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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Port Adelaide

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Why was I genuinely worried? 

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    3 minutes ago, Rivers Run Red said:

    Getting to the important topics, why was hunt in a different shade of blue.

    I noticed this. I thought it was a fault with the long sleeve version but I assume that Langdon was wearing the long sleeves too?

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    At best an example of our brilliant defence and defensive game-plan, at worst fumbly, ugly, over-possessing, wiffly footy. Assuming it was dewy, cos our skills were very ordinary. Last quarter fade-out fair enough considering 3 games in 18 days. I think. 

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    2 minutes ago, Nasher said:

    SACK GOODWIN amirite?

    Far out. The bar has gone through the roof with some of you people. It was a good, strangling win. Not great, not particularly exciting - the Jordon touch on the line was the only time my heart rate got above resting, but we got the job done. 

    I'm just waiting for someone to say we're the worst 4-0 side of all time or something.

    Dazzle has lost the plot.  Time to get the mute button going again

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    1 minute ago, titan_uranus said:

    Neither Weid nor TMac were any good. I don't mind who gets dropped for Brown, but there should be no doubt that one goes. Pickett is doing a lot defensively but just cannot get in form with ball in hand. And I'm still not convinced by Hunt.

    Agree on this. It's obvious they're both at least a class below Brown. Can't wait for him to come back. 

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    5 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    [censored] you Melbourne. That was a trash display of footy.

    Had the opportunity to really put the foot down but instead we tried to be too cute with our ball use going forward. 3 weeks in a row now that we've just played sloppy and let opposition back into the game.

    Are McDonald and Weideman actually for real?? 2nd week in a row where they've had opportunity to cement their spot while Brown is out and both failed miserably.

    Both could barely give a contest or bring the ball to ground. Sooner these two are phased out for good the better.

    Petracca is a star and all but [censored] hell he's sloppy and selfish at times. 

    Thank God for Steven May.

     

    haha get real.

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    BROWN IN NEXT WEEK A MUST

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    2 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    [censored] you Melbourne. That was a trash display of footy.

    Had the opportunity to really put the foot down but instead we tried to be too cute with our ball use going forward. 3 weeks in a row now that we've just played sloppy and let opposition back into the game.

    Are McDonald and Weideman actually for real?? 2nd week in a row where they've had opportunity to cement their spot while Brown is out and both failed miserably.

    Both could barely give a contest or bring the ball to ground. Sooner these two are phased out for good the better.

    Petracca is a star and all but [censored] hell he's sloppy and selfish at times. 

    Thank God for Steven May.

     

    Consecutive 6 day breaks. Hard to put the foot down on that.

    Weid is Weid. Will always struggle to make position and create space against good opponents. That said, the times he was wide open the kick went nowhere near him. Mids couldn’t chain handballs to get free of pressure and hit him up. Handball, handball, handball, run in to pressure, bang it on the boot.

    Tom is also Tom. He bought a lot of balls to the ground tonight. Not pretty but hardly the worst. Did his job and secured his spot.

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    put the cue in the rack in the last, as we did against the suns, I get it, but gee, the fan in me would have loved to smash both teams, especially away from home. 

    see y'all at the G next week

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    1 minute ago, Jontee said:

    Jordons best game?

    He was fantastic tonight, uses it so well and so unassuming 

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    Just now, DeeSpencer said:

    Consecutive 6 day breaks. Hard to put the foot down on that.

    Weid is Weid. Will always struggle to make position and create space against good opponents. That said, the times he was wide open the kick went nowhere near him. Mids couldn’t chain handballs to get free of pressure and hit him up. Handball, handball, handball, run in to pressure, bang it on the boot.

    Tom is also Tom. He bought a lot of balls to the ground tonight. Not pretty but hardly the worst. Did his job and secured his spot.

    Flukey players will always have their day. Something BBB AINT

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    Last year at 4-0 everyone was frothing, this year at 4-0 we're somewhat concerned. The difference a year makes. That win was easy and we are cruising our way through to top 4 this year. Gonna be hard to stop.

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    Can we just bury a side FFS. They were wide open for a pounding today. 
    It’s been 4 games since the last the one. 😂

     

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    3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    [censored] you Melbourne. That was a trash display of footy.

    Had the opportunity to really put the foot down but instead we tried to be too cute with our ball use going forward. 3 weeks in a row now that we've just played sloppy and let opposition back into the game.

    Are McDonald and Weideman actually for real?? 2nd week in a row where they've had opportunity to cement their spot while Brown is out and both failed miserably.

    Both could barely give a contest or bring the ball to ground. Sooner these two are phased out for good the better.

    Petracca is a star and all but [censored] hell he's sloppy and selfish at times. 

    Thank God for Steven May.

     

    Come on mate. We are 4-0, won 11 in a row coming off a short pre season, just getting our backline back together and coming off another short break and 2 interstate games in a month. 
    We are strategically saving energy and getting through this first part of the season. 
    We were not in great form at the start of last year either but we were just so happy to win games. 
    Well nothing has changed. 

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    Just now, von said:

    Weideman back to the magoos

    I would prefer mcdonald going back to find some form, he does not chase and has not provided a lot of drive this year, hope he can recapture his form. Dropping him may give him the drive to try a bit harder, chase a little more. Weids needs a chance to show what he can do, this was obviously not the game for forwards, with our poor inside 50's.

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    8 minutes ago, Deecisive said:

    We conceded 35 points because they did not kick straight if they had it would have been far different, we only had 2 scoring shots more than they did and they had a whole range of good players out. I must say i was disappointed we did not do better. definitely some good defense and running but our entry into the forward line was pretty disappointing. We showed such dominance at times but could not put it on the score board, that is where it counts.

    This is a classic example of focusing on a stat without having any regard for context.

    Their shots were misses because they were taking shots from awful positions. Take a look at the shot map. 8 of their 12 behinds were from 45+ metres out, most of which were on a 45-degree angle or more. Another two behinds were hard up on the boundary.

    They were taking shots from outside 50 because they couldn't work out how to take a mark inside 50, because of our defensive dominance.

    If you think tonight was just "some good defence" I'm sorry but you have no idea what you're watching. Tonight was elite defence.

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    Coming off two consecutive six day breaks, I'm happily taking a 5-6 goal win. Some of the boys looked spent in the final quarter.

    Great to see Maxy back to his best. Jordan continues to improve week by week

     

     

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    1 minute ago, DeeSpencer said:

    Consecutive 6 day breaks. Hard to put the foot down on that.

    Weid is Weid. Will always struggle to make position and create space against good opponents. That said, the times he was wide open the kick went nowhere near him. Mids couldn’t chain handballs to get free of pressure and hit him up. Handball, handball, handball, run in to pressure, bang it on the boot.

    Tom is also Tom. He bought a lot of balls to the ground tonight. Not pretty but hardly the worst. Did his job and secured his spot.

    Mids were too busy going one ball too many which then cause turn over.

    I know mids are just as much to blame but both Weid ans McDonald barely got to enough contests to bring the ball down.

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