POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs North Melbourne

[layzie 34,339]

It's just so good to beat those bin lickers from North Melbourne. That streak from 2007 to 2018 was embarrassing. I now expect us to carry on a streak that goes at least until Arden Station is built and probably longer. 

[Gawndy the Great 9,011]

Grundy will get better as the year goes and when Gawn also hits form , it will be a formidable duo. Pair that with an AA duo in the midfield … 

[adonski 12,917]

Schach had a performance similar to some of Weid's more lackluster games, I can't imagine we see him again anytime soon with the exception of injury

[Adam The God 30,614]

44 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Got home from the game. It's a weird feeling because I really didn't get to excited not like last week. As I've said I expected to win and win well.

Or maybe we didn't have that key forward kick a bag like Curnow did for Carlton.

I have given this guy grief over the years but ANB was great tonight and that tackle on McDonald was my highlight & I hope he continues with that pressure.

That's the difference between Melbourne and Carlton. Our system creates big scores. Carlton rely on individual brilliance to create scores.

I'd much rather be in our position.

It must be scary for the comp looking at who was playing KPF for us (JVR, Schache and Max) and who kicked goals, and the fact that there wasn't a dominant KPF on the ground.

Nevermind that it was against North, this makes us very difficult to plan against. You're not stopping one player, you're trying to stop a system.

Edited April 29, 2023 by A F

[layzie 34,339]

Just now, adonski said:

Schach had a performance similar to some of Weid's more lackluster games, I can't imagine we see him again anytime soon with the exception of injury

We pretty much broke even there. Though Weid did get the DL most discussed ex player's 'ok' game award  this week.

[dl4e 5,851]

Very satisfied. Good to see Mr May play well and us not concede over 50 points even if the opposition were hopeless.

[At the break of Gawn 4,460]

Scintillating start to the game but you could tell Clarko wanted to limit the damage after qtr time with a possession heavy kick mark game. Yeah the last 3 goals were disappointing but the thing with footy is that it rarely ever goes your entire way. We were already 6 to zip that qtr before they got 3 quick ones.

Regarding Schache, I feel like he gets another week. Some of his inside 50 kicks (especially the one to Fritsch in the first qtr) were very good. I know he’s still lacking mongrel, but I’m not sure BB or Tmac is the 2023 answer. 2023 is all about ground ball and Schache is much better than BB or Tmac in that area.

[Sigil 1,002]

1 minute ago, adonski said:

Schach had a performance similar to some of Weid's more lackluster games, I can't imagine we see him again anytime soon with the exception of injury

I thought he went alright, or at least the equivalent of Petty in the forward line.

Whoever we have as talls in the forward line need to be making more of an impact in the first half of games however. I love Roo already and he's gonna be a player, but having a tall threatening early in the game makes it easier on the rest of the forward line. 

Goodwin is obviously trying stuff in the forward line to find the best mix, and while our smalls, mediums and midfield are getting the job done we're fine.

I still think we'll see BBB or T Mac toward the back half of the year a lot more, we need a big tall down there, despite what Max (and now looking like Grundy) are capable of.

[deegirl 1,584]

Comben went down right in front of us. What I thought was the sound of the contest wasn’t 😬 not a pretty sight 

This may be hyper critical but it felt like the North staff took ages to recognise how injured he was and call for the stretcher. 
 

Here’s to his recovery. 

[kev martin 10,704]

Great running and use of the open spaces, some of our swarming was undefendable.

The backline also swarmed by playing out the back.

North kept bombing into their forwards, and our backs were just too strong at the fall of the ball, and first to it, if it hit the turf. 

Love our accurate goal kicking.

JVR and Schache couldn't find separation. 

I don't particularly like games when the other team is never in it. Gee, North have so much to do to make a cohesive style and to have any purpose/structure, so often they looked lost and confused about what to do.

We are rolling well.

[Adzman 2,154]

Chandler has gone from a 2022 fringe player to being a major cog in the machine in 2023.

You know you've found a player when opposition supporters are talking about him. 

His game was exceptional tonight. If he keeps this up he's a lock in this side.

Edited April 29, 2023 by Adzman

[layzie 34,339]

38 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Real fans watch the entire game again.

It's true, I really just wanted to say the phrase 'match highlights'. I've got this thing about saying things so you deliberately sound dumb for comic effect for some reason.

My mum used to crack me up when she'd come with me to Melb games. If we lost and I'd be all annoyed and moaning, she'd say something like "I'm interested to hear the explanation from the coach". Still laugh about it now.

