Rodney (Balls) Grinter

12 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

PJK was a master of one liners, witty retorts and cutting put downs. It's a pity we only have vanilla politicians these days

Barneby Joyce can be quite colourful.  His face starts to look like a beatroot when he gets worked up.  He and PJK are definitely on opposite ends of the scale on intelligence though.

10 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Yes, ideally, we find targets up forward but in practice we don't have the composure yet and with Salem and Watts (maybe) out we don't have the skill for pin point passes. 

And if as you say we can't dominate the midfield how do we stop Lever?

I know what you are saying, but the previous suggestion of getting McDonald to tag him seems so wasteful of our most in from key forward.  Perhaps useling Pedo or even Hogan in the tagging/defencive foward role you suggested might be more the way to go.

41 minutes ago, bingers said:

BT = big turd

Was only natural he ended up his career at Collingwood 

7 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

I hope you are right, but I think the evidence thus far of the respective situations was that we were able to more effectively replace and work around the absence of Gawn and Hogan than we were our or midfield A team last week against Carlton.

Just to emphasise this, against Carlton last week, we lost the clearances to the team which is currently 18th in clearances in the league, after the lost probably their best clearance player (Cripps) for over half a game.

Clearly  (pardon the pun) an area we need to address against the Crows who are 5th for clearances (BTW we are 6th).

4 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Last week like many prior weeks the opp defenders more often than not, marked high balls coming into our forward line.  That is a tailor made chance for Lever to be BOG.  Why opp coaches allow him to roam free is beyond me.

In round 8 he did not play!!  This week if we can't neutralise his free roaming intercepts it will be very hard to win.  In a different way, he is to Adel what JJ was to the bulldogs - the guy from whom their respective attacks starts. 

Have given a bit of thought on How To Stop Lever.  This will sound odd and a luxury but what if we play Tom Mc on him with a brief to wear him like a glove and take him out to far flung pockets or at least to the pocket on the opposite side of our attacking forays.   Lever has to go with him as Tom is a dangerous forward.  It sacrifices Tom's game but also takes Lever out of play and allows Hogan, Pedo/Watts etc to kick the goals. 

Other suggestions on How To Stop Lever?

How about move the ball into the foward line properly, find targets and not bomb it?

For a few weeks there our delivery into the forward line was first class.  That said, I don't think we will have the cattle to suffiently dominate the play through the mid feild to pull that off this week.

Channel 7 comentry team: 

Omitted - Brian Taylor;

This goose has called us the past two weeks now and has given me the complete shiiits both times.  Craps on incessantly.  BT, it's time to go.

1 hour ago, bandicoot said:

Long shot against Adelaide? We beat them at their home ground by 40 points only a few weeks back without a ruckman or full forward and hunt going off at half time. 

Yes, we are missing our captains and watts but we have hogan and Gawn. 

Also, we have now played in Darwin for 5 years. It's a bigger advantage to us than playing at the G. Adelaide have never played there and aren't used to the conditions. 

Wouldnt be surprise during if the game is a lot closer. 

I hope you are right, but I think the evidence thus far of the respective situations was that we were able to more effectively replace and work around the absence of Gawn and Hogan than we were our or midfield A team last week against Carlton.

Smith is clearly a player for the future, but his selection last week baffled me and I can't see how we can carry him into the game against Adelaide.  The defensive side to his game is B+ and possibly even A or A+, but what I've seen from him thus far at senior level is that he lacks offensive, skills, confidence and ball getting ability at this point.  To some degree, I think we are such a long shot to beat Adelaide that we might as well blood him for the experience and or turn the game into a defensive grind and minimise the damage to our percentage, but that would go so far against our gamestyle now, that I'm not sure we could pull it off.

I thought what we clearly lacked last week was ball winning grunt around the midfield and to me that brings into play Tyson (if fit), Ben Ken and or possibly Trengove.  I'm not convinced that either Stretch or Kent are playing as badly as some suggest, but they would probably be the main ones in the firing line to make way for mind.

