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Geelong move the ball with so much precision and they use it better. That’s been the difference. 
Certainly need to be at our best skills wise next week to win. 

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    12 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:

    This is such a good game for us - an opportunity for the coaches to really study the weaknesses in these teams. Geelong clearly have a powerful forward line but their rucks and mids are getting thrashed. We need to exploit that. With Carlton, they are doing a great job of getting good attacking clearances from the middle. We need to make sure we have a defensive sweeper at centre bounces - perhaps they could give that role to Sparrow. But it is all on display for us to learn from.

    Yes it’s not often that you get your next 2 opponents playing each other on the same ground. 
    our coaching staff should be flat out today

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    My bugbear with the umpiring is these little tiggy-touchwood frees for things that don't affect the game (the stand rule is the worst offender here). Who cares whether McKay was on the mark and swapped with another player with no one in cooee for McKay to potentially prevent taking the play-on handpass? Umpires should be given license to not pay frees where there wouldn't be a material impact on the flow of the ball.

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    Seriously can’t wait for next Saturday night. We want a big crowd and let’s hope we give them their first loss.

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    Carlton finding it hard to win without the three umpires in their corner.

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    2 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    Seriously can’t wait for next Saturday night. We want a big crowd and let’s hope we give them their first loss.

    We wont get anywhere near [censored] next week!

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    tbh I'd rather beat wannabe Carlton in 2 weeks than Geelong. The Cats won't stay healthy all year. Hope we meet them in finals.

    But I don't think we match up particularly well against either Geelong or Carlton. Gonna be a tough fortnight. 

    Carlton is staring down the barrel of 3 games in 12 days when they face us. They've got Collingwood next Friday and then us on Thursday. We'll be coming off a 5 day break but our third game in 15 days. 

    I reckon we'll pump Carlton. Can't see us getting near Geelong though.

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    19 minutes ago, greenwaves said:

    Geelong are the real deal. Unbelievable.

    Yeah. Although if the trade off was Carlton not becoming the dominant power everyone was forecasting, I'll live with that! 

     

     

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    Win one of the two we are a chance, win both red hot, Lose both, ... we have Zero chance this year IMO

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    The fundamentals of Carlton’s game are interesting. They continually smash teams at clearance, but also give up big scores.

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    19 minutes ago, Dingo said:

    Who do you suggest we should have recruited?

    To me it’s the difference of having the potential to be a dynasty team and one that just wins a flag. Tigers getting Lynch got them another 2. 

    I don’t know if we rested on our laurels after 2021 thinking Tmac and BBB were going to be enough - clearly that didn’t bode well once TMac got injured and BBB was all but done.

    When we had the picks from LJ in the 2022 draft we went for a ruck in Grundy relying on Gawn to play as a KPF - again plugging a hole , maybe we missed a trick.

     

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    Well played Cats, give them some hope late in the game then dash their dreams. 

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    21 minutes ago, brendan said:

    How is Jeremy Cameron $81 for the Brownlow 

    Cos a player standing 6'5 or over hasn't legitimately won a brownlow in decades.

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