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Get there !!!!!!!

I went to training at Gosch's for what would have been Lever's 2nd session with the club and was amazed with how he was  interacting with, guiding, encouraging and urging his teammates.

He had leadership written all over him !

With May by his side, you would expect nothing less than what we've seen develop over the last 3 years in our backline.

The standards with them there are sky high and when they leave, there is every expectation that the younger defenders' play  will reflect their experience of playing alongside these two stars.

3 hours ago, monoccular said:

But would he have to fight his way back through Casey 😱

Play very wide of the Eagles to avoid 🇨🇳🦠

Afrikaans I believe use the small van / von. 

Hy-phen’s and apo’strophe’s are ‘so often mi’sunder’stood. 

And yet, youve' u'sed them perfectly well here. I no because I'm a English teacher.

On 5/4/2022 at 5:17 PM, Mazer Rackham said:

Inspired by recent articles in the footy media, I now bring you my ...

SECRETS TO BEATING STEVEN MAY

• Bring the heat
• Back yourself: try to get the ball before he does
• Embrace the challenge
• Employ the air: catch the ball before it hits the ground
• Control scoring: kick it through the tall sticks
• Play the full 120 minutes
   

Hold on Mazer, you forgot the most important one

' Always play goalside of him. Never let him get behind you !! '

Is that like the 2022 version of the Kreuser Cup ?? 

Do we have to win .... or lose ( to win )  ???

Can the Dogs throwing of the ball be any more blatant ?

Multiple un penalised throws by the Dogs in the last quarter here, Naughton running miles over the mark , no 50 paid, free kick to Allir in the Dogs forward line, the Dogs player gives the umpire a mouthful, no 50 paid. 

Many were there to be fair but the pro Dogs free kick count in the last was, frankly , obscene 

On 4/30/2022 at 11:14 AM, dazzledavey36 said:

Because he is incredibly close to his family? and that's most likely a bigger pull then staying for success. 

Jackson situation is no different to any other player that have left a successful club to either go home or better offer elsewhere. 

His parents are still actively involved with the East Fremantle Football Club and have big ties there. Jackson's a bit like Hogan where majority of his childhood/best mates are still there.

Jackson is a unique character and a deep thinker. Maybe the actual pull is his family alone. He knows he'll get paid really well wherever he goes. He's filled and won a premiership, maybe he just wants to be home closer to his family.

Nothing wrong with that.

The pull of returning home to family is a big pull for a player.

Dangerfield came to Geelong to be close to family and how successful that's been for him !! 

He's now closer to family, so, good for him !!!

12 hours ago, monoccular said:

Maybe, had Weeds been a more "assertive" or confident sort of character, he would have called for Tom to leave it?  It was really up to him, with a wider view of the whole situation, to make such a call.

I was happy for Weeds not to contest the ball with Mc Donald in the goal square but him knowing that should have lead him to call McDonald out of the way to let the ball drift through off Harmes boot. 

God forbid that Harmes should finish his career on  only 499 goals because T Mac snaffled one of his goals !!!!

2 hours ago, Demonland said:

Joel Smith / Tom Lynch (Melbourne/Richmond)

1

😜

Yeah but it was a good handpass. Hit Lynch right in the bread basket !!!

18 hours ago, jnrmac said:

But do we have a Plan B?

 

Don't need one...

Our Plan B is  " don't panic ", then return to Plan A.

20 hours ago, Jontee said:

My niece has had covid 3 times.

But she is in Paris.....and doesnt play footy....I dont know why i said that.....

Neither do we, but thanks for letting us know !!!!

I think taking the first option nowadays is working well for us because, as another smart poster mentioned in a different thread, the opposition has usually flooded back so much that once we get the turnover in our backline and start moving it forward there are acres of wide open space with our forwards and mids streaming into it

3 hours ago, MrFreeze said:

Joel Smith took the first option lol

And what a good option it was...….. resulted directly in a goal !!!!

14 minutes ago, tiers said:

Vision and decision making are the key elements of taking good options.

