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What’s all this nonsense on here about “he should get a week so Kozzy stamps this behavior out of his game”? This isn’t comparable to his bump against Bailey Smith. This isn’t even him electing to bump. It’s him running parallel to a player, trying to smother a hand pass with a semi-jump (if it was a full jump his hip would have made contact with his head) in the same way every other player on the ground does multiple times a game. If he gets a week then he’s unlucky, but enough with this hanging him out to dry business!

One thing that BBB does which always goes unnoticed is his deft taps in marking contests. Watch Fritch’s first goal from Saturday - came from BBB deliberately tapping the ball to the back of the contest for Fritsch to run onto. Does it week after week, and of course doesn’t show up on the stat sheet, but is invaluable to the way we play.

Yep. He’s a lock for the unused substitute role

Injury prone, poor disposal and questionable decision making. It’s a yes from me

Agree with this, but perhaps you find a way to incentivize them? Team that tops the bottom 6 earns more lottery balls for the draft (assuming that the AFL wants to introduce this at some point). Or include them in whatever wildcard / playoff the afl want to introduce. No disrespect intended, however you already have a bunch of meaningless games at this stage of the season. By having WCE for example playing against the teams around them they may stand a chance of winning a game or two and building some momentum into the following season. Their fans might actually be more engaged?

Of course, but plucking a contested mark in a large pack of players is low percentage relative to going up one handed (longer reach) and deflecting towards a teammate

This is him following instructions and bringing the ball to ground for our smalls. He’s actually getting quite adept at it - think it was Rd 2 vs Brisbane where he tapped it out of a marking contest to a small running by straight into goal

Nothing. Easier for the AFL to pick a junior / second year player to send a message to all clubs rather than a high profile player where there’d be far more media interest. Hope the media jumps all over this and not just Slobo

Hard to blame the forward line as a collective when 1) Fritsch burns 4 teammates and decides to shoot for goal instead of hitting up a teammate for an easy goal; 2) Melksham completely shanks a kick to Pickett who would have run in to an open goal. We've looked far better on Langdon's wing and if wasn't for the above and our poor shots at goal we'd have put 4-5 on the board.

It was probably “due to your calf injury looking at you for round 2-3”. Changed when he played in pre season and showed form and fitness

Hard to work out whether Weed played well or not: - fair few on here saying was hopeless - he had c.20 possessions - AFL listed him in our best ?‍♂️

Or that Cherny wasn’t looking out for him and he wasn’t noticeable during training...

Obviously a day off because it’s his birthday...

Plenty here in Aus too Bin (myself included). There’s many scientists who are also Christians and think science supports the creation narrative. Anyway, not the place for this discussion - apologies for going off topic

What did I just watch? If it wasn’t for DL summarizing it I still wouldn’t be any the wiser. One of the more unnecessarily stupid videos I’ve seen for a while.

Are they on separate programs within rehab, or all doing the same thing (ie is Tomlinson, Bennell and Baker still just walking)?

Looks like he got through run number 1 unscathed

Anyone else at training who can confirm whether there is anything in this mystery shoulder injury or if it’s all part of the same rhetoric we’ve been reading ever since preseason began?

Dangerfield butchers it pretty regularly but he goes alright i know it’s from 2017, but (btw Tomlinson is one of the best)... https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.zerohanger.com/champion-data-reveal-best-worst-kicks-2017-14091/amp/

I don’t get why we would do 10 & 28 for the cats 2 picks. Why wouldn’t we have just done 8 for those 2 picks? Same result...

Fixed for you

I’ll preface this by saying I’ve seen nothing more than one highlights package. However, what he seems to possess is pace and great ability to repeat effort after a ruck contest. If, as a forward, he can bring it to ground and then add a second or third contest it would already make our forward line more potent. Effectively a very tall small forward. That being said, I wouldn’t be spending pick 3 on that alone...

The fact that Cornes can’t understand the decisions we have made assures me that we’re on the right track!

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2019/10/30/melbourne-midfielder-keen-for-club-to-sign-bennell/ James Harmes is keen to get him onboard. Interestingly he mentions that a fair few of the players have spoken to him.

Able to provide a summary for those short on time?