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2 hours ago, Colm said:

I think it’s time for Maysie to get on the Tom McDonald diet and lifestyle if he wants to get another couple of years at the top.

Who would’ve thought a McDonald’s diet would be good for you?

 

Easily the best game of Daniel Turner's career to date.

19 touches (career high) at 84%

7 marks (3 inside 50)

6 intercepts

3 goals in the 2nd half

1 hour ago, John Crow Batty said:

THE Melksham/McGovern incident was an unfortunate tetralogy and purely accidental. Melksham never too his eyes off the ball. What Ginbey did could arguably be considered worse because he shoved Petty into McGoverns path and didn’t even go for the ball.

Ginby has form too. Didn’t he push Lalor during preseason? Seems he hasn’t learnt his lesson

 
1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

According to the [censored]-rag known as ‘The West’, this was a hit job and intentional:

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This is bloody hilarious.

Bunch of drama queens. Wanna tissue.

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Another aspect to the revelation that is Chandler, is his kicking and his ability to shrug off tackles

Kicked the ball to position well often to a lot of 1 on 1's (our forwards were not getting in each other's way)

And his kicks were penetrative with not a lot of hang time (a forward's delight)

If it wasn't for Gawn, Chandler was the standout performer on the day

Chandler is more of a utility rather than a mid but his link up kicks from half-back to half forward are dynamic. Kudos


14 hours ago, Yarra Valley Demon said:

If petty is concussed he'll be out as well as melky.

Might be a turner/aj or turner/roo fwd line next week.

Fritsch will keep his spot especially if melky gets rubbed out

A.j is nothing more than a plodder!

While the win was good to see we only played the bottom side and only won by five goals so let's keep this in perspective now comes the hard part of the draw and that will determine what happens after that, I thought Viney did a good job on Reid overall Max was brilliant Turner should always be on the lead as a forward, Rivers should be banned from making any football decisions where he has to think Kossie is another one he is an instinct player, but the lack of forward craft is our Achilles heal but as the old saying goes you can only beat what's in front of you.

On a slightly different topic I do have to call into question a certain person's claim of lucky socks...

Just sayin'

 

The new-look forward line (mostly medium) looks far more dangerous than how it looked earlier in the season

What stands out is how less crowded we look up forward but that might have something to do with not having 2 or 3 talls all attempting to mark the same ball

Turner is more of a utility forward than a tall whilst the other forwards are not getting in each other's way. So when the ball hits the ground we're active

Playing just the one tall (Petty) has a better look to it when considering that we're rapidly becoming a non-bomb-it-in-team

We need to make it work with AJ or JVR next week as I see our forward craft as more team orientated rather than constantly kicking it to the talls

48 minutes ago, picket fence said:

A.j is nothing more than a plodder!

That’s just unfair on a guy that’s been at the club 5 minutes you seem to set very different standards for certain players on the list


14 hours ago, Oxdee said:

The hate of fritta knows no end…!shameful

‘SHAMEFUL’

It’s shameful?

He. Is. Not. Playing. Well. He. Has. Been. Dropped. Already.

So the Coach agrees with the sentiment, and the shame is hardly on the fans that expect base level of effort from our most skilful player.

Those lucky socks. Wish I knew where I could purchase lotto lucky sox

4 hours ago, clarrypetracca135 said:

sparrow has gotta be the most frustrating footballler

gotta bring jvr back and aj too. 1 key forward doesnt cut it imo.

alternitively drop sparrow and petty out for concussion and bring in jed adams and roo(disco swings forward)

melksham is crucial for our inside 50 delivery and spargo just isnt it. lindsay might need a run in the vfl and mcvee is out of form. at the surface we are lacking composure (cough cough 22)

this season is reminding me of brisbane last year

all we need is to get another tall in

McVee out of form,🤔funny when he gets the ball he passes straight away but can lead with no one on him and somehow can't get it,you might need to watch the game champ and watch it live as well

I can understand there are some who don't see it with Kolt, but I think the coaches will be ok with where he's at.

The best way to describe him is that for a 10 gamer he's actually doing the hard things quite well. He knows when to lead, takes front position to win frees, doesn't often get outmarked even against very senior players and knows it's his job to bring energy and pressure and culture.

It's the easy things that are letting him down - I think those will come.

The danger is that he's a classic utility that never finds a position. He shows flashes of being a good forward, and there have been moments as a contest mid too (one notable one in his first ever pre season match against Carlton).