4 hours ago, Demon77 said:

He now has his own highlight package from the Blues game on the MFC site. 

http://bpmultihlsvod5257.ngcdn.telstra.com/vod/ingest_afl_melbourne_vod/2017/07/924522/VOD_Source/2017-07-11_06-11-22-3921/output_1100kbps_406p.mp4

Lewis was giving him a huge rap on AFL 360 tonight (I think that's pretty much what is used as the sound over in the video clip)

On Saturday, July 08, 2017 at 0:20 PM, brendan said:

I think he should be in trouble as it's a very danderous act and no different to pushing someone into the fence, will he get suspended? Im not convinced the AFL Has a way of protecting high profile players, will be interested to see how it plays out most commentators and so called experts are already putting it in the accident basket 

I've rarely seen players get any punishment, free kick against or anything for this act.  Granted, some of these are on the low end, but I think it's potentially so dangerous, completely gutless and outside the spirit of the game... instead we'll all get carried away with a young red head who has a bit of a chat back to the dick spectator who just sledge him.

I'm not so sure about Tex's case.  At first we I viewed it I took his word that it was more or less accidental, but even time I watch it, it looks less and less unintentional.  I keep coming back to how skilled AFL players can be when they have the ball, evading a player or kicking a goal as an objective, but then how down right clumbsy they get in incidents like this one.

Haven't rated the Weid's performances in the seniors this year, but quite happy to reserve final judgement on him for a few years yet.  He did show a few glimpses of class and his potential against Hawthorn last year and his haul in the VFL a few weeks back was fairly impressive, even if it was only at that level.  Pretty common knowledge that most KPPs take a few years to develop, they aren't all freaks like Hogan . 

2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

the hun said - hogan: dislocated finger

Next thing we will be accounting for broken nails as well.  Dislocated fingers are not much worse than a grazed knee, put it back in and play on, I've done one on each hand personally.

On of the best things I read on the AFL site match report.

INJURIES 
Carlton: Cripps (left leg), White (left knee)
Melbourne: Nil

I do feel for Cripps, but so rapped that we have got through a game unscathed for once in recent weeks.

7 minutes ago, sue said:

Apologies if others have already mention this, but one thing that our players were doing a lot of in the game was tapping a ball towards a team mate rather than taking posession and getting tackled. Good to see.

I've noticed it too.

It's actually being executed pretty well by a lot of our players and really helps to get the ball out of tight spots and get it moving quickly.  No doubt it is a much practiced and I dare say encouraged skill.  If the Bulldogs had their handball club, perhaps we have taken it one step further and started a tap/knock on club.  A few players like Watts and Trac with basketball backgrounds have always been good exponents of this skill, buy I get the feeling that it's become more prevalent within the team.

1 minute ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Correct, I might be imagining things but I swear I read once that you could see how many free kicks were paid by a certain umpire to each team but I could be wrong.

I'd just be fascinated to see how many free kicks the baby-faced umpire gave to Carlton.

I'm not interested in picking on or singling out one particular umpire, but there were a few occurrences yesterday that really caught mire ire:

1.  First goal of the game from an off the ball incident 100m away paid in the Carlton goal square.  There was that much happening off the ball that I don't know how the umpires picked that single incident above all others and to pay it in the goal square was grossly unfair I thought.  Probably karma for the one Bugg got a few weeks back against the dogs, but in general I don't think these type of free kicks are good for the game;

2.  I think I counted three 50m penalties to Carlton which were all pretty borderline for infringing/holding up the player after a mark.  Similar incidents occurred when our players had the ball and pretty much nothing.  If I recall correctly,  I think we had one 50m penalty in our favor.  Umpires need to improve their consistency in this regard big time.

To their credit, I think the umpires did do fairly well to stop forwards being infringed upon for both sides.  Specifically Tommy Mc and Jeffy were rewarded for us from some pretty clumbsy defensive holding on and I recall Krusier getting one he deserved from an obvious infringement from Smith.

1 hour ago, Jaded said:

100% correct.

We were fortunate that Carlton had 2 on the bench, one of which is Cripps who is a star. I hope the kid recovers well. Always terrible seeing a young player go down. Luckily it's not the knee! 

