POSTGAME: Rd 05 vs GWS

[Graeme Yeats' Mullet 6,274]

Watching the pressers

How good is Leon Cameron...!

Night/Day compared to Beveridge 

[Lord Nev 13,511]

1 minute ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

Watching the pressers

How good is Leon Cameron...!

Night/Day compared to Beveridge 

They don't give flags for pressers though.

[Fork 'em 6,507]

7 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

I was thinking during that game sparrow may need a rest but then he did that beautiful assist & played well.

Sick of reading on social media the Melbourne supporters didn't show up, there undefeated, the reigning premiers & typical Melbourne of there supporters. I'm putting it down to Easter, school holidays, people can now travel, people still hate the fact you just can't rock up & buy a ticket, the comedy festival was on, storm were playing & not everyone wants to come to a night game especially if you are relying on public transport to go home.

Anyway I thoroughly enjoyed it. Also have you noticed the stories about Goodwin and his bullying antics have suddenly stopped?

Excuses.
As a supporter base we've always been pretty slack in my honest opinion.

[Seraph 1,713]

20 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Goodness knows who will be the truly unlucky defender when Salem returns.

Salem will take Gus' spot, JJ sits out for Gus.

Pretty straight forward hierarchy in my mind at least.

[Graeme Yeats' Mullet 6,274]

1 minute ago, Lord Nev said:

They don't give flags for pressers though.

No, but some people can make right [censored] of themselves, and Leon didn't 

[deegirl 1,286]

How good was it seeing Petty in that backline? 
 

Also loved Maysie’s interview on 7. Nice to know my imaginary boyfriend can string a sentence together 😂

[dazzledavey36 48,647]

That's was an elite performance all round and really fun to sit back with a couple of beers and not once feel stressed about tonight. It was fun.

Harrison Petty just proved tonight how bloody important he is to our back six. We have missed him severely and now I'm at ease with our back six group.

Tom Sparrow and Charlie Spargo really stood up tonight and contributed well. Liked their games.

Bring on the tigs

[BigFez 1,388]

1 minute ago, deegirl said:

How good was it seeing Petty in that backline? 
 

Also loved Maysie’s interview on 7. Nice to know my imaginary boyfriend can string a sentence together 😂

May's interviews are always excellent.  Honest, humorous and rarely trots out the clichés.

[BAMF 3,783]

23 minutes ago, monoccular said:

But how many teams could boast having Tomlinson as a back up KPP defender.  Or even Weed as the same role forward?  

Goodness knows who will be the truly unlucky defender when Salem returns.

So many teams with questionable defence and we have Tomlinson and Smith as our 4th and 5th best tall defenders. Just incredible. 

As for Weed, I would much prefer one player stood up as the clear 2nd tall behind Brown but am happy that Weid is still on the list to compete for a spot.

[binman 37,793]

1 hour ago, Skuit said:

The recent dominant teams put the foot on the neck.

We’re still happy to keep cruising.

The first sentence is not true.

i mean of course sometimes they did.

Just as we did tonight - we won by 10 plus goals tonight after all (and in the back end of last season).

But plenty of scrappy wins too

The last dominant team was the 2017 to 2020 tigers.

Dominant in the sense that there was a big gap back to the chasing pack.

They had tones of low margin victories in that period. Rarely thrashed teams. 

Ironically their most consistent big wins came in 2018, when they were as far ahead of the next best as we are now. 19-3 I think.

And they got knocked out in the prelim by big cox.

The hawks were the previous dominant team.

They probably had more big victories in their dominant period, but still plenty of 'professional' 4-5 goal wins pulling up.

The previous dominant team was the lions - and they did hammer plenty of teams.

But that is a generation ago in footy terms. A different game now.

And I disagree we are happy to cruise.

We look to dominate. 

 

 

Edited April 16, 2022 by binman
Dominant says hi to dominate

[Hopeful Demon 1,249]

Love supporting this club at the moment.

Spargo is an absolute gem. Amazing how people wanted him desisted a year and a half ago.

[Graeme Yeats' Mullet 6,274]

May played after illness yesterday... what a gun to produce that dominance 

[rpfc 27,391]

35 minutes ago, Razor said:

Pretty impressive of Tommy Mac that even though he is competing with Weid for a spot, twice when he was within range he dropped it short for Weid 

Yes, it’s a part of the reason Tmac will remain when Brown comes back next week.

[dee-tox 4,773]

2 minutes ago, binman said:

The first sentence is not true.

i mean of course sometimes they did. Just as we did tonight - we won by 10 plus goals tonight after all (and in the back end of last season).

But plenty of scrappy wins too

The last dominate team was the 2017 to 2020 tigers.

Dominate in the sense that there was a big gap back to the chasing pack.

They had tones of low margin victories in that period. Rarely thrashed teams. 

Ironically their most consistent big wins came in 2018, when they were as far ahead of the next best as we are now. 19-3 I think.

And they got knocked out in the prelim by big cox.

The hawks were the previous dominate team.

They probably had more big victories in tbeyr dominste period, but still plenty of 'professional' 4-5 goal wins pulling up.

