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    1 hour ago, Dragon 9 said:

    How many of Maxy's hit outs end up in Brisbanes hands

    We win double the hit outs yet get smashed in clearances.  Not having a go at Max’s effort and performance but it is so frustrating to have such a dominant ruckman (who trains with his mids for hours during the week on clearance work) have the opposition mids turn up on match day and appear to be reading him better than our mids. I think we had at most 2 clearances in the last that were clean from tap work.  The rest went the Lions way or were nullified.    

  2. The matrix table which contains the grading of classifiable offences and in particular, the grading of the degree/level of “contact” (ie the force)  is open to so much wriggle room (aka for the “stars” of the game) and ambiguity because of one sentence buried in the tribunal guidelines under the definition of impact. That sentence is as follows:

    “The MRO may however consider the potential to cause injury to upgrade impact from negligible to a higher level of impact.” 
    Wait for the day that a fresh air swing or missed bump that May otherwise have collected an opponent on the head results in a Demons player being suspended. The inclusion of a clause granting the MRO with unfettered discretion to upgrade is an indictment on the tribunal system as a forum for fair and impartial adjudication of these matters. 

  3. 12 hours ago, mpc said:

    I've started watching on mute this year also, and I find it a lot less stressful. The ideal TV option would be just crowd noise with no commentary.

    SEN are advertising a sync feature on their app so you can sync the SEN broadcast to the tv broadcast. Anyone tried it? 

  4. 6 hours ago, BigFez said:

    Apologies if this has already been discussed at length, I haven't had a chance to read through this thread, but I just saw Rivers got a fine for a sling tackle.  Am I the only one (apart from Tom McDonald) who thought Rozee threw himself on the deck trying to milk the free?

    Absolute BS. No arms pinned and Rozzee played a dead fish to draw a free. Madness. Should appeal.  Opposition player did zero to protect himself and had both arms free. What was rivers to do?

  5. Just now, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    And for me too.

    Aside from a couple of entertaining wins over Brisbane, Adelaide and Richmond in July, we’ve been playing an unattractive, sloppy and often soul destroying brand of footy since about round 10 last year.

    ….and a brand that all other serious contenders have worked out and nullify.  Oh boy, this could be a long season. 

  6. 2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    In Carlton’s last 5 games they haven’t kicked double figures in behinds.

    In our last 4 games we’ve kicked nothing but double figures in behinds.

    One club takes their opportunities and the other doesn’t.

    Makes us so hard to watch and support and very emotionally draining (well, for me at least). 

  7. Very small (ie the smallest) sample size but if we are serious about being a premiership contender, to perform like that for the first game of the season (on top of straight sets finals exit and off field issues over summer) plants a massive seed of doubt and consequently, it will no doubt embolden opposition teams to no longer fear our contested and defence oriented game style. I hope I am wrong but with the injuries and off field issues, I fear we are on the precipice of asking  the cabin boy to start moving the deck chairs on the titanic. 

  8. 10 minutes ago, Binmans PA said:

    Somehow O'Sullivan, Watson and Naughton or Lynch.

    Forwardline then looks like:

    ANB Naughton/Lynch Fritta

    Kozzy Petty Watson

    With JVR, McAdam, Spargo, Chandler and Trac resting.

    Backline looks like:

    McVee May (Tomlinson lockdown role) Lever 

    Salem O'Sullivan Bowey

    With stints from Rivers when not running through the midfield and Howes.

    We need more elite talent in the forward half that turn half chances into goals and can convert the contest wins from further up the ground and players like Petty who can draw the ball on the lead.

    An elite ball user in the midfield will be nice, but not a priority. We need better forward half players and a defensive tall that will allow Lever and May to play to their strengths. We have the 1st or 2nd best contest team in the league in the midfield, so it's about being able to maximise our midfield dominance inside 50.

    Nailed it! The hunt for red October begins in earnest - beg, borrow or steal that elite user!!!!

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    10 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    If you are in The “Premiership Window” you don’t miss easy goals continuously….

    We have a lot of work to do

    2021 is a long time ago 

    True. Maybe the window has passed (boy I hope not).  Imagine the 2021 team vs the team last night. Injuries have not helped but not many players are above their 2021 output/contribution. 

  10. 2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    You find them and refine their skills. 
    our opponents have them….

    We have a few off half back. Just be nice to have (or recruit) some forward of centre. My fear is that we are in the premiership window now so don’t have too many years to find and refine. I have faith in our recruiters. Important trade period. 

  11. 9 minutes ago, Soidee said:

    No cool light of day.  We just threw away 2 years of top 4.  We know the problems, we see it every week.  The club either gets it right or we look back with a flag outside of our home ground as the only success in 50 years.  Our so called talent can't execute for goal.... Fix it now. 

    Agree 100%. How do they fix the lack of elite (forward of centre) finishers though?

  12. 12 minutes ago, BDA said:

    During the finals campaign of 21 we were purring. Moving the ball with purpose and freedom and belief. What inspired that? Where has that gone?

    We play with too much fear now. The balance is slanted too much towards defence in my opinion.

    I don’t know if its in Goody’s make up or not but the players have to be allowed to express themselves sometimes. There’s a weight holding them down the last 2 seasons. It’s all system system system. And system is important, don’t get me wrong, but players need to be let play. I think the straight jacket is impacting our decision making. We take the safe option or wrong option too often.

