Petty 2 kicks 1 hand ball and 1 mark. Should be at Casey next week.

I'll take the win, but I need medication to get over the first 2.5 quarters of snooze fest.

When we take risks and change the angle of play to come through the corridor, we really are dangerous and exciting. This was the best thing about the 3rd and 4th quarters.  

Great to see Tomlinson play so well. 

The gut run and repeated efforts of Langdon, ANB and Rivers looked top quality today.

I was unconvinced about Billings and I remain unconvinced about McAdam. 

Hated those 3 last quarter goals.

Best game from Oliver Viney and Trac as a trio in some time.

Max Gawn - simply the best.

Yes the late three goals was disappointing. But we had Gawn, Viney, Langdon and Salem benched for that entire time. Cue was somewhat in the rack. On performance we were 10-15 goals better than them.

That’s a reminder of what we can do if we are brutal in the middle and at contest. When we are on there, it frees up so much of our ball movement. JVR makes us better and I really like his development. 

Also really like seeing ANB and Pickett spending heaps of time in the middle and at centre bounces, and Langdon at half forward in a more defensive role. 

Have to bear in mind that they are awful, and we do still have issues. We struggled defending turnover, when we go slow (which is too often) we are incapable of finding avenues to goal, and we are still generating and taking too many low percentage shots on goal.

I thought McAdam was poor. Not sure if it’s fitness or not but his lack of willingness or ability to chase is concerning. I was hoping Petty would be “on” after his early mark but sadly not. Should probably be rested given he was carrying a sore shoulder all day before the foot issue (hopefully not serious?).

28 minutes ago, 640MD said:

Junk time goals that should not have happened but,

In party mode after Stevie May’s goal.

Crikey.  We have a comfortable victory and this thread is as toxic as the matchday festival of negativity.

8 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

He is approaching GOAT. Without a question .

Danger is nowhere near GOAT 🤪🤪

8 minutes ago, IRW said:

To say nothing of the rubbish they served up last week.

 

Glad we have you around to say something then.

May kicked a goal !!! Who took his place at full back ?

1 minute ago, COOLX said:

May kicked a goal !!! Who took his place at full back ?

No one. Ball was down the other end.

Guys, it was clear a couple of our players copped knocks tonight and were sore.  They were 'managed' in the latter part of the game.  In that context and after last week, this was a good win.  It would have been nice to have smashed them by 10 goals, but under the circumstances, we did what we were required to do.

It is a long season.  Let's hope we retain a full list and be ready, fit and raring to go come finals time..  Go Dees!!!!

1 minute ago, COOLX said:

May kicked a goal !!! Who took his place at full back ?

It was our defensive press. Took him into the stands behind Fritta 🤩🤪😜

19 minutes ago, Deemented Are Go! said:

No it didn’t. Port are a game ahead of us.

For now.

It's low standards to be happy with today.

 

2 minutes ago, Biffen said:

For now.

It's low standards to be happy with today.

 

yes, it's simply ghastly still being a top four side year in and year out

Can't believe the negativity on this thread after a dominating win - actually, it's Demonland, maybe I can. 
 

The criticism of Petty identifies people who watch TV rather than going to the game. He created a lot of contests but also, there were a number of times where he was 20m in the clear when we were streaming forward and the ballcarrier chose other options. Kick it to him and he has a 3-4 goal game and doesn't get criticised. He is learning; he still doesn't fully trust his foot (I really hope that he hasn't had real harm to it today) and all Melbourne supporters should know that it takes over a year to really come back from a foot injury - look at Viney, Trengove, TMac, Vandenberg .... Petty just needs time.

12 minutes ago, old dee said:

Petty 2 kicks 1 hand ball and 1 mark. Should be at Casey next week.

Won’t be. The word is that he has injured his foot again

Just now, whatwhat say what said:

yes, it's simply ghastly still being a top four side year in and year out

That's all it will be until it isn't.

 

10 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Crikey.  We have a comfortable victory and this thread is as toxic as the matchday festival of negativity.

Yep. Reminds me of that joke about the optimist and pessimist.

The pessimist says, “This can’t get any worse.” To which the optimist replies, “oh yes it can!”

1 minute ago, bobby1554 said:

Won’t be. The word is that he has injured his foot again

Then why is he playing. The last few weeks he has contributed very very little

Salem was the Supreme Architect this afternoon. Back to his precise, poised, best. We are an 80% better team with him playing like that. Very impressive.

Just now, old dee said:

Then why is he playing. The last few weeks he has contributed very very little

Agree. But I think the injury occurred today

1 minute ago, old dee said:

Then why is he playing. The last few weeks he has contributed very very little

I wanna know why he came on for that goal assist, only to be subbed out after the scoreboard already said he'd been subbed out.

Why did Simon Goodwin get heat in the pregame thread?

43 minutes ago, JJR said:

It's McAdams 2nd game, it's going to take time. You need to go in the bin. 

Responding from afar (have only seen the stats) but six tackles from McAdam suggests he was making a defensive contribution.

3 minutes ago, Spargonicus said:

Salem was the Supreme Architect this afternoon. Back to his precise, poised, best. We are an 80% better team with him playing like that. Very impressive.

Howes being out freed him to be permanently in the back 6

Better but still not clicking.

Windsor had a very quiet game. McAdam and Petty have been mentioned.

Anyway off to Alice for a 50/50 game against Freo