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I have to keep reminding myself of this!! Who does Brisbane have out? I can't think!!

Heard of Bradshaw?

Thank god he's not playing, or we'd be losing by 100 right about now! <_<

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    I did say in another post brown would probably kick 10, and the way he is going its not impossible

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    Brisbane are a very young side, prob the same amount of youngsters we do, the difference is they have champions binding their team together

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    My thoughts....

    We are so bad at clearances it is sickening.

    Teams do their scouting against us. Let Ward, Brown or Godfrey take possession, because they won't hurt you with their disposal.

    Is Brad Miller's time up???

    Either we don't work hard enough, or brisbane are exceptional at staying on our hammer defensively when we push up the wing, and conversely they are leaving our guys in their wake they push up.

    Aaron Davey may need a spell at Sandy for disciplinary reasons.

    What's that line Malthouse uses? It's not who is out, but who is playing and what they can do. We need to adopt that attitude.

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    Brisbane are a very young side, prob the same amount of youngsters we do, the difference is they have champions binding their team together

    When you have Lappin, Brown, Black and Power in your side, you are always a chance.

    When your best/ most decorated players on the ground are White and Robbo, you're in trouble!

    Mind you, even with Neita, Bruce, TJ and Green, we'd still struggle.

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    My thoughts....

    We are so bad at clearances it is sickening.

    Teams do there scouting against us. Let Ward, Brown or Godfrey take possession, because they won't hurt you with their disposal.

    Is Brad Miller's time up???

    Either we don't work hard enough, or brisbane are exceptional at staying on our hammer defensively when we push up the wing, and conversely they are leaving our guys in their wake they push up.

    Aaron Davey may need a spell at Sandy for disciplinary reasons.

    What's that line Malthouse uses? It's not who is out, but who is playing and what they can do. We need to adopt that attitude.

    malthouse is right, we have a team out there, they can atleast man up, brisbane are not that much better than us.

    miller could not stop brown early on and i dont know who could have?

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    daveys punch was too the stomach not the balls. clearly from the replay. and while i wont say he is allowed to punch a player the bloke he punched was pushing and pulling him by the shirt while they were off the ball, and had been doing it since the first bounce. i don't understand why the free wasnt reversed however when the player came through and cleaned him up. also why didnt godfrey get a free when struck to the head behind play?

    dunstall is an idiot. i cant remember his commentating from another time but saying things like 'godfrey deserved it, taggers are scum' doesnt warm my heart, or prove that he has any brains. we got 1 free kick in the first, and 1 or 2 in the second. we are getting smashed, and this compounds it. the commentators are ridiculously one sided brisbane.

    mcdonald is captain, and playing alright, getting a bit of the pill. chook is our best atm closely followed by white dunn, and chunky. unfortunately none of those three are in the best 10 on ground.

    dunn is impressing me more and more. good kick on him and he is going in hard. ward as usual is going in hard but his disposal is pathetic.

    that isnt helped by our midfield which is getting spanked. we are not making space, we are not presenting, this makes choosing options very hard indeed. we are falling down across the HF/wing line with no one presenting. when we do get it there the forward structure is killed by brisbane players dropping back. we're not moving the ball on quick enough to use free space. brisbane are doing a great job of keeping their midfielders out of the way. they are obviously using their half forwards as the target across half forward leaving the forward line open for brown and co. the mids are then setting up outside the 50 to keep it in. similarly when we go forward, their mids drift back to block that space. is it because our mids are going in there too? once again (like the richmond game), brisbane have numbers on the opposite wing allowing a quick change of ends (and once again more space for the forwards). is this due to loose men? i don't think so, i think it is due to our unaccountability, but more for after the game.

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    I'm really starting to think about Davey in the future after another stupid act on the field.

    Flash, either fix your temper or find a new club.

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    GOdfrey with the big amrk from behind!

    wonders never cease!

    2 points, good start but could have been much better!

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    GREAT GOAL BY DAVEY!

    cj has lifted, davey has too, seems to have his mind on the job, we are doing well around the ground but need to get a few more goals before 3/4 time

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    There is the difference, jon brown throws his body at the ball at CHB and ward tries to toe poke it and J brown wins the ball and they take it up the other end for a goal.

    Ward needed to put his body on the line and didnt.

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    Only a 29 point deficit. It isn't impossible.

    All that hard work and Brisbane get a quick break and goal. Brown is definitely murdering us even though Carroll has done a better effort than Miller did (midfield dominance didn't help Brad though)

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    Bate picked out a lions player when there were 3 melb players

    Gee that pisses me off when players loose there cool eg sylvia just then a davey having a swing

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    great chace chooka

    cj bumped robbo of the ball :)

    we are doing well

    kick to davey in a 1 on 4

    not thinking today are we

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