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POSTGAME: Rd 09 vs Carlton

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9 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Sounds stupid given a 0.0 to 5.0 first quarter but I really didn’t feel like the score reflected the effort. It was our usual arm wrestle first quarter but the score somehow didn’t reflect.

This game was a freak anomaly for mine. I write it off as a disappointing loss that we should have won and move on.

That’s how I felt. I thought we started well. They took their chances, had some lucky bounces, and we didn’t. Mind you we didn’t mark anything in our 50 and they did and that was a big difference. But not a 5-0 difference. Agree. I’d rather write this off as an unlucky night with some costly misses and a particularly bad dangerous tackle call. 

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    1 minute ago, frankie_d said:

    everyone knew how to beat the old melbourne- outside run and fine commit to many to the contest. 

     

    the new melbourne is harder to beat, so we helpfully do that ourselves with lousy score return on forward entries. 

     

    When do we think about a change of forward coaching personnel.  Everyone knows it’s a pattern. everyone united off that’s fixed, we win big. 

    it’s been happening for years. 

     

    2 minutes ago, JJJ said:

    My Kingdom for a key forward.

    My kingdom for a forward coach, one that can teach the young players how to use their body and how and when to lead would be a start.

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    Just now, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

    Billings was good.

    Serious?

    Billing’s is softer than a McDonalds sundae. He also pioneered the hospital hand pass. Too slow to move the ball and often kicks to opposition side of a contest. He needs to play VFL. 

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    18 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

    AFL will come out and say they made a mistake on that sling tackle free kick

    Zero chance of that.
    JVR getting rubbed out for a week more like it. 

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    2 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    Great comeback

    Trac was possessed

    The Blues will know deep down we are far better and they fluked that 

    They will be happy with the win but in the back of their minds they will know it was a pyrrhic victory and won't take us lightly next time.

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    3 minutes ago, Deemania since 56 said:

    Nothing for the boys to be ashamed of as a result of that last quarter and their persistence in the third quarter beforehand. We know what happened, we know how it happened. 

    Agree. Proud of the boys for not giving up. I hope we see these [censored] again and finally collect the debt. 

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    1 minute ago, wizardinoz said:

    You didn’t see his flakey handballs??

    I saw his kicking. 

    Did you?

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    5 minutes ago, frankie_d said:

    everyone knew how to beat the old melbourne- outside run and don’t  commit too many to the contest. 

     

    the new melbourne is harder to beat, so we helpfully do that ourselves with lousy score return on forward entries. 

     

    When do we think about a change of forward coaching personnel.  Everyone knows it’s a pattern. everyone knows  that’ if it’s fixed, we win big. 

    it’s been happening for years. 

    Don't commit too many to the contest? We were outnumbered at nearly every contest for the first 3 quarters 

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    6 minutes ago, croydick said:

    we absolutely dominated the last half, 4 goals to 8.

    That is so far from true. We never had any real 'flow' of the game at all until that last 10 minutes despite the little moments we got here and there that the Blues would instantly answer.

    Better team won. 

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    1 minute ago, loges said:

    Don't commit too many to the contest? We were outnumbered at nearly every contest for the first 3 quarters 

    That’s because Goodwin always has a spare back. It’s killing us for years. 

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    I was shocked that Bowza was an automatic in after 8 weeks off. He was pretty bad. A game at Casey would’ve helped him.

    Ultimately we [censored] the bed. 1st qtr was appalling and too many passengers until the 4th.

    I didn’t really notice the umpiring expect for the tackle against JVR…. Wowee

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    Just now, SPC said:

    That’s because Goodwin always has a spare back. It’s killing us for years. 

    It’s literally won us a flag 

     

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    1 minute ago, layzie said:

    That is so far from true. We never had any real 'flow' of the game at all until that last 10 minutes despite the ones we got here and there that the Blues would instantly answer.

    Better team won.

    Nah they were gassed in the last.

    We could have run over them if we had two more minutes.

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    1 minute ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

    I saw his kicking. 

    Did you?

    Yep. But his turnovers were amateurish. Not up to it. Try reading some earlier posts in the game day thread.

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    23 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

    Carlton are ordinary. We just needed someone to stop the rot in the first quarter, and sadly no one did.

    They aren't ordinary at CBs.  They've beaten us in this phase the last few times we've played them.

    You have to ask why Goodwin played ANB in the middle for most of the 2nd half?  Think he might've had one clearance towards the end and a few involvements but that's about it.

    And instead left Kozzy to rot at HF when the opposite was surely more plausible.

    The decision to leave Max off for at least 10 minutes after going three quick goals down was astonishing.  JVR was smacked up and outta sorts during his stint during this period which allowed the Blues to continue on their merry way out of the middle.

    The fact that neither of our KFs fired speaks volumes for me. 

    And i'm not including Disco here.  He's more like a third tall behind Petty & JVR and a junior in terms of experience in our forward line.

    Game on the line and neither of them were able to stick their hand up and settle us down on the scoreboard early.

    Took Max to put a few serious leads in in the second half and then managed to kick a big bomb from 50.

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    15 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

    Ok we played poorly but take away Mays touched ball the only one the video can't decide on and that cheating effort that got a free for dangerous tackle and we Won by two goals.

    Correct, remarkable but absolutely the case, TWICE just to swing the rapidly deteriorating advantage so hard fought by the umpires from the first bounce.

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    That so called free kick against Roo on Kemp that ended up being a Melbourne goal with 5 mins to go...

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    1 minute ago, layzie said:

    That is so far from true. We never had any real 'flow' of the game at all until that last 10 minutes despite the little moments we got here and there that the Blues would instantly answer.

    Better team won. 

    No they didn’t. We were poor for a quarter and then 2 minutes at the start of each quarter. Aside from that we were better. They finished better in front of goal. That’s the difference. But they weren’t better

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    17 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

    We miss Gus. I know it sucks but we are clearly down a quality midfield rotation.

    This.

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    it was an interesting game, I think that we were off. the real positive we take from the game is that, we were off and gave ourselves a chance to win the game

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    2 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    It’s literally won us a flag 

     

    What year was that? Football is played with a different style now, we were the dogs of 2016 right place right time.

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