KingDingAling

How hard is it to get a decent umpire these days this is terrible

He will sign. West Coast are rebuilding and would hardly tempt him. Freo I’m not sure they are kind of irrelevant.

IN: Dunstan, Hibberd, Chandler OUT: Sparrow, Hunt, Spargo

Good to get the win. GC are a good side. Miller and Rowell kept grinding they are both hard at it, and Anderson kept kicking crucial goals. Really happy with the win. A few liabilities tonight though. Sparrow, Spargo, Hunt, and probably Rivers all performed poorly. Sparrow I thought was terrible.

Sparrow, Spargo, and Hunt will be lucky to get a game next week. So frustrated by Sparrow, just really slow of mind today. Rivers also doesn’t look ready.

Good to claw back the margin. This GC side are front runners. We are losing the hit outs, clearances and free kick count. So a bit I improve on

Its great. Still our biggest danger I think.

Knee was heavily strapped. Why even risk him. Didn’t work.

What a joke the umpires are. Bulldogs should be a grand total of 2 points. Absolute farce. Disgraceful.

Oliver is the best in the league by a fair space.

Nothing wrong with trying to motivate the troops. It’s his job. List would be psychologically very flat. Even now. Grand finals are hard to even get to. Every player on that list would be flat, as would we be had we lost. Bevo is just doing his best. I respect it. Strategically though, we are well placed against the bullies, and actually against most sides. It’s what got us to the finals playing below our level most of last year.

Really solid hit-out. We sat 4 wide the trip off of a moderate tempo, and we given no favors in the run, only to go down a short half head. Fair effort. Not much else to report. If Carlton were impressive off of that match - good luck to them. On our list, good solid hit-out. We didn’t get injured, didn’t disgrace ourselves, and will take learnings from this. Practice matches are just like sparring, nothing more nothing less. Sparring is practice not the real thing.

This is a Melbourne vs umpires game on steroids. And that is fine. Everyone can see it. We won a flag last year against not just the best teams, but no rub of the green. No umpire or team, or individual can take that from us. Out game plan is designed to just keep playing to win.

No Salem or May. Pretty much doing ok. Only downside I can see is we are susceptible to a crumber. Hibberd usually fixes that quick smart so he is our biggest loss.

Brayshaw can find more of the footy on the wing. He played a defensive wing style. But he was getting a feel of the role. I have no doubt he will find more of the ball as he gains more confidence in his position. He looked good in the practice match. I think he can improve his goalkicking, and push into the forward line, becoming an unusual defensive winger who can damage the scoreboard. That would be a very effective role. The more accountable he makes his opponent the less his opponent is able to be an attacking weapon.

West Coast have a lot of players entering their twilight years. They don’t have a great deal of youth coming through. MFC club on the other hand, we have a dynasty looking list right now. It may not end up that way, but Jackson would be weighing up the present. He’d have to be very homesick to consider leaving MFC. I don’t see it happening.

Scary that Oliver is only 24 and should sit as high as number 2 in our history already.

If 2021 is anything to go by Dunstan Is very good. Viney at his best I think has more to offer, but Viney is rarely at his best, whereas Dunstan is ultra consistent, improving, and could possibly work better with our midfield. Dunstan gives our midfield more versatility because he can be first cab off the rank, which makes Oliver/Petracca harder to tag at center bounces as they would be on the move. It’s just something else for our opposition to worry about. Dunstan is a very good ball winner. He is a magnet to the footy, just needs to continue to improve his usage. For a large part of 2021 we didn’t use Gawn’s taps all that well. Dunstan may be the guy who gets better use of them.

Dunstan will be the benchmark, and any midfielder not named Petracca or Oliver will have to be better than Dunstan. It’s a good standard to set. Jordan, Sparrow, and even Viney, will have to bring their A-game to get more midfield minutes.

Weideman is ready now. No excuses. He now looks physically ready to play his role - as drafted. It takes some players a lot of time. We expect them to go early, but not many do go early. Weideman had all the right attributes to be a good contributor. I suspect we will see it in 2022.

Agree. The hard yards were already done. She’ll have plenty of time to earn respect and get credit where it is due. She appears to be the right person to help land us new training facilities- which would really set the club up for a long time.

Brisbane is the best I’ve seen. WC was also up there. Both better than ours. If we get a third quality midfielder then maybe. Oliver is as good a midfielder as I’ve ever seen. Petracca can still go a level, and reach Martin levels. Rivers probably has the tools to go inside the center square.

25-27

Any draftee would be happy to land at MFC. Bowey shown what’s possible. The club also plays kids if they are showing form (sparrow, Jordan, Jackson). We might be a top side but unlike many top teams of the past - we do play youth. Should set us up well going forward too.

He will take 3-4 years before he rucks. And that is where he’ll do his best work. Hopefully he gets homesick.