At the break of Gawn

Got a good feeling about this week. We demolished them at MCG in round 23. The training run for GWS against Carlton will put them on the back foot. Bold prediction: Petracca converts his good contest and ground ball work and snags 3 goals, while Tmac also converts his chances and kicks 4.

Heavy breathing and the voice tremor reminds me a bit of panic attack symptoms when your heart rate goes through the roof. Hopefully it’s nothing sinister like that and it was just a combination of nausea/dizziness.

Simon Goodwin had to leave the presser early as he was feeling 'light headed/dizzy'. Chaplin had to take over. I hope Goody is ok! Another one to add to the injury list...

Really glad the club shared that. That was just beautiful.

When does Misso give his weekly update? Really interested to see what the time-frame is on May. He was 2-3 weeks after the Hawks game, which means he should theoretically be either available this week or back against the Crows...

Funny you say inside 50s and forwards. I re-watched the 4th qtr and Jack Viney kicked directly to McGovern/Hurn for an intercept mark on 3 occasions in the space of 10-15 minutes. It’s not just his kicking, it’s his decision making, too. On two of those occasions he had handball options over the top which would have allowed the next player to kick behind Hurn/McGovern which is one strategy to beat them. A captain just can’t be making such fundamental poor decisions. Fixing Jack Viney leads to better inside 50s and better forwards.

Lol what I meant is he made it look like he clumsily fell over and got him when we all knew there’s a sharp kneeing action hidden there.

I think 99% of the footy world knew Mummy did it deliberately, but be disguised it so well, it was impossible to suspend him.

Didn’t even get a mention in the MRO findings ?

Exactly. Injuries are a roll of the dice. Luckily our core midfielders have been relatively injury free this season to date. We’ll be saying 2021 if next year Gawn, Brayshaw, Oliver, Harmes suffer injuries during the season.

Out: Smith, AnB In: Preuss, C Wagner Mummy will 100% go based off his knee to Murphy which means Gawn/Preuss will dominate even more.

Really need to beat the Giants to give ourselves a fighting chance. They haven’t beaten us at the G since 2014 and on that day Devon Smith and Thomas Bugg were their best players, so I’m fairly optimistic we can win. We then beat the Crows in Alice like last time and we’re 5-6 up against the Pies at QB. Win that and we then need to get 5 wins from Freo (MCG), Carl (MCG), WBD (Mrvl), Saints (Mrvl) Syd (MCG). And then sneak 2-3 wins from Bris (G), WCE (TP), Rich (MCG), Pies (MCG), North (BA) All up, I think we can afford to lose 3 more games this season with the % we have. Either way, we need to nail those 5 wins against easier opponents, regardless of how we go over the next 3 weeks. If we don’t win at least 2 of the next 3, it means we can only afford to drop one of the games in the second group I’ve mentioned. We’ve left ourselves very little room for error with this poor start and the next 3 games define our season.

This belting actually helps us. Giants have had a training run and will be in for a big shock against a good contested side.

Yeah I think we probably did run out of petrol tickets in the last qtr. A 5 or 6 goal lead at 3qtr time would have got us over the line, but unfortunately as we all know, we didn’t take our chances.

Unfortunately most of the goals they got were from turnovers from us or non decisions. Kennedy goal - Non decision for unrealistic attempt and completely taking oMac out of the contest. Ryan goal - Brayshaw slipping over and coughing it up but also a brilliant desperate slap on from Yeo which you won’t often see. Cripps goal - Turn over handball from Fritsch that went to Vardy. Dom Sheed goal - Non decision for throw It’s important to note WCE won the inside 50 count in the last qtr and also improved their contested qtr that game If you look at the possession heat map you’ll also see that we had much fewer disposals in the middle of the ground as well in the last qtr. I think WCE were either instructed to block the corridor or we were just playing more safe.

We didn’t get an update on May last week. Goody stated after the Hawks game he was 3 weeks. Does that mean he’s on track for Adelaide?

Yep, Lever is the one.

Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I almost feel Petracca wanted to drop that mark so he wouldn’t have to kick the set shot. It was bizarre. I hope he’s seeing the club psychologist because he’s so afraid (potentially of the embarrassment?) to make a mistake right now.

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Let’s not forget Fritsch’s terrible work rate here which allowed Ryan to have that free run at it. He was ahead of Ryan but just jogged along. He basically set Gawn up for that.

I’ve given up on Stretch. Really hoped he could make it, but sadly it’s not going to happen for him. Kolodjashnij has his spot if he can ever get on the park. I felt Oliver tapered off a little when he had a bit of a head clash (not sure if it was second or third qtr) but he was electric before that.

There was an obvious one in the first qtr where Rioli (also on the McGovern diet) just strolled through the protective area (cause he couldn’t keep up with his man) and yet nothing was paid.

I’m just completely baffled that Hickey was a late in for the Eagles and then he starts at the first centre bounce of the game. I know Gawn dominated all night, but it was obvious Vardy was never going to go up against Gawn. Gawn would have finished with 70 hit outs. Preuss should have played, although I did admire Smith’s endeavour tonight.

Our oppositions inside 50 efficiency is still way too high. It was 51% for the Eagles so every second time they got in there, they had a shot.This needs to be around the 30% mark to be a good team. I suspect this figure will drop significantly once May and Lever are back there. The majority of our defenders just aren’t good one-on-one players. Thought Frost was quite good tonight - apart from that fumble. Also, I cant understand the media’s commentary around Gawn not having that good a year. He’s been excellent since round 2. If he continues this form and gives Grundy a bath on QB, just wait and see the tide turn for them to start calling him the AA ruckman for 2019.

The Jetta thing was bloody annoying. The umpire should have just called a ball up. I somehow think WCE will argue that it wasn’t a double motion which may be why the umpire didn’t call it. Even still, I think the MRO will offer him 2 weeks.