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North trying out the west coast game plan. Congest areas and try to hurt us. Then get the ball and all out attack no matter what. Makes for hard to watch football. We’re always going to get more frees when teams play this way against us.

This is where intent vs outcome needs to be looked at. Intent creates much more consistency I would think. Outcome is impossible to work with because there are too many variables. No matter what you police with outcome there will be situations like chandlers. All the while stray elbows, forearms and punches go unpunished. One is an unfortunate part of the game that will never go away no matter what rules we create, the other looks terrible, has 100 percent more malice involved and has the potential to create huge amount of injury. We are trying to remove concussion in a game where it’s impossible to do so. Will punishing chandler help reduce concussion, I don’t think so. He will make that tackle every time and so he should. Meanwhile Ryan gets one week, where the intent was far greater, not in the spirit of the game, bla bla bla and the afl wonders why the fans have issues with the umpires, mro, rules committee etc. they are set up to fail

What should chandler have done. The part where it becomes dangerous is out of his control. He has to play the game.

Physicality, presence etc. they kick about the same amount of goals but t mac does the other stuff better

Too many passes that hang in the air a bit too long. If we just put our heads down the game would be much easier. They are creating more opportunities this quarter which is unacceptable.

Perfect game to work on lowering the eyes. Midfielders getting goal side a bit more than they might normally. The eagles are as bad as we were at our worst. It’s bringing back bad memories of them doing the same to us years ago at the g one [censored] afternoon

Nah. Not even close. Tom McDonald’s great but that’s his glaring weakness. He over rates his kicking ability.

How many times have I seen Tom McDonald turn the ball over by foot taking on more than he should trying to look a million bucks in his career.

Goes to show how taxing it is playing us. You’re welcome essendon.

Collingwood and Adelaide beat us by running hard through the middle and taking their chances last year. And playing us when we were flat because you can’t get up for every game, especially against minnows. Hawks had a crack. We seem better prepared for it this year. We were as flat as anytime last year against the hawks. We are even more hell bent on practising defence this year. To the detriment of winning big. I think the practice pays off over the year though and works in our favour. It has shown that when teams need to try and win the game when we are up for it they end up looking pretty mediocre.

There’s a lot of lack of perspective getting around this thread. Goodwin doesn’t like making many changes for a reason. We looked unorganised early today for a reason. The way we play requires cohesion in the way we move and certain players with certain assets to use those assets over the course of a game. Without all those outs we cover a lot of their switches better. We have petty which frees up lever. To help rebound. We keep the ball in our forward line longer with kozzie anb and sparrow. we won today because our top 6 is better than theirs. Interestingly our top 6 is much better than st Kilda and freo who are looking like they will be there abouts. st kilda aren’t exactly looking like world beaters right now against port. The season is long. We get to 12 wins asap and then we plan our run home. after going to most games my entire life I choose to enjoy the grind and admire the freaks we have running around getting the job done when teams of years gone would have gotten nowhere near. last year we had some ugly wins and losses. There were problems with forward cohesion but we figured it out. And by the end of the year didn’t it look incredible.

We were cooked in the last. Our forward entries were as bad as possible

We looked a rabble for the first half of that quarter. Starting to settle it down a bit I think. Our connective players being out Anb, kozzie etc are noticeable

Richmond’s strategy was to hold on to us at every opportunity and play the numbers knowing that the umpires weren’t going to pay them all. They held and scragged and ran into us to try and wear us down and get away with what they could. It was the wily old veterans clinging on for dear life against the new champions. Clog up the backline and try and play as close to the line as possible knowing they will give some away but get away with most. More apparent at the ground than on replay. that’s why the free kick count was what it was. Richmond supporters complaining need to understand the way their team played the game quite deliberately. I haven’t paid much attention to them all year but stats would suggest that’s the way they play every week.

We controlled that q. Didn’t convert and they got a gimme. Double the scoring shots. Tracking just fine.

There’s definitely a bit of sadness. Always really liked him at melb. I don’t understand the booing and the abuse at the ground though. Thought that was very poor. He did what he could for us. If your dad dies of cancer and then you get cancer and your family is on the other side of the country you get to do whatever you need to do. Unfortunately even Melbourne have their fair share of [censored] supporters. It’s not like we lost out when we let him go.

Viney was really clean and powerful in close. Best I’ve seen him for a while. We seemed to try and move a bit quicker than we have been off half back and turn overs in general. Seemed like there was an intent to catch them off guard and on the overlap. Whether this is a tactic we used specifically against gws or if it’s the next building block for our year I’m not sure. the umpires really had no feel for the game. This umpire respect nonsense has the least consistent application I’ve seen for years. One week you can jump around and shout at them, the next week you can’t even raise your arms. A rule like that has to be applied consistently because its impact is far too great for what it’s trying to be.

Is BT actually 8 years old? Time to retire

Weideman back to the magoos

It’s as if we weren’t playing that q for the umpires. They missed everything going out way. Port can’t keep that up all game. Should break open if we can maintain our structures.

Port tackling hard. Can they maintain intensity? Umps taking an interest in ports welfare it seems

Weid despite marking it tonight lacks presence and I think no Ben brown is part of our efficiency problem forward

Only 25k at the ground with plenty of swans supporters. Not many dogs at round 1 either after a successfulish year last year. Do the afl know the bulldogs can’t pull their own weight even when in contention for flags so feel the need to prop them up year after year with momentum turning decisions week after week going their way? Trying to bring supporters to them with a period of sustained relevance on the ladder. The way they talk up their stars who are actually b graders and the way they are umpired can only lead to this conspiracy theory having some meat on the bone.

I love how little we have been mentioned in Mondays round reviews so far. Beating the second best team with 5 of 6 of our backline missing but it’s all about Carlton today. Magnificent

Perfect result. Inflate the cats egos and the medias thoughts on their chances and just absolutely destroy the hype around Essendon. Spectacular work.