I have noticed how Spargo and ANB, when in confined spaces, will always look for the best option and more often than not succeed for the teams benefit.

As for taking good options, how about Fritsch's handball to Petracca. Both of them took the first and best option.

13 minutes ago, Bobby McKenzie said:

Stupidity to even think ANB should be dropped. He is the ultimate team player and would be in the first picked each week. 

And even if ANB doesn't dominate the stats, he is one our unacknowledged "leaders" and his impact in that role is significant !!

Any time in the last 30 years that a team scored the first 2 goals of the game against us, I would think it was ' Game over ' 

I don't think that any more !!

Cerra looks like quite a decent player 

3 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

While we notice work rate when it results in goals or directly stopping an opponents goals, it's the seemingly unrewarded work rate which should get a special mention. That's the wingers and half forwards running back to help the defenders. Players like Spargo and Neal-Bullen who end up deep in the back half when they are nominally forwards. Or like Langdon, Jordon and Harmes (when on the wing) who continually run back and forward to create options, even if they're not being used. Effort after effort. 

This is the difference between this team and Melbourne teams of 10 years ago.

Even if the player running to receive the ball or fill a gap is not used or does not directly impact the the play 90% of the time, they will still keep doing it without dropping their heads because they know what they're doing is contributing to the team's success.

Sit back and enjoy, friends. This is going to be a long and successful ride !!!

7 hours ago, IRW said:

It was worth reading those facts just to see that someone actually  knows the meaning of hoi polloi! ( smile)

I know what ' Hoi polloi ' means too. But I'm not poorly educated !!!

As for the Hoi polloi, we'll see plenty of them with black and yellow scarves at the MCG on Sunday night.

Salem is highly regarded by supporters and the club alike and for very good reason. He is a great defender. 

Everyone is assuming he will come straight into the team when he recovers and that will probably happen but don't count on it. He might be made to fight his way back into the team and earn his spot like every other other defender. 

The other observation I would make is that Jordon is playing so well at present that he's making a very strong case to retain his place in the team in the medium term. 

For mine, Jordon is not the first player to lose his place to returning team mates

1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

GET [censored] GEELONG!!!

A bit harsh M R. !!!  I, for one, was terribly upset that the Cats dropped their bundle and lost the game 

Nah, just kidding!!!! 

GEELOL............ G. A. G  MEGA  FFFFFFFD !!!!!

The umpires are on a hiding to nothing because whatever decision they make, 50 % of the crowd will disagree with them. But, give me strength ...... !!!!!! Umpire dissent.  ?????? The most hideous and ludicrous rule ever introduced , by a country mile. !!!!!!!

If a players says to an umpire " Go and FFF yourself !!! " ok that's not on. 

Even something like " That was a s@&$ decision"  is not ok

 But shaking your head in frustration or putting your arms out as if to say " Turn it up " without uttering a syllable is not dissent 

You can't prevent players from showing any emotion and you will never convince the spectators that this 'dog's breakfast ' of a rule  is something that will ever be applied even handedly or consistently, a point other posters have made in this very thread.

For that very reason, spectators will turn on umpires with even greater vigour than ever before. 

I admire the umpires for their efforts to officiate a game with incredibly complex and nuanced rules, but this rule will make umpires' lives on game day a living hell. 

This is the rule which is the straw that breaks the camel's back 

Who is the medi sub guys ??? 

2 hours ago, Crompton's the man said:

and it’s such a comfort to know that the umpires will adjudicate with impartiality and  consistency 

 

 

Is that a new style of umpiring the AFL is trialling this round ????

Wonderful !!

On 4/1/2022 at 2:28 PM, TRIGON said:

Just got an email - from Max - stating that I have just broken the MFC membership record: 55,000 +

ALL BY MYSELF....who wants to touch me?

No one 

23 hours ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

I say we draft him based on his name alone. It’s uber-Melbourne!

Neal- Bullen, Featherstone-Hough, Emile -Brennan, 

Bring on the double barrel names !!