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NON-MFC: Round 6, 2022


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As I have already stated, Bulldogs have a fitness issue. Adelaide now have the best Fitness Guru in the AFL. This result was inevitable!

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“One clearance is all they need. 7 seconds to go” Shut up Dwayne it’s the dogs not the Dees. 

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2 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Can the umps win it for the dogs with 7 seconds left?

They left it too late. Not that they didn’t try before that! 

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Dogs are 2-4.

They haven't left Victoria yet this year. They've still got six interstate trips plus a game in Geelong to come. They still have two games against Geelong and games against us, Brisbane, Sydney, St Kilda and Fremantle.

I've had faith in them all year that they'd bounce back but they've got a tough run.

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Ok so I'm at work & haven't seen a second of this game but the crows win by a point but the free kick count is 24-10 dogs way.

Anyway good win by Adelaide, which makes it more annoying they didn't beat Essendon a few weeks ago.

Now onto port v eagles. If port lose this knives will be coming

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7 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Time and again GWS would be under huge pressure in their back line. Scrambly handballs here and there, players dodging multiple Saint tackles, ball pinging backwards, sideways in handball chains ... finally the ball would get to a Giant with a tiny bit of space, he would get it to a Giant in the clear (usually near the boundary), and then upfield ........... nothing. Forced to stop dead & take stock of his options. Stationary Giants just watching. Finally someone makes a lead. Sideways. Ball crosses the field to the other flank. No options there either. Kick long to a contest and repeat. There were hardly any easy scores. They scrapped and scrambled without system for every goal, and as we MFC fans can attest, that's not a sustainable way to play if you have any desire to win consistently.

(Why switch play to the other flank if no-one can be bothered to get into space there either? Isn't that the point, to find some space and catch the other team on the hop? Otherwise all you've done is wasted two kicks and a bit of time.)

No-one anticipating, gut running to space to give their teammate someone to deliver to. All that talent at their disposal and that's really all they have. They play on pure talent, which is wonderful when it clicks, and wasteful as hell when it doesn't.

They've failed to exploit their massive advantage, and meanwhile, their supposed rivals at GCS, who were said to have gone about their club-building the wrong way, are the ones who appear to be building something with character and spirit. (Time will tell.)

They looked to have given up halfway through the last when only 2 goals down. It all seemed just too hard.

Imagine what a Clarkson, a Simpson, a Longmire, or ... a Goodwin/Yze/Williams could do with a list with hardly any holes in it, and a sympathetic city hall.

Now on the positive side. Watching all that made me appreciate all over again the wonderful footballing machine we are blessed with. GO DEMONS!!!

Not just blessed with but built over time to last through this generation of players.

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3 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Tex: We know the way we want to play, and it's starting to come to tuition now.

hahahah

That’s abuse of the Queen’s English.

Tex should apologise through a video with the Queen awkwardly sitting behind him…

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8 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Dogs are 2-4.

They haven't left Victoria yet this year. They've still got six interstate trips plus a game in Geelong to come. They still have two games against Geelong and games against us, Brisbane, Sydney, St Kilda and Fremantle.

I've had faith in them all year that they'd bounce back but they've got a tough run.

DOGS GOOOORN need to turn themselves into the Lost Dogs Home. DISGRACEFUL too many passengers. Full credit to Crows in spite of hometown umpiring bias.

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I heard a stat some weeks ago (wish I’d paid more attention) that teams who lose the grand final by more than 45 points don’t win a final the next year. Something like 70% don’t make finals at all. And the bigger the margin, the worse it gets (sample group gets smaller though). Ergo, Dogs won’t make finals, and if they do manage to scrape in, they’re going straight out. 

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9 minutes ago, Webber said:

I heard a stat some weeks ago (wish I’d paid more attention) that teams who lose the grand final by more than 45 points don’t win a final the next year. Something like 70% don’t make finals at all. And the bigger the margin, the worse it gets (sample group gets smaller though). Ergo, Dogs won’t make finals, and if they do manage to scrape in, they’re going straight out. 

Just shows what a great Coach John Northey was. 
We made Finals in ‘89 after being obliterated in ‘88

Jeelong were incredibly violent in the ‘89 Semi Final

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