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No doubt Chocco's focus on kicking skills has been a huge impact as well. We've never kicked this well. I think the way the place is humming is due to the recent changes in staff and management at the club.

Its not a woman, it's Dean Ambrose/Jon Moxley

yup, one gets a 7 year contract and the other a 5 week suspension in the second tier comp. Crazy how life works out

takes him to the end of 2029 where he will be 33 and in the last two years theres a player/coach option

I listened to that podcast and found that comment interesting

Round 13 it returns with a vfl match on kayo/fox footy until then

Why not get excited? The lids off, its way off. We have the cattle, the game plan and the coaches to go all the way. The players are resigning on long deals at a rapid rate. Everything (bar Tomlinsons injury) is going right at the club for once. However it’s very competitive at the top end of the ladder, there’s about 6 teams that have shown enough to suggest they can win it all this year. Just being a team that can contend, come back in games when challenged and win games gets me excited. We are a competitive chance to win any game, against anyone in the competition and that is enough to get excited about.

Surely we can go back to Max floating back behind the ball taking intercept marks so May can be more lockdown? This may give Jacko more time in the ruck after the initial bounce moving him up the ground opening up space in the forward line for another tall.

so keen to see this set up

He played well in their VFL match, Kicked 4 and handed 2 easy ones off. I hope he does well, I'll be watching GWS games just to see how he goes

FUN FACT James Jordon is the first player to win his first 6 games since..... Charlie Spargo in 2018 R6-11 Bonus facts: The next best is 7 winning games by Brian Dunsford in 1957 where he played 7 games that year, all wins and didn't play another season with anyone. James Jordon has the chance this week to equal this The second best is 13 wins in a row by Alby Rodda in 1939 winning 9 games (including a flag) continuing on to win his first 4 games of 1940 after missing round 1. The best streak by a Melbourne player is Bryan Kenneally's first 14 games were all wins with 2 played in 1959 and 12 played in 1960. After his first two seasons he had a record of 17 games 16-3 and one premiership.

I doubt it would be moved if it hasn't been already

Tickets are available now on Ticketmaster for $5 each for club members (didn't have to put barcode in) Seems they just have level 1seats open for this game

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Updated: No. Player Games Wins Losses Draw Win % 23. James Jordon 6 6 0 100.00 6. Luke Jackson 12 10 2 83.33 24. Trent Rivers 15 11 4 73.33 20. Adam Tomlinson 19 13 6 68.42 32. Tom Sparrow 12 8 4 66.67 38. Mitch Brown 6 4 2 66.67 15. Ed Langdon 23 15 8 65.22 9. Charlie Spargo 40 26 14 65.00 36. Kysaiah Pickett 20 13 7 65.00 18. Jake Melksham 75 42 33 56.00 8. Jake Lever 42 23 19 54.76 1. Steven May 30 16 14 53.33 13. Clayton Oliver 105 55 50 52.38 30. Alex Neal-Bullen 86 45 41 52.33 26. Sam Weideman 44 23 21 52.27 31. Bayley Fritsch 66 34 32 51.52 22. Aaron Vandenberg 47 24 23 51.06 37. Kade Chandler 2 1 1 50.00 5. Christian Petracca 108 54 54 50.00 14. Michael Hibberd 74 37 37 50.00 10. Angus Brayshaw 100 48 52 48.00 29. Jayden Hunt 80 38 42 47.50 4. James Harmes 105 49 56 46.67 3. Christian Salem 112 52 60 46.43 44. Joel Smith 18 8 10 44.44 11. Max Gawn 140 59 81 42.14 25. Tom McDonald 176 69 107 39.20 39. Neville Jetta 156 61 95 2 39.10 7. Jack Viney 140 53 87 37.86 41. Jay Lockhart 22 8 14 36.36 34. Marty Hore 14 5 9 35.71 2. Nathan Jones 300 99 198 3 33.00 33. Oscar Baker 13 4 9 30.77 35. Harrison Petty 12 3 9 25.00 12. Toby Bedford 2 0 2 0.00

I think the umpiring has been pretty decent this year

Spargoat

I'd like to see one of Weed or Brown in the side because whilst were 6-0 and in great form, I don't know if we can beat the bulldogs or the power later in the year or in finals without one of them in the side. Both take great marks and would be in our top 5 in the team for accuracy on set shots which, when they are marking and kicking goals you dont have to defend and lock the ball in the forward 50 as much. Who comes out? I got no idea haha

100% deliberate :)

I think the Spargoat tackle on Houli was what changed the momentum in the first q and is my favourite moment of the game because of that.

Cam Pedersen for Melbourne Games W. L % 64 22 42 34.38

If he marks the ball coming at him, no tackling required

Here is the current players win % in the red and blue as of round 5 2021 No. Player Games for the Dees Wins Losses Draw Win % 23. James Jordon 5 5 0 100.00 6. Luke Jackson 11 9 2 81.82 24. Trent Rivers 14 10 4 71.43 20. Adam Tomlinson 18 12 6 66.67 32. Tom Sparrow 12 8 4 66.67 38. Mitch Brown 6 4 2 66.67 9. Charlie Spargo 39 25 14 64.10 15. Ed Langdon 22 14 8 63.64 36. Kysaiah Pickett 19 12 7 63.16 18. Jake Melksham 74 41 33 55.41 8. Jake Lever 41 22 19 53.66 26. Sam Weideman 44 23 21 52.27 13. Clayton Oliver 104 54 50 51.92 30. Alex Neal-Bullen 85 44 41 51.76 1. Steven May 29 15 14 51.72 22. Aaron Vandenberg 47 24 23 51.06 31. Bayley Fritsch 65 33 32 50.77 37. Kade Chandler 2 1 1 50.00 5. Christian Petracca 107 53 54 49.53 14. Michael Hibberd 73 36 37 49.32 10. Angus Brayshaw 99 47 52 47.47 29. Jayden Hunt 79 37 42 46.84 4. James Harmes 105 49 56 46.67 3. Christian Salem 111 51 60 45.95 44. Joel Smith 18 8 10 44.44 11. Max Gawn 139 58 81 41.73 39. Neville Jetta 156 61 95 2 39.10 25. Tom McDonald 175 68 107 38.86 7. Jack Viney 139 52 87 37.41 41. Jay Lockhart 22 8 14 36.36 34. Marty Hore 14 5 9 35.71 2. Nathan Jones 299 98 198 3 32.78 33. Oscar Baker 13 4 9 30.77 35. Harrison Petty 12 3 9 25.00 12. Toby Bedford 2 0 2 0.00

we've found a way to win in 5 games which all have had moments where we could have gone to water and lost. It's so nice sitting at the footy feeling confident were going to win. There were so many supporters at the game yesterday groaning and sooking when players made decisions thinking we were going to lose and I was just sitting there with a smile on my face thinking, nuh we got this... and we did.

Tmac plays his role really well and is in good form, his role is not FF, bringing in B.Brown for M.Brown will not affect his position. Tmac is no longer a defender and will not be played back. If you listen to Gus and Gawny they mentioned every player has a 1st role and a 2nd role that they play. Toms is half forward and wing, he gets up the ground and takes marks connecting with forwards and then runs back into the F50 to be an option when we play our locking it in gamestyle. Weed was good today but kicked 7 on a 20 year old defender whose name I cant remember and he did not perform the week before in the practice game. (3 of his goals came from free kicks) I'd bring BBB in to straighten us up and give us a big target up forward which we will desperately need against the tigers.