Everything posted by At the break of Gawn
- GAMEDAY: Rd 03 vs Essendon
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Tanking scandal documents
How can you possibly come to this conclusion? He died of lung cancer, not of a stress-related heart attack.
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PREGAME: Rd 03 vs Essendon
According to Mark Stevens, Stringer has a sore foot (didnât partake in the âcaptainâs runâ today) and Zaharakis didnât partake either. Although some would argue Zaharakis hasnât partaken in the season full stop.
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PREGAME: Rd 03 vs Essendon
Been ruled out according to Twitter https://twitter.com/aaronfetter3/status/1112995724956905474?s=21
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PREGAME: Rd 03 vs Essendon
Last time at the MCG was that disastrous rnd 2 game in 2016 where we lost to their VFL side. But our last actual home game against them was 2010 rnd 15 (beat them by 19 points).
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Injury List - Season 2019
Just watched On the Couch, and Tommy Morris said that May came back âunfitâ at the start of the pre-season and finished last in the time trials. I had heard he had a habit of doing that at the GC but didnât realise it happened again with us. Was this mentioned on DL late last year/early this year?
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What to do with Petracca?
He looks miserable because, like Hogan, he is very hard on himself as a player as I think he does have high expectations on himself and what he can do. As per what Rooey said, he probably dominated in the juniors and expected the AFL to be the same. Didnât he once say he was going to be an âAll of famerâ in an interview and he wanted to be the no.1 pick? I just feel heâs trying too hard to be some flashy player and not enough as just a hard working half forward. Heâs not going to be a De Goey as heâs not fast enough off the mark and lacks some of the skills so I wouldnât even bother to try and emulate that. He doesnât have a great tank (so he canât be a midfielder). He just needs to be a strong contributing half forward. Heâs a similar height to Breust (albeit not as skillful) maybe that could be a player he should be aiming to be.
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The History of 0 and 2
Sure, lose the first 6 and you can still get 16 wins and probably finish top 4. The issue is that the further behind you fall, the less margin for error later. Having said all that, Iâll reserve my judgment until after round 6. If weâre 3-3 I think weâll be ok.
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Changes v Essendon
Been ruled out - via official comms. Uncertain as to how long though.
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Welcome Back to the Bottom of the Ladder
Round 2 last year. How did Port, Suns, North and Adelaide go for the reminder of the year? Also, what about those 16th placed Pies and the 12th placed Tigers?
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Non MFC games Round 2
Honestly feel they almost have a better list than us. Cameron is a star, Rayner, McCluggage and Hipwood up and coming stars. Neale is a beast. Harris Andrews a pillar in defence. We only beat them in the ruck and midfield slightly.
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POSTGAME: Rd 02 vs Geelong
I think a large part of our loss wasn't necessary our game plan, but perhaps how it was executed and the part which we failed (effective inside 50s) played into the hands of Geelong who are the best defensive side in the league. Geelong had the lowest points against in the league in 2018 (and will most likely claim that in 2019). They have been for years, an extremely tough team to score against. Bombing in long and cleaning it up is their bread and butter. Goodwin and co need to recognise that not all teams can be dealt with the same way. Look at how Collingwood dismantled Richmond on Friday night? The tigers can't pressure you if you keep the ball off them. If we get 70 inside 50s against Essendon, we will beat them by 10 goals because they are a weak defensive side and are missing some key players (such as Hooker) - plus I assume it'll be better conditions. I think another thing that needs to come into focus in the defensive/two way running of our midfielders/half backs. Time and time again Geelong got on fast break aways, and with our defensive structures already pushed up the ground, it just leads to easy scoring. Which is how you get a 63% effectiveness against us. Goodwin recognised our defensive structures were too high up after the Hawks game last year and he needs to adjust it again. We have to stop being so easy to score against otherwise this whole season is going to be a waste. He needs to take a leaf from Chris Scott's book and adapt to how they structure behind the ball - because it's the best in the league (same with the Hawks). You basically never get goal side against Geelong and the Hawks, but getting goal side of a melbourne mid or half back is a common occurrence in every game.
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Sam Weideman + contract
Goody shouldn't have listened to the media hype about Weid after the first 2 finals - he's no where near Hogan. Should have risked not trading Hogan and hoped he would have changed his mind and not lose him as a FA.
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POSTGAME: Rd 02 vs Geelong
I keep hearing about teams reinventing themselves over the offseason. Port made wholesale changes, Cats have reinvented their forward line (already had a strong midfield and defence). Us on the otherhand, just kept with our same game plan and I feel we havenât tried to change this to go that next step.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 02 vs Geelong
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GAMEDAY: Rd 02 vs Geelong
We have the worst defence in the league. Itâs not just the personnel itâs the structures. Every time Geelong goes forward itâs like a sunny day with a dry ball.
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Non MFC games Round 2
Haha whoops. That was the only reason I could think of
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Non MFC games Round 2
The AFL want to showcase the AFLW grand final.
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Target 70,000
I'm worried that Saturday's performance has held quite a few back from re-signing.
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The History of 0 and 2
Didn't Sydney go 0-6 and still make the finals a couple of years ago? I'm not too worried yet.
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POSTGAME: Rd 1 vs Port Adelaide
Eagles also looked underdone against the Lions. Iâm not sure how interrupted their pre-season was, but it was obviously shorter like ours, but you would normally expect them to beat Brisbane. Like us, they started like a house on fire before the cracks started to appear.
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Round 1 Non MFC games
Yep, I went the early crow and thought Eagles were going to dominate after the first qtr, but as you said, after qtr time the Eagles looked really slow under done. With the Pies losing, Richmond anything but convincing, Eagles losing and us also losing, there's a clear correlation between shorter pre-seasons (and hence less prep) and round 1 performances.
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Round 1 Non MFC games
WCE has the shortest pre-season out of anyone and yet still pantsing Brisbane at the Gabba who pantsed us in the JLT. Not sure how long this short pre-season excuse is going to work for us.
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Changes vs Geelong Rd 2
One of Maxâs trademarks last year was playing a loose man in defence sort of role to great effect after the centre bounce. I didnât really notice this watching the game live, but if Preuss comes in, then surely that will help Max clunk a few.
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POSTGAME: Rd 1 vs Port Adelaide
I think the loss of Hogan is going to be noticed a fair bit this year. Tmac is a very straight up and down forward with out any sort of tricks, and I feel Weideman is the same. They donât have the forward nous to create goals when they donât mark the ball. I think people were too overawed with Weidâs 1-2 good finals games that they forgot the body of his work. Joel smith might provide something dynamic when he returns to assist with those two tall forwards.