He's made of the right stuff though - will go a long way to giving him the best chance.

A simple reminder of how far back we’re coming from:

We have the equal best win streak in the competition (3 straight wins), but are still in the bottom 4.


The game of two distinct halves is an ongoing concern, but part of Goodwin's mantra for his whole time at the Dees is "reset from anywhere". In a moment, a play, a quarter, a game - whatever. And we are doing this really well even if it is against rubbish opposition.

Please leave Turner in the forward line. I maintain that he is actually the best mark in our team next to Max and his kicking is a coaching manual. A forward line of JVR, Turner, Fritsch, Spargo, Kolt and Melksham, with Trac and Kozzie rotating through looks balanced and skillful enough to cause problems. I have a soft spot for Jeffo but he will have to earn his place back.

Viney as a tagger/defensive mid is a coaching stroke of pure genius. This single change is a bigger part of our winning that we realise.

Kolt is frustrating but he is getting to the right spots at the right time, along with real defensive pressure. The list of players we have encouraged to grow while playing AFL is very long (Chandler, ANB, Sparrow, Rivers, JVR etc...) so I reckon the plan is to apply this same rule to Kolt.

Langford, Lindsay and Windsor - we will be saying these names for a while. Great recruiting.

May looking shaky. I hope it is fitness and injury recovery or we will need to start blooding Adams to give him some AFL game time, so he can develop.

Winning is fun.

There's a snippet of a post match Fox Footy interview in the rooms with Trac on the AFL website that clearly went for longer than the minute and a half of it they showed, but neither the live Kayo broadcast nor the full replay showed it. Instead they crossed to some golf tournament. Does anyone know how to get access to it? He was talking about Clarry.

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20 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

There's a snippet of a post match Fox Footy interview in the rooms with Trac on the AFL website that clearly went for longer than the minute and a half of it they showed, but neither the live Kayo broadcast nor the full replay showed it. Instead they crossed to some golf tournament. Does anyone know how to get access to it? He was talking about Clarry.

@Rab D Nesbitt - I'm in nsw and I saw the whole interview live on Kayo. I had swapped to the Cats Pies post match discussion and i think they went live to Tracc from there. The section where he talks about Clarry is on the AFL website.

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56 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

A simple reminder of how far back we’re coming from:

We have the equal best win streak in the competition (3 straight wins), but are still in the bottom 4.

But we are catching up to a lot of teams and we are now only one win and % out of the Top 8. I feel like that’s pretty good for a team that was zip 5 what felt like five minutes ago.

I personally can’t see us making the 8 this year (we will most likely be 3-7 soon) but it’s nice the season is still alive.


52 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

There's a snippet of a post match Fox Footy interview in the rooms with Trac on the AFL website that clearly went for longer than the minute and a half of it they showed, but neither the live Kayo broadcast nor the full replay showed it. Instead they crossed to some golf tournament. Does anyone know how to get access to it? He was talking about Clarry.

Video link:

https://www.afl.com.au/video/1313726/wrapping-our-arms-around-him-trac-praises-brave-oliver?videoId=1313726&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1746277676001&pageSize=50&tagNames=ProgramCategory%3ASnippet&references=AFL_COMPSEASON%3A73%2CAFL_ROUND%3A1154&tagNames=ProgramCategory:Snippet&references=AFL_COMPSEASON:73,AFL_ROUND:1154

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Just now, Rab D Nesbitt said:

There's a snippet of a post match Fox Footy in the rooms with Trac on the AFL website that clearly went for longer than the minute and a half of it they showed, but neither the live Kayo broadcast nor the full replay showed it. Instead they crossed to some golf tournament. Does anyone know how to get access to it? He was talking about Clarry.

6 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Thanks Luci but that's what I watched. I'm looking for the entire interview. Based on the post from Neil Crompton above I might have to scroll to the end of the Pies v Cats game where they crossed over to the Trac interview.

 
1 hour ago, Neil Crompton said:

@Rab D Nesbitt - I'm in nsw and I saw the whole interview live on Kayo. I had swapped to the Cats Pies post match discussion and i think they went live to Tracc from there. The section where he talks about Clarry is on the AFL website.

Thanks NC. I just watched the whole interview which they crossed to after the Pies v Geelong game. It's only a few minutes long but it then leads into the panel discussion of the Melky mark / McGovern concussion contest so worth a look. For anyone else that might be interested just forward the replay to 3 hours 35 minutes on the Kayo replay to see both.


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