Kev

We seem to want a wrestle before the ball goes. This keeps us close to the opponent, usually infront but with heat or the opposition read where we are trying to run to and shark it. Would like to see us run from them, so they can't get a touch on us, and when the ball goes, we push through/around the rucks and hope Max has the skill to feed us without preconceived plays. This may allow us to hit the ball with pace and also make it difficult for the opponents to read.

I can see us beating them. When we want to play, we can outrun any team. It is a shame we don't bring the grunt for the four quarters. I expect us to do that on Thursday. With a 5 day break the players won't have to dwell on our performance against GWS. Fire them up coaches. Show us we are improving and not going backwards as the season develops.

Are we getting big heads. Where was that final quarter effort in the first half? Need to play with endeavour and desperation right from the start. So many times they broke tackles. Where has our clean ball handling gone? Some passengers in the team. A confused Hunty, is he forward or back? Where were the regular small forwards? I like our game when we go fast. That should happen more during the early parts and then have tempo control. We are not playing to our strengths. Defensive structures are still working, and until the opposition works out how to pierce them, we will be there about. (Thought Petty did well, especially in the first half.) Good play Max, Langdon, Salem, Fritta, River, May, Lever, Jackson. Hoping we fix up our conversion from the inside 50's. Set shots need work.

When our stars get the ball, nothing gets going. They have to cause an impact, ending with goals. We need to make more opportunities and the forwards have to convert. Petty getting better. Hunt, Langdon and Salem doing alright. Max and Jackson playing well. Oliver and Tracc need to lift. ANB and Saprgs ok, where is Pickett. Hope the smiles are gone and we come out with fire. Win clearances make the turnovers. Go Dees.

I am expecting a quick, out of the block start. It has been something we have not done well for a while. We cannot give them a sniff, as confidence and a run on will give GWS a chance to take the lollies. Can they play the MCG? My guess is they learnt a lot from the loss last week there. They will be better for the run even with their disruptive build up. We have to hit them early. Hoping for accuracy and efficiency. We are bringing effort and fight to our matches, and have a smart approach when we don't have the ball. Hoping for some beautiful ball movement and connection with our forwards. Really feel it is time for a dominant performance. I want to us gel and play some outstanding footy. Make a statement about our skill, fitness, fight, and cohesion to the oppositions. Show them they will need luck, hardness and work, to even get close. Put the fear into them all. Go Dees.

Wow, no changes. There is stability in the team. This equates to cohesion. Unfortunately, they are are not rewarding players doing well for Casey or performing badly for MFC team. There is pressure for positions, but the selection committee is indicating that once in the side you have to do alot wrong to be omitted. This should be the time for some experiments as the end of the season is coming quickly and that is when we need to know our best 22, the match ups, and different role players abilities. Missed an opportunity, I reckon.

We got it done, scraped and fought. First quarter nerves again. Inaccurate and unable to get a good score from inside 50 and the dominant amount of time in forward half. They hurt us on there efficiency in the first. Thought they were going to beat us playing through the central corridors but we did something to fix it up in the 2nd half. Maxy taking marks early. Hunty working his defensive skill, creating links and run was a big improver. Some of Sparrows handballs to break lines and ability to stand up in tackles was beautiful. His kicking continues to improve, on the way to being elite. Viney improves our ability to win clearances. Oliver has a great footy brain. Knows where everyone is. A little cute at times but his steps into space and a couple of stab passes, wow. Always in the heat of the action. Salem and Langdon are back to their best after their injury lay offs. May and Lever, courageous and determined. Nulified so many of their prime players. Though a couple got plenty of ball. Plenty of runners swarming, helping out our defence and stretching their defenders. Good coaching. Would like to see BBB out there. When our Hollywood comes off we look great, though when it doesn't, ooof. Would rather it stay simple. Our defensive structures really seem to throw the opponents off. Very difficult to move the ball quickly and they can't bomb it.

When we become ruthless, it will give opposition teams some nightmares the night before we play them. Till then, they will think play our best and the Dees are beatable. I want ruthlessness, without it we can't get the cup.

We really are too nice a team. Our game against Collingwood shows it. We give a fairy tale to Bucks. Where was our mongrel? Why didn't the Weed run through some of them? He is playing for his spot and with minimal disposal and impact it would be the least he could do. Bucks showed us his new game plan, pushing us onto the boundary and moving the ball in the central area. Hope we had lots of “learning's”. Including, not allowing the opposition to mark. Until we become hard nuts, we will be seen as pretenders. Essendon has a tough team culture. Will we stand up to them? We need off the ball pressure and to be able to fight them for the advantageous position. Not only do we need anger to retaliate (within the rules), we need to get the ball or suffocate it when we don't have it. C'mon Gawny lead us and the MFC, to put the fear into the opposition. Angry, ruthless, hit them hard. Time to be the perpetrators and not the victim. Go Dees.

