It really did feel like a final.

❤️💙⭐️❤️💙

Edited March 31, 20241 yr by WalkingCivilWar

3 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

The “off one foot” specialist 

Is he the best snap for goal off one step in the competition?

25 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

 

It really did feel like a final.

❤️💙⭐️❤️💙

Jack wearing Gus’ helmet. 👌

Just now, Mel Bourne said:

Jack wearing Gus’ helmet. 👌

Salo wearing god only knows what 😅

14 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Salo wearing god only knows what 😅

Can't sleep WCW ?

5 hours ago, loges said:

Joey Montagna : Melbourne best leaders and culture in the game !

Montagna should know too coming from the League's worst

6 minutes ago, Anti-Saint said:

Montagna should know too coming from the League's worst

3AW ???

8 hours ago, loges said:

Joey Montagna : Melbourne best leaders and culture in the game !

where did he say this? 

1 hour ago, Wells 11 said:

where did he say this? 

On the First Crack

5 hours ago, loges said:

Can't sleep WCW ?

The half life on those Red bills is a couple  of days 

6 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

 

It really did feel like a final.

❤️💙⭐️❤️💙

I think you something to do with cheer squad wcw.

Can I say what a fabulous effort you put in setting up a mighty albeit surrounded by ferals presence at the goals end at Adelaide.

It looked wonderful on TV and I reckon was hugely appreciated by the players.

Well done on the huge flag waving effort during the faux INXS power pre game anthem too.

That clubs got an inferiority complex imo.

Great job.

 

Good kicking is good football!

Bad kicking cost us a couple of finals last year!

I prefer good kicking!!!!!!!

9 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

The moron in the crowd got off lightly with a “[censored] you” from Fritta considering he called Fritta a word that starts with F and rhymes with maggot.

17 hours ago, deegirl said:

That’s what annoyed me, they’d already blown the whistle to pay us the free (was it Tmac?) and the reversal was unexpected as it rarely happens. 
 

autocorrection.cancel to me Rivers didn’t hear the whistle so kept playing whereas Rozee stopped & made the tackle look worse than it was

Exactly. Rozee had the ball in the square and Rivers wasn't to to know it was a Dee free kick. Umpire could have called "advantage". Happens through every part of the ground without penalty if a player has possession. No reversal paid.

Had to comment on Port Adelaide’s leaders in Rozee and Butters, they are the two biggest floppers in the AFL, they drop their heads and exaggerate contact every time they’re tackled.

Dont need to do it as they’re very good footballers 

Very happy with Max & Viney thank you 

12 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

“Fantastic win, but…”

Jesus this is a fair shake of the old sauce bottle, even by your standards. 

Great post would read again. Am I seriously not allowed to have some discussion about a game our coach and captain both admitted we generally wouldn't win based on all key stats?

Honestly, what is a footy forum for? Just sitting around with the happy clappers until someone posts things that gets taken down for legal reasons?

10 hours ago, rpfc said:

Are you looking for perfection? You will go crazy doing that…

We are pushing a game style we just haven’t done under Goodwin. Even in 21 or 18 we were a contest, clearance and/or front half turnover team. 

Here we are 4 games in and without our prime ‘interceptor’ - the engine for any team that wants to drive score out of the backline - and we have beaten a team on their home deck that has had far more it nearer to their goals.

This is one promising for what we can achieve in 2024 and while progress isn’t linear and we will make missteps along the way - if we get 15 wins - god help the rest of the comp with us in the finals with this midfield, and with us being able to move it from back half turnover…

Not looking for perfection, it was a heck of a win, just looking at the way that probably more than 50% of the game was on Port's terms/in their style and how we got the game played more to our strengths.

12 hours ago, loges said:

Joey Montagna : Melbourne best leaders and culture in the game !

Joey likes the Dees, I reckon. Regularly has positive things to say.

Saw this on First Crack, apologies if this has been mentioned already. This is a ‘strike rate’ thing 

The AFL average is 88 points. We are top on both ends of the spectrum.

We are +70 points at scores from stoppages #1 Rank.

Edited March 31, 20241 yr by Dee Zephyr

12 hours ago, Young Blood said:

Care the elaborate on the lack of speed on the spread? I thought our backs were back in position quite often and didn't seem to get caught out, out the back. They created genuine contests in the air and Lever was able to play his intercept game nicely once the game settled down. The easier goals they got were probably more to do with the mids and wings not filling the holes in the shallower parts of defensive 50...

 

I thought they opened us up through the half backs and midfield a number of times. Not a huge surprise when they are super strong in that area, just asking the question on whether we did that by design to protect the back line or if we just got beat at times. 2 to 3 talls, plus Fritsch, plus Billings not heavily engaged isn't a great defensive pressure forward line tho, but we do rely so much on Pickett to create pressure. And our midfield has a baby in Windsor who gets out of position at times (as is to be expected) as well as Clarry surely not at peak fitness, Salo finding his role and some coaching changes no doubt.

 

12 hours ago, Young Blood said:

Take your point about shoddy kicks out of the backline, they too were very poor with execution which levelled it out. But this is what happens when you player better opposition and they bring the pressure and better structure. The handballs back into the corridor is something you'll have to get used to with the new game plan, its going to be hit and miss while they work it through the early part of the season.

While the new game plan is around the sling shot of half back changing the angles by hand or foot through the corridor. You're still going to see SOME kicking down the line. It's what every team does when the corridor is manned up and you have numbers at the contest. We generated quite a few scores from this :) You might be right that were reverted back to it at times but this might have also been to take the heat out of the game and use the boundary to get stoppages in more neutral parts of the ground where we could set up better.

I'd just prefer to see Lever play to the percentages and to try to funnel more footy through Howes, McVee, Rivers, Salem than Jake going for too much. As well as some smarter options when we try long kicks to not Max, a few too many long kicks to smalls at times which shouldn't happen with 3 talls up front.

I like the handballs back through the corridor, just need to keep that flow to the open space rather than go back in to trouble. The passages of play that start with one winger and end up across to the other - the Langdon's wing, ball gets to Windsor on the far side, who kicks inside 50 to Langdon - that's high class stuff.

I thought from about the 2nd quarter it was the night to abandon too much open play and beat up on Port down the line, they do panic if they can't get out running in space. So I loved the result. I'm just curious to see if it was a tactical change up or not. 

16 minutes ago, Boots and all said:

Joey likes the Dees, I reckon. Regularly has positive things to say.

Been consistently positive about us.

Gotta love the D.A. 

Fritta's mum getting all the hugs!?

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/34c6pN3ygMDGRsmJ/?mibextid=xfxF2i

4 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

where did he say this? 

don't know as I tune out a lot now from media as it's full of hax

Montagna one of the few pundits I bother to listen to anymore 

8 hours ago, Mel Bourne said:

Jack wearing Gus’ helmet. 👌

I like that they’re using Gus’s helmet for a source of motivation

2 hours ago, Demon17 said:

I think you something to do with cheer squad wcw.

Can I say what a fabulous effort you put in setting up a mighty albeit surrounded by ferals presence at the goals end at Adelaide.

It looked wonderful on TV and I reckon was hugely appreciated by the players.

Well done on the huge flag waving effort during the faux INXS power pre game anthem too.

That clubs got an inferiority complex imo.

Great job.

 

Those fans could live for a thousand years and still not see another flag.