Edited April 29, 2023 by layzie

[dees189227 12,453]

I wonder if nth will lose players like we did. There team was actually older than ours tonight.

But I wonder if players like Ben McKay will re-sign. 

[whatwhat say what 23,450]

you could see that they wanted to finish really positively in the last quarter, and they kept that 'up' mindset until the last few minutes

very, very positive viewing

[layzie 34,339]

4 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

I wonder if nth will lose players like we did. There team was actually older than ours tonight.

But I wonder if players like Ben McKay will re-sign. 

I'll have him

[Jaded No More 68,975]

23 minutes ago, A F said:

I remember Schache being outmarked once by Ziebell, which I absolutely agree was too soft, but from my eye, Schache wasn't outmarked again for the rest of the night and brought the ball to ground every time.

I reckon our FD would be relatively happy with his game, but it sounds like he still makes way for Petty, unless they give JVR a break. Which probably wouldn't be the worst idea...

The point remains that you aren’t playing Zeibel on BB. They didn’t even dare play him on JVR. It shows how seriously they rated him that he played on a guy 10cm shorter than him and still couldn’t hold most of the marks he went for. 

I think he isn’t the answer if he can’t grab those marks in a nothing game. 

[Adam The God 30,614]

2 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

I wonder if nth will lose players like we did. There team was actually older than ours tonight.

But I wonder if players like Ben McKay will re-sign. 

I'd take the Souva off their hands, but as he says he wants to repay North for selecting him when everyone else passed multiple times, I'll just settle for nicking the KPF from next week's opposition in Ben King.

King, JVR and Gawn in 2024 with cameos from Jefferson would be very spicey. 

And the Suns don't seem to be getting any better, so I wonder what Mr King is thinking...?

[titan_uranus 25,176]

I hope those in here expressing disappointment in a 90 point margin aren’t the same posters who were worried we’d lose pre-game. 

Off a 5-day break with a few players missing (Petty, Spargo, Salem) we played clinical football against an admittedly at times pathetic opponent. A percentage boost and (hopefully) no injuries.

Loved Chandler’s game and again the work of our wingers was important. Grundy’s marking is no good but when be gets going in clearance and transition he makes us so good. Tonight felt like he rucked heaps more than Gawn, perhaps a fitness thing for Gawn?

Not sure Schache did enough to hold his spot. 22 goals with the two tall forwards kicking just 2 total shows that we have many pathways to goal.

Like others I’m disappointed in the crowd but I wasn’t able to go tonight for personal reasons so can’t point the finger. But we really need to be pulling 30,000 of our own to all our MCG home games. I maintain that our fanbase don’t like night games (outside of ANZAC Eve). 

[layzie 34,339]

1 minute ago, titan_uranus said:

I hope those in here expressing disappointment in a 90 point margin aren’t the same posters who were worried we’d lose pre-game. 

Is there a way to find this out really quickly?

[DubDee 26,306]

just got back from Don McLean

what happened??

[layzie 34,339]

4 minutes ago, A F said:

I'd take the Souva off their hands, but as he says he wants to repay North for selecting him when everyone else passed multiple times, I'll just settle for nicking the KPF from next week's opposition in Ben King.

King, JVR and Gawn in 2024 with cameos from Jefferson would be very spicey. 

And the Suns don't seem to be getting any better, so I wonder what Mr King is thinking...?

Yeah he's a nice kick isn't he the ole souvlarkey

[Jaded No More 68,975]

Just now, DubDee said:

just got back from Don McLean

what happened??

We conceded the last 3 goals of the match. 

[layzie 34,339]

2 minutes ago, DubDee said:

just got back from Don McLean

what happened??

Did American Pie only just finish?

[Grapeviney 9,909]

Credit to North - they really took it up to us in the first 45 seconds. 

[Little Goffy 14,753]

22 minutes ago, YearOfTheDees said:

Clarkson says that North did not play that bad but Melbourne are just that good. Says that Melbourne has 8 maybe even 10 All Australians in our side.

More accurate to say we have at least 12 who will be considered unlucky to miss out on All-Australian selection. AND maybe four or five who do get selected.

Remembered fondly as the 'Robertson, Yze, White, Green, Davey, McDonald, Brown, Johnstone, Bruce' quality range. Except now we have a bundle of absolute guns to top it off, instead of that group trying to overcome an overall lack of depth.