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Non-consensus but gws win without Greene anyway. The Cats have kicked 7 goals in 6 quarters. They are a dysfunctional unit right now with ball in hand, so risk averse. Watch the tension level on their faces rise if they are down a few goals early. Straight sets!

He is absolutely awful. His decision making, free kicks against and disposal were horrendus on sat nite. Why would you want him suspended. Prefer him in the starting 22 for the Lions every week.

The biggest issue i have with this is its not even a slow news week! A football coach yelled. Media racking up those clicks!

+ D) Making a statement to the rest of the competition.

Relative to other starting midfielders in the afl, he doesn't win his own ball, he doesn't accumulate a truck ton of possession, he doesn't hit the score board or have elite disposal efficiency. He's not a great mark. He's a poor man Josh Kelly, who fwiw was tearing it up in his fourth year. Playing full minutes, he went three consecutive games this year without laying a tackle. Can u imagine the match day threads. Lol. Massive overrating going on here.

Speaking of which, at this point we need someone to set the last 30 seconds and kick to Titanic theme.

Is Cerra a wingman? He's had 1 game in his career over 30 possession. He's not particularly damaging with the ball, or even a contested ball beast. Essentially his game is being fit, being young, run around getting some uncontested ball. He doesnt tackle. Brayshaw is the guy in that team that broke out this year. Carlton can have him, he's not making their team that much better. Ill probably eat my words but total overs in every respect.

Match day threads: Hold my beer.

Tom Mitchell is the epitome of an ineffective player. He leads the competition in disposals per game. He is ranked 92nd for score involvements per game. 92nd! If you adjusted score involvements for disposals he would be off the charts and not in a good way. One in every 6-7 times he touches it does hawthorn even score. But apparently circle work handballing and kicking is a skill to be recognized by All Australia selectors. Give me a break.

Watching the replay, Gary Rohan had some last quarter. Free kick push in the back to May on the wing when Geelong were out at the back, free kick dragging May down in the pack when Danger was out the back into 50 and finally just misjudging it enough in front of Gawn to allow MFC to have their first ever after the siren win.

Exactly. Clearly the players have more faith in themselves than some childish, throw toys out of cot supporters. But you know what, they'll be back again next week. Embarrassing performance indeed.

I must be missing something. There's numerous studies of a home ground advantage (and a huge one done last year for soccer confirming the advantage even without crowds during covid) due to ground familiarity and travel fatigue. Having earned the right to exercise this option, demon fans are ok for just throwing it away for 10k mostly neutral fans who dont really care about the result ?!?! I thought the goal was to win a premiership and playing at the mcg, particularly against an interstate opponent, gives us more chance. That's just a fact of sport. Pert is 100 percent right to dig his heels in.

eureka! I think i have it. Nicely topical ldc

Agree. Btw, I think we have been the lowest users of the sub interchange all year but if we are not using and abusing this loophole during the finals series, we are kdding ourselves. If the doggies win, and we are not activating the sub at some stage in the third quarter, id be disappointed.

Thanks for the video post. One thing noticeable that he does in almost every instance is execute to the advantage of the other player, into space or away from the contest. Hard to teach to do that instinctively. (Dusty is amazing at it) Even his deep entry into fifty, he recognized it was a one on one with the demons player having the back position so a hard deep ball was the best option. Didnt quite come off but the intent was there. His kick is more penetrating than Salem's too so i'd prefer him as high up the ground as possible. Ben Brown is going to have a field day with Bowey kicking it to his advantage.

Agree on all three. For all the talk how finals are different and need guys in the guts. In present day, teams are usually pretty complete football teams and wouldn't be there if they didnt have enough 'hardness'. Its really about finishing 50/50 opportunities and efficiency. Dusty has shown that three times. And Sheed. Imo i doubt Melksham is the reason we lose a final but he may well be the reason we win it.

And this takes the gold for the most stupid statement today. Comparing, in any regard, a few dodgy free kicks to the systemic bigotry and racism of the nazis. Perspective is a thing.

Im not saying harmes viney or jj are the answers. But when gus was in the centre we were free flowing, attacking and dominant. Right up until it we werent and shown up as frauds. We really a classy mid in this draft period. Ps. I really like the idea of Spargo through the middle. Him and viney switch up roles a little more next year perhaps. His touches through the middle would be great for a forward to lead to.

Exactly right. He is averaging 5 + intercepts a game, which by a quick glance is one of the highest by a non defender in the league. He's incredibly important in our game plan to slow up the opposition rebounds reading the play so well, cutting off passes and defensive spread. Our system really matters to Goodwin and he's been one of the key aspects of success of our system this year. Id be a little surprised if Goodwin suddenly went with this route now when it doesn't appear the system is broken.

Dont feel too bad. He has 4 years left on his contract for us to enjoy. Imagine having that money available to go chase a quality ball user.

Sorry, why do we need to send someone tall into the ruck? Send in Fritsch what difference does it make? Do brody and gawn lead to clearances? Nic nat is the only true clearance ruckman. But i would argue that yes, bringing in someone new is the only way to 'flip a switch'. Those names may or may not hit targets inside 50. Decision making and execution of those players will be the same for coming years. I say that because its been the same for past years. But playing the suns we probably get away and win comfortably so its moot.

Nice post. Not many polished half forward flankers out there. In another universe we have Chad Wingard for any combination of harmes, viney, brayshaw. A man can dream.

Id like to see Melksham to come in for the expense of Jackson. Our fwd 50 pressure is fine, but we cant have anb and gawn as inside 50 leaders and expect to be a top 2 team. In fact, we cant have Trac butchering it week after week. Has had league leading 125 inside 50s for 8 goal assists. 8?!?! Comparison. Bont 124 (19) Parish 111 (19) Merrett 111 (15) Zorko 100 (18) Seedsman 98 (14) Keays 97 (8) Oliver 97 (9) Wines 93 (11) Mcrae 90 (22) I love Trac, but he has been woeful this year kicking inside 50. Yes, part of it is goal kicking admittedly. We need Melksham to finish off our good transitions. Put whomever in the ruck as a chop out for Gawn, who cares. It clearly doesnt correlate with clearances. Harmes lucky to keep his spot but if he isnt tagging touk miller this week whats his role? Miller has been on absolute fire for a bottom 6 team. If they win and he has 35 touches and a goal allowed to run free and get first hands at stoppages it will be an indictment on our midfield and coaching staff.

Spot on. NOT fixable. Only way you fix it is by changing the players involved. Decision making and assessing targets under pressure (or no pressure in this case) is what you learn as a junior not fixed by one preseason of coaching or training sessions. This has been a problem for 4 years. Not enough coaching sessions? Really? Another year will do it?!?! We did not have this problem in 2018 when 4 v 3 and 3 v 2 almost always resulted in goals. Why? Because our top i50 players included Melksham (led the league in goal assists by a long way) and Brayshaw. Now we have alex neal bullen third and max gawn in the top 5 inside 50s for us. In this particular part of the game the system is not as important as the player. When you have 3 v 2 going inside 50 who's hand the ball is in really matters.

Before this game. Oliver 6.12 Gawn 8.12 Brayshaw 2.4 Viney 1.4 Up until tonight, our forwards have actually been 'covering' the fact these midfield leaders are 17.32. (all of them more goals than behinds except Spargo) Although tonight would suggest otherwise, if the club just focuses on the forwards its missing a much deeper problem. Namely our midfield are below average kicks. List gap imo.