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Question.

Were Oliver and Trac cojoined twins at some stage. They have a great symbiotic relationship.

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    8 minutes ago, KC from Casey said:

    No appearance to date from -

    12. TOBY BEDFORD
    26. SAM WEIDEMAN
    29. JAYDEN HUNT
    33. OSKAR BAKER
    38. MITCH BROWN
    42. DANIEL TURNER

    Casey playing afterwards?

     

    May heading into rooms with the trainers.

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    40 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    Don't have Kayo so am enjoying myself following this on the North bigfooty game day thread. It's very satisfying having our team talked about like this.

    A couple of times we’ve been caught out going forward with turnovers because have they been pushing back hard defensively and we are getting outnumbered .

    Melbourne's defence is hard to beat.

    they've split us open now

    Good reality check. Stops the uncalibrated preseason chugging off.

    Not a bad quarter of football but we saw about 5 minutes of play from the Dees that shows the difference between the Premiers and Wooden Spooners. They are a class above and we saw it late in that quarter.

    They move the ball quickly we were not able too

    Melbourne too strong and too good for us to play silly.

    Melbourne read the ball ahead of what we are doing as much as its about poor execution.

    We stagnate we should be playing on quickly but Melbourne don’t allow it

    Melb numbers behind the ball and numbers in front of the ball....

    We are winning out fair share of contests but the Melbourne backline is picking off everything.

    Melbourne with ascendency across the ground. Running with numbers, more numbers around the contest, cleaner with the footy.

    Melbourne are very good at smothering kicks in close

    How long till Round 1, 2023?

    They are just out working us on the spread offensively and working back a lot harder defensively. There are a lot of lessons today let’s hope we learn from them .

    We're getting crushed by melbs stronger mids.

    There are a lot of skill errors, but most of those would be because of the pressure being applied by the defending premiers.

    We just hemorrhaged 8 goals in a row and as soon as the pressure came we played like under 10s

    Their last two games were an absolute dismantling of Geelong, and then kicking 46 goals in a row to smash the Dogs and win a flag.

    Melbourne are really good

    At the ground, effort is ok skills & structure the glaring difference. 
    Seems an odd set up with the personnel we have on the field, allowing them huge outnumber behind the ball playing into their hands. likewise around the contest their positioning is much effective, better spacing allowing clearer outlets despite what looks like an extra there for us.

    It's still hard to believe what I am reading!

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    Big sigh of relief re Maysie 

     

    BB for the Coleman medal this year

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    1 minute ago, BDA said:

    BB for the Coleman medal this year

    They could be the first team to have to Coleman medalist and the runner up in the one year.

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    3 minutes ago, Nascent said:

    Hunt on the ground now.

    Weid not getting a run?

    Max thinks this is a prelim 

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    3 minutes ago, BScotti said:

    Weid not getting a run?

    He might as Bb took a heavy knock.

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    2 minutes ago, BScotti said:

    Weid not getting a run?

    Haven't seen him out there yet. Edit: Looks to be in gear and warming up

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    Max just keeps getting better...

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    1 minute ago, Mr Steve said:

    Only a practice game but how good are Melbourne how bad are North or is it both.

    probably both. North haven't really fired a shot since 10 minutes into the first quarter...

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    Oh dear this is grand final 2021 deja vu..

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