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GAMEDAY: Rd 22 vs Carlton

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BBB is contesting and getting to where he needs to.

But the strength of his contests has been poor. No explosion and one arm contests do not make for good forward craft.

Melky is looking great. Remember a few years ago that he got the highest SuperCoach score recorded against Carlton? Good times.

 
1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

It’s a gift!

My hero.

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    Forget Grundy.

    Do whatever it takes to buy a genuine key forward.

    Our forward line is a mess.

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    This game is enough to make you want to never watch footy again 

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    1 minute ago, Lord Nev said:

    Brown's had 1 handball, 0 kicks, 0 marks.

    If that was Weid his thread would have another 8 pages by now.

     

    I love BB but ffs the one hand up stuff in a marking contest is not good enough 

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    41 minutes ago, gOLLy said:

    We need a forward line.

    Plugger Dunstall and Gordon Coventry would struggle the way we're bombing it in

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    1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Forget Grundy.

    Do whatever it takes to buy a genuine key forward.

    Our forward line is a mess.

    100% bank the cash and make a huge play for one of these Blues boys 

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    44 minutes ago, Stevienic23 said:

    I'm more likely to take a mark tonight before Ben Brown

    0 vs 0 so far. I'm backing myself in

    Edited by Stevienic23

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    41 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    1st qtr

    ✅Gawn Jackson 

    ✅Tackling and pressure 

    💩ANB. Brown. 
    💩fwd line crumbing 
    🤮kicks on fwds heads! And to pockets !! 
    🤔May kick out to 60 metre, left hand size. So boring and dull. 

    2nd qtr 

    kozzzy  & Melksham goals⭐️
    tackling ⭐️

    🤮May playing a zone off , 30 metres away from McKay. Ffs.   May is a danger !!’ To us !!’ 

    🤮goalkicking (from both teams) 
    🤮ANB Spargo sparrow Fritsch and Brown (zero kicks, zero marks, zero goals, one handball) 

    🤡🤡Goodwin - slow and wide and boring ball movement  … play the corridor AND TEACH HOW TO KICK (no bombs!!) 

     

    Edited by spirit of norm smith
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    Every time Saad gets the ball, we need to absolutely smash him, even if it means a free or two. he's so soft and it really seems to rattle him

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    We need Tmac back to take the pressure off BB

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    Did anyone see what the free

     down the ground that resulted in frittata goal was for. Did not see it here at the ground. And it’s bloody cold freezings 


    What happened to 2021 Melbourne?

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    We would have to be the worst in the league at getting back of the man on the mark and being the slowest to move the ball from a mark. Not many players would get a pass mark at this stage but where in front and hopefully find something in the second half. 

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    The 1 key forward set up simply doesn't work. Why we have continued to run with this set up is mind boggling.

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    3 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

    Brown's had 1 handball, 0 kicks, 0 marks.

    If that was Weid his thread would have another 8 pages by now.

     

    The move the ball as slow as possible kick to him out numbered 3 to 1 tactic isn't helping

     

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    1 minute ago, 640MD said:

    Did anyone see what the free

     down the ground that resulted in frittata goal was for. Did not see it here at the ground. And it’s bloody cold freezings 

    Late bump after he kicked

    Pretty soft

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    Commentators gloating over a "great tight contest". I reckon it has been horrible to watch. Tacklefest, followed by Dees bombing it into the forward line with BBB attempting to mark with 1 hand, followed by more tackling, Blues kick a horrible blind ball to half forward, Dees intercept... rinse and repeat.

    Well done Melksham. Pittonet is a dill. We are a better team but need to CAPITALISE. 

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    6 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

    Brown's had 1 handball, 0 kicks, 0 marks.

    If that was Weid his thread would have another 8 pages by now.

     

    You aren't wrong Nev.

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    12 minutes ago, DaveyJones'sLocker said:

    Brayshaw two costly errors

    At least he’s having a crack

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    Why was that “a gift” for fritta, he marked it anyway… 

    much happier about this game than the Collingwood and dogs games, blues without their stars are clearly playing as many tagging/negating roles as possible. 

    They won’t be able to keep it up the whole game. I think we will break away and win by 40+ keeping the blues to under 50 points 

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