    And I might just be talking through my hat. But if I’m a player I’d rather die with my boots on than be caught out playing the percentages over and over and losing in the same way.

    Spot on - how many times did we fail to take the first option only to hold the ball another 5 or 10 seconds and take that option anyway. The refusal to run and gun! Macrae said when Pies lost to us on KB weekend - they went into their shells and didn’t take the game on and he would rather lose by 10 goals. I love that about Macrae because look at the way they play - fans love it, oppo fear it and it works!!! The grind and hugging the boundary keeps teams in it and enables teams to set up defensively. 

  13. 3 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

    Executing our goal kicking under big finals pressure (Composure) cost us in these 2 finals.

    We need a Power Forward to help JVR and Petty, not sure Petty can go a full season with the hits and knocks we need security cover.

    Injuries from R17 onwards also didn't help either, plus our sub selections in finals.

     

    How do we improve executing under immense pressure. It is a real problem and near impossible to replicate at training. I just don’t think we have many players with ice running through their veins when the pressure is on. We have a great sample size of 4 pressure finals, the last two the worst in terms of executing.  We also have critical games (or moments) during the year when we fail to deliver time after time. Admittedly, there were probably games during the season when players have stepped up at critical times but  to actually seal a game with a set shot - I can’t recall many. Even if it is not to seal a game but to bury the hopes of the opposition and stepping up when we have that chance with a set shot and it feels like we fail to execute the vast majority of times. Hate to admit this but players like Walker, Elliot, Gunston (in his prime), Breust (in his prime) etc… How a recruiter identifies that ice - I have no idea but it is a massive issue because it is so deflating to the team collectively to be gassing so many chances and worse, it keeps the opposition weighing striking distance. How many solid and dominating victories have we had this season.  For Goodwin to trot out the “it is a tough competition” is an easy out. It maybe a tough completion but when you keep teams in it with poor kicking, it  does not have to be. Apologies for the rambling post. Don’t start me on the umpiring or the mi d boggling sub selection (which gave the optics of someone other than Goody selecting the sub and Goody then proving them wrong) - beggars belief. 

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    For which team is this a “home game” - In terms of Robbo during the breaks etc…. Not sure I could stand another Collingwood style - asking kids if they want chips or a pie and then voting on it or voting on what 5 bars of a song to air guitar to or kiss cam. Watching our boys kick away their chances was bad enough.

  15. 5 minutes ago, wrecka45 said:

    Hate the cut of their jib.

     

    But hate most things about that club, hate the petulant coach, hate the entitled players, hate that they have been kissed on the proverbial with father sons, hate that they have been given hundreds of millions for their oval that's not an oval, hate the super soft draw that they are given each year 

     

    Generally don't like that club 

    …. hate the way at least 3 Cats players appeal for a free with arms out every time there is a contest. 

  16. 1 hour ago, Nascent said:

    Does anyone else find the cut of Geelongs jumper at the back looks quite strange?

    Hate it. Attempt to make their traps look bigger. Aka the “Dorrito” look to those in the gym scene 😜

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    1 hour ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    Can you believe how pathetic they are tonight (Ch7)?

    They are giving the spotlight to the doctors  on the ground 🤔🤔 when have they cared about this before?

    If only they had the same enquiring minds last week and during the week. SEN pre game the same. Focus on how hard the job is for the doctors and entitled to make a mistake. All sucking from the AFL money teat. 

  18. Remains staggering to think that an incident so overt and so obvious was not investigated further because of a “mistake”! Did Port even bother looking at a replay of the incident? Seeing other team doctors analysing vision of incidents on the bench shows a level of scrutiny that is both appropriate and required. Did anyone associated with Port (or the AFL) even bother to look at the incident again or were they more focussed on getting the player back on an winning the match. Oh, hang on, the doctor’s priority is the player not the match result.  Will any of those in the media have the guts to grill Port and the AFL. Not holding my breath. 

  19. 3 hours ago, binman said:

    And I'd add that there are mistakes and there are mistakes.

    Giving a free away for say having too many rotations is a mistake. As in the roos example from earlier in the year, it might cost a team a game.

    Bur something I haven't seen much comment on is the potential scenario of Allir copping another head knock when he went back on.

    He was all at sea for the rest of that game, and there was a huge risk of another head knock because he wasn't switched on i would have thought.

    So the mistake might have resulted in serious injury, or perhaps even forced retirement for Allir, as had just occurred for max lynch.

    Couldn’t agree more. As per my earlier post, it implies a rather cavalier attitude towards the assessment of a head knock and suggests that, to Port, a decision on a head knock is low level fruit in the hierarchy of match day decisions. In their mind, just a run of the mill decision that they overlooked (lke missing a rotation/sub).  It is the attempt to cover it up (and the explanations) that is bringing them undone. 
    cannot believe the AFL need to take so long to come up with a punishment and explanations. Behind the walls AT AFL house would at be like watching an episode of Utopia! 

  20. The doctor saying it was a “mistake” is such a cop out and smacks of a pattern of prior behaviour that escaped any serious scrutiny or challenge. The contemporaneous conduct of all those around the doctor at the time supports such a conclusion. When finally pulled up (and because it is so obvious) the doctor says it was a “mistake”.  Puulleeese.