leave it to deever

Umps not calling us being held.

What a difference a decent forward makes. Who would have thought?

Gee we have missed the old Milkshake.

Stick some tackles please.

Sensing an upset here.

Nice moves Kozzie. Including the goal

Especially in front of goal.

My goodness we make it easy for them.

Thank goodness Melksham is back in.

May sleeping on the job

Their a bunch of vultures.

Hi DG35, I have one of each. Ironically it's my daughter that is footy keen and my son doesn't like it all. Sadly into USA basketball with all its boring round ball predictably and running back and forth. No tackles, banana kicks and speckies . He plays the B.b. so I I try to understand. Oh the heartache. I'll have to work hard with his son if he has one, to ensure the family misery of MFC support is passed on as my father did for me. The father daughter days at the Mcg have been some of my fondest memories with my beautiful daughter. For some of us blokes that find it difficult to talk or relate to daughters at times, footy is a great bonding experience. As it for a lot of families. I don't get how families can do the same at Soccer in the UK with it's hooligan elements. I've watched it on occasion and while sometimes exciting, I don't think this game game is enthralling enough to maintain the crowd's focus enough. Hence the agro. Or some other reason beyond comprehension . So we are lucky in this country to have such a great sport and culture of civility. Well most of the time. Aussie Aussie Aussie. Go Dees

Ha..thanks Left foot snap...I a needed a good chuckle. Is it rechargeable? Gotta keep an eye on some of those batteries overheating

I haven’t spoken to my mother in law for eighteen months, I really don’t like to interrupt her.

Hopefully the team will get some this time. Been some interesting results this round, perhaps a shock loss for the reigning premiers is the biggest one. Let's hope they throw caution to the wind today and just enjoy themselves and go for it. If Fritta fails again, I hope he's dropped. I really want to see him chase and tackle non stop all day. Gee I've almost forgotten how good footy was when we had game day threads knowing we would win. I just hope it's not decades before the tide turns again but with Tasmania entering the comp, it's just going to get harder each year. I'm sure the Afl will do their all, to give Tassie a leg up too. I have a feeling we are going to see several of our top players poached over the next few as well. I love watching other games through the week compared to the old days of all of them played on the same day with one replay on the Sat night but sometimes I miss the old VFL.

Wish I could agree but here's hoping. The excitement factor for me will be watching Langford. And as usual Kozzie.

I'm still holding a lot of hope for and in young Jvr. Thought this was his breakout season. Well I thought that last year too. Really thought he could be our Curnow. Big call, I know, but early on he showed so much intent and courage and was a beautiful set shot. I believe he still shows constant effort though. He's completely down in confidence these days. Something's happened with his marking. Just doesn't seem to hold them. He's a strong lad and despite his ruck prowess for his height ( I mean he's not super tall but has a decent leap), he doesn't seem to be able to take pack marks. Has been more successful on the lead. Better suited to CHF. So, I'm hoping he comes good again. He's probably just not going to be the star many of us thought. We really need someone with strength through their entire core and with more mass up forward that can take the pack marks. Tmac used to be very good at it and probably our most recent one like this. At present one of the closest alternatives is probably Turner. Which is actually saying a lot. I really would like to see if May could play fwd for us. At present, he too seems to be down in form . But if Lever was not injured , Id have argued we haven't got much to lose giving it a trial. I mean we gave Petty months in the job despite often failing. He was often jockeyed out of position and wasn't really a strong pack mark. But Goody hasn't seen any reason to try it, even with a plethora of decent backs to play. Maybe I'm way off the mark here so to speak but I do wonder if May, may be worth a go. Am I alone on this? Besides Disco , who else is there. I really think Goody mucked up v the Hawks. I was dirty on him because Melksham was out. Viney who can snap a couple was out. Jeffo is very inexperienced. And Roo and Friita have been totally off the boil. And Petty was concussed, I think. So Simon says, Fritta, Jeffo and Roo will amass a decent score for us. Turned out with no Turner fwd in the first three quarters up forward those three kicked no goals. In fact none for the whole game. Really. Who didn't see that coming( well maybe not no goals but not enough)? I'm an armchair expert but knew enough that those three weren't enough. Yet despite their zero goals from all three, l 1/1we almost one. And yea Turner was great defending taking around nine marks there before being moved. It was way too little, too late. Things like this prompt me to think the club should part ways now ( if not sooner) with our coach in a respectful and as much as possible, amicable way. It will soon come time when our first premiership coach for half a century is pushed out in an inglorious fashion. But to some extent, it's probably of his own making of late. I know I'm going off topic here. SG will always have a special and fond place in the history of our club but it's not going to be good for Goody to go out from media pressure and the club reeling in such a large fall from grace. But back to Jvr. Perhaps just play him back with May forward for a few games . I do think it's been challenging for him trying to play fwd while being dragged into ruck duties but that's not enough to explain his current downturn. He's demonstrated some great skill, enthusiasm and intent prior so I'm not throwing in the towel. I really hope he thrives again. Seems like a really decent bloke too. Maybe after a few suspended games, he's toned down his agro which may have contributed. I've seen him get really down on himself when he makes a mistake. There's so much pressure on them it's hard for players to enjoy just playing the game. Hopefully he can find that along with some confidence. Maybe a good stint in defence with the occasional cameo fwd would do him the world of good instead of the Magoos.

