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GAMEDAY: Rd 10 vs North Melbourne

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Dunstan Sqibbed and should be sacked. It's a non Negotiable 

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    3 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

    Horne Francis dropping the knees? rare that a player gets caught high so often

    He’s a great player but he 100% drops the knees when contact is approaching, a-la Mathieson and Selwood etc.

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    Q2. 
    Fumbles Brayshaw. Heavy knock ?
    Bowey ummm rattled. 
    Love ya Kosssy
    Dees poor decisions going inside 50. 
    Poor goalkicking again. Brown. ANB. Melksham. Trac
    38 to 19 inside 50s … dominant but poor converting so 8.9  to  6.1 
    Umps favouring Dees 16-10 frees

    Clarry is a star 

     

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    People forget that this isn't the Murray league where spankings are common.  Winning at this level is never easy.  No matter what the ladder position

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    1 minute ago, gOLLy said:

    Dunstan Sqibbed and should be sacked. It's a non Negotiable 

    Dunstan definitely having a stinker. Needs not to think. Play the percentages. 

    people need to realise that every team is throwing absolutely everything they can to beat us. everyone wants to beat the best. we're not going to see many huge wins especially this early in the season unless teams completely throw in the towel which really only GWS has. WC gave it everything they could. As has North today. any mid table team playing North is going in with North just wanting to play their style. They get trounced. Play Melbourne and it's all about making it as difficult as possible for them to win. The margin minimisation strategy makes it seem like we're playing poorly and the opposition is playing well. in reality it's just two teams both competing in a great contest.

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    Can someone tell me if it was a concussion for Langdon?

    What about Ziebell getting supended? Same tackle as Chandler. Norf havent been too bad need to lift Naarm.


    1. We miss Viney for his mental toughness and driving standards

    2. Dunstan has always been a poor kick, why are people surprised?

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    Regardless of scoreboard. We are getting bruised.

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    1 minute ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    1st half 

    Petty 🤢

    Melksham 🤮

    Dunstan 🤮🤮

    Cut Petty some slack. He really hurt his ankle in the first quarter. Could barely walk. They obviously pumped him full of drugs and told him to carry on. 

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    1 minute ago, ucanchoose said:

    People forget that this isn't the Murray league where spankings are common.  Winning at this level is never easy.  No matter what the ladder position

    For me it's not that. We look like we're in minus 1st gear while North are having a real crack. The first goal we got where we actually had some nice team play was Kozzie's. We're junkyarding around, we need to raise our game 

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    1 minute ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    1st half 

    Petty 🤢

    Melksham 🤮

    Dunstan 🤮🤮

    Seems Melksham and Dunstan came into the game trying to do the flashy stuff to impress the coaches, they should instead play their roles like Harmsey and Viney

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    Only 3 guys with 10+ touches to 1/2 time for us and they have 58, 56 & 61% disposal efficiency. Basically, the ones who are getting it are turning it over.

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    2 minutes ago, praha said:

    people need to realise that every team is throwing absolutely everything they can to beat us. everyone wants to beat the best. we're not going to see many huge wins especially this early in the season unless teams completely throw in the towel which really only GWS has. WC gave it everything they could. As has North today. any mid table team playing North is going in with North just wanting to play their style. They get trounced. Play Melbourne and it's all about making it as difficult as possible for them to win. The margin minimisation strategy makes it seem like we're playing poorly and the opposition is playing well. in reality it's just two teams both competing in a great contest.

    Also kick straight and the game is done. 
    7 scoring shots to 17 plus 2 out on the full. 

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    Just now, praha said:

    people need to realise that every team is throwing absolutely everything they can to beat us. everyone wants to beat the best. we're not going to see many huge wins especially this early in the season unless teams completely throw in the towel which really only GWS has. WC gave it everything they could. As has North today. any mid table team playing North is going in with North just wanting to play their style. They get trounced. Play Melbourne and it's all about making it as difficult as possible for them to win. The margin minimisation strategy makes it seem like we're playing poorly and the opposition is playing well. in reality it's just two teams both competing in a great contest.

    Totally agree. Other teams set themselves to play at their best against us. This is what Nought are doing. Losing Ed and no Viney makes a new dynamic 

    Bad Kicking doesn’t help. We need to get that sorted 

    1 minute ago, WERRIDEE said:

    What about Ziebell getting supended? Same tackle as Chandler. Norf havent been too bad need to lift Naarm.

    Gus not concussed so he gets nothing.


    5 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Any updated on Ed?

    Still the most handsome winger in footy. I'll let you know when I know more than that, but he's hard to track down.

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    1 minute ago, wizardinoz said:

    Probably ribs after that spear tackle.

    So are we looking at 4-6 weeks without our AA wing? Not good 😭

     

    Lots of fumbling, handling errors and dropped marks. Frustrating. TMac, Kozzie and Fritsch looking good.

    Some unfortunate casual, carefree stuff from Petracca. Oliver is a star.

    We have also got some terrible free kicks given to to us - that 50m is a disgrace to our game. 

    Please, please, please do NOT play Dunstan again. I would rather see a young kid have a crack and make mistakes than a mature player show us what poor VFL football looks like.

    Goldy and Xerri doing a really good job nullifying Max. 

    North having a red hot go and finally showing what system they are trying to play. 


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