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Didn't Nic Nat and Lever both do their good knees?

He wasn't great against Port, but he contributed and he has been pretty good in some other big games. Against Port if our mids had lowered their eyes going inside 50 Hogan could have had a day out. He's our top 3 quickest according to AFL tracker and we don't hit him up on the lead enough. Our mids seem more comfortable kicking long to a contest and so he stays back too much.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-04-20/improving-demon-just-keeps-on-running He runs hard both ways as well.

I was at the game, sitting high in the stand, but didn't notice the breeze, even in the last quarter when it rained. You could see the direction of the rain coming down pretty clearly and there was probably just a slight breeze favouring Adelaide. Great win though. Adelaide were 100% on and we seemed off and they beat us on most of the stats that count, so to get the win was huge.

100%. Mids/forwards need to learn how to defend in stoppages. Omac is off but up against it when the balls coming in that quick

I agree with the stoppages comment, and think this is the main issue we have. In general we haven't had workrate issues like we saw against the Saints. But in my opinion our stoppage work is really poor and has been most of the season, despite Max dominating. The big concern is whether the coaches think our stoppage style is a strength because we usually win the clearance count. Problem is most clearances we win are rushed and scrappy as there are several Melbourne players within a couple of metres of the ball. Opposition clearances tend to be cleaner with a good outlet handball and then exposing us in defense. For the Collingwood game we were obviously so hyped up for that game that we looked like Under 8's all chasing the ball, and Collingwood really hurt us from stoppages just through better structure. That's not lack of effort, but just structure and should be easy to fix.