Wrecker46

A brownlow and norm smith to come.

3 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Chris Heffernan...

Tim Taranto from GWS was a very passionate Melbourne supporter. To the point he use to sit with the cheer squad a fair bit.

Tim Taranto had to be talked out of getting a MFC tattoo in the year of his draft. He is a gun coming into his prime. He is one I believe will come home to support his childhood dream.

I must admit I was in the no rush category to get vaccinated.

But now I have have had my first jab and scheduled for 2nd in a fortnight.

I'm much more concerned about missing a MFC grand final than catching covid.

2 minutes ago, rjay said:

I think the Grand Final may yet be played at the MCG...

...a long way to go.

In 2023?

Loved on the Gawny and Gus podcast they were laughing about potential speaches if Jackson won the rising star or Clarry won the brownlow.

2 hours ago, Nelo said:

I must be missing something here. Watching a lot of Carlton games their foot skills are terrible. They have no depth in their midfield. Cripps is banged up, Saad and Williams aren't mids. Jones will be 31 next year, who else is going to hold down a key defensive post? Casboult & Betts are gone, McGovern will never be any good, so their forward is nothing to get excited about. Anyway happy to be proven wrong, and time will tell but I don't see them being a threat for the next 5 years.

Don't forget their board is a rabble. A fish rots from the head.

Is anyone getting a bannana tattoo if we win the premiership?

All of the above plus Oooooooooooze

We can go in at half time getting thumped and he shifts a few things around and we win.

Not just against Geelong it happened last time we played Brisbane as well.

The most important question here is what tattoo will Tim Taranto get if we win the premiership.

Start thinking about which state to quarantine in.

Game plan for the finals: get out of Oliver's way.

9 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

Can someone please educate me on the notion of the 'defensive wing'

What is it explicitly? Is it the wing that we don't like going to?

Is it defensive, because it's Angus's? Or is it defensive because it's not Ed's? (so is it about the individual playing there?)

Or is it defensive because we prefer to kick to the left from a behind been scored? (Nominally Ed's wing).

I've read we play Langdon on the same side every quarter. The opposite side to the bench because he never comes off so I don't think it is a side thing.

My understanding is the defensive wing is more of a positional role where they block spots you don't want the opposition kicking to and run back to defend and give extra numbers in defence. 

Slightly off topic but I love the father son rule. Jeff White's tweet on the MFC website said he had a face chat with his son after the epic win and it was a special bonding moment.

How old is he? I've heard he can play and heard he is breaking school high jump records.

Back on topic I hope we get Taj. I'll back Jason Taylor he doesn't get much wrong.

4 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

47 goals the most of any mid sized fwd. Don’t think luck had anything to do with it, all players regardless of position have quiet games.

I think the way our forward line works is the forward who has the defender who we don't want getting involved leads to where the ball isn't going.

We are playing selfless football. Some of Frittas "quiet" games are because he is doing the team thing and taking the best defender away from the footy.

Invest in crypto currency and put it all in coin jar then take out life insurance with Zurich to protect my assets.

I'll also hire Hertz to go on my next holiday.

I'm supporting anyone who stood by us.

Did anyone else notice, Oliver, who busted his gut and almost single handidly dragged us over the line raised up and jumped the highest into our outburst of celebrations. Right over everyone.

I don't think the league knows what it has coming this finals.

Is it too late for Bowe to get hbf? He's never lost a game 

My mum wasn't even born yet

1 hour ago, Dido said:

Daisy Pearce has the temperament and the footy smarts to be the first female AFL coach. Come on Daisy, blaze the trail!

 

After Goodwin wins 3 premierships he will have the smarts to start succession planning after seeing what Roos did and the contrast to what's happened with Clarko.

Daisy's old man was a legendary coach.

4 minutes ago, A F said:

I also found it odd that King said categorically that Oliver couldn't be tagged and that he'd tag Petracca instead.

It's been shown in 2021 that you can definitely reduce the effectiveness of our midfield if you tag Oliver. I just don't think O'Connor is good enough to tag Oliver. De Boer on the other hand...

There is nothing more than I love seeing than Petracca bring tagged. He just sits back at centre bounces and lets the best opposition deensive player stand back with him, Oliver can beat the rest of them by himself.

