At the break of Gawn

I wonder if the players had a similar expectation to some of the posters on the Gameday thread this morning. Dees easily, Swans are rubbish, no Rampe, no Mills etc etc. Well, Sydney are a team that have dominated us over the last decade with a very good coach who’s also very good on game day. This wasn’t a surprise at all.

Is the post game thread open yet?

What a disgraceful first half, let alone 2nd qtr. No moves from the coaches box. How OMac retained his spot was ridiculous Jones is finished

I reckon he has Nicho covered. Nicho was a great lockdown defender, but May has amazing intercept abilities which I’d liken to Rance.

Is he our best full back since...? Since my time properly following Melbourne (probably 1996), I can’t recall us having such a dominant full back.

Brown definitely deserves another week. He also looks as quick as Usain Bolt compared to Tmac out there.

I almost felt we didn’t deserve to win given we had so many players with such little impact. BUT Trac sinking the Saints given they overlooked him at 1, and an article was written about it today in the HSun, has so much synergy to it ?

I can’t recall the last time we played in Alice at night. I assume it’s not as humid and slippery compared to Darwin at night?

RE: That Richo interview, I don’t think his Saints IP is going to be much use this week. I’d say Ratten would be doing the opposite to what Richo taught the players considering how well they are going now.

We have a 7 day break (game is next Saturday night); Saints 6 day break.

I get that Melksham had a poor performance, but those thinking Goody will drop him are delusional. He’s been pretty decent the last few weeks prior, plus Goody loves him (per the captain choice), Out: Preuss, Sparrow. In: Gawn, Bennell or Jones. Hibberd has one more chance I reckon.

Goodwin put too much faith in our mids going head to head against their’s. No negating on Bont. No negating on McCrae. One of our biggest strengths in 2018 was Harmes work as a tagger. Why not try something? Hibbo has some credits in the bank, but he was shocking today.

All these years I’ve always wondered where Neitz was when all this happened? Seemed like Schwarz was the only one flying the flag.

Something to ponder; the Dogs have probably found some form after smashing the Crows, especially the mids. If Gawn plays, he’ll no doubt dominate hit outs and it’ll cause some real predictably at the stoppages. The Dogs mids will just look to shark his taps and they won’t even bother reading English’s. I still think Gawn plays if he’s fit, but I just hope the connection between him and our mids is there on Saturday.

In: Gawn Out: Preuss I’m not sure Bennell warrants selection again just yet. The only potential outs would be Tomlinson maybe Sparrow.

I’m really bummed about Gawn not being able to play tomorrow. I’ve been watching Grundy quite closely the last few weeks (as I have him as my captain in SC draft) and he looks exhausted with his mobility nothing like last year. I really feel a fit Gawn would have given him a bath.

Can anyone provide a brief synopsis of this article, please?

Tmac is quite stiff. Thought he did quite well in his return. This is a tough selection this week. It’s a good problem to have though.

That this thread appeared???

Read a quote from Hinkley that Watts has only recently felt comfortable with his body after the leg injury. Ironically, Pies this week and the last time we beat them was when Watts sunk them with that goal at the end.

Viney and Gawn out. Two massive outs.

100% agree on this. It wasn’t an obvious high tackle and I could see why AnB would continue tackling him because Hamill wouldn’t let go of the ball. It’s complete double standards if Burgoyne gets a slap on the wrist and AnB gets 3+ weeks.

Adelaide are absolute puss. They are easily the poorest team in the competition right now and we’re just fluffing around with it. If we don’t come out with some killer instinct in the second half and put this game to bed, this game and season is dead.

Although I thought OMac has been decent since his return, and maybe even gained some credits in the bank, he just had to be dropped after his performance last week. If you let a 3rd gamer dominate you like that with such loose checking, it’s gotta be an automatic, no questions asked, dropping. He’ll be back though. And I have no doubt he won’t let a 3rd gamer fly for a mark unopposed like that 30s into the game ever again.

I can very easily see us losing this game. Crows home crowd, they’ve made 8 changes and brought in a few debuts who some of the fans have been screaming for. The crows will smell blood and they have just as big of a point to prove.