 

I was weirdly confident we will win. This was the calmest I have been at a game, even though it was a close contest and I knew there was a lot riding on the result. I kept saying to my dad we will prevail because we are a class above. We played at probably 30% of our best, Carlton were at 100%. We pushed through at the end and won some vital contests and held on for the 4 points. We were so mature in the way we handled this match, missing 5 of our best 10 players, and our entire engine room.

Very proud of Oliver, Trac and ANB for stepping up in the absence of Jones, Viney and Tyson. I thought they were exceptional. ANB was brilliant in the last quarter. He has been good all year, and it's obvious his best role is inside mid. That he does some damage on the scoreboard is even better.

Great work from our defensive unit too. Best game I've seen Wagner play, and as usual Jetta is a freak. If he doesn't make the AA team, it is as rigged as I believe it to be. He is the best small defender in the competition. I would love for someone to prove me otherwise!

Hogan and Gawn will be better for the run. And yes I know Joel Smith was rusty, but gees he has some impressive attributes. I'd love to stick with him. His agility, his speed, his disposal, are all top notch. Love him. 

I've got pleanty of love for Jetta, but could both he an Hibbard make the AA side?  On a similar note, my perception was that Hibbard might have had a bit of an off day.  It wasn't that Hibbard discraced himself or anything, I just not that he was quite as effective and damaging as he has been for much of this season.

I do like Wagner as a defender.  While some question him for a lack of skill, he kicked two fairly handy goals yesterday, showing real poise and calm execution under pressure.  Also put on some pretty good spoils.  Beyond all else, I recon Wagner is as hard as nails, dosen't hesitate and fully commits to the contest.

9 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

The one that I am surprised has never been tried is when a player is kicking for goal from around 50m - defenders could allow themselves to be used as a stepladder so that a teamate can get a touch on the ball

In a similar vein, you always see players being tackled over the boundary line, taking it out of play for a throw in.  What I'd like to see (if it hasn't been tried already) is players being tackled back into the feild of play to get pinged holding the ball.

Looking at the repla last night, I couldn't believe that Carlton defenders left Lewis so loose, they only have them selves to blame.

It was also a handy goal from Lewis in the end as well.  Helped keep our % up around the 110% mark.  With the comp so tight at the moment, having good percentage is as good as winning another game.

1 hour ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

FWIW I was thinking his face looks identical to Jo Bailey's.

Dad's hair, long sleeved jumper and number- mum's face.

You might be onto something there.  Wondring if Calscum would be trying to enact the Father/Mother-Daughter rule for the woman's league?

I don't really like admiring the opposition, but Casbolt was pretty bloody awsome for three quarters today and that SOS Jnr looks like a splitting image of his old man cosmeticly and in terms of ability (unfortunately).

11 minutes ago, Nasher said:

I didn't see it that way at all.  No doubt the match was a grind and about as far away from aesthetically pleasing as we've seen, but there were some bloody epic moments in it, borne out of a game that was a genuine contest.  Lots of character and guts were required to win, and the team delivered.  

There's been a few of those "we were [censored], they were worse" games in the last few years, but I don't rank this as one of them myself.  

Agreed, I think it was a case of Carlton Vs MFC B Side, in some ways, but it was  generally a good standard game.  They played well today, I don't think we played our best, but we obviously played well enough to walk away with the 4 points on the day, which was a fair achievement from tines gone by, so I do rate this win.

Sorry if it's been said on the forum already tonight, but Calscum were into Lewis from before the first bounce... look who had the last laugh in the game.

Many were calling for Lewis to stand up before today.  While I think he's proved his worth a few times before now, I think he well and truly did his job today.  Perhaps it's because it's because he's from Hawthorn that MFC supporters don't like him (to which I can empathise) but he is well and truly one of ours now, was one of our best players today and I'm very glad Lewey was singing "It's a Grand Old Flag" tonight, because without him I don't think we would have.

GO DEMONS

2 hours ago, DemonOX said:

How good was TMac. 

How good IS T Mac

5 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I believe the site utilises an algorithm which uses your search history to generate ads.

Your terrible Muriel

9 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I got locked up in Iraq for throwing a peanut at someone during a soccer game. 

Ethan, now you are just being a peanut!  ;-)