4 minutes ago, Demonland said:

This is so good for us.

6 hours ago, At Least I Saw a Flag said:

I actually don't mind Healy as a commentator. Seems I'm the odd one out here.

I'm not sure that the players who are out injured are necessarily best 23 any more ... other than Bowey, and perhaps Rivers.

However future injuries will presumably facilitate their returns to the side at some stage ... I'm thinking Tmac, Viney, Salem. In each case, I think lack of pace is perhaps the main issue. I can relate to that ... even I've slowed down!!

Rivers comes back in, probably for Lawrie, other than that I don’t think Viney TMac or Salem have a spot and Bowser, not sure.

I seriously think we should keep the Irish music at all home games after every goal. The scarf waving in the MCC was Essendon-like 1990s early 2000s. An amazing spectacle.

I think it'd really lift our players seeing the scarves waving in the stands and it'd put off opposition teams, certainly interstate teams where we have the outnumber.

As for the game itself, Koz was brilliant early, loved Langford's game, Chandler's best and Kolt's. All three probably played their best games. Howes and Turner down back are such steady heads on young shoulders.

Trelly did some special things, didn't he? That cut back to JVR in the last was utterly outrageous. And I loved it!

A great game from JVR. Sharp, Langdon, Checkers and Fritta all played their roles really well. And we got contributions from Jeffo, Laurie and Moose.

Extremely happy with the win. And again, to those who said losing to Essendon would undo all our good work for the first four weeks, naaaaah.

One observation I had was that we didn’t allow the Lions to “stretch” us when they played the uncontested possession game. That was in contrast to the Bombers, who waited to stretch us down the ground before threading the needle back up.

We flooded back through the middle and into defence whenever the ball was turned over in the forward 50, so when they tried the uncontested possession tactic, we had extra players behind the ball and could let them go kick-to-kick and switch the play because it made little difference. Then, once we won the ball back, we flooded forward again.

I’m loving watching them play this season.

Lions fans really are nuffies. Claiming the umpiring was totally against them. Must expect the glazing they get at the Gabba to apply everywhere.

8 hours ago, Demonland said:

Not to dilute this significance but given we've been in that slot in 4 of 6 Sunday 3:15pm games it was always going to be the most ranked. The other two games were Richmond vs GWS and Port vs Essendon. Surprised it outranked Carlton v Melbourne though.

1 minute ago, Clintosaurus said:

Lions fans really are nuffies. Claiming the umpiring was totally against them. Must expect the glazing they get at the Gabba to apply everywhere.

The amount of people I’ve seen claim that wasn’t a free against McCluggage for blocking Langford in the goal square is crazy

McCluggage didn’t even argue with the umpire - knew straight away that he made a totally unnecessary mistake

Mustn’t learn the rules up in QLD!

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@picket fence

30 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

Lions fans really are nuffies. Claiming the umpiring was totally against them. Must expect the glazing they get at the Gabba to apply everywhere.

Agree, if Demonland is any guide dees fans would never claim the umpiring was totally against them.

But seriously, we did ok with the umpires. The two critical decisions were the 50 to Fritter and of course the block to Harvey. IMO both were 100% there, and good on the umps for paying them.

But those types of decisions are routinely not paid, particularly late in games (which is SOO frustrating -i mean if it's there pay it for god's sake). And whilst it was there, Harvey milked the block, which often leads the umps to not pay the free.

17 minutes ago, adonski said:

@picket fence

17 minutes ago, adonski said:

@picket fence

These are just small samples but its enough to work with moving forward.

Big believer that he just has to stay in the side and get continuity and games into him.

Could easily see him breaking out this year during a game and kicking 4 or so.

8 hours ago, Adam The God said:

I seriously think we should keep the Irish music at all home games after every goal. The scarf waving in the MCC was Essendon-like 1990s early 2000s. An amazing spectacle.

I think it'd really lift our players seeing the scarves waving in the stands and it'd put off opposition teams, certainly interstate teams where we have the outnumber.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXT6mBtgSm0/?igsh=ZGl3bGwwZnB0Zzk5

8 hours ago, Adam The God said:

I seriously think we should keep the Irish music at all home games after every goal. The scarf waving in the MCC was Essendon-like 1990s early 2000s. An amazing spectacle.

