—coach—

Purely for balance on the subject and for comparison purposes: Dogs last 7 games as per your stats: - 83 goals, 88 behinds (171 scores) (48.5% accuracy) Melbournes last 7: 13.9 v dogs win 14.13 v lions win 9.9 v Coll loss 9.14 v Ess win 7.13 v Giants loss 12.14 v Port win 11.13 v Hawks draw Total: 75 goals, 88 behinds (163 scores) (46.0% accuracy) We definitely have a better defence than them, but would say on those numbers, their offence is better.

Closed skills are skills not affected by the environment

Excellent post ?

Everyone’s entitled to their view. Im interested in how you arrived on 4 times, and not say 3 or 6 times? What was the metric? I saw a guy get caught repeatedly when trying to weave around players and the combination of him and Viney was just too slow. One of them at least needs to be out next week in my opinion and if I were the coach I would use Harmes in his best role which is a tagger who can still rack up useful possessions and sparrow as an outside mid and have both JV and AVB out of the side. as an aside I would use dogga in the ruck more and keep gawn inside the goal square for the 1000 long bombs we seem to do to the hot spot each week where the opposition marks uncontested.

I feel like all the attention on him played into his dreaded plan. Mwah hahahahhaah

Another thing that was clear to me, JV and AVB are too slow to try and duck and weave around opposition players. Sparrow comes in for one of them and Harmes replaces the other. Harmes is a better tagger and Sparrow has more upside than either

There is one closed skill in football, set shot goal kicking. The one that is next closest to a closed skill is Max’s taps from centre bounce. I say it’s close to being a closed skill, because on the most part he is so dominant in his tap, that is very nearly a closed skill and unaffected by the opposition ruck. Interestingly, we are really poor at both areas. We haven’t kicked more goals than behinds for 7 weeks now. And the amount of times Max’s taps are going into a space surrounded by 3 opposition mids is mind boggling. If both of these things improve, we start smashing teams. The problem is, THEY ARE NOT IMPROVING!!! I want to know why not, because to continue down the current path in this area is to ignore and squander two potential advantages for us

It’s now 7 weeks since we kicked more goals than behinds in a game

Why don’t we stick a tall bloke in the goal square when Spargo’s going for goal from 50 out???

CAN VINEY PLEEEEEAAAASE KICK IT TO ONE OF OUR PLAYERS INSIDE 50!

13 scoring shots to 19. 1 point the difference. there’s the problem….. again!

Wow I thought the standard of AFL umpiring was at an all time low, then this last 5mins occurred!!!!

Just FYI, round 12 against Brisbane was the last time we kicked more goals than behinds in a game. 6 WEEKS AGO!

No team other than Melbourne has lost to any team by over 180 points and we've managed to do it twice ?

on what planet, in which dimension and in what alternate reality did we manage to lose to Adelaide????

4 goals 10 behinds in the second half

Been 5 weeks since we kicked more goals than behinds in a game

Port supporters must have lost their voices in the 3rd quarter. Eerily quiet now

Very lucky George dropped a sitter

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Port player wraps his arm over Salem’s neck, ump pays free, crowd booos???!

Wow Tom, that’s one way to do it! not sure if the coach would recommend it but hey, take what you can get!!!

Burning ourselves again 1 goal 5 this quarter

Why when we have players one on one inside 50 do we ignore them, but when half the team are in a bunch inside 50 do we kick it too them?

Player runs right then kicks left, what a shock. Perhaps if they run straight at the goal when talking a set shot accuracy may improve