6 minutes ago, BDA said:

a lot of gnashing of teeth this week so we won't complain about that win

nice debut from culley and the youngsters continued to show plenty of promise

it not all doom and gloom

and i almost feel sorry for the Eagles

almost

There’s signs there that they have good players. A lot of the kicks into their F50 were absolutely bang on and some of the field kicking was very good. Youngest team in the AFL by a bit of a margin too unless I’m mistaken.

Last week I laughing at the end of the game (possibly from disbelief psychosis). This week I just want to cry.

WTF?

6 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

True

He started showing something in the last three or four matches. He has a strong body and is very solid in the marking department.

Not sure he has the speed to make it longer term but worth a look

Kicks goals, takes marks, strong 194cm build. Gee I wonder where on the field we can experiment him next year.

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Good response by the boys although first half was truly awful.

Clarrie and Trac coming back into a bit of form would be a great way to finish an disappointing season from both. Looked invested in the second half which is promising!

Culley, well done young fella

This win means nothing. Win 2 of the next 3 and I’ll consider forgiving this insipid club.

Gee West coast are terrible. At least with Richmond you can see something but not sure what coming through at West coast, especially if Oscar Allen leaves

Culley, wingers with a strong aerial game are gold. His game reminds me a lot of Ollie Dempsey. He is not super fast but gets himself to contests and some marks today were super.

Jack Viney also justified his inclusion. Playing with an injury, he did not take a backwards step. The unrelenting physical pressure lifts the players around him.

I enjoyed seeing Windsor involved more around stoppage. He is not a natural contested ball winner but he found himself in the right spots to run and carry and gives us a different look.

JAI CULLEY warmed up over the match, Ddint know he was a little dee (dee's supporter), make sense why eh was so happy after that first goal in our colours.

But can we play like this against a good side. Today was pretty much a training run on how we should be playing.

It's a lot better to win than to lose..... (and even worse to win and lose in the same game...)

Chuffed for Culley... I mean who'd da thunk ??.. ( except a lot of people... lol )

Fancy playing a bloke suited to the midfield...in the midfield.. genius. What surprises await !!

Not a lot to take away otherwise.. AFL side v not-really AFL side... let's be real.

That said I hope supporters enjoy today and savour the scent of success... at least until next Sunday arvo where the first of 3 steam rollers awaits 🥴

But for now... grin away 😉

53 minutes ago, layzie said:

Langford has the gold touch, cant get enough of his highlights.

Would have liked to see him in the middle rather than the goal square in junk time

Culley was a step behind the play, positioned himself in strange spots and got in the way in the air most of the time. He was fighting a nil all draw with Clay Hall and losing to Chesser (who we’d have to be in to).

But the ability to float forward and take one good and one great mark is a good tool in the bag. (Please take Langford to specsavers because he continues to get first hands on so many similar marks and then drops them).

3 more weeks to earn a contract extension for mine, I’m not there yet.

14 minutes ago, Hellaintabadplacetobe said:

Good response by the boys although first half was truly awful.

Clarrie and Trac coming back into a bit of form would be a great way to finish an disappointing season from both. Looked invested in the second half which is promising!

Culley, well done young fella

Need both playing well over the last month to try and inflate their value. Our focus should be put them in positions to accumulate lots of possies (because the footy media do love a good possie).

Can't carry this senior group anymore so need to find ways to extract value for them.

And the winner of the Rising Star is…

“ Ed Langford “

Crikey Kelli Underwood

Edited August 2Aug 2 by Dee Zephyr

Just what they had to do,

It's sad to think if we had beaten everyone from 11th down this year we would be 8th right now

1 hour ago, Little Richard said:

Hard to know how much to take out of this game.

A win is a win so that’s nice. Goal kicking much improved and a solid debut from Culley. Kids are looking pretty good and Oliver looked like he had some of his intent back, I'd really love to see him finish strong this season and carry that into next year.

WCE are 1 and 19. On pure wins this is one of the worst wooden-spooners. Many teams would have thrashed them today. While our game wasn't incredible at least we won easily.

Can I just say marvel have some really nice food outlet places. Not just your standard burgers, hot dogs & chips.

The mcg could take note

Do we know the attendance figures for today? I cannot find them anywhere.

Here is the Stats File post for the game:

A very satisfyingly win, especially after last week’s debacle.

The final three rounds will be an enormous litmus test. Hopefully we can demonstrate what the ‘real’ Melbourne looks like.

Bring it home Dees! ❤️💙

The opponent was truly awful but with the week we'd had, an 83 point win is at least par, if not above par.

The result doesn't tell us much, so it's more about the individual moments, players and strategies that I care about more.

Things I noticed:

1. Windsor got 24 centre bounces (out of 33 total)

2. Trac only got 7 centre bounces

3. We kicked 21 goals despite Koz not kicking one and Melksham only kicking 1

4. Trac only had 6 kicks all day, two of which were shots on goal, so for the entire rest of the game he only had four kicks

5. 22 tackles inside 50 to 2 is an insane stat

6. Langford is going to be a gun. Clearly has room for improvement (strength, marking, right foot) but even with those limitations his talent is obvious

7. Culley should play the rest of the season. I see something to work with there, but we have to remember this was akin to a VFL level opponent. Let's see what he does on the G against the Dogs, Hawthorn and Collingwood so that we know if/how to use him in 2026

meth coke will get picks 1 and 2 and it's honestly hard to see it making much difference for the next couple of years

oscar allen has barely played for them for the last several years, is their skipper, and is walking out

they just gave up for great stretches of time

that jayden hunt isn't playing is sad; i presume his career is coming to an end

i would love to get liam ryan at the dees in 2026 and beyond

Edited August 2Aug 2 by whatwhat say what

13 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

And the winner of the Rising Star is…

“ Ed Langford “

Crikey Kelli Underwood

She's a keeper is ol' Kelli 😉

Windsor looking comfortable on ball was the highlight to me. Ball use still shaky and hasn’t looked as quick or as clean as last year at any time this year but he made some great decisions out of traffic and was a defensive speed presence that we need in there.

Backline is playing pretty solid footy, good both ways when they get some up field pressure.

22 tackles in forward 50, the eagles give you a chance but the boys rolled up their sleeves today

Goodwin in the presser

"We're one week in ..."

BS The season started in March, it's now August. We are 21 GAMES IN

9 minutes ago, old dee said:

Do we know the attendance figures for today? I cannot find them anywhere.

They put it up on the scoreboard. It was 16,000 & something