The previous dominate team was the lions - and they did hammer plenty of teams.

But that is a generation ago in footy terms. A different game now.

And I disagree we are happy to cruise.

 

 

Think dominant is the word you are looking for.

[radar 1,848]

50 minutes ago, monoccular said:

That second half of the third quarter would totally demoralise any opposition.  💙♥️

Imagine if we did that in 3rd Q of a Grand Final

[Fork 'em 6,507]

4 minutes ago, binman said:

The first sentence is not true.

i mean of course sometimes they did. Just as we did tonight - we won by 10 plus goals tonight after all (and in the back end of last season).

But plenty of scrappy wins too

The last dominate team was the 2017 to 2020 tigers.

Dominate in the sense that there was a big gap back to the chasing pack.

They had tones of low margin victories in that period. Rarely thrashed teams. 

Ironically their most consistent big wins came in 2018, when they were as far ahead of the next best as we are now. 19-3 I think.

And they got knocked out in the prelim by big cox.

The hawks were the previous dominate team.

They probably had more big victories in tbeyr dominste period, but still plenty of 'professional' 4-5 goal wins pulling up.

The previous dominate team was the lions - and they did hammer plenty of teams.

But that is a generation ago in footy terms. A different game now.

And I disagree we are happy to cruise.

 

 

Right now.
Reckon we're as good as any-one in the last 20yrs.

[dees189227 10,703]

I just absolutely loved Mays 2 defensive acts. My god look how far he has come from when he first joined us. 

[Pates 9,536]

24 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

I was thinking during that game sparrow may need a rest but then he did that beautiful assist & played well.

Sick of reading on social media the Melbourne supporters didn't show up, there undefeated, the reigning premiers & typical Melbourne of there supporters. I'm putting it down to Easter, school holidays, people can now travel, people still hate the fact you just can't rock up & buy a ticket, the comedy festival was on, storm were playing & not everyone wants to come to a night game especially if you are relying on public transport to go home.

Anyway I thoroughly enjoyed it. Also have you noticed the stories about Goodwin and his bullying antics have suddenly stopped?

Look I partially agree with you, Easter weekend does tend to have a negative impact on crowd numbers. But at the same time we have been desperate for success, and desperate to own the spotlight as a “power”. I would’ve hoped for minimum 25k for this match, and possibly 30k+ on a regular weekend. 

Are some of our fans too comfortable with us winning to come for these “lower grade” fixtures?

[BAMF 3,783]

1 minute ago, dees189227 said:

I just absolutely loved Mays 2 defensive acts. My god look how far he has come from when he first joined us. 

I would like to take this moment to say that I was wrong about Steve.

I loved Hogan and was gutted that he went back to Freo. I wanted to take the draft pick to the draft and was fuming that we picked up May who I thought was overrated.

I was 100% wrong and I apologise to Steve. He has been so important to our side.

[Fork 'em 6,507]

Sparrows goal.

https://www.afl.com.au/video/743556/fritsch-goal-caps-off-brilliant-end-to-end-piece-of-play?videoId=743556&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1650110095001

[Demon Disciple 10,902]

28 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

Excuses.
As a supporter base we've always been pretty slack in my honest opinion.

Yes was a very poor showing from our supporters tonight. Those who did attend were handsomely rewarded.

[Deemented Are Go! 3,581]

2 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

Yes was a very poor showing from our supporters tonight. Those who did attend were handsomely rewarded.

What was the final attendance figure? 

[Demon Disciple 10,902]

22 minutes ago, binman said:

Ironically their most consistent big wins came in 2018, when they were as far ahead of the next best as we are now. 19-3 I think.

And they got knocked out in the prelim by big cox.

Which goes to show that nothing is given in this competition, it must be taken. Take nothing for granted.

Stay hungry Dees.

[Demon Disciple 10,902]

1 minute ago, Deemented Are Go! said:

What was the final attendance figure? 

From memory, not even 21k.

[titan_uranus 22,220]

Clearly our best game for the year. Not only  the best footy we’ve played but what impressed me was that, and this will go under the radar given the margin, GWS actually played some strong football tonight. Their clearance work was dominant early and they forced us to play far too much in our defensive half. 

So to then turn it on and belt them by 11 goals was sublime. And puts some egg on the face of those who have said “but they don’t score enough”.

Really loved seeing some of the season’s lesser lights stand up: Pickett, Spargo and Sparrow all did really well. Sparrow’s tap in the 4th was a highlight but it was the gut running from half back to make it there in the first place that saw the entire side get around him after the goal. 

May was phenomenal tonight. Lever played the second half on one leg (fingers crossed it was nothing too serious but he didn’t look great after the match) but May kept everything at bay. Petty showed us why the FD knew what they were doing in bringing him straight back. And the work of Gawn, Oliver, Trac, Harmes and Viney to wrestle back stoppage momentum was huge. 

I’m sure some will point out our wins have been against sides all currently sitting outside the 8, but we’ve now beaten 4 of last year’s finalists, and dealt with two road trips to boot. Time will tell whether these sides end up being finalists in 2022 but for now we can hardly ask for anything more.