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5 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Any idea if we marked the ball from Brayshaw’s kick just as the lights went out? Looked a potential rare inside 50 entry.

Yes the kick would stand when play restarted. Oh you mean we marked the ball, no they would bounce the ball at the other end of the ground.

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3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Shanked it straight to a Brisbane player.

For the 10th time.

One of his worst games.

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Just now, Redleg said:

For the 10th time.

One of his worst games.

He and 10 other names.

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6 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

I don’t think you can read that much into it. It actually may mean the opposite. 

Webber?  I would have thought that he would at least have a brace or be non weight bearing if there were serious concerns.

 

OH&S AFL - what about the cooled down players and their hamstrings?

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So, if Melbourne had come back and got this within 6 pts or something, they would still call it a win for Brisbane? The AFL needs to change this rule. Melbourne isn’t coming back but the way the modern game is played, if this was only a goal or two, it’d be a great injustice.

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4 minutes ago, Go the Biff said:

Impossible to tell.  I've seen and played with blokes who've run off the ground seemingly unencumbered only to find they've blown their ACL.

Bruised knee he'll be back in two weeks

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Clearly the solution is to add the remaining 12 minutes to our round 18 return match, and allocate premiership points pro-rata across both games.

MCG should at least be able to find the fuse box.

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Just now, dazzledavey36 said:

He and 10 other names.

Yep.

Wonder if we trained with greasy footies? Clearly not. Our ball handling as bad as I can recall and that started the rot.

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I love when Fox crosses to Alistair Lynx.  Always sounds heavily inebriated.  Not sure if that’s just the way he speaks now, but it always makes we smile.

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Everything is normal in the AFL.

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absolutely terrible team performance. so few players stood up when the pressure was on, such poor tackling, poor marking, poor kicking, a true reflection of our inconsistency as a team.

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Any chance every other team in the comp doesn’t tag Oliver for the rest of the year? 
 

Genuinely asking as I can’t remember, has Oliver beaten a tagger in a game before?

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Just remembered we have the swans next week, essentially being a reverse of our finals games last year. And we again have that fear as to which demons team will turn up next week, and injuries 😔

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Just now, Vipercrunch said:

I love when Fox crosses to Alistair Lynx.  Always sounds heavily inebriated.  Not sure if that’s just the way he speaks now, but it always makes we smile.

Anybody else noticed that he’s breathing heavily??? Sounds like he has a bad bout of asthma or something, not joking 


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Pretty deplorable performance all round, hard to find a winner anywhere. Looked slow, reactive and the most bruise free I've seen us in years. Not sure why our tough midfield decided to basically white flag it. 

A shame on Gawn either way but honestly you can't tell me one player getting injured is a sufficient reason to basically give up, which it looked like the midfield did for large parts of the game.

Some of the overconfidence on here today was genuinely ridiculous against a team that knocked us out last year, rarely loses at the Gabba and had a huge point to prove after a horror showing last week 

Worst I've seen us play since 2019

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1 minute ago, Deecisive said:

absolutely terrible team performance. so few players stood up when the pressure was on, such poor tackling, poor marking, poor kicking, a true reflection of our inconsistency as a team.

Our inconsistency?

What a weird thing to say.

Over the last two years we've been extremely consistent. Some would argue too consistent.

The reason this loss is shocking so many of us is because it's so far away from almost anything we've produced since 2020.

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In the break, time to rate…

General anxious, fumbling scramble by MFC.

Major disappointments…

Brayshaw and Viney kicking turnovers

Petty stuff ups

having Grundy on bench when Gawn was off

having Petracca and Oliver on the bench together when we were being pumped

Petracca fumbles

McDonald not being able to fill second ruck duties

 

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1 hour ago, DubDee said:

by in a long time do you mean 3-4 games ago?

Worse than the finals by far, least we lead those at some point 

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1 minute ago, monoccular said:

Webber?  I would have thought that he would at least have a brace or be non weight bearing if there were serious concerns.

If the ACL is gone (particularly if it’s an already reconstructed knee), doesn’t make much difference if you walk around on the knee or not. Only thing this suggests is that he doesn’t have associated issues - big meniscal tear, tibial plateau fracture. Gonna have to wait for the scans/orthopaedic diagnosis. 

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Just now, fr_ap said:

Pretty deplorable performance all round, hard to find a winner anywhere. Looked slow, reactive and the most bruise free I've seen us in years. Not sure why our tough midfield decided to basically white flag it. 

A shame on Gawn either way but honestly you can't tell me one player getting injured is a sufficient reason to basically give up, which it looked like the midfield did for large parts of the game.

Some of the overconfidence on here today was genuinely ridiculous against a team that knocked us out last year, rarely loses at the Gabba and had a huge point to prove after a horror showing last week 

Worst I've seen us play since 2019

Worst since the Sydney and Fremantle losses in 2020, IMO.

Although the post-May injury capitulation in Round 11 last year vs Fremantle wasn't too much worse than this.

A lot of tonight came down to conceding 4 goals in 7 minutes at the end of the first quarter. 

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