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I was tossing up whether or not to go to this match. Fortunately I made the right decision.

I have been following this thread. Can't bear to watch on Kayo. Sounds excruciating.

Our defence and whole ground defence is shambolic now. Our forward line is still having the same problems it’s had for 3 years, and our midfield which helped out forward line through sheer weight of entries, is now getting beaten on a regular basis.

Hard to win games when we’re getting beaten in every part of the ground.

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    I wondered why a lot of pundits had us finishing outside of the 8. We are still playing the same basic way.

    We are another Carlton. Don’t for a minute think otherwise. 

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    Need to put that half behind us. We will have to, because playing like that, we’re a bottom 4 team.

    Reset. 

    Come out, with our fingers out, playing gutsy, accountable, smart CONSISTENT good footy. 


    [censored] half of football

    Chin can stand tall. Not too many others 

    Stoppage clearances 9 to 15

    Max getting a pasting

    Trac hardly seen

    TMac back to the bad old days

    Lever having brain fades again

    Petty should be dropped on this performance

     

    And Fritsch watch  Going with has average for the past 12months, 2 disposals to half time.  In fairness he's been putting in a bit more but he just can't get near the pill 

     

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    3 minutes ago, doc roet said:

    whats lever sposed to do  disappear

    Nah. He was under the football, turned around and tried to do something. No eyes on the ball. The most obvious free kick so far today

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    We are still in this and expect north to stop running in the 4th. 
     

    My concerns are we look slow all over the ground, all players are fumbling and there are too many missed tackles. Address this and we should win. 
     

    if we lose, our season looks shot and it hurts with no 1st round pick. 

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    Unfortunately I’m not too shocked. North have injected some talent in their side and we have at least 5 VFL standard players out there.

    Sharp sucks I’m afraid, another Billings. 

    Like the look of Lindsay and Henderson and Chandler is having one for the ages, but that’s not enough.

    I mean, when TMac is having brain farts and Lever is doing god knows what in red time, you know it’s not our day.

    Long season but zip 2 is a huge handicap. 

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    I hate to harp, but we have missed 5 set shots in the first half (Chandler, JVR, Langdon, Turner, Sharp). How are we supposed to win when we kick like that? 

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    We’re playing badly and down by two goals. Play a decent second half and we win this comfortably.

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    We sre only 2 goals down but it feels like 5.

    Honestly goody needs to get to the leaders & tell them to pull their finger out

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    we’re like the british army in WW1. trained to fight the last war. worked in 2021.

    the comp had us worked out half way thru 2022. and we’re still charging into machine gun fire. 

    In: John Monash

    Out: Goodwin

     

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    Chandler, Henderson and Oliver have all been good.

    Xerri is dominating Gawn at the moment.


    very disappointing, this is not going to be a good season for the dees if this is the way we play. i dont know if they expected to just run out onto the ground to beat north, but thats the way it looks.  i dont know how we get this team up and going oliver and gawn are doing the best they can but lack support, trac looks good when he has the ball but has not had enough of it so far. umpiring has been poor, but that should not distract from our poor performance. our forward line is virtually non-existent. north players are running rings around us handballing back and forth and our players just dont know how to cover them much less tackle them. 

    Can't stick tackles

    Can't chain the ball by hand, instead handballing to the feet or missing all together too often.

    Struggle to hit targets by foot.

    Continue to play in straight lines out of the middle (666) without finding targets

    Can't shut down transitions off HB

    Can't transition quickly or slickly enough often enough ourselves to worry the oppo and give our forwards better looks coming i50

    Continue to miss simple set shots from various angles not far out

    Our only KTF can't take a grab

    Our skipper can't kick straight at goal almost ever

    No apparent method or 'Effective' game plan or the semblance of a change in plan to one that works

    Conclusion...

    All we have (seemingly) ...is mostly just crash and bash

    I'll give it 5 to 6 more weeks for a few of the calvary to come back (namely May, McVee, Melky & Kozzy) but i'm about 70% convinced what needs to happen already.  The writing's on the wall.

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    1 minute ago, jnrmac said:

    [censored] half of football

    Chin can stand tall. Not too many others 

    Stoppage clearances 9 to 15

    Max getting a pasting

    Trac hardly seen

    TMac back to the bad old days

    Lever having brain fades again

    Petty should be dropped on this performance

     

    And Fritsch watch  Going with has average for the past 12months, 2 disposals to half time.  In fairness he's been putting in a bit more but he just can't get near the pill 

     

    Yes Chandler about the only one to hold his head up 

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    We are still in this and expect north to stop running in the 4th. 
     

    My concerns are we look slow all over the ground, all players are fumbling and there are too many missed tackles. Address this and we should win. 
     

    if we lose, our season looks shot and it hurts with no 1st round pick. 

    How many times in Q2 did we get run down from behind?


     

    Just now, Radar Detector said:

    We’re playing badly and down by two goals. Play a decent second half and we win this comfortably.

    I agree, but I've seen us in this situation countless times and we rarely find the ability to switch on.

    Petracca should be good enough. I'd love to say we should move him forward, but he'll get no supply.

    Salem, Langdon, Rivers having shockers.

    Very difficult to win when we play without a midfield 

     

    Here’s what’s apparent after this half. Both teams are bottom 8 standard. North Melbourne are more skilled, more competitive, and more effective at the contest. Inside attacking 50, North Melbourne are far more threatening. Melbourne’s goals are far less less convincing, and their set shot kicking is very poor. But then so is North’s. If North had better defensive organisation, they’d be another 3-4 goals up. As the on-field personnel present, they also appear to have oodles of upside compared with Melbourne.

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    5 minutes ago, DutchDemons said:

    I'm currently regretting waking up at 520am to watch this.

    You’re still asleep and having a nightmare 

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