Gotta feel for poor Hawthorn supporters this round. Umpires just couldn't get them over the line.

Fritta out. Maybe Jvr. Hopefully Melksham is good to go. Turner forward. Not sure who for Jvr. Maybe we need him for ruck. But his forward capabilities have gone south big-time.

Yea, he's not the player he wad. But without Lever , Tmac is stil doing really well.

Evil genius who designed it with a wicked sense of humor. Probably the same person who invented Finska.

Oh dear , all the aches and pains later with no dosh. I remember talking to a physio once who's said after grand final weekend, she was inundated with middle aged blokes who after a belly full of beer, went out and played kick to kick at halftime.😀

Wow how lucky were you to have been mentored by such a great of the game. Thanks for sharing. Not bad credentials BB. For reasons of confidentiality, without disclosing too much ...did you play Afl? I think I'll read your posts with more interest and respect. Cheers.

For a few I'd It's all psychological. I say this because recently we have seen some players who have records of great accuracy, become very bad at set shots. So I'm not sure in some cases if training would do a great deal. As I mentioned in a prior post, players like Tracca and Gawn have always been terrible with this. We just take this as a given. I'm sure they have trained and trained trying to improve this part of their game but it hasn't worked. Although perhaps Gawn has improved a little. I think Max changed his style a little, with giant chip kicks. Sounds like an oxymoron but it's the best way I can describe his actions. In the Geelong Prelim when Max kicked a record of five, most of them were quick snaps. Except his divine 70 metre drive from a handball from his other partner in crime. It just seems when these two have to think about it, their mind reminds them of their problem and where the mind seems to go, so to, does the ball. Although in the past I sometimes thought Max didn't spend enough time looking at the goals when lining up for a set shot. I also think he could have had more of a run up. Not like BBB but just more of a body trajectory coming in. Likewise , players like Fritta and Roo who have been great must be thinking more about missing lately. And so they find themselves in a mental rut when lining up. The more you think you will miss, it becomes a reality. I'm sure the club has specialists in psychology that try and address this but its not working. Or maybe they don't. So I can't imagine how you can fix the situation. I think the targets in the crowd are great but yea the problem continues. It's quite an interesting psychological state when it spreads through a team in a particular game. Often referred to as the yips. Maybe use the carrot and give players a financial bonus for every successful set shot. Confidence and mental fortitude are commodities that training can't provide. But Crikey it's cost a quite a few wins and quite possibly not so long ago, another flag.

They have huge actual circle targets held up on the fence in the cheer squad. Fgs what more do you need. Gps inside the ball?