Rodney (Balls) Grinter

This made my morning. rofl

I somewhat agree, but I don't think these stats quite tell the full story. Many of Fritta's misses are from 30 - 40m out towards the boundary, where as Max's are often from 15 - 20m out straight in front. I love Max, but how I do wish Max could have slotted through just one of those goals Vs Geelong over the years.

Even Hawthorn's current away/clash jumper is too close to the geometric design of our jumper for my liking. I get that we have a great design and others would want to emulate it, but Hawthorn is a stretch too far for me. Don't want to be associated with those [email protected].

That's true, but they were still taking up list spots that Hawthorn desperately needed to be utilised by developing the next batch young kids, not some injury prone has beens. I can see the attraction to Patton, but to have both him and Scully was daft.

No.1 draft picks haven't exactly had the best run of late have they? Watts Scully Boyd McCartin Patton Just the ones that come to mind. Different reasons and nothing personal as a whole.

Well, I guess that makes 3 Liberal MPs in WA today. Seriously, that bloke makes me sick. Such a phoney. Wouldn't know what an Ausie rules ball is from a soccer ball. Sort of guy who would pretend to be interested in all the things you are just to try to look popular and hang with the cool kids.

I seem to recall that there was talk of Jessie Hogan being an option to switch to the backline. Don't think I've ever seen it in action though.

Kicked 3 goals last week against Williamstown in wet conditions didn't he?

Lol

Same issue here. I'm guessing staff cutbacks due to COVID are the problem.

And alway cruises around with a huge grin from ear to ear looking like he wouldn't blow out a candle. His kicking for goal and delivery deep into the forward line was a bit iffy last year, but his general feild kicking was never really an issue as far as I've noticed. Actually wounder why opposition teams don't try more of a hard tag on him, because as others have noted, he's become pretty critical to the way we play.

Clarry on board the Demon train choo choo

And hopefully not flogging Max every will have him both fresher at the pointy end of the season as well as extending Max's career a bit.

Ruthless mongrels. I really want us to tear the Hawks a new one. I'm not sure that I'd be as assured by Jackson filling the hole and marking behind play as I am by Gawn, but it would be a good string to add to his game at some point.

Would love to see us dominate first half against Hawthorn and just go on from there like we did to Carlton in 2018. That's been the only thing lacking in our performances to date, to get on top of a side early and then go on with it. Started to go that way against Freo and St Kilda, but we let them back in with periods where they had the ascendancy and kept them in the game on the scoreboard and mentally, which isn't entirely surprising since they arn't exactly bottom four sides and you'd expect some sort of contest. Our forward line has been good this year and we are getting so much better at hitting up good targets inside 50, but you still feel there is an oppertunity to make more of our around the ground dominance. I feel that we were almost totally in control for most of the game against Geelong, but kept them within striking distance by not totally capitalising on the scoreboard. I don't think we are kicking quite as inaccurately as the scoreboard might suggest, because quite a few of those behinds are rushed, which plays to our dominance, because sides are pushed back to that point in defending our deep forward entries, as opposed to our backline which is mopping up the opposition's entries much more comfortabley around the 30m - 40m area alot of the time. Feel like we are playing quite conservatively through the midfield alot of the time too, preferring to go around the wings rather than taking on the corridor too much, which may be both a confidence thing or related to a lack of skill by foot or a bit of both. Feel like we could really rip a side open if we attacked through the corridor a bit more and perhaps having BBB leading from full forward providing a predictable, reliable target might help this too. Clarkson may be a master strategist, but he doesn't have the troops to play the accurate kicking game he use to, so that takes away his main weapon of choice from years past. I can just see him getting his players riled up to play the man though and I think that will also become part of the next challenge for us, becoming the hunted every week, although right now we are pretty good hunters, so long as we don't let it go to our heads and start playing like millionaires, but I sense the disappointments of past false dawn's will put that somewhat at bay as the playing group really does seem to be playing with a maturity that correlates to the bulk of the team being in their prime and/or with plenty of experience in the bank.

You can thank @pinkshark for that:

Asides from his substantial footballing ability, everything I've seen and heard about BBB suggests that he's a rippa bloke to have around a footy club. Really makes me think that North made a big mistake offloading him the way they did and if they have made similar mistakes to the MFC era 2011 loosing too much experience and leadership within a young, struggling team.

Yeah, I can understand that too. I just thought it added a good bit of theatre. Can just imagine how Bruce McAvaney would have carried on after a goal like this. Regardless of the like or dislike of the commentary around it, I just think it's great that the MFC finally has an excitement machine like Kossie in the team again, from all of the perspectives of marketing potential, matchday excitement for our supporters and the added team performance it contributes when you have a player that can regularly manufacture goals out of almost nothing.

Do quite like the commentary from Kelli Underwood to this goal ..."Buzzing around like a mozzie Kozzy"

The royal blue retro isn't exactly my first preference MFC jumper, but it's a vast improvement on any predominantly white jumper the AFL made us wear for way too many seasons, so I'm not going to complain about it. Next weekend is a MFC home game, so I'm assuming they will wear the traditional red and navey blue and hopefully the following weekend against Hawthorn as well.

The thought of Hibberd comming into the side is quite tantalising. We would have some serious drive comming out of our backline with all of Hibberd, Salem, Hunt, May and Rivers running the ball out and then delivering with long penetrating kicks. I think Nev has been quite serviceable, but I think we really need to take our game to the next level and we have the players there to assist with that improvement, so should use them. Similarly, I think Melksham's ball use inside 50 could be quite valuable. Still thought we weren't as efficient as we could be delivering the ball into our forward line as we could have been last night. Some noteworthy good passes from Spargo and Nibbler, but still too many bombs to packs. Our forward line would have looked very average last night if it wasn't for the heroics of Kossie and Fritta actually kicking straight for once.

Kosie for PM

6. Salem 5. Oliver 4. Picket 3. Tomlinson 2. T Mac 1. Jones

Mmmmmm doughnuts. Hot jam doughnuts at the G after a win for the MFC are my favourite. ...and they only have a little hole where the jam goes in!

To temper that, I think Jackson spent a big part of the second quarter on the bench/in the rooms getting a shoulder complaint assessed and the Dockers had multiple injuries which hampered their ability to rotate players in the last quarter in particular. But agree that his mobility/agility for a big man is quite awsome. He does really seam to move with that basketball style 360 degree spatial awareness like Trac as well.