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Would it make any difference if I was? Yes, he seemed to really roam around and cover lots of ground, unfortunately that doesn't mean he played an "immense" game. And yes, I remember him being down the Collingwood end and being done for holding the ball, he had a fair few moments like that that cost us. 6 kicks is not what you want from your lone full forward either, and he made way too many errors - 5 turnovers, 4 clangers. 7 pressure acts and 0 tackles is really poor too given there would have been focus on our forward pressure. Brown needs a second tall to make the forward line work more efficiently IMO, so I don't 100% put the blame on him, but geez if that is what you consider an "immense" game from a full forward then I would raise the bar if I was you.

Hunt was on McCreery. He should have contributed WAY more to us offensively given his matchup.

Not sure I agree on this. We don't tell the other 21 players to adjust to suit Jordon's weakness. I like him, but I'm just yet to be convinced he's up to the speed and pressure of finals footy on the wing.

Can never fault his effort or work ethic, but his lack of speed and decisiveness is hurting us atm. Wouldn't be against moving him to a different role instead of dropping him, but he's costing us on the wing IMO.

“Everyone heard it yesterday. Bruzzy put it in our team WhatsApp group, they always have a few jokes in there. Fly (McRae) had it up pre-game on the board as well,” Crisp said. “There’s a lot of different aspects to our game, I don’t know what the one trick is, but we just keep finding ways to win in different ways. It’s great to see everyone on the same page.” Asked whether it fired him up, Crisp replied: “A little bit. Everyone’s a little bit different. Everyone saw it yesterday and was like oh well, eff you, we’ll show you.

IN: Harmes, JVR OUT: Jordon, Hunt

Can't we just give the Weid a week off from smacking him on the internet given he's not even playing? Gets a bit tired.

It's either completely dumb or absolutely genius. Either Lingers has fired up a team that may have got complacent given their run of wins OR he's bumped up the interest in the game even though he's so confident we've got them covered. Guess we find out late Friday night which... Side note though - Wouldn't think Simon 'respect the opposition, straight bat in the media' Goodwin was particularly happy.

Well, we won't be accepting magic beans...

Oh well.

This thread seems to be jumping the shark a bit now... (Disclaimer - I'm a loading believer) It started out with posters explaining that loading wasn't the only factor in winning or losing but now it seems to be becoming: If you win - You loaded already. If you lose - You're either loading or should have loaded.

Didn't hear anything about Weid... Full post-match, R20: Demons You're not getting mixed up with the mid-week presser are you @Sir Why You Little?

Didn't realize the VFL was a kids comp...

Darcy fined for the punch, Kozzy fined for staging - far out, seen A LOT worse than Kozzy's one go unpunished... Kysaiah Pickett, Melbourne, has been charged with Staging during the second quarter of the Round 20 match between Fremantle and Melbourne played at Optus Stadium on Friday 29 July, 2022. Match Review: Docker charged for Petracca punch, Dee cops staging fine

Annnnd that's 5... Get him in.

HARRY PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS It’s not just the two-headed Dees defensive ‘monster’ (Steven May and Jake Lever) that makes Melbourne an uneasy match-up down back. As we saw when it mattered last year, you have to include Harrison Petty as the third wheel. The Dees’ defence restricted the Dockers to only FIVE goals - with four of them kicked by small forwards. Big forwards Matt Taberner and Rory Lobb were kept goalless. The credit must collectively go to Melbourne’s back six, and more specifically Petty, Lever and May. They helped to break the spirit of the Dockers’ forwards as well as the hearts of Freo fans. When the triple-headed defensive ‘monsters’ all play together, they are very hard to stop. They have played nine games as a trio this season, with the Demons winning seven of them. Early Tackle: Glenn McFarlane gives his likes and dislikes across a massive Round 20

JVR's game today makes it a bit more interesting...

We all just meeting there? ;)

Please show me where I've accepted him under performing? Just continually surprised by the reactions when he plays a poor game. He's a depth forward who might be traded even though we'll be struggling for key forward/ruck depth end of year. He's on a short contract for minimum chips and the coach's comments whenever asked about him aren't generally encouraging. Then people jump on Demonland and sook about him like they didn't expect him to not play well.

Oh you must have (selectively) missed all the 'break out game' 'take his chance' 'still got hopes' posts every time he's mentioned. Welcome to Demonland!

Think they all came back on the red eye last night, Chandler playing too and he was sub.

It was a pizz take that his brother said he wanted to play midfield and then a few days later he was playing midfield? Righto.

We agree on a lot there mate. Just the messaging piece we differ on but that's footy hey. Good to be up and about for the rest of our season, let's hope we slingshot into finals now. Cheers!