I am stuck in Thailand and waiting for the borders to open. I don’t want quarantine, unsafe putting well people near possibly infected, the associated cost and being stuck in a room. Also waiting for airfares to drop in price, which will only happen when the borders are opened. I am missing lots about Melbourne and MFC, including my regular walks down to Gosch's for a squizz. Hoping to be back for preseason 2022.

Your out are you, or taking your own advice and sitting down. He wasn't calling you a troll, I think he was referring to deefiant. Geeze, "literati", that's a laugh in itself. Mate, stop ostracising. Your closed group is not what you imagine. Anyone can join and your constant put downs cannot change that. You know me because you had the same run in with 007 and who. Could be about your superiority complex and the need to close the open door so you feel safe from opinions you don't agree with. There you go, telling people to leave "your" group alone again. Wow, you want only your kind to make any noise. Who is we? Is that the inner circle, group think people.

There it is again. Hidden behind your humour is some truth you wish to impart. You don't what my kind on board. I've been told to "sit down", to be blocked, that I must be new (no right to express my view). Why are my views so unpalatable? Supported by another, @Left Foot Snap. I can understand boring, but not welcome! You poor, insular, delicates.

If you feel that way, why did you support the statement, "Sit down"? That is someone saying your views aren't welcome.

He is asking what type of person, not don't post. Also asking for something that is human nature of jumping on board disappointing results and wondering if deefiant can swim against the current. Gee stuck on an issue, and trying to embarrass someone with a different view to you. Faulty never expressed anything about freedom of speech anyway. That is my issue.

Thought he was going a bit further than that, Kind of indicating that they shouldn't post that type of banter.

What a lovely, insightful video. Thanks @Engorged Onion I like engaging in all manners of discussions. There are very few I don't get something from.

I tried ignore once, their post still showed on the thread. I like your posts, except for the "sit down", statement. So easy to misinterpret statements, glad it wasn't an attack on my right to express myself. Wish deefiant would stand up for his own opinion, as those from the game thread could.

I am an advocate for free speech, however there are consequences for your words and support for or against them. I support the those who make game statements, though the humiliation of those in order to make them sit down, I do not agree with. Make fun of them, sure, but not with the intention of shutting them up. If deefiant wants to change the posters, he could do it by posting logical assertions, not just the posting what he disagrees with. I felt that needed a response, let them have an opinion. I goes round and round. A conflicting opinion is not a measure of censorship. Though saying "sit down" is.

So here I am advocating for freedom if speech and not slinging at demondlanders. I wasn't someone who exaggerated the poor performances of our players in the game thread. I wish those who posted what @Deefiant complained about, had the fortitude to stand up for their own opinions. Probably not in their personality set, easier to remain seated. You and @Pollyanna tell me to not voice my opinion. What a joke you are. If I you don't think like you, then I am a waste of your time. Narrowed minded, self righteous fools. Sit down means, shut up, remain unseen. You cannot control everything mate. Perhaps you should try and put that mirror up to yourself. Bloody rusted on insiders of Demonland. Glad you pointed out the hierarchy and how new members are not welcome to have an opinion that is different to yours.

What is the issue with some having outlandish opinions of anger and frustration with the MFC. Much prefer honest expression than quietness. It can even be humouress. No statements made on anything can be absolutely correct. There are some who say, 1+1 does not equal 2 and they can prove it. Others, the only truth I know is, I know nothing. Then there are the stoics, existentialist and even nihilist. I believe everyone (though not the face value, but from the undertones), and usually enjoy interpreting the reason and meaning, which is based on their social, psychological and spiritual experiences. Give them room to express those hidden darknesses. They need the release on forums otherwise they may take it into real places.

Doesn’t need to be hard censorship, shame and public humiliation can cause the same response. Those who posted, and had their views highlighted, may be intimated to post freely. Easy to find those anonymous by referring to the thread and posts.

What, why, oh it is your way or no way! Do you always tell others what to do? Father superior!

So you aren’t going to add anything further to the thread? You start a conversation but then nothing, Not even an emoji! Wow, you love your own voice. That's the sling. Shame you don't understand others. You started the censored slingging by taking cheap pot-shots at peoples statements and foibles.

What mirror? Probably doesn't know any of them. It is up to me if I want to look at the mirror. Are you looking at your own reflection, or is it easier to avoid that and tell others what to change. I don’t think there is right or wrong, as it is sharing. I may not agree, but if I stretch, I can see the others point of view. Isn't that the point. Even exaggerations an be a viewing into the nature of us. Not censorship, please. Deefiant is not engaging in the conversation anyway.