted now.

Back to the G!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 2, 20213 yr by kev martin

Looked  a woefully small crowd. TBC....never to be published. lol  Didnt even look like an AFL game more a suburban park game. AFL are clowns.

Alice Springs coming soon. What an effing joke. Brown will play next week (2). Terrific tap to Fritsh for a goal.

 

My MFCSS is in fine form. I was ready to swing the axe on all of them in the 2nd qtr. Witches hats the lot of them. Win is good, but there have to be a couple rested before we take on Sydney.

9 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

The umpiring was very poor.

Norf lose by a fair margin but get 25% more free kicks.

Mmmm.

Seriously... do some people expect fairness and equity in free kicks? It's not a conspiracy.

 

Blessed are they that grind out a five goal win, for they shall inherit the 4 points.

Go Dees!

 

I won't be watching this game again. 

We won, happy as we normally drop these games. Let's see what happens.next week.

Why does anyone care whether the commentators want us to win or not. To hell with them

38 minutes ago, Deestroy All said:

Jackson outstanding. Gawn possibly drunk.

Gawny, in the first quarter, copped three free haymakers from behind from North, each on the right temple of his head. Two in a pack mark where one North player went for the ball, the other behind Gawn not going for the ball at all - just to provide a fist to the head to interfere with that play (Gawn about to outmark the bloke in front) and to initiate or establish a 'weakened' Gawn game for the rest of the match.

Another two were also delivered to ensure Gawn was kept quiet by non-footballing means in that same quarter; one on the ground scramble with the umpire well behind / out of vision and another, in a recovery from a Gawn/Goldstein ruck duel. Again, by these blows were deliberate, appeared planned and delivered by a non-participant in the contest coming in from the side. 

It almost seems as if the umpires require some prescription spectacles when it comes to Max Gawn.

It also seems to be a coaching directive, in more ways than one, from more and more clubs that we play. All OK, obviously, say the snot goblins with the power of the whistle and the ineptitude of the incorrect decision.

How, and when, are the umpires/AFL going to reduce this blight on the game. Mongrel is about winning the footy by using footy protocols and maintaining such an effort. It is not about surreptitious attempts to maim. 

 

You can all thank me for the result. I was out for the first half and turned on the tv a couple of minutes into the third qtr. I thought we looked pretty good (from that point obviously) in an ugly game. 

Umpiring was awful. Seemed like every time the ball stopped there had to be a free kick. And some of those "not 15" decisions were just bizarre. 

Absolutely gutted for Tomlinson.