dazzledavey36

Yeah nah this is a cop out and stock standard typical Melbourne supporter excuse ( not actually having a dig at you, just seen this excuse too much of late) footy isn't about playing in pitch perfect weather at the MCG every single week mate. It should be an anywhere, anytime mentality which we had back in 2021.

Sorry am I denying this am I? Did it go completely over your head over my reasons in my explanation of the way our midfield is getting exposed by the better sides. They looking a million dollars beating the Hawthorn's and North's of the world but when it come to the pressure cooker against the top quality sides that we've seen so far this year and even going back to last year they've been found out big out. We brought in a A grade ruckman in the off season and we still can barely get that connection right.

Yes i am in the belief that Yze needs to come under pressure for our poor clearence work and inability to connect between our elite ruck duo and elite midfield set up. The 2nd quarter slaughtering in clearences was simply unacceptable and pathetic. I made comparison that Greg Stafford copped it bad last year on here for the way we entered our forward entries. The same pressure should apply to Yze because right now we've got one of the best midfield combination this club has ever seen and we're potentially blowing our chances if he doesn't rectify the deficiencies that's costing us. First to say when we're good? Now you're making things up. I've been calmly reserved with all our wins except against Sydney where I thought we just smashed a genuine top 4 contender and celebrated hard. Realistically they're just a bottom 6 club now. We've beaten easy beats and that's it. I got well and truly sucked in last year. Get back to me when we beat Collingwood, Brisbane and Port Adelaide again and prove that we're just not flat track bullies.

Good to see Jed Adams get his numbers up again. 7 marks seems like a good game from a defender. Had next to no pre season with the shoulder injury and is now starting to pick up form. When he was drafted it was his draft highlights out of all the draftees that impressed me the most with his strong intercept marking and neat left good. Good signs ahead.

But but the sacrifice running??? He played at Casey yesterday mate lol......

"Straight sets" We're no way near guaranteed to make top 4 yet pal. Missing out on top 4 spot in itself will be a fail.

Unfortunately I've come across so many parents like this especially in the junior development ranks. We've had disgruntled parents in the past being quite vocal from simply not making the cut in the Murray Bushrangers system. You honestly feel for the kids because the fun gets taken out of them purely because they're faced with enormous and unnecessary pressure from their own parents.

I mean he still had 5 disposal in the last quarter. So he's had a decent crack at least But yes, surely he either didn't tell coaching staff or If he did then I seriously would hope they didn't advise him to at least try and push through.

As someone that's had hamstring issues in the past from playing, the fact that he ran out the last quarter says to me that he may have had some tightness or even maybe cramp. Even if it was a strain, there is no way he could move in the wet the way that he did that last quarter. Trying to push through a strain will only result in a pretty bad tear which is where you're looking at 6-10 weeks. Fingers crossed it's just tightness. 8 day break should hopefully be okay. Could still miss just the 1 week at worse.

He hasn't been told anything by the footy club. I do know this for a fact. They've kept their cards close to their chest because they want to see Kynan perform at a consistent level before they make the call on him. He's doing everything right so far but still has a bit to go especially with how he performs in the under 18's Championship carnival.

Not cool to hear.

How's Taj Woewodin and Josh Schache going?

31 disposal and 11 tackles against Dandenong Stingrays last night. Pretty much BOG.

Is Deakyn Smith worth a consideration for Jake Bowey?

The whole "backing our brand" notion should have been thrown in the bin straight after the Collingwood loss last year on Queens Birthday. To hear Goodwin say that they knew Butters was pretty much smashing us but then refusing to mitigate the damage just proves that not only is he stubborn, but hasn't learnt anything over the off season.

Yeah I'm not sure what ANB is adding to the team. Should have been dropped last year for some of his insipid games and yet is still getting a green ticket by Goodwin this year. When the pressure cooker goes up against quality top sides you can bank your house on ANB becoming a fumbling mess. I look at Collingwood and Brisbane and don't see them carrying a ANB type player in their half forward line.

McVee has dropped significantly in form over the past few weeks. He can have a spell now that Salem is back.

I agree with you on the whole Petty up forward move. Dropping Turner after one game does nothing for his own development and confidence. He's far too good for VFL level and if there is a time to see whether he's got what it takes at AFL level then it's now while Petty is out.

I know it'll never happen but I'd like to see us throw Bowey through the midfield. Watching Butters last night and thinking how he was too quick and nimble for the likes of Petracca and Brayshaw. Not only that, Bowey skills set and speed on the outside is something we're severely lacking. I say this because he was highly rated as a midfielder in his under 18's days which was eerily similar to Butters junior year level as well as an outside midfielder/half forward for the Western Jets and Vic Metro. Bowey is aggressive enough to have a crack as an inside midfielder imo. Having the likes of Petracca, Brayshaw, Viney and Oliver is far too one dimensional. They're all one paced and neither are good field kicks at all. Like I said, it'll never happen but me personally it's something I'd genuinely look at.

Daniel Turner has to come in imo. Jake Levers form has taken a complete nose dive ever since they moved Petty which has left him playing as 2nd key defender which it's been proven over time that he plays his best footy as a floating intercept defender. We built our our premiership defence off the back of playing 3 tall defenders. Stick to that.

Beating all these bottom 6 sides is just putting a band aid over the cracks. Starting to think we haven't improved one bit since last year unfortunately. Forward line is still a mess and we are no near finding out what our best forward mix os when we had all Sumner to work this out. Top 4 teams are bow starting to settle their line up whereas we can't even work out who's our actual full forward.

I'd rather he not do pressers at all then to come out with that tripe.

Also, why haven't we played Port in Melbourne since 2019?? Absolute joke that we've had to travel to SA four years in a row to play this [censored] mob. Sort this [censored] out Gary Pert.

We all like him.. But he had some genuine blunders tonight.

Watching Brayshaw plodder tonight pretending to be a midfield was extraordinary. He was seriously cooked. No More of that please. We made a mistake simply by not bringing in Harmes for Sparrow to play more or a defensive role. Going off this Port had a plan right from the very start. Where was ours with Butters? He's rated one of the top 4 mids in the competition over the past 4 weeks and we let him just run around looking like Gary Ablett jnr. Petracca fumbled at the most crucial of times tonight just when we needed that soft touch to get a clean clearence. Oliver is just sloppy and has zero composure. Time for the blow torch to go on Adem Yze now.