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Never mind Houston. Go all out for Callaghan. Going to be an awesome player and would be would be perfect for us. 

 

Tough loss. 

Great opportunity however to bring Jefferson in to work in tandem with JVR for the rest of the season. I know there are those who want to keep him in a humidicrib until he's 26...but now's the time to give him a crack.

 

 

 

 

 

  On 27/07/2024 at 12:18, Brownie said:

You'd think they would have put Koz in the guts with a minute to go.

Instead they waltzed it out

 

I said the same. A stupid decision. Kosi wins it and he can run it forward. No idea why he wasn’t in there to start the last bounce. 

 
  On 27/07/2024 at 12:17, Vineytime said:

Tommy Mac coughing up goals for fun tonight. Time to retire Tommy. 

Has he been coughing up goals all year? 

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OUR SUPPORTER BASE IS WEAK AS [censored].

16k crowd announcement is staff included.

If you didn’t go tonight its because you probably signed up in the middle of may 2021z 

Greene ducking

May no push in back

Greene getting called back 25 seconds into pettys shot at goal and no 50

Channel 7 want gws in finals and you cannot convince me otherwise. 

When Disco came on in the last quarter things started to click. Billings should have been the sub. Laurie & Woey should still be playing for Casey. Just not good enough!

 

Ladder doesn’t lie. Weren’t not frauds - we’re just not that good.

We lost one of our best players before the season started, had multiple key players have shocking preseasons, been ravaged by injury, played the kids every game and clearly not got our fitness right. 


Another wasted year.. put in some effort when it suits us… just a typical Melbourne effort. 

As my sister just said, we've had a nearly season. Lost by 5 to Lions, 1 to Carlton and 2 to GWS. Win those and we're top 2. And we've had a year blooding a bunch of youngsters on every line who are now all best 22. We're not far off.

For the game itself, Clarry much better, really good game, Laurie's best game, 6 score involvements, 3 clearances, used the ball well, let's see it again. 

Our hot and cold two way running from midfield was a factor though. Our mids need big pre seasons.

Finals not totally out of sight, but it'll be tough from here with our percentage.

JVR infringed 10 times without a single free.

May pushed  in the back on their last goal, everyone but 4 umpires saw and knew it.

We have not had the rub of the green with frees, injuries and other sides kicking straighter.

 

  On 27/07/2024 at 12:17, Vineytime said:

Tommy Mac coughing up goals for fun tonight. Time to retire Tommy. 

He has been our saving grace this year, against Hogan in his best year ever, and you want him to retire off 1 bad game?

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Good fightback at the end, but you just can't concede four soft goals in five minutes and hope to win a tightly contested match. And Max, not surprisingly, looked cooked in the final quarter.

A big opportunity missed, unfortunately.


  On 27/07/2024 at 12:17, Vineytime said:

Tommy Mac coughing up goals for fun tonight. Time to retire Tommy. 

Back on the coaching with this one. Hogan is the premier full forward in the game and we have the premier fullback playing on Jake Riccardi until they made the move late in the last quarter.

Horrid coaching

  On 27/07/2024 at 12:10, At the break of Gawn said:

Horrible centre bounce work by Gawn and the mids in the last qtr

That is it, it wasn't a centre bounce as the umpires gave up and threw it up advantage GWS.

  On 27/07/2024 at 12:20, Doug Reemer said:

OUR SUPPORTER BASE IS WEAK AS [censored].

16k crowd announcement is staff included.

If you didn’t go tonight its because you probably signed up in the middle of may 2021z 

10th on the ladder. Got smacked the week before, cold rainy night. We also haven’t played attractive footy since round 4 2022.

First 7 minutes of the last in which we conceded 4 goals. Don’t know what was said at 3/4 time, but we sure as hell weren’t switched on.

We score way too slowly at the business end of games, and concede far too easily when we lapse in concentration.

Sure we can ramble on about the umpires, but what’s the point? So long as they make games contentious, AFL remains in the headlines. Too many games being influenced by umpiring decisions to be more than a coincidence, and with Dillon saying that umpiring is the best it ever has been, that ain’t changing any time soon.

GWS we’re far better after quarter time

im amazed it was so close 

we tried hard but not good enough


  On 27/07/2024 at 12:15, Jibroni said:

Time to give Jefferson and Fullarton a run and see what they have to offer.

Big, intensive pre-season starts now for Jeffo, Fullo and Verral - and some mighty good midfield selections. Horrid result - poor team selection with limited confidence to bring the newbies into the play. 

  On 27/07/2024 at 12:17, spirit of norm smith said:

It was obvious how we cleared out the space … then Tom Green knew it and CLARRY WAS ASLEEP. Clarry not the contested player that he was. Green beat him to the footy on many occasions.  

[censored] just look at the tapouts, not on  Oliver at all ... just [censored] ruckwork! GAWN WAS GARBAGE TONIGHT and Again on you Simon!!

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  On 27/07/2024 at 12:17, Vineytime said:

Tommy Mac coughing up goals for fun tonight. Time to retire Tommy. 

Back on the coaching with this one. Hogan is the premier full forward in the game and we have the premier fullback playing on Jake Riccardi until they made the move late in the last quarter.

Horrid coaching

 
  On 27/07/2024 at 12:20, Return to Glory said:

Tough loss. 

Great opportunity however to bring Jefferson in to work in tandem with JVR for the rest of the season. I know there are those who want to keep him in a humidicrib until he's 26...but now's the time to give him a crack.

 

 

 

 

 

Totally agree. He was good today in horrid conditions at Casey. 

.... :(

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