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On 10/1/2018 at 3:25 PM, Demonland said:

SON OF A GUN

The high flyer was on the cusp of becoming a regular when a shoulder injury cut him down late in the season. The selectors had enough faith to give him a game in the Preliminary Final and he was among the better players on that day.

Date of Birth: 25 February, 1996

Height: 191cm

Weight: 87kg

Games MFC 2018: 7

Career Total: 10

Goals MFC 2018: 0

Career Total: 0

CDFC Games 2018: 9

CDFC Goals 2018: 4

Votes 2018 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Memorial Trophy: 71 votes

 

What?

9 hours ago, joeboy said:

I’ve watched the replay 3 times and still can’t comprehend how we were awarded frees, or at least not penalized for many blatant errors, despite the howls of abuse throughout the game from an overwhelmingly anti Melbourne crowd.

The non payment of a free kick against O.Mac ,when he took on the tackler by dropping his head into an oncoming chest, was just one of  many mind boggling decisions surprisingly in our favour.

In my conspiracy theory, the AFL contrived a feel good story ending

I was staggered by a couple of the non - calls late going our way. There was a Tom McDonald HTB in the centre bounce not called as well.

However, if the AFL was rigging anything i dont think a non controlling umpiring would run in from 70m away to pay that ridiculous Cripps free kick.

On 8/16/2018 at 4:09 PM, Demonised said:

Oh yeah. Last week, f'rinstance, Salem had a good head of steam, crossed fifty, and then looked for a dinky pass. On one of Hunt's few dashes down the ground, same. Bang it home, son!

The  worst one was Clarry in the second quarter when we were all over them. What the hell was he doing? They went straight up the other end and goaled after that. Then kicked the next 5.

9 hours ago, layzie said:

I hear you on both those passages. Especially the second one late in the 3rd quarter, massive error getting caught in no man's land there. No doubt it wasn't one of his better games for the club but I guess even the most experienced make mistakes. I know people will probably come back at me with plenty of other examples like the Geelong game but I still think he's serving a purpose overall. 

I agree, I actually like him and think he's been generally OK in his time here. 

The frustration is that we continue to fall down in these big games where pressure and expectation are high. You can feel the panic amongst the group watching. He was brought to the club to help with this. That's why the weekend, and those instances in particular, were so disappointing. 

I want to highlight two instances yesterday that resulted in direct Swans goals. The microscope is directly over Lewis in both.

1/ 26-26, Swans have just kicked three on the trot. Time to stem the flow. Someone is going to have an opportunity to do this through his actions. Kennedy wins the centre clearance and kicks a high ball to half forward. From the second it left his boot I saw Lewis trailing back on his own, the opportunity was his. As an accomplished, successful player he had the chance to push hard back with the flight of the ball and take a team steadying mark. As it turned out he actually would've taken it uncontested. Instead, he has a quick look then puts in three or four of the shortest steps possible and effectively shat himself. The vision can look to some that he misjudged the flight but i dont buy that, he's too good a player to get it that wrong, and ive played enough footy to be able to tell when someones put in the short ones. Anyway, he doesnt get there, ball bobbles round, falls to Hanneberry....goal. Full panic stations now.

2/ 1 minute to go in the third quarter. Been one of our worst quarters of football for the year but we're still within 22 points and will get our chance in the last with them down 2 on the bench. Cant concede one here, just hold up for 60 seconds. Defensive 50 stoppage.. should NEVER concede in this situation. Another opportunity for Lewis to display his leadership, you would think he would a) Talk to his teammates to ensure we've structured up properly, You'd think a two player outnumber would make sense with 1 minute to go and b) take ownership for their most dangerous player at the contest and put an arm across him. He does neither. As hes ball watching Papley strolls through untouched and kicks a spirit killing goal.

I hope these two bits of vision are shown and discussed heavily and harshly in todays review.