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Rivers got a vote?

Did Tarranto get concussed from the Bedford tackle?

Can't be saying that around here...You'll trigger a few. But you're 100% spot. As @DeeSpenceralready mentioned It's the constant fumbling under pressure and inability to get thr basic fundamentals right is what killing us on turnovers. I d like the coaches to give Bailey Laurie a decent amount of game time in the same role that Sparrow is playing just to see whether he can translate his strong VFL form into AFL gives us a different look. His so clean with his hands and a upgrade in terms of ball use. But we know Sparrow will never be dropped so just have to put up with it for now until we can get some more midfield talent next year.

Who said he's going anyway? No one did.. 🤣 We're fully aware he's not getting dropped and that wasn't even the main discussion point. Not surprised that a few of you have just entirely missed the point.

They already call him silk at the footy club after Burgoyne. Fitting nickname..

Considering he got the Sparrow part blatantly wrong it would be my favourite post as well.

McGrath was trying to tag Pickett you plonker. First bounce and McGrath is trying to put an arm across Pickett to stay with him when Pickett was moving around the inside 50 stoppage. This was clearly a tagging tactic by Scott, he plays on the dangerous forwards each week and it makes absolute sense why McGrath tried to tag Pickett.. You also didn't watch the game on Saturday night otherwise you would have switched onto this straight away. Looks like its you that needs a education starting from auskick level.

Watched majority of the replay of Case game. Fullarton got absolutely bullied in the ruck Nick Bryan who is pretty much similarsize in terms of physical appearance.. he played majority of ruck where Verrall played up forward and yet Verrall still got more hit out. There is no way Fullarton comes into the senior side anytime soon now. I've said it before but he's more of a 200cm forward flanker who's got okay around level. Just on Noah Yze, thought it was pretty [censored] poor look by Jack Billings who completely failed to acknowledge Noah after he set him up with a running goal. Not once did he actually go over and acknowledge or give him a high 5. Walked off and acknowledge others instead. Would be happy not see him in red and blue for the rest of the year.

What are you saying exactly? I'd be happy to call for his head now, but clearly we don't have the talent and depth to either overtake him or play whatever role he is actually playing better.

I"m sorry but i disagree about Sparrow. For instance he had zero centre bounce attendances, yet in a wet where the match was based on a contested style game through high number of tackling and hard congestions, he only laid 2 tackles, had 4 contested possessions and yet in your eyes that's playing brutal defensive mid? Nah I don't see that at all.. I absolutely know Sparrow won't ever be dropped, so I don't bother bringing him up as an option to be omitted, but you can't even say that he plays a brutal defensive mid role when he in fact, he didn't even play as a midfielder last night. All his midfield key stats are all rated either average or below average. That's including contested possessions, tackles, stoppage and total clearences etc.

I recall many did the exact same on after our GF win in 2021..

Kingy is one of the good ones going around. Respect to him for owning up, something you'll rarely see from other journo's or 'expert' media commentators. Can't say I disagree with the whole "NFI" term. Again, unlike like many others going around at least he tries to back up his arguments with stats and champion data which I think provides valuable insight for fans on how teams are operating throughout the way. He brings a lot of great content on the Monday means test with Gerard Whately on SEN, as well as on First Crack on Fox Footy. You may think he has "NFI" but whilst it's easy to cherry pick the ones he gets wrong which I have also, he also gets them right also. As an example, he was 100% spot on with this one which he stated back in August 2021. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/melbourne-demons/afl-news-2021-david-king-says-melbourne-demons-are-dominant-flag-favourite-first-crack-without-the-ball-stats-premiership-odds-favourites-contenders/news-story/06eb88ea8b4996a6764f846d16fef036

Photo sums up a 19 year old kid just living out his dream as an AFL footballer.

Why would anyone do this..

Yeah even Goodwin admitted they had to play JVR in the ruck more then they initially had planned which explains they knew fair early that Petty wasn't cutting it in the ruck. The other point was McKay was able to get off the leash purely because JVR wasn't able to spend the time up forward in being able to not only contain him, but also engage in the contest when it came down. As much as JVR turned the game for us in the ruck, it also leaves us vulnerable down forward at the same time. Kudos for Turner, Melky, Kozzie and Fritra for standing up.

I called it pre game that for once I was hoping it was pouring with rain. I knew straight away this would stifle their ball movement and ability to chip the footy around. It was very evident that when it rained it actually suited us, when it stopped, it suited essendons quick ball movement. They're also not a big contested team. So for us to be able to beat them around the ball was also very evident. Oliver, Viney and Rivers were our primes movers in this area of our game. We came into the game with a huge emphasis on defence and contest and boy did we nail that. Kudos to Simon.

Well said. Everything he touches turn to gold.. the goal he set up was elite... Well done on your 100th koz!

He was off in the rooms for a fair while getting his shoulder strapped.

By the way, Ben McKay is a bloody good defender for them! He just kept clunking them and I think that's where the JVR match up would have kept him at bay had he had the luxury to play majority of his time up forward. Good recruit for them. Jade Gresham on the other hand.... 🥴

I was all for the Petty ruck situation but he completely lost me after the first quarter. Even Goody said that initially the plan wasn't to have JVR rucking as much as he did tonight but unfortunately once he matched Draper in the ruck contests that took away his/our forward strength up forward. Thanks god for Turner, Melksham and Fritsch.