Couldn’t agree more, Adam. I didn’t notice how many people were dancing and waving scarves/caps until I watched clips from Insta and FB. It looked spectacular. But…

I’m not sure how that would go when we’re losing badly, which is gonna happen.

Did anyone watch AFL360 and see the footage of Kingy going absolutely nuts in the coaches box when the siren went?

Quality viewing.

11 hours ago, At Least I Saw a Flag said:

Just watched the replay. (I was at the match.) That kick by Culley to Roo right at the end was really good... so composed.

Also impressed by Culley with his attendance at centre bounces in the last quarter. Perhaps good game day coaching as well.

Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else, but Lloyd picks up on some incredible two-way running from Sharp, Koz and Latrelle in this clip from 0.27:

9 hours ago, Adam The God said:

I seriously think we should keep the Irish music at all home games after every goal. The scarf waving in the MCC was Essendon-like 1990s early 2000s. An amazing spectacle.

I think it'd really lift our players seeing the scarves waving in the stands and it'd put off opposition teams, certainly interstate teams where we have the outnumber.

As for the game itself, Koz was brilliant early, loved Langford's game, Chandler's best and Kolt's. All three probably played their best games. Howes and Turner down back are such steady heads on young shoulders.

Trelly did some special things, didn't he? That cut back to JVR in the last was utterly outrageous. And I loved it!

A great game from JVR. Sharp, Langdon, Checkers and Fritta all played their roles really well. And we got contributions from Jeffo, Laurie and Moose.

Extremely happy with the win. And again, to those who said losing to Essendon would undo all our good work for the first four weeks, naaaaah.

If we did the Irish music after every goal we would ruin the whole thing. It worked because it is joyful and different and we won. And kicked 16 goals. Do it every week and it will not be seen as that.

Sometimes things that work should be left to work how it’s worked.

Another tshirt @DubDee

22 hours ago, Red But Mostly Blue said:

Wowee we have some fun years ahead.

Any more Picketts we can nab? 🤣

We’ll have to wait another 14 years or so but there’s a father/daughter prospect in Bellanie Pickett. 🥰

Langford free was 100% there. McCluggage went straight for the block in the contest and never even looked at the ball.

Free kick all day every day and as noted, he absolute knew it

46 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Did anyone watch AFL360 and see the footage of Kingy going absolutely nuts in the coaches box when the siren went?

Quality viewing.

It's here, at 21.18:

23 minutes ago, rpfc said:

If we did the Irish music after every goal we would ruin the whole thing. It worked because it is joyful and different and we won. And kicked 16 goals. Do it every week and it will not be seen as that.

Sometimes things that work should be left to work how it’s worked.

Another tshirt @DubDee

Agree - it works because its a one-off and it has its own, singular, moment.

Would be silly, if not embarrassing, if we tried rolling it out every week as some sort of ongoing gimmick.

The thing is, we haven't really needed it to get the crowd's energy up at our MCG games this year. All four games have had the MCC and the wider MFC supporter bays pumping.

49 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Did anyone watch AFL360 and see the footage of Kingy going absolutely nuts in the coaches box when the siren went?

Quality viewing.

It’s electric! The release of emotion was so powerful and it’s like the whole box shook. I’ve tried to find it online but with no success.

38 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else, but Lloyd picks up on some incredible two-way running from Sharp, Koz and Latrelle in this clip from 0.27:

Brody Mihocek deserves a shoutout in this. His starting position is almost at the D50 mark.

2 hours ago, binman said:

Agree, if Demonland is any guide dees fans would never claim the umpiring was totally against them.

But seriously, we did ok with the umpires. The two critical decisions were the 50 to Fritter and of course the block to Harvey. IMO both were 100% there, and good on the umps for paying them.

But those types of decisions are routinely not paid, particularly late in games (which is SOO frustrating -i mean if it's there pay it for god's sake). And whilst it was there, Harvey milked the block, which often leads the umps to not pay the free.

Raynor's mark that hit the ground?

3 hours ago, praha said:

Not to dilute this significance but given we've been in that slot in 4 of 6 Sunday 3:15pm games it was always going to be the most ranked. The other two games were Richmond vs GWS and Port vs Essendon. Surprised it outranked Carlton v Melbourne though.

I love the gentle reasoning there.

on a wider note I think we could do more on the Irish side and build the game as an event. Sunday afternoon works well.

No criticism of the lovely Irish dancing but I'm thinking some serious Craic might take the number of neutral attendees up several notches