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Round 8 Coaches Votes

Lucifers Hero
in Melbourne Demons

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West Coast v Melbourne

10 Max Gawn MELB
8 Christian Petracca MELB
4 Daniel Turner MELB
4 Kade Chandler MELB
4 Jack Viney MELB

Coach voting fairly unanimous. The split:

  • 5/5 Gawn

  • 4/4 Petracca

  • 3 and 1 or 1 and 3, or 2 and 2 for Turner, Chandler, Viney

Max and Trac again voted the best two on the ground. Altho to be fair Max was streets ahead of everyone else.

Good to see Turner get votes from both coaches as did Viney and Chandler.

Max flying up the leader board:

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    I was worried about Max in the first 4 rounds but his last month has been arguably up there with his best ever.

    Even At 33 with how fit he is, i see him playing for a few more years yet

    10 AA blazers??

    A rusted on AFL Legend in the waiting

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    6 minutes ago, Billy said:

    Can’t believe Max only got 10

    And I can't believe Max is only 5 off the lead.

    Is it correct that he played the entire last quarter on the weekend?

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    2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    And I can't believe Max is only 5 off the lead.

    Is it correct that he played the entire last quarter on the weekend?

    90% time on ground for the entire game so it's possible

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    All credit to him and love his guts, but I'd rather we play finals than have any AA reps

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    Agree. Maximum again for Maxy

    Imv Brownlow votes so far

    V giants Trac - 2 votes

    Nil votes for Dees v Roos, Suns, Cats or bombers

    V Freo Gawn 3, Brayshaw 2, Kozzzy 1

    V tigers Gawn 3, Trac 2, JV7 1

    V Eagles Gawn 3, Trac 2, JV7 1

    So … likely

    Gawn 9 (3 x 3 votes v Freo, tigers, eagles

    Petracca 6 (3x 2 votes v Giants, tigers, eagles)

    Viney 2

    Pickett 1 (v Freo)

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    Just now, D Rev said:

    All credit to him and love his guts, but I'd rather we play finals than have any AA reps

    We need at least a couple of players at AA level to make finals

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    33 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    I was worried about Max in the first 4 rounds but his last month has been arguably up there with his best ever.

    Even At 33 with how fit he is, i see him playing for a few more years yet

    10 AA blazers??

    A rusted on AFL Legend in the waiting

    And I can’t remember ONE Demonlander who I can’t remember wanted MAX NOT TO FLY over for this match late last week.

    He must not want Max to be In Brownlow contention or for US to continue our rise and make progress this season.

    Only spoiler reall is we can’t be expecting say at round 22/23 he may not be as fit and able to win us games without any assistance. Come on Rooi get back in the team asap.

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    20 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

    another AA coming up for Maximus

    Xerri is his only real threat and i reckon there's a lot of anti-Melbourne people already in the media flying his flag. Max needs to have 4-5 more of these type of games (i.e. 10 votes) to secure his AA.

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    2 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

    Xerri is his only real threat and i reckon there's a lot of anti-Melbourne people already in the media flying his flag. Max needs to have 4-5 more of these type of games (i.e. 10 votes) to secure his AA.

    And we win the matches that Xerri can’t get North over the line. That is Brownlow and AA selection criteria.

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    8 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

    Xerri is his only real threat and i reckon there's a lot of anti-Melbourne people already in the media flying his flag. Max needs to have 4-5 more of these type of games (i.e. 10 votes) to secure his AA.

    There may be a lot of anti-Melbourne media people but reckon you would struggle to find an anti-Max person amongst them.

    He is revered by all. And rightly so.

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    For the first time in a long time I noticed that Maxie was jumping and not just wrestling. He was running too.

    A fit Maxie who can run and jump is worth two of any other pretender to his position as the premier ruckman of this era.

    Fascinating article over the weekend about class ruckmen from the past eg. Nicholls, Farmer, Dempsey.

    They used angles and their leaps to tap the ball to their rovers. So much better to watch than two monsters wrestling, pushing and shoving to deliver the ball to a heaving mass of players.

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    1 hour ago, GS_1905 said:

    Xerri is his only real threat and i reckon there's a lot of anti-Melbourne people already in the media flying his flag. Max needs to have 4-5 more of these type of games (i.e. 10 votes) to secure his AA.

    He leads Xerri in the coaches votes - hard to deny him if he is the top ruck there. But, you’re right, often these things are political

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    1 hour ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    There may be a lot of anti-Melbourne media people but reckon you would struggle to find an anti-Max person amongst them.

    He is revered by all. And rightly so.

    You’d think so but I see it all the time. They are already talking about TDK and Xerri as the next big thing to take the GOAT mantle off Max and they achieved 2 % of duck all. It’s incredibly disrespectful.

    Your analysts talk about how Melbourne relies on Gawn too much (maybe so) but any other club and they’d say how good that player is etc etc - hall of famer etc.

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    57 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

    Your analysts talk about how Melbourne relies on Gawn too much (maybe so) but any other club and they’d say how good that player is etc etc - hall of famer etc.

    Breaking news: teams rely on their best players too much

    Also breaking news: how good is Dangerfield going carrying Geelong to victory at his age

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    6 hours ago, 58er said:

    And I can’t remember ONE Demonlander who I can’t remember wanted MAX NOT TO FLY over for this match late last week.

    He must not want Max to be In Brownlow contention or for US to continue our rise and make progress this season.

    Only spoiler reall is we can’t be expecting say at round 22/23 he may not be as fit and able to win us games without any assistance. Come on Rooi get back in the team asap.

    @binman did you suggest (on podcast 28 April) that Gawn should be rested v eagles and Tom Campbell be promoted (after his 3/4qrr game at Casey).

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    20 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    It’s one or the other?!

    No, just my preference for team wins over individual ones

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    23 hours ago, D Rev said:

    All credit to him and love his guts, but I'd rather we play finals than have any AA reps

    What does the girl say in the taco ad? Why can't we have both? ("Dos" if you will.)

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    20 hours ago, mauriesy said:

    Gawn had a 9 in the Age Footballer of the Year. I'm just wondering what you have to do to get a 10.

    wear number 35 for Geelong

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    17 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    @binman did you suggest (on podcast 28 April) that Gawn should be rested v eagles and Tom Campbell be promoted (after his 3/4qrr game at Casey).

    To be fair someone can change their mind when Oliver's break was announced.

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