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  1. This is niche, but that's a shocking draw for anyone that doesn't live in Victoria but gets a premium membership. We often pay big backs just to watch 3-4 big games during the year. This year, most of the big games are not home games and any big games at home e.g. against Brisbane are on a Thursday, which interstate fans won't go to. When the team travels to our state, we then end up having to buy tickets anyway because it's cheaper than adding 'all games' to our already expensive membership 😂 This literally leaves the only big home game for the year against Collingwood in the last round. I don't even think the Geelong game will be a good one as I expect them to drop down further next year.
  2. I thought it had to be allocated under the soft cap between both men and women?
  3. You are definitely having a laugh.
  4. What on earth is going on here? We literally have a potential forward at 23 years of age at 197cm and we want to trade him?
  5. This tends to happen in the European leagues in soccer a lot, but doesn't seem to occur in the AFL. Definitely something that should be thought about more often.
  6. It doesn't make sense to me. If he has only 1 year left on his contract, why would GWS need a salary cap dump? Unless they are getting in a player this year for 800k, what's the point? Keep him 1 more year, save your draft pick and let him go at the end of 2024.
  7. Pretty is a 197cm premiership player at 23 years of age and could possibly turn into a forward. Why on earth do people want to let him go for pick 10 + maybe something in the 20's? Madness.
  8. Wow! that's passion, we are lucky to have Petracca.
  9. I don't think there has been another team in the last 30 years that loses so many games when they dominate the scoring shots or inside 50s. To me there are 3 variables that keep causing 'outlier' games and costing us premierships. 1. Kicking inside 50 2. Efficiency inside 50 3. Kicking for goal All top 4 teams are usually good at 2 out of the 3. We are bad are all 3. Therefore, when you have an extra 'variable' that can cost you a game, these 'outlier' games are more likely. You could argue our goal kicking at times has been ok, but it's usually against the poorer teams. It cost us last year and this year when it really matters, in finals. Even if you take out our goal kicking and say its ok, we are still poor at 2 out of 3 categories. I love Petracca, but year after year he kicks so many floaters inside 50. There was a crucial one in the 4th, all he had to do was kick it over the top, but he floated the ball and genuinely cost us a goal.
  10. This game is brutal. I have spent so much of my life invested in this and I wouldn't have it any other way. But I just want to see my team win finals at the MCG. 2018 is my only memory of this. I fly from interstate and clear everything else to attend this game, as I do every year (and during the season). I then sit there and watch a complete shambles for 3 full quarters, its emotionally taxing. I can't get my head around how we can have so many stars at the peak of their game and we were barely kick a goal for 3 quarters....someone tell me how that even happens? in the biggest game of the year with 90k watching and we dont get any momentum going until the last Q. Thanks for vent!
  11. I agree with some of that. But the ball was skidding still in the last Q, the ground was definitely wet. I just think we are atrociously skilled AT TIMES and the wet makes it worse.
  12. That is exactly my point. Teams like Collingwood and GWS don't do that and still beat us. 240 minutes of football against GWS and Collingwood in similar conditions and we lose both games. Sure, you might be more vulnerable by playing a different way, but you are likely to also be more effective going forward. You are a stats man. Think about the sample size here, 240 minutes of football in the wet. We lose both games with +72 inside 50s. There is something fundamentally wrong there and I have not even included the Essendon game and I think there is another one I am missing.
  13. This!!! Anyone who speaks about the forward line is letting off players like Trac, Oliver, Viney and co. Champion players, they are the reason we dominate contested ball, but they are also the reason we are so poor going inside 50. It's pretty damn simple. Work out who kicks the ball the most going inside 50 and those players are the ones causing the issue.
  14. Wet game and we won the inside 50s by +32, lost. Wet game against GWS and we won the inside 50s by 40+, lost. That is a huge sample size and tells me we are playing the wrong way in the wet. How on earth do we not have an understanding of why we are so poor in these games? You can't play the same game plan and let teams 'counter attack' with all that open space off the half back line. We didn't learn a thing. Can someone please put together our record in the wet with out total inside 50's for and against.
  15. Without being brutal, it's totally heart breaking to watch your side not fire a shot AT ALL for 3 quarters in another qualifying final loss. That last Q was more about Collingwood having a lead than Melbourne doing anything special. If anything, the pressure came off and Collingwood were in game saver mode. When the pressure is on at the start of games against good team we have been smashed: Brisbane, Port Adelaide, Carlton and now Collingwood x 2, all smashed in the first Q. The only game was against Brisbane 5 weeks ago, then they went on to kick the next 9 goals.
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