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Great response Dees, hurting them where it matters

3 goals from playing fast footy

Are we going to win a first qtr comfortably? What is this?

It’s alarm bells for Scott as the cats just lost to a GWS team at home that is out of form and not kicking straight. I’ve been following GWS all year (I really like how they play and reckon Kingsley is a very good coach,) and todays performance by GWS was about 80% of their best.

That Dusty goal was incredible!

What a mark by Aleer!!!!

C’mon Giants get the momentum back

This is a thoroughly enjoyable game.

15-6 scoring shots to GWS. Smacking the cats just not converting.

Followed up by 2-3 incorrect disposals in the space of 90 seconds not called. It’s a lottery what gets paid

Holding the ball rule is stuffed

What other very easily identifiable observable realities do you incorrectly assess with win loss ratios?

It’s almost like Melbourne and Naarm are the same team 🤔

Has Naarm lost four finals in a row?

Yeah this is frustrating beyond words.

Ahhh an howay game. Thank you for the correction

Ok looking forward for the rest of the season. It’s not a terrible draw, we only play 5 games with clubs ahead of us on the ladder. (Right now it’s Pies, Port, GWS, Essendon) We don’t play Geelong or Sydney again. So here’s the run from here: Saints Freo (home) Collingwood North Brisbane (Away) West coast (shivers… home) Essendon Freo (Away) GWS (home) Bulldogs Port (home) Gold Coast (away) Collingwood. 13 games left. currently on 6 wins. We HAVE TO beat: Saints, North, west coast. No excuses with these games. We shouldn’t drop any of these games if we want to finish Top 4. These are the easiest games So there’s 3 wins we should bank. Takes us to 9 wins. Less easy: Gold Coast/Bulldogs We should beat both these teams. Bulldogs finding some form and Gold Coast scored 164 points against Geelong. We play Gold Coast away and they almost beat us last time up there from memory… so let’s say we drop that game but beat bulldogs. Takes us to 10 wins. 50/50 games: Freo (twice)/Brisbane/Port That’s 4 games. Brisbane have the wood over us, Port will want revenge and can win during the season and Freo… not confident of winning both encounters. Can afford to drop 1 of these games. So let’s say 3 wins out of 4. Gives us 13 wins Hard games- Essendon GWS Collingwood (twice) Soooo, Pies are back and just as flukey as ever, can we beat them once? GWS are in a lull, but they did this last year about the same time and romped home. I expect them to do that again. They’re a bloody good team. Essendon are 2nd on the ladder after 10 rounds. The nightmare is real. Let’s say we win 2 (big if) of these games. 15 wins. last two seasons that places us: 4th in 2023 or 5th or 6th in 2022. We basically have to beat: North, West Coast, Saints, Bulldogs, Gold Coast, Port, Brisbane and both Freo games. And 1 win out of Pies (play them twice), Essendon and GWS Thats 16 wins in total for the season to guarantee Top 4. It’s an even spread this year so 15 wins might also get us in. Hopefully it’s a crazy season and 14 wins get us in but I wouldn’t hold my breath. essentially 4-5 losses and we don’t make Top 4. This loss to West Coast has really [censored] things up. A lot harder now to make Top 4.

Absolutely. I did notice that they always seemed to have a player ready to tackle/spoil any handball receiver from us the whole game. Was definitely a game plan of theirs and it nullified us.

Yeah 100%, our clearances seemed to be: handball, handball, handball, we get tackled, they run away with it.

10% less disposal efficiency turning over the ball 10 more times, with eagles intercepting 10 more times than us leading to 21 more inside fifties for Eagles which produced: 10 goals from turnovers for them. 1 goal from turnover for us. We won a lot of stats: We won hit outs, stoppage clearance and clearances and we got 6 more free kicks. We were also more efficient going forward but not by a lot. Obvs with a lot less entries. I’m not a stats guy but this tells a story. They won by converting turnovers into goals.

Top 4 just got waaaayyyy harder.

Well this loss is definitely going to come back to bite us with a top 4 finish.

Well. Classic Melbourne game incoming. Have to grind out a win.

Let’s see how prickly Ross Lion gets with some negative media spotlight.

Geeeeezuz, 50 meter goal from 7-8 steps sideways from goal