Rodney (Balls) Grinter

The new one or the old one?

The other potential worst case scenario issue this raises is how keen (or not) would players and coaches be to go into hubs again?

Really hope they don't move to shorter quarters, I think that would take away a key advantage we have by having a mature, fit, but also realitively young list compared to some of the other potential contenders like Richmond, Geelong and West Coast.

Yeah, and as you can see from the picture, there isn't any snow either. ...not like anyone could head there with the lockdown anyways.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. Ain't hindsight a beautiful thing! ?

I guess the one thing all us armchair critics had the benifit of, which the players probably didn't, was knowing exactly how much or little time was left on the clock.

Getting 2 premiership points instead of a big fat zero would have been a win. It's about playing for ladder position to set our selves up at the pointy end now. There were 120+ for the team to play for an outright win, but in that last 30 seconds where we had multiple ball ups 10m out from goal, punching it through for a behind was a winning strategy.

Nothing like that diabolical. I actually had a different reflection on the game this morning. Adelaide played like a team with nothing too loose, because they don't have anything to loose. No chance of making finals, weren't expected to win, just hoping for some competitive games and maybe a win or two along the way. They were daring and rolled the dice with their ball movement, because they could afford to be. Could have been a completely different story if they didn't get a few goals go there way via cheap free kicks just before half time when we were starting to kick away. Even for the best sides it's hard to be up every week in what is really a pretty tight competition. To get to 9 - 0 was pretty phenomenal and I didn't think we'd be in anything like that position at that point in the season. The next month of 8 point games will be super important to our season. I'm backing us to at least break even against the Dogs, Lions, Port and the Pies which would be a pretty good outcome and solid ladder position to build the rest of our season off.

100% yes we were off our game and didn't play that well for big periods, but we were also pretty good at times too. Our 3rd quarter was good and we got to a position of being 16 points up with 8mins to go, a goal of which we lost, because of a howler non free kick. Oliver, Lever, Track, Spargo, ANB and others were pretty dam good and played at least as good team first footy as they did that second half.

What was the injury to Salem? I switched on just at the satrt of the ga.e and it wasn't really stated.

Just 40? Nah, I want to destroy them by 80+ points.

21 Votes Clarry Don't know if this has already been pointed out, but Oliver lead pretty much every key stat for the game. Goals - Oliver Marks - Gawn Score involvements - Oliver Disposals - Oliver Tackles - Oliver & Jordon Contested possessions - Oliver Talk about a powerhouse. There are some games where I don't notice Oliver's workman like burrowing and dishing off as much, but this game he was phenomenal. If we had got up, it would have been due to Oliver. When we got belated by the Dogs pre-season, I think his absence was a key factor. Not scared of the Dogs on Friday night with Clarry in the guts. Such a key cog in our machine.

It was very ironic given that the Crows got awarded a free for deliberate out of bounds which they got a goal out of, which far less of a free kick in my eyes. In that instance out player (I think it was Lever) did a soft hand loopy handball out of a pack situation and the Adelaide player shephered the ball over the line, while appealing for the free kick. When the rule was first bought in, the free would have actually been paid against that Adelaide player, because he had pleanty of oppertunity to pickup the ball before it went out, but chose not to. The non paid free kick for holding the ball/incorrect disposal, which bobbled out to Tex was also a complete shocker. There should be bigger consequences for umpires that F it up this much and make howlers that change the result of games. The expectations on players in the professional era are huge and they should be on umpires too. Not enough for the league just to say, sorry we F that up. The responsible umpires should get substantial fines.

So, we played poorly, that's one thing, but something I think we really do need to get better at is putting a bigger break on lower sides early in games. We've been able to let sides stay with us and then kick away pleanty of times this season, but that does risk a side getting the wind in their sails and comming in over the top like Adelaide did tonight. Just think there are times when we need to really put the foot down on the throat a bit better when we kick away to a 3 or 4 goal lead at times. Not that it was necessary the dominant factor in tonight's loss.

The missed free kicks to us in the dying minutes were one thing, but gee didn't they give Adelaide a bucket full of BS marginal frees smack bang in front of goal. That 50m that got paid against Gawn - like how many times does that happen to us in a game and not get paid?

Can someone confirm who is our 5th indigenous lad? i.e. The guy second from the left next to Bedford.

A true tribute to your resilience as a MFC member/supporter. Booking trips at the ski lodge my [censored]!

You'd think the AFLPA has a role to play here with the reasonableness or not of the fines being issued. Yes, I know the AFLPA has an important interest in protecting players bodies, but I feel as if the arbitrariness with which the AFL hands our these fines is disgraceful. And where does the fine money go? Should go into some kind of long term player welfare or charitable fund (perhaps it does and hence why the AFLPA's lack of public criticism). If I was a player, I'd be super [censored] about this issue. Yes they earn alot but most of the only for a short time and $2k here and there would soon add up. Should also be based on % of player base salary so they hurt the Dusty and Co.s as much as a rookie.

Probably because he didn't top out any one particular statistic. But stats don't always tell the full story. Not to mention that he should have also been AA last year as well - I think someone has some kind of grudge with May.

Decient enough odds, depending on if you are a glass half full or empty sort of person.

Geelong is a modern refference point I like to look back on as a team that had a bit of an up and down, slow build of a premiership team and then went BANG. Just looking at the records from 2007, they went 3 losses from their first 5 games and then put together something like 15 wins on the trot, before loosing a sole game for the rest of the year in the second last H&A before winning the GF. If we could emulate something similar to them, I'd be stoked. I'm not sure we are as good as that team though and one other thing that Geelong side did that season (and in others thereafter) was totally dominate sides. I wish we'd do that a bit more. Winning the 4 points is great, but it would be nice if some of our games were under control from the get-go and I could just sit back and enjoy the show instead of stressing. Lost enough hair (and brain cells) following our team over the years.

So seriously, hands up, who thought we'd be in this position of 9 - 0. Since 2018, I've wanted us just to finish top 4 and thought we had a side capable of that, but never really thought that we would be without a loss up to this point in the season. No that we are here, I'm not sure why we couldn't beat either or both of the Bulldogs and Lions, although I'm equally not sure that we are playing at our best, so wouldn't be surprised if we went on and lost one or both games. I think it should help our form getting Viney back sometime in the next few weeks hopefully.

I recon the confidence from that mark to Weid almost as important as the goal to T Mac.

A beard bath. Lol. Loving the comedic light relief on D'land here this morning.

Lol. Funniest thing I've had all morning.