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Tried to win by waiting to the last. Controlled it for most of the quarter but could not buy a goal.  Some really poor decisions, while I don't blame hunt for the loss, gee. kick it earlier.  

Too many fumbles and lack of intense pressure around the ball for most of the game...

Fortunately there is always next week, but we need a solid fwd target.  Looks like BBB is the only option.  Time to find out. 

 

 

Petracca can’t kick a set shot from 25m straight in front. WTF

Hunt, Harmes and Petty don’t cope under finals type pressure and we need to try others out that can handle it. 
 

7 goals 13. And around 3 shots that’s didn’t even register 

Yep that was bad. Now lost to Crows, Magpies and Giants. All well below us on ladder. It basically has stuffed our chances of a top 2 finish let alone top 4 but then again we might come out next week and beat Port BUT not with this team.


Why get BBB in to the club if you are not going to play him? Goodwin you are a goose who needs to have a good hard look at himself. Kicking scores of less than ten goals a week is not good enough.

Anyone who wants to sell their MFC premiership bets, I'll pay them out and take 'em on. PM me with your offers. . 

 
7 minutes ago, Kit Walker said:

Lost at the selection table. Why play Sparrow if you don't trust him with 55% game time. Surely Brown plays next week?

Pickett and Spargo look woefully out of form at the moment. Witches hats in forward 50

Melksham does way more


11 minutes ago, Jaded said:

People will pick on Hunt but FMD there are 18 players out there who did SFA today. At least Hunt tried to do something. 

Exactly

Serious problems to address:

1. Midfield depth - Petracca and Oliver as our only guns is not enough; Viney is, to put it midly, "working his way into it", while Harmes is limited and not to be relied on
2. Forward structure - this is dictated a lot by how much time the ball spends in our back half (i.e., by point 1), but even when we win the ball the player with possession rarely seems to know who to kick it to, because there's no one there demanding the football.

I think we could possibly win a premiership this year if Oliver and Petracca go gangbusters in September, but it's not sustainable because it's a reliance on too few in that area. When they're down or outworked, we'll lose because we simply need to get it inside 50 a lot in order score because of point 2.

As for point 2 - please can we pick the Coleman medallist sitting on our list?

I hope that [censored] hurts.

This pattern of not starting will hurt us more as the season continues. Teams will know to come out hard, get a lead and try to hang on until the end of the game. Most teams will be willing to back their backline to hold us late. All season this happened and it all starts with a lack of intensity in the midfield.

T Mc is a mobile CHF, let him play as one, but FFS we can't rely on Fritta to be our primary target in the forward line. Brown needs to come into the side and if not play one of Gawn or Jackson out of the square.

Backline was good again today, all our issues are forward of centre. 

 

I would have VDB in a heart beat at least hurts the opposition. Our midfield is like butter


Do you really believe BBB would have made the difference, you still have to kick it to him. Number of time we had free players forward and they kicked to a contest was doing my head in. 

At least the TV commentary confirmed Eddie is a total sea hunt.

We lost this one in the guts and [censored] kicking for goal.

But if umpire 6 is officiating the grannie, and we’re in it, then there’s no way he’s going to let us get over the line. He stiffed us in the Sydney game as well. Thanks to whoever shot his dog.

We desperately needed another kpf.  I hope BBB kills it for Casey tonight.

1 minute ago, Mr Steve said:

Do you really believe BBB would have made the difference, you still have to kick it to him. Number of time we had free players forward and they kicked to a contest was doing my head in. 

Yes.... Pickett in front of Brown to pick up the crumbs would have been better..   we have no full forward except Fritsch

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16 minutes ago, Hayden Junt said:

As much as I love him, Hunt reminds me of Frost sometimes… incredible speed and gains a lot of metres but has the footy IQ of a goldfish

He is so NOT the problem! 

6 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Petracca can’t kick a set shot from 25m straight in front. WTF

Hunt, Harmes and Petty don’t cope under finals type pressure and we need to try others out that can handle it. 
 

7 goals 13. And around 3 shots that’s didn’t even register 

Yep Petty was poor today, not clean too many mistakes. Reads it very well but caused dangerous turnovers too often. Hunt could not have played worse in the last quarter. Have no idea what he was thinking.

2 minutes ago, Mr Steve said:

Do you really believe BBB would have made the difference, you still have to kick it to him. Number of time we had free players forward and they kicked to a contest was doing my head in. 

If Brown is running at me I'll kick it to him. If some other random is there waving his arms around I might not. You've got to make it easy for the guy delivering the ball to make the right decision. Also, Brown kicks goals when he get is, unlike a lot of others I might mention currently trespassing in the Melbourne forwardline.

 
Just now, ucanchoose said:

Yes.... Pickett in front to pick up the crumbs would

No sorry. The only benefit would be Fritsch could become a very dangerous second forward.  


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