Gawndy the Great

I also think the oppo's are really doing well to curb May's influence... Our defensive setup behind the ball has been our 1-wood for a few years now and so its not unexpected that our opponents go to school on us. I do wander how we will fair if Petty eventually goes back behind the ball.

Turnover scores dried up last year if memory serves me right and is a good, reliable source of scoring as it is effort based, so glad to see that we have re-weaponised that.

I like it in theory...but go and then explain the over-the-top love infatuation with the Pies or the Cats? Pies i can understand with their exciting brand and (i cringe as i write this), all things Nick Daicos. The Cats for crying out loud have been thereabouts for almost 2 decades and still get the adoration of the commentary teams.

Dew / Goody (predicted voting) 10 - Anderson 5/5 7- Clayton 3/4 4- Rowell 4/0 3- Gawn 0/3 3- Powell 2/1 2- Swallow 0/2 1- Ballard 1/0 **Also worth calling out Dogga's 10 in the Freo vs Hawks game. Didnt watch a second of the game, but 2 goals and 24 touches was closed to his best ever game I would have thought. Pity about the opponent.

https://aflcoaches.com.au/awards/the-aflca-champion-player-of-the-year-award/leaderboard/2023/20240108 Another week of 'unbiased' coaches voting against Melbourne. Who won this game again? VOTES PLAYER (CLUB) 10 Noah Anderson (GCFC) 7 Clayton Oliver (MELB) 4 Matt Rowell (GCFC) 3 Max Gawn (MELB) 3 Wil Powell (GCFC) 2 David Swallow (GCFC) 1 Charlie Ballard (GCFC) Leaderboard Votes Player Club 45 Nick Daicos COLL 43 Marcus Bontempelli WB 36 Clayton Oliver MELB 34 Jeremy Cameron GEEL 34 Callum Wilkie STK 33 Christian Petracca MELB 32 Patrick Dangerfield GEEL 31 Zak Butters PORT 29 Noah Anderson GCFC 29 Jordan Dawson ADEL 29 Toby Greene GWS 29 Jack Sinclair STK 28 Charlie Curnow CARL 28 Jordan De Goey COLL 25 Darcy Moore COLL 24 Charlie Cameron BL 24 Chad Warner SYD 23 Tim Kelly WCE 23 Zach Merrett ESS 23 Lachie Neale BL 23 Tim Taranto RICH

This is very much a life and die by the sword type of situation. GC seemed to have midfielders sitting forward side of the contest in their D50 and when we eventually turned it over, they would just waltz out of D50 without too much fuss and setup for an extremely fast counter-attack. I couldn't believe Goody didn't push up an extra defender to stop this.

I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet.

It’s funny how they talk about how GC should have won given contested posies and clearances but fail to implement our +15 i50s and +5 scoring shots with our worst set shots accuracy in recent history.

let’s ask the AFL to inplement cricket hot spot technology and we can all watch Gawns and what he cops week in, week out from attempted ‘spoils’. They’d be no defenders left to defend in the comp.

The curse of the GF loser continues. Can’t see Swans making it from here.

GOTY ?

The chatter on Daicos for Brownlow is down… bit of a reality check for him playing off HB with a soft tag the last 2 weeks. Definitely impacted Collingwood’s quick transition and rebound. Still very good though.

Geez Poes lucky for 2nd week of oppo inaccuracy from set shot.

Swans bringing the heat.

I thought there was nothing in it at the time. But Christiansen is a goose and he’ll find a way to rub him out for 2 weeks.

I think it says more around our game style and overall skill level. Weid is good 1:1 with space. He is not good in contested marking. If you recognise that and play to his strengths then he’ll generally perform better than he did for us. He just couldn’t do what we were asking if him.

Cripps is a great inside contested player but unfortunately the modern game just doesn’t suit his style as much as it used to.

Nope, they play a couple of games like this a year and then slide downhill. I like the no stress games like last week despite how boring they are.

Hmmm this sounds like Loading mkII - I’m not biting so easily this time. Logic is sound , but MFCSS defies logic so yeah.

When of all people, Ben King, ankled May in the last quarter , I think it showed everyone in the AFL he is still carrying some type of calf injury. I’m worried that he is on a very steep downhill slope past his best.

Last year a lot called for petty to be pushed up forward. It took a whole season and now Goody doesn’t want to budge. Turner doesn’t look anywhere near it. Perhaps not the right matchup but he lost to a D class KPF. Our stoppage structure is just 1 dimensional we can’t seem to stop an opposition clean exit for weeks now. Rebound teams will murder us when our forwards can’t hold territory, it just keeps coming out too easy. It’s still early season but nothing about us is convincing atm. We haven’t really beaten anyone and have nearly lost to Tigers and now Suns. And we have a few easy kills coming up so we are not going to know for a while yet.

Didn’t deserve that. GC are not walk overs up there.

Me too. They are all intolerable.

Game fundamentals all in fav of GC. We are just hanging on.

Thanks umpire. Absolutely nothing in that.