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PREGAME: QF vs Collingwood

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The AFL will probably gift us a closed session at GMHBA Stadium.

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I'll be a lot more succinct than 'binman' ...  @binman that is a joke; still luv ya! Defence wins finals: In the last month we have been back to our 2021 stingiest best.  Points aga

Jaded No More
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If we can get back the Tom circa early 2021 we will win the flag. People forget that his role is the one we’ve been most desperate to replace. That player who can take a mark or bring the ball to gr

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5 minutes ago, IRW said:

The Pies were loading 

For the past 6 weeks, Melbourne is 3 for scoring and 3 for points against. We’re in the top right hand corner of the Premiership window metrics.

Collingwood is 5th for points for and 14th for points against.

Just for reference, Geelong was 1 and 1 the last 6 weeks in 2022 before finals.

We might not win tomorrow night, but the Pies aren’t winning the flag.

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6 minutes ago, Purple77 said:

I can't stop looking at the hurt someone went through to merge those excel columns together in those very specific, ugly ways.

I'm sure I'll acknowledge the content soon.

It’s the same person who films the goal line vision then rewinds and zooms it in on their VCR. 

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40 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

That’s what my head is saying but the Pies won’t go away

You should see a doctor for that. Few days of antibiotics will clear it right up.

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I can't stop looking at the hurt someone went through to merge those excel columns together in those very specific, ugly ways.

I'm sure I'll acknowledge the content soon.

At least they're consistent I suppose.  Looks like that every week!  🤮

👉 https://aflua.com.au/umpire-appointments/

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14 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

For the past 6 weeks, Melbourne is 3 for scoring and 3 for points against. We’re in the top right hand corner of the Premiership window metrics.

Collingwood is 5th for points for and 14th for points against.

Just for reference, Geelong was 1 and 1 the last 6 weeks in 2022 before finals.

We might not win tomorrow night, but the Pies aren’t winning the flag.

Well I hope not myself,but you have no idea ..you're looking backwards 

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2 hours ago, binman said:

Unless it becomes clear we need a third tall at some point in the match, Smith wont play back (IMO).

Why would he?

Hibbo comes in for turner as a defender so they don't need anyone else to go back.  

I'm tipping Smith plays on murphy and looks to negate his intercept marking 

Yeah, I don’t see why he starts back. He can move there if things aren’t working and allow us to go smaller and quicker up forward with Laurie. But I don’t see Fritsch, McDonald, and Smith too tall…

Like far from it…

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29 minutes ago, Purple77 said:

I can't stop looking at the hurt someone went through to merge those excel columns together in those very specific, ugly ways.

I'm sure I'll acknowledge the content soon.

The "v" not "vs." for the St Kilda Adelaide game is what's making me twitchy.

Clearly we're focused on the important things.

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I don’t think we can underestimate the importance or significance of this game 

The Demons are back. Not for 60 long long years have we been this good. We are playing our foe from the 50/60’s on the main stage in September. 

Embrace it. 

Enjoy it. 

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I thought I was going to be OK. We’re travelling really well and all the metrics and form line point to us banking a good, but likely tight win…

… but ah man, here come the nerves! 😬

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10 minutes ago, DubDee said:

I don’t think we can underestimate the importance or significance of this game 

The Demons are back. Not for 60 long long years have we been this good. We are playing our foe from the 50/60’s on the main stage in September. 

Embrace it. 

Enjoy it. 

And I'm not ready for the tradition of beating those scumbags to end.

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3 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Reverting back to Lever and May being our only 2 talls against a forward line that has 3 talls.

This defensive structure has not worked this year.

It's ironic that we've gone back to this after Goody said they liked the three talls and wouldn't be reverting from this again.

FWIW, I actually think it's the right call on this particular occasion. 

May and Lever rarely do well intercepting in the wet, just like Max, so having to worry about another tall around them potentially fumbling, is not something we need. Instead, we have smalls and mediums to mop up at ground level and hopefully keep their smalls at bay.

I think this is a complete horses for courses move. If we were playing Brisbane this week, I suspect we'd have three defensive talls.

What's unusual is we didn't try two talls on KB, we went with three. And it worked very well, but they were minus McStay.

I presume we're banking on winning CP and territory, and on slow plays defending inside 50s, we'll drop Max behind the ball.  While on fast plays, we'll be better with quicker smalls, rather than cumbersome talls, and the Collingwood talls are unlikely to clunk a lot in the rain/greasy conditions. 

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Watching 360 they were all asking how can the Pies win? The demons have the best defence in the comp etc

i honestly think we’ll smack them tomorrow. unless we kick 7.18 or disaster strikes. we are the better skilled, finals hardened team

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Yeah, I don’t see why he starts back. He can move there if things aren’t working and allow us to go smaller and quicker up forward with Laurie. But I don’t see Fritsch, McDonald, and Smith too tall…

Like far from it…

JVR?

We've selected 6 marking "talls" if you count Fritsch and I do. We can play 3 forward and 3 back if necessary.

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