—coach—

A couple of things on this: - there is no home ground advantage at the MCG for any side because it is a communal ground. All clubs play there enough for it to be a known quantity and none train there (so can’t know every detail like say Geelong can with kardinia) It’s super reliable, has a predictable and some would say perfect playing surface and is largely unaffected by wind. - we train on a ground that is significantly narrower than the MCG unlike many other teams particularly Collingwood which trains on a ground the exact dimensions of the MCG - we experience limited crowd advantage at the G when compared to interstate and Geelong based teams due to low supporter base and the fact that there are more interstate teams supporters in Melbourne than there are Melbourne supporters in Perth/Sydney/Adelaide - our game plan looks like a steaming pile of [censored] at the MCG and it seems we aren’t interested in correcting it All in all, I wish my dad followed Fitzroy (rather than the demons) like his dad before him because al least I would have seen 3 premierships by now!

Just out of interest, did anyone know Fitzroy have a higher winning percentage than us on all time games?

That’s all nice, but how about tinkering with the way we deliver the ball inside 50. We don’t have any injuries there so you would think we would have that sorted by now. Simple fact is that we lost the game in the forward half last week not the back half

Pretty hard to measure or quantify I would say, but I’m very confident that if we had the training facilities of some of the wealthier clubs we would be better than what we are. How much better again would be impossible to measure. Would we be better by enough of a percentage to win the game on Friday night? Maybe, maybe not. Again impossible to measure. What I’m very confident of is that if we were to train on a ground the same width as the MCG, we would be a damn sight better on the MCG. Enough to have won the Geelong game I would say. So in short, yes I do think better facilities will help us win games.

If great training facilities don’t help you win games, why are just about every other club investing millions into theirs rather than spending it on something else? Must just be for the bling factor I guess?

This got Lockett 8 weeks in 1994: Surely with tougher penalties now, Cameron will be out for similar. Access all areas on afl website are talking 4-5 which seems way low for my mind.

Lost that in the first half with so much wasted opportunity. We had them complete on toast but persisted with the long bomb inside 50 to a pack of 10 players system which NEVER works for us. Just dumb footy. umpiring sucked bad but we lost that ourselves

Any chance we can aim for the chest of our blokes rather than 5m behind the when their leading up

See that from hogan, right spot, just happened the ball went to tmac who was 5m away

Yes actually people were having a go if you look back over the thread. One poster called for him to be dropped. 4 times he’s been in excellent position and it’s been kick either over his head or with pinpoint accuracy to his opposition who was behind or to the side of him. Had we have kicked those to his advantage you’d be singing a different tune

For those getting stuck into hogan, he has covered the 5th highest distance on the ground. He’s working hard but not being rewarded by his team mates

Having the ball kicked over his head continually

Can someone please learn to kick it to hogan not over his head!!!

The umpire deemed that his eyes had strayed outside the line of the mark so clearly play on

TOMMY!!!!! ???

Just reminding us why he has been playing VFL

Gill: Hahahah surely you jest, nothing to see here, move along

Gary Lyon isn’t the president or have anything to do with us though. Just another media guy. sorry didn’t see your post werridee

When did Rance switch codes?

Or move it to our new fortress.....Etihad!!!

For what it’s worth I always thought Fawlkner Park would be an option, mentioned it in another thread about facilities, will settle with Yarra Park though ??

Interesting when you look at google maps to see why we play better on narrow grounds and collingwood and Richmond play better on grounds the size of MCG. collingwoods training ground is exact size of mcg playing surface and Richmond’s is similar, Goschs is super narrow! bring on our new facility ASAP!

I remember that game, it was by far and away the best umpiring I’ve seen in a loooooong time. Was it the Adelaide game in Adelaide last year?

I’d happily have paid 200-300k to move him on. He’s proven that we were right to get rid of him and we picked up Frisch who has shown heaps already. Was and always will be a great decision by the club.

Certainly does, Bulldogs went from 39k to 47k post premiership!