John Demonic

Even though i've mocked the captain for condensing all of what i perceive as gameplan issues against fast teams down to 'hardness' - we're lucky in that we're coming up against Richmond, the 2017/18 style measuring stick. where hardness and extraordinary effort might actually be the defining characteristic of matching the Tigers and winning tomorrow. I just hope our forwards and mids defend the ground ball/rebound in the forward line with their life ie with hardness! A gritty win will alleviate some of these sorrows at least for a week. What would be totally ironic would be if RIchmond, sensing that our club has been waiting for a year to redeem ourselves since last years chaosball championship , adopt the framework layed by others ie WCE control/possession and spread game style and beat us that way.

“We want to play hard footy and we want to win. We’re not doing that and as a result we’re not winning, so we’ve got to change that.” Why are you blokes rattling on about prelim reviews and gameplans? It's only about hardness apparently according to our captain Hodge Junior.

I call it an afternoon snack and a big dinner 2-3 hours later with Coffee and tea (no milk) all morning and early afternoon. Most people do it on a busy day.

2020 starts in round 23 with Spoonbowl. Front row tickets to the Ben Brown Show. C'mon Benny!

Rowell, Rowell Rowell, Rowell Born is the King of Melbourne FC!

We've never really been far ahead of them for very long, if you cast your mind back to a r22(?) game in 2016 at the MCG with finals chances on the line and their midfield rolling us. And then the following year they were quite disciplined with their press and worryingly lead us deep into the third before Lewis and Hogan threw a few punches, took them off their game before we ran away with it. We really kicked into gear in the following matches as we learnt how to beat up on weaker teams, but that standard was only shortlived it now seems.

My post match analysis is that there should be an entertaining month of NBA playoffs ahead. However every time a team gets a fast break from a shitty offensive pass, ill be reminded of Dean Kent and our gameplan ?

... went past and lapped us.

Maybe he won't make it at another club, and is better off and content with being handy depth when the coach requires it. Why can't players make a career of providing 5-10 games of injury cover per year while making the VFL side strong with consistent performances? Every club needs their Brendan Whitecrosses of this world

Buddy started with Sydney in 2014, not sure if your figures take that into account?

Whether he can back up that game with a string of good games or a month of mostly good footy, will probably be a better determinant of how the rest of his career will go if he's given senior recall. If that's too hard an ask for him, then Goody is probably on to something. Recall after 1 good game is almost welcoming the same pattern as before.

We should've hired Wallace as a consultant and flooded the 2000 granny. ?

C camp ?

It's lower risk to chip it around holding a lead taking time off the clock, than to kick a goal and run the higher risk of the 6/6/6 reset giving the other team momentum and repeated 6/6/6 bounces. That is why I think low scores and possession footy. Its a mockery. Just wait until a team gives away a zone free kick deliberately against momentum, to avoid a deep inside 50 entry from great tap work and streaming forward clearances. Because a ruckman taking a free kick from the centre and bombing it into 50 even with 6/6/6 zones is a preferable entry/result.

Donald Duck has been captaining Geelong for years

You actually should have to question team selections based on players form. If he was carrying an injury, well then that explains a lot. However the "Beyond question" aspect of team selection needs to be dialled back a touch. Players get old and their abilities start waning. You can expect this to occur for Jetta soon enough. He isn't having as big an impact as he was in 2017 and started last year poorly too. To his credit he had a big 2nd half last year. Questioning is fine, people in here do it to Lewis ad nauseum. Questioning, especially if players like Hore, Wagner & Petty make a bigger impact in the seniors as time goes on should be fine. I'm not writing him off, but if he has a poor patch of form in the next month, other players deserve a go too.

While I think Lewis deserves to be straight in due to his experience in aiding structure on the G, I too question whether Jetta should come straight back in given he was out of form in the first 3 games and I read somewhere he was losing 50% contests. There should be no favourites. Good call. Edit: Having said that we might need him to play on Gresham as he's a gun and Jets might thrive on locking down a quality small fwd.

No, but i'm guessing he talked about taking it one week at a time a lot?

Sam Reid

Good luck Big Fella!

You really try and shoehorn your anti-Lewis rhetoric into almost every topic and have particularly doubled down this week in the face of hard evidence (0-7) to the contrary. It reeks of desperation.

Zak Jones had a BOG game last week with 31pos and 7 clearances, Maybe throwing his brother on him for a hard tag could liven things up with a bit of bite and reinvigorate him for this weeks game at least.

I've already booked a corporate box on the wing for round 23 Spoonbowl v Nth Melbourne.

600k plus performances clauses that unlock the extra 100k each year. You can't lock in a key forward with future prospects for any less these days surely? If he wants to go somewhere else with that on the table, then you'd have to question his buy-in