MurDoc516

I don't know why people are concerned about length. The only time you should be concerned about length is when your putting a contract to a player who is 28+. Trac is 25? 7 years, sure why not. Covers his peak years and makes him the face of Melbourne.

Shocking from Freeman and North get there first goal >:(

Weid bags his 4th 71 plays 4

Great grab Rosman

Half time Casey 8.9 57 - North 0.3 3 Ordinary final 10 of that qtr.

Weid leads through 3 north players and gets it on his chest from Sparrow. Goes back and kicks his 3rd. 56 to 3

Rosman gathers under little pressure and snaps from about 40 out and goals. First 2 of the qtr to Casey

Is the ball heavier the VFL? Silly question but these players are underhitting the ball a lot.

Daw with his best Gawn impression, Sparrow brilliant in traffic, Harmes from outside 50 gets the first of the 2nd.

qtr time 4.6 30 plays 0.2 2 Weid, Sparrow, Jetta the best so far.

Weid another contested Mark hand passes to sparrow who shanks it around the body. Could have had 10 this quarter.

Sparrow with an incredible ball to Weid who just misses, nearly 3 in the first for Weid who is close to BOG

Thank god for Carlton and their [censored] recruiting. All though, i don't really care. 25 year old Lever is dominating the competition.

Really good clip on the couch last night showed Langdon and Brayshaw defensive positioning as wingers. Both in perfect sync ran behind the contest in our defensive 50 which is why it always looks we have spare behind or on the flank while their opponents like to hold their spot on the 50 to set up a press which is never really going to work when Brayshaw and Langdon are the easy outlets.

Cam Mooney had us premiership favourites after 2018 and has always been bold on us saying we are the closest thing to Geelong he's seen in his eyes (meanwhile Richmond were actually putting together a Dynasty).

Looking at the outs and the ins. Disposal and speed has drastically improved.

Salem, Viney, Gawn, Oliver all playing well after getting new deals. Trac next please.

I don't like North, and while i can feel sympathy for a team getting belted every week, i don't want that to change this week. Also, kind of silly to go from reading the tigers forum to norths. Talk about a contrast.

Interesting, Melksham is the kind of player you want in your team when you think you got a soft kill. But i guess so is B. Brown

I really do not like Harmes in this team. Liability disposal wise and we've gotten better once he left because now we don't have 1 too many inside mids.

I think on Last Crack last night they showed how committed we were and that was personified with Hibberd sprinting 60 meters to go match up Dusty

We've been playing the same way for a while, a few tweaks here and there yes but the only real differences over the last 3-4 seasons has been personnel. We've gotten in a lot of good recruits who have now played a full season or two together now (Lever, May, Langdon, Tomlinson). The defensive press has been a staple, we've conceded some humiliating goals because we never had the personnel or buy in to make it work. The midfield has gotten a lot better. In 2018 our contested ball was off the charts but we would still get killed on the outside (West Coast badly exposed us in the prelim). Trac and Oliver have been much better on the outside and we are getting much more sustained defensive pressure from all those guys to help our defenders. If you think back to the game against the cats we lost with a kick after the siren. That final quarter the cats and Hawkins got a run on and we couldn't do much to stop them. Oscar and Frost got slaughtered but the reality was our midfield and forwards had 0 pressure. Melksham, May, T. Mac, Hibberd, Jetta and Jones have actually got their bodies right. After the prelim year our whole team was basically injured. Melksham and T.Mac were so immobile, now they look much fitter. Their experience and leadership is still much needed, Gawn and Lever have been flying the flag for the last 2 seasons. Finally it's just a collective buy in. It really feels like this team doesn't have passengers or people trying to get an easy touch. Spargo should be more celebrated than Pickett last night despite having a handful of touches. The reason why was he lead the pressure front from minute 1 to the last minute. That tackle in our defensive 50 and the follow up on Houli really swung momentum.

Thug Rose

Yes King was a big demon man back in 2018 because all our "underlying" numbers were elite. Personally i don't care if media personalities are hesitant to jump on us, i would just like them to talk about us. Kind of [censored] some of the fox shows refused to talk about us because we were 'inconsistent'. We were very close to finals last year as well.

6. Salem 5. Petracca 4. Oliver 3. Viney 2. T. Mac 1. Spargo