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It seems to be at its worst when we dominate possession and it is in our own half for so long that we over commit. So I think it will be better when we play better teams tbh... Sydney will be brave, I think they will soak up pressure, allow us to clog ourselves and our forward line and look to punish us with Buddy playing a 1-1 battle on the wing as a release and then kick into a very sparse forward line with their smalls. We need to be disciplined and not over commit, but really, our first entry into the forward line needs to hit a target half the time...

Titus is good. @Big Demon is bad. 2 weeks? Roundhouse off the ball that was hard enough to cause ‘unviable’ teeth... Go watch UFC.

I often say that footy clubs are made of 80+ unique individuals. Some very unique... He gives a spark when the group needs one. He’s different. That’s good.

Not a great look, out for the year, love to get him to the Dees.

So the poster formerly known as Deeluded, who is currently using the moniker that sounds out 'deviate,' is stretching sane and coherent thought... How does anyone react to that anymore?

I don't know, I have my moments.

Ridiculous round of footy.

Results have been good for us so far. We should be confident against the Swans and then play the Eagles with eyes on their spot on the ladder. Then a home game against a team as good as us to have a home final... We are definitely capable of it. Might need to come out of the huddle at 3qtr time tho...

What the others said. Also, you misspelled ‘negative’...

Height?

Can someone please measure Brett Lee?

All Garlett has to do defensively is ‘enough’ - we have no one like him offensively and considering how many inside 50s we get, he is so valuable for what he brings on offensively.

avb!

Garlett is our only small forward that gets to the right spots from an attacking POV. I would do all we can to keep him in there.

Poetic licence? I think the Poets Association would revoke a licence for a grandiose leap like that.

Salem and Tyson were good... That trade is having a renaissance.

The knives out for Nat Jones is disappointing... I know he has been down on form but he has been solid this year and is adjusting to a different role with the emergence of two of the best young mids in the game. He is well ahead of anyone we have down at Casey. I would love to see AVB play again for the Dees but as a supporter I don’t know whether he is in our best forward line... Kent intrigued me but has to be at his best. Garlett has to stay as he is our only natural small forward who can crumb. Spargo has had an excellent start to his career but if Kent displaces him and brings his footy IQ, his toughness, and his left foot - we would have a devastating forward line.

Good god. We have broken hands, split webbing and long walks late at night to avoid reality. It’s a tough life being a Melbourne supporter...

That was a pretty good game for a 300th...

Look, I am a forward who rates midfield as the be-all and end-all of the best footy sides, so it is through this lens that I look at defensive backs. Their role is to minimise the damage; the gorilla tamer so to speak. With that said - who could contain Hawkins when he is playing like that? A player better than Oscar for sure - but where do we get that player and how much do we pay to get that player. I would prefer we spend the time focusing on how our midfield again allows such movement of the footy through them. The forwards have a part to play too, but we have an excruciating habit of front-running at the minute and it is causing ructions down the line. We don't have a balance and I want to believe it is close to clicking but until then - Oscar and Frost and whoever else are being left more exposed than a team of our talent should leave them...

Oscar is developing ahead of time for a tall back. However, he needs to realise how important the small things are in beating the best and helping the team win. JKH is being asked to do more than he is capable of providing IMO. We rewarded form and that is what good teams do.

We are getting to the point where players are asked to replace those they just can’t replace. Our best mid and now our top 2 defenders... The passage way to September is getting narrower.

10 and 6 and writing obituaries. Only on DeeLand.

Spargo and Garlett are actual small forwards and need to stay in that forward line. Putting ‘medium tall’ forwards in there like Hannan, ANB, Harmes et al is what I think leads to our problems with Hogan and McDonald having space. More efficient today... The stats didn’t like us but we were the better team. When Jones said - the better team won in adelaide against Port - this is what he means. Just because we get so much footy forward doesn’t mean we get good delivery. Just because we win contested footy doesn’t mean it is fait accompli that we turn that into clean possession in space. We can beat anyone but we are vulnerable to anyone. 6 weeks of anxiety coming up...

I still think the positives far outweigh the negatives. And he is a scapegoat right now for our issues. Our mids are frontrunners and until they work hard back against good teams - we are nowhere. It has little to do with Jordan Lewis. PS. I appreciate what Lewis has done the last 2 years - he has almost directly filled the role of two of our most important players the last two years; Viney and Lever. And as @america de cali points out - and we need - he is very unMelbourne in his demeanour...