4 minutes ago, A F said:

Not that it means much, but what I found interesting was now all three hosts have us as their pegs for flag favourite. Montagna has been on us all year. King switched to us last week from the Dogs if I recall correctly, and Morris switched this week to us from Geelong.

I think those in the media are a bit like most AFL fans, including some Melbourne fans (like me). Despite all the overwhelming evidence that says we should win it this year, the fact that people aren't riding Melbourne as the best team all year is simply because it is Melbourne. If it were almost any other side bar maybe St Kilda, Fremantle or one of the other expansion teams, I think all the commentary would be that given our stars, given our system, it's ours to lose.

But that's not really the rhetoric. Instead, there's a nervous favouritism towards us. This will only be broken and impact on future rhetoric if we can break through this year.

To get away with a win when we'd been exposed at centre stoppages like we were for that patch in the second is a massive win, because what I'm hoping is that that's the reality check vis a vis defending from centre clearance and ensuring post clearance pressure is there.

For all of Viney's defensiveness at stoppage, he was in there being beaten when Geelong walked out the front stoppage repeatedly in the second.

Our inability to stem the flow of momentum and set up defensively to ensure that if clearance was lost we weren't exposed out the front of stoppage, was alarming and I'd love to know what the coaches and players put it down to. It was the first time this season we failed to react to a moment shift.

Surely, when they kick one or two in a row, we revert to a more defensive set up and protect the front of stoppage more heavily? Maybe even go two defensive mids into the centre stoppage. Instead, if anything, we became more aggressive and tried to win it down to Oliver for aggressive clearance take aways, when it was clear that wasn't working. It was quite 2018 all or nothing for thst small patch, I thought.

Whereas, in the last quarter, Max seemed to tap it to space, rather than go for taps to advantage like he was trying in the second.

It'll be interesting to see our response at centre stoppage next week and if we encounter Geelong again.

Incidentally, like the narrowness of Kardinia, isn't the Adelaide Oval a similar dimension? In which case, I wonder if we'll try and roll up our half backs to the contest again to squeeze Brisbane and force territory from stoppage or whether we'll go with the system that has got us to the top, ie the spare off the back of the stoppage in Salem.

I liked Montagna's analysis and wonder if we got a little cute in the first half. If that was a genuine tactical shift at half time, I love that we've responded in game to that. It's not just a mental shift by the players, it's a tactical shift by our coaching team. You love to see it.

I think we have been happy to concede shallow clearances all year as long as they are rushed clearances. May and Lever generally mark it and repel.

Selwood and Dangerfield had a 15 minute burst and we were destroyed. They both got centre clearances where they got deeper F50!entries. It helps on shorter grounds.

We won't fall for that again.

10 minutes ago, binman said:

Decidedly yes.

My young daughter who has number 6 on her jumper can't understand why people ask if it was for Jordan Lewis.

She responds back in disgust it's for daisy.

I don't think people understand yet what an impact she has had and is having on this club

When the inaugural women's draft happened she said she wouldn't play unless it was for Melbourne. It reminded me of the famous clip of Norm Smith saying he is Melbourne and won't go anywhere else.

9 minutes ago, binman said:

Agree with every comment.

Reciting ststs isn't analysis. Lazy

Montagna uses them to stats to illustrate an observation he is making. 

I rarely watch any of the afl video shows. But watched the round previrw daisy does this week. She was talking about the dogs decline. Fantastic. Intersting. And above all informative. Which is what you want.

I assume you are talking about Daisy Pierce and not DaisyThomas?

She is a gun and breath of fresh air in the over crowded commentary circles.

Someone worth listening to.

9 minutes ago, Pates said:

I don't want to start a thing here, but is that **** in a white shirt giving the bloke on the horse the nazi salute? Would just confirm that these idiots would struggle to find two functioning braincells to rub together in the whole crowd.

EDIT: Never mind I think he's holding his phone, they're still absolute wankers.

Who knows. I'm not trying to turn this political either. Just joking about trying to ride a horse across the border like that bloke

1 hour ago, gOLLy said:

I'm looking for Removalists.

Will wear Port Colours.

Please help!

Other ideas for fellow supporters will be greatly appreciated.

You should just ride a horse like this bloke did today in a NSW protest