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This is [censored], carlton have cheated these touched balls all [censored]g year

The giants are playing like us in 2021.

They kick a burst of 5-6 goals in a short time and the game is out of reach for the opposition.

What I would give to see us play that way again.

Yeah nah, that’s it. I don’t think we can win another flag.

That was pathetic in all honesty, I am embarrassed. This has made me so upset.

We have now created a serious mental disadvantage in the coming years when it comes to finals with back to back straight sets. Hard to see us come back from that. 

I have a feeling we’re gonna come back and win this.

No more rain to come and it’ll continue to dry out.

Going to bed now.

Will be watching tomorrow morning at 11:20am from Hamburg.

This is the most important game of the year and will ensure a trip to the GF is very much on the cards.

Come on dees !!!

7 minutes ago, chookrat said:

If ACL is confirmed and Jake can't play finals is there anything to stop him from being a runner. Imagine him running out and delivering messages to the players, he wiuld be inspirational.

Huh ? Isn't there a minimum of 6-8 weeks of no weight bearing. He will surely not be running around the MCG lol

10 minutes ago, Deebauched said:

We'll know by end of 3rd qtr if Port are serious or not.

Why would they bother tossing away the cue?

Melbourne control destiny of  4th.

Nothing Port can do. Its