Engorged Onion

Oh!! The anxiety about getting out to a 20 point lead!!

Looks like sentiment shared on here...

Context = banged up.

That's a really useful way of framing it. Additionally, it seems we (the FD) have prioritized the turnover game, with an understanding that for us the 50-50 at times goes our way and presumably are prepared to lose out some of the time, with a sense that over the course of a season it will ultimately fall our way.

I really really feel this thread is been hijacked, and getting personal. The antagonising over peoples opinions, and the 'holding' athletes and coaches to account, could really happen in other threads. Like some of the other posters who noted it recently- this thread has been vitriol free for essentially 3 years... Please, shift it elsewhere.

Are you suggesting that is relevant to The Melbourne Football Club?

Can't argue with the sentiment, AND the context of the knee injury and subsequent rehab and return, looms large as a missing piece of the tweet...

Sincere apologies - it was just a popular response in the 90's! 😍 Were you a Full Forward and was your name Plugger, or Chook?

😍 - 10000%

What's with the words putrid and disgraceful when referencing the team. It's as if you think they're coming up against the Manangatang 3rds... and not another professionally run football club, with similar resources and talent. I'm a bit [censored] ing over the negative [censored] ers on here...

On reflection of that post, I think I am projecting all my anxieties onto the players...

I'd be arguing that after a few close losses, they would prefer to take a scalp to reinforce that they still can. Unless there is an acknowledgement that perhaps they are a bit fatigued this week and are in a loading phase*, thus they internally acknowledge that it has a direct impact to run out games. *🐈 amongst the 🐦 comment...

Not [censored] mate, they’re reducing risk of injury, mind you that’s only appropriate for other teams… not for the Dees.

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And other people can have a response to how others responding. And you can have a response at their response and so on.. it’s all very meta. I was pointing out the ‘ridiculousness’ of judging people that clap… it certainly doesn’t sound like you’re ok with people being supportive of an ex player… I was there and I clapped him, I also clapped when he sharked the ball and dobbed the goal at the punt road end that was effectively a sealer. He played well and I like to clap good play irrespective of the team or individual that does it. Greats of the game and society have left the game early due to booing, I’d like to think as a society we have evolved, and I get for some people, football is tribal and means a great more deal to them with the intensity of emotions, than it does in my own life. Enjoy your Sunday.

Interesting stance that the posters on here who complain about people complaining on this forum about people complaining as it’s also ‘their right to complain’ - are the ones that complain about the people who engage in their right to clap a former player. 🤷‍♂️

That’s no different to any other team though right? we didn’t lose to pressure - we lost on our inability to convert our opportunities…

After taking my 7yo in the train to the ‘G’ today and revelling in his joy at watching the Dees live for the first time, circumstantially on the anniversary of my fathers death 7yo ago of MND, I reflected on the circle of life. oh and death and as we pulled into the south Geelong station at 7pm, hearing the crowd silence (yes hearing it) as GWS got another goal from about 800m away. I considered the fact that the AFL are reaching a version of the utopian vision of any team can win on any given day, bar 1-3 sides. What I know it means for ‘us’ is that 4 losses b 11 rounds in over the course of a 23 round season and the method of our other wins, hasn’t papered over deficiencies per se. It speaks of how close the competition is and really (inc Collingwood) there are no standouts. TL/DR We’re in it up to our eyeballs even though it doesn’t feel this way, as the disparity between the best and worst of the competition has contracted significantly. and it’s a good thing - but really stressful, if you want to smack teams weekly.

Fumbles = loading 😀

I'd be good to get an overall picture of how many quarters won scoring Collingwood (if they are a benchmark) have won. The same for how many quarters won for pressure vs opposition Not that elite pressure equals winning each quarter of course... Does Wheelo ratings do that @binman - I just checked and may have overlooked it

Genuine question. What’s your year of birth?

AFL AVG = 37 clearances Coll = 36.4 Melb = 34.8 #1 = 41.7 Bris

It's as though the aggrieved only watch our games, and disregard, or don't have a bead on other teams🤷‍♂️