Nicko
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Just now, Clint Bizkit said:
How good is Pickett’s defensive pressure!
Just love watching it
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Some game by Hunt so far
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Pressure acts:
Alex Neal-Bullen 28 and Charlie Spargo 22
WOW!!
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6. Oliver
5. petracca
4. Salem
3. Gawn
2. Jordon (9 tackles, 4 of them inside 50!)
1. Langdon
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Alright all in love with Kozzie
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Brilliant fightback
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3 minutes ago, MF-C said:
Need something from you Dogga Jackson
Agree
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Just now, Pates said:
I’m a Fritsch fan, but he’s going to cost us games if he doesn’t learn to kick goals.
Absolutely agree
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Just now, The Rebuild said:
Gutsy win! Go dees! I'm just glad Schofield has to eat his words a bit.
I hope he lost all the money he had on freo
one of the worst commentary performances I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to!
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Will Schofield’s commentary is disgraceful
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I think Jetta and Hunt will be a bit worried about their spots for next week but I don’t know who played well for Casey today? Does anyone have any insights into who played well for Casey today?
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1 hour ago, Spargonicus said:
Thought Clarry got better and as usual racked up the possessions, but boy he butchered a lot.
80% disposal efficiency (28 effective disposals). I reckon that’s pretty good for a round 1 effort.
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6. McDonald (9 marks, 5 tackles, 2 goals)
5. Oliver (35 touches @ 80% efficiency in his 100th!)
4. Langdon (14.8kms and 22 touches)
3. May
2. Petracca
1. Lever
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Melbourne Demons (@melbournefc) Tweeted:
From one 2️⃣3️⃣ to another.A special presentation for our debutant, receiving his jumper from James McDonald. ✨
#FiredUp https://t.co/v2oDUeWbKU
How good is this!
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Our tackling is fierce
I love it
one more quarter....
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1 hour ago, DeeSpencer said:1 hour ago, DeeSpencer said:
And Tom McDonald spent a fair chunk of the game getting beat up by Ryan Gardiner and a skinny kid who hasn’t played a senior game.
Yeah I noticed that too...
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I wanna see us play footy like this again!
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14 hours ago, Nicko said:
Thanks IHW
I got to see the first three quarters streamed live (multitasking whilst working ?♂️)
looking forward to watching the last quarter with a nice glass of wine!
About 5mins into the last quarter Gale comments that we look a lot quicker than last year (after Langdon’s run down tackle). Not sure if the whole team looks quicker but Langdon certainly does. I liked hearing this from the opposition....
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3 hours ago, In Harmes Way said:
The game is now posted on the MFC website, quarter by quarter
Thanks IHW
I got to see the first three quarters streamed live (multitasking whilst working ?♂️)
looking forward to watching the last quarter with a nice glass of wine!
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Great read, thank you
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Has anyone seen a statement from Viney following his resigning?
if not is it strange that he hasn’t said anything publicly yet?
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13 hours ago, bingers said:
Perhaps this isn't totally on topic, but does anyone else think that Nick Reiwoldt looks like a fish?
Thanks for the laugh bingers
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2 hours ago, Pollyanna said:
Well it's very hard for even @Pollyanna to find any positives from that debacle, although I guess Steven May contained Charlie Dixon.
Our biggest strength is our greatest weakness. Max's ruck domination is too predictable. There's a difference between first possession and clearance. We're flat track bullies - against the weaker midfields we can turn first possession into the clearance but against stronger well-drilled midfields they turn our first possession into their clearance. Contested clearance is the centre-piece of our strategy and it all goes horribly wrong from there.
What to do? Well it won't happen but ...
I'd ruck Max less and ruck Jackson (or Preuss when Jackson needs week off) more to change up the dynamic. I'd also ask Max to mix up the set-plays when he rucks much more with some big thumps forward and make sure our forwards are first to the ball. When he's not rucking I'd vary Max either in defensive 50 or attacking 50 and let him use his marking strengths which is really his biggest winning asset. I'd also instruct him to handball from the mark to a runner going past at least some of the time, probably most of the time.
I'd move Viney forward, he has been very good this year but along with Oliver he's all first possession and it's too samey with him in the midfield rotation, he'd make a great small forward and he could cameo or provide injury coverage in the middle. I'd put Brayshaw back in there with Petracca and Oliver and as others have pointed out - use Harmes as a stopper when Neale or Boak get on top - in this case Oliver and Petracca can go forward in his place.
I agree with this
After watching last night the port midfielders either read Max’s taps better than ours did or they positioned themselves slightly behind our midfielders to tackle/dispossess them if we were first to the footy.
Unless we’re playing against a Grundy or Goldstein or another ruckman that would challenge max for all Australian honours I’d try max forward and then let Jackson/tmac/preuss/whoever take the hit outs. At the very least both midfields will have to watch the ball and will have less of an idea which ruckman will win the tap.
maxs dominance in the ruck is an Achilles heal at the moment.
its certainly not why we lost last night but somethings gotta change!!
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VOTES: Rd 03 vs GWS
in Melbourne Demons
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6. Gawn (9 marks, 7 clearances, 9 score involvements, 2 goals)
5. Langdon (9 marks!)
4. Petracca (8 score involvements and 8 inside 50’s)
3. Viney (8 tackles)
2. Lever (22 disposals @ 81%)
1. Hunt (loved his game tonight)