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?????? Classic! That is by far and away the best post I’ve ever seen on here ?

??? why would Jones agree to go to a club with no prospect of success in his career when he’s been at Melb through the worst of the worst and we’re just starting to get some success??? You know he has a contract beyond this year?

Interestingly the most scores (goals+behinds) we’ve kicked this year is 41 against GC. The record above is 42 scores, not as big a stretch as one might think ?

Probably will be more like 14G 28B - 112 with the way we’re kicking for goal atm ?

It’s funny how reactionary the media are. early every season we see high scoring free flowing games, then by about round 5 every coach ever has tightened things up defensively with the result games become tough lower scoring contests, then towards the end of the season, everything opens up again and you get ripping contests like the ones this weekend

This thread is already sounding the same as the game day thread prior to every game we should have won by ten goals but managed to loose in typical Melbourne fashion! Having said that, am taking my 5yo to the game with the expectation that her flag waving arm will get tired from the 25+ goals we will kick and the most nervous I will get at 3/4 time will be wondering if we will win by 15 or 20 goals ??

There is the little matter of us needing to win also

Adelaide doing a Melbourne here 11G 17B ?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️

He’s had 9 possessions to half way through last ??? glad we got rid of him

Restricted: http://m.afl.com.au/news/2018-03-22/official-afl-releases-list-of-2018-free-agents

It’s funny isn’t it when people talk about this. We beat north when they were top 8 and being talked about as contenders and we smashed Adelaide when they were 4th and looking good to back up thier last season. But people only look at the ladder today.

While I concur he will have a kicking routine that is heavily ingrained, it most certainly can be improved. It just takes more work (on his and his coaches behalf) than changing the kicking style of a 15yo. So the question would seem to be, is his kicking accuracy the main reason he doesn’t get a game (it’s definitely not that he isn’t creating enough opportunity to score)? Or other factors that we are not aware of?

You think a 25yo can’t change? You didn’t get better at your job past 25 years of age?

Seriously how are some of those clubs recording such massive jumps in memberships? Would love to see a breakdown of membership type. Also, how the frog does St Kilda have more members than us??? Edit: how many games does a full membership get you into? All home only?

Has played 3 games this year for 11 scoring shots (4G/7B) = 3.6 shots per game Jeffy 9 games for 22 shots on goal (15G/7B) = 2.4 shots per game If his conversion rate was better he would be ahead of Jeffy easily. Surely there is someone in Australia we can buy to help him and others kick better?

And - trading for ex collingwood players!

Hahahah and they still manage to give Carlton a night game (Saturday). Unbeleivable! PS Very happy with our Sunday PM times slot just FYI.

Looks like Wooshas chat with umpires has paid off. Perhaps we should do similar

Title should say raw rather than roar (unless the stats are only related to the lions and tigers who both enjoy a good roar from time to time)

The best game of umpiring I’ve ever seen was Melb v Adel last year in Adelaide. One of the starting umpires got injured early in the game and was replaced by the emergency who promptly got injured himself. This meant there was one less umpire on the ground than normal for much of the game. The result was only the blatantly obvious frees were paid which allowed the game to flow and at no stage we’re you sitting there thinking “BUT YOU PAID THAT FOR THEM YOU MAGGOT!”. Frees paid in that game we’re 21 to 16 which doesn’t seem much lower than normal, just the frees were definitely there and no tiggy touch wood ones were paid.

Huge call! Please let it be right ?

More than happy to play there again, we lost of our own bat, not at their hands.

Disagree with your extensive analysis of the situation but happy you’ve found your scapegoat. For mine it’s a little more complex than that.

Agree 100%. Hogan would kick a bag if A he knew how to lead hard, B if they could kick it with precision to him like we do to the the opposition spare man in defense every week. We’re asking O’Mac to take the #1 forward each week, then being lazy with our whole ground defense, then blaming him when he gets beaten. Doesn’t seem logical to me

As much as I hate Bugg kicking behinds after doing all the hard work, he has more potential to win us a game (see north game, 4 goals, 1 behind) than Garlett atm so would be happy to see that swap.