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Dustin Martin taking time off for personal issues. Tough time recently for him with fathers death and recovering from serious injury.  More bad news for declining tigers.

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Carlscum

Swans ( based on my pure hatred of Geelong)

Filth

Bears

Port

Us

Roos

Giants

Dockers

 

Certainly interesting games tonight and tomorrow night.


I would like Carlton to win on the condition they sing a certain song immediately afterwards.

Swans could give the old folks a touch up. Go Lions. Go Giants.

  • bluebaggers
  • bloods
  • filth
  • bears
  • pear
  • us (although i think it'll be pretty close - gc17 are coming)
  • kangas
  • gw$ if dusty is out, as rumoured
  • jokers

i feel like this week is a bit of pot-luck - you never know who is going to beat who, which is i guess what the afl prefers

 

The Cats moving the ball quickly and moving from a 'control' to a 'territory/keep-the-ball-moving' game style is straight out of the demon playbook, courtesy of the IP their new development coach, Shannon Byrnes brought with him, which of course he allowed to do. 

Not sure they have the talent to pull it off consistently against good sides.

Hopefully, we have developed a few new tricks over the season that will surprise them and others.. 

2 hours ago, John Crow Batty said:

Dustin Martin taking time off for personal issues. Tough time recently for him with fathers death and recovering from serious injury.  More bad news for declining tigers.

I had a feeling something was up with Dusty in last weeks game.

With the game slipping out of Richmond’s reach, Dusty could only muster 2 or 3 touches in the last quarter and surprisingly spent much of the quarter out of the guts.

In his prime he would’ve dominated that last qtr.


I'm hoping Tigers keep losing so their are more seats available for us dees at the ANZAC Eve game. 

25 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I had a feeling something was up with Dusty in last weeks game.

With the game slipping out of Richmond’s reach, Dusty could only muster 2 or 3 touches in the last quarter and surprisingly spent much of the quarter out of the guts.

In his prime he would’ve dominated that last qtr.

Coming back from a significant injure along with his dad passing.. tough times, I hope he is ok.

I keep changing tonight’s game 

Both sides have legitimate reasons to both win or lose!!

Buddy to kick 3 this week leaving him with one for the 1000 against the Dogs next week. I’m sure Ben Gibson on Gus & Gawny podcast said he would go to Dogs V Swans and run on the ground with a camera if Buddy does get the 1000 next week. Probably taking the pizz, would like to see that though.

4 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

The Cats moving the ball quickly and moving from a 'control' to a 'territory/keep-the-ball-moving' game style is straight out of the demon playbook, courtesy of the IP their new development coach, Shannon Byrnes brought with him, which of course he allowed to do. 

Not sure they have the talent to pull it off consistently against good sides.

Hopefully, we have developed a few new tricks over the season that will surprise them and others.. 

LH I don't think we can really say it's from the Melbourne playbook can we?  Most teams would do it if they had the fitness and talent.  Teams like Geelong and West Coast have been the outliers in recent years in having relative success with a chip / keepings off style.

I do remember early last season seeing Geelong go all out attack in a couple of games - they looked scarily good when they moved the ball quickly (I'll wash my mouth out now!).  I wondered why they didn't do it more often - esp when you have Hawkins, Cameron and Danger as targets.  I figured with their finals record Scott didn't want to burnout his "experienced" team but would look to flick the switch in finals.  But he never flicked the switch!

Surely they couldn't sustain this style all year?


17 minutes ago, deelusions from afar said:

LH I don't think we can really say it's from the Melbourne playbook can we?  Most teams would do it if they had the fitness and talent.  Teams like Geelong and West Coast have been the outliers in recent years in having relative success with a chip / keepings off style.

I do remember early last season seeing Geelong go all out attack in a couple of games - they looked scarily good when they moved the ball quickly (I'll wash my mouth out now!).  I wondered why they didn't do it more often - esp when you have Hawkins, Cameron and Danger as targets.  I figured with their finals record Scott didn't want to burnout his "experienced" team but would look to flick the switch in finals.  But he never flicked the switch!

Surely they couldn't sustain this style all year?

I  say our 'playbook' because we do have the fitness, talent and skill.  Others don't.  So their 'territory' game styles aren't as effective.

But our 'playbook' has nuances that imv other 'territory' teams don't, again probably because they don't have the talent etc.  Richmond is a 'territory' team and they force the ball to ground, scrounge the pack, fight for the ground ball and 'scramble' the ball forward.  I don't often see them move the ball with overlapping run and flair like we do or as much as we do.  We attack the contest but do far less of the scrambling stuff.

Geelong seemed to be trying to do more of our style than the Richmond style of 'territory'.  But one week isn't a good sample size. 

No they can't sustain it all year.  As I said, I don't think they have the talent to do it against good sides.  And I reckon it takes more than one pre-season to ingrain the positioning into the players, to make it work.

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Left field question:

I jokingly asked a friend if the blues would have Voss on the phone during the game, but now I’m wondering… would that be allowed?

Do you have to physically be at the game to be involved in the coaching??

Carlton’s midfield work is so much better this year. They may not be able to do it all year, but the message is getting through 


Hot take - Melbourne will win the flag in a canter this year because we're the only team with a halfway-decent defence.

1 minute ago, Chook said:

Hot take - Melbourne will win the flag in a canter this year because we're the only team with a halfway-decent defence.

Hot take- we broke the Dogs

 
Just now, Jaded No More said:

Hot take- we broke the Dogs

I prefer my interpretation, but only slightly.


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