ArtificialWisdom

11 hours ago, Older demon said:

The movie is "The Shining" based on the Steven King horror book. Jack Nicholson at his scary best and the phrase Redrum, redrum. Look it up

After watching Melbourne play every week for the last 20 odd years I've had more than my fair share of horror 

Just now, Demon17 said:

What does this mean????  I've never seen the movie

Nor have i but i believe he is swinging an axe

8 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

#InBurgessWeTrust

2 minutes ago, Luther said:

I can't seem to find anything specifically on kick ins but his kicking efficiency rating is 83.7%. Doesn't help a lot.

I feel like May's kicking is all or nothing. He seems to have his 8 perfect kicks out of 10 but his other 2 are howlers

4 minutes ago, A F said:

Just watched it. It only goes for 3.42 "Red Mist Exposed". There's nothing about the way St Kilda played?

Gary calls it the red mist. Jennings referenced Gary's comments and added he thought it's the way St Kilda played 

1 minute ago, Wiseblood said:

We are around four hours from fans finally agreeing with selection, or many of us losing the absolute plot if the changes aren't ones we agree with.

I've got the popcorn ready.

Imagine if it's 0 changes. There wouldn't be enough popcorn on earth for that show

I wondered how long it would take until this got mentioned. Without getting past the pay wall to read the article I can say from memory he's had quite a few chip kicks inside 50 to a player about 45m out on the boundary line. Chalked up as an effective kick inside 50 but it's not particularly useful for generating scores

43 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

But Young would have slotted in pretty much straight away and lifted our awefull kicking skills substantially off HB almost immediately.

Salem, May, Lockhart, Rivers, Jetta (when playing) all decent kicks. Our back half is not where we need to improve our kicking. We need to improve our kicking further up the ground. We actually exit the defensive half pretty well, it's the next 2 kicks that us down

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

 

Who's that in the moon boot at 24 sec?

Don't some players have a close to 50km drive to and from Casey anyway? Other than being on a bus instead of driving themselves what difference does it make? 

2 hours ago, Lord Nev said:

 

Just to add to this, here's a painful stat...

For hitouts to advantage %, Gawn is ranked 23rd in the league.

 

But he is number 1 for average hitouts to advantage per game across his career. Hitouts to advantage are an average stat. I don't care if his % is 600th in the AFL if he has a better average than anyone else.

He was way down in round 1 which given a 3 game season has impacted his 2020 average heavily. But given the matches are 20% shorter having 10 and 9 in the next 2 games is back around his elite career average.

Max career average: 11.7

Goldstein: 9.5

Grundy 9.3

Witt's 8.5

NicNat: 7

Martin 6.6

Ryder 5.3

But sure Max doesn't get enough hitouts to advantage

14 hours ago, Half forward flank said:

almost everyone on here has an ill informed opinion.  Back where we started. a club plant.

Just to be clear, you think that the club is spending time and money on random online forums to argue with fans too narrow minded to listen to any opinion that doesn't match their own?

Sun's winning record in the first 5 rounds of the past few seasons is actually similarly pretty good. Since 2016 theyre 14-10 in the first 5 rounds and 8-60 in in the rest. Hope for their sake that this run last a little bit longer.

13 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Thread title change from CHANGES: Rd 05 vs Sydney to CHANGES Rd 05 vs Richmond.

Just a few months ago it would've been hard to believe a change like that would ever be necessary 

35 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

Lockhart is far from a fringe player. He has the potential to be a star player. 
 

Jones is taking up his spot in the team these days. 

These two sentences arn't mutualy exclusive. He does have potential but for now he is still a fringe player

Lots of complaints about the defence's structure. But the structure is much more inline with the rest of the competition's top sides. Take last night, Collingwood, who's defence held up incredibly well for 3 qtrs of punishment. They only have 1 key defender Roughhead, 2 intercept players Howe and Moore, a solid role player Maynard an under 10 gamer in Madgen and rebound defender, Crisp and it appeared as Mayne spend a fair bit as the 7th defender/mid

On the other side we saw Richmond with again with just 1 Key defender Astbury, 2 interceptors in Grimes and Vlaustin, maybe even a 3rd if you count Broad 2 rebounders in Houli and Short add Baker as a small role player/rebounder. Richmond's line up is more aggressive and relies on their forwards and mids protecting their defenders as they can be exposed when there isn't much pressure up the ground (hmmm, this sounds familiar) 

A side note on the Eagles. The only reason their defence looks like it has more keys is because they have Barrass and McGovern is abnormally large for the Intercept defender role around the comp. Looking at some of the best and you get Howe, Lever, Haynes, Sicily all too undersized to be "Key Defenders". Not many clubs have the luxury to play 2 Key Defenders like the Eagles.

May, Lever, Smith, Jetta, Rivers, Salem and Harmes 

I'm not saying our lineup is 'better' than the most effective defences in the comp, we have a long way to go before we even put our hand up to join the discussion. But as a structure It's not a lot different.

3 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

You would assume Salem and Jones will also be in, so 5 changes since rd 1

Smith Vanders and Hannan all being available for selection means it wouldnt be crazy to sugest as many as 7 changes

3 huge changes

9 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

No Hore and probably no vandenBerg going by the injury report, but Bennell seems a genuine chance.

How can you rule out Vanders and also say Bennell is a genuine chance? He very clearly says they'll be putting their hands up to play

11 minutes ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

wow that first tweet from mcgowan is atrocious ball use

smith takes a nice mark from a forward 50 entry bomb, takes forever to decide what to do, kicks it straight to t mac, who bombs long to a pack, may hacks it out...straight to t mac, who get it to viney who bombs it indiscriminately, before a pack and nice handball from smith and then dunkley is the only player to hit a target coming out the other side of the backline

what was that about learning our lessons re f50 entries?

have to admit that was my first thought too... 

But that first kick was to a 1 on 1 and to Fritch's advantage, he should probably have marked that himself much less let Smith mark it. And the May kick should get a pass, under pressure with no other option. And Viney's kick did go straight to Max who dropped a mark he would often take. 

Looks like Dark Blue forwads and mids are the A team and the Roal Blue Defence is the A team. So notably it's May, Jetta, Harmes, Salem, Smith, Rivers in the royal blue defence. Assuming Lever is on the bench during this it wouldn't be unreasonable to sugest thats the leading backline lineup a week out.  Wouldn't be unhappy with that although would leave Lockhart incredibly unlucky. Bennel in the B team midfield, but that's hardly surprising. Also of intrest, Chandler, Jackson and Hannan appear in the 'A' team forwadline

More RE: Bennell

https://www.afl.com.au/news/442015/demons-complete-final-major-tune-up-but-where-was-their-star-defender-

2 hours ago, Brownie said:

Sound effects.... definitely the sound of a bomb being dropped with every Melbourne forward entry.

Sit-com style canned laughter after each missed set shot? And Benny Hill music when players fumble?

7 minutes ago, M_9 said:

No way Harmes should play back.

I think there was merit in the idea but with Lockhart's preseason form and solid performance round 1, One of Harmes or Salem should be moved up into the midfield rotation. 

FB: Jetta Omac Hibbard

HB: Salem May Lever 

7th def: Lockhart

Looks like a reasonable defensive structure to go with for now. I'd like to see Harmes playing the defensive/2 way midfielder role again.

12 minutes ago, Demonland said:

No Jones or Salem according to this tweet. 

 

Lockhart and Sparrow to get chances maybe?

Just now, Lord Nev said:

Kozzy's in!!

(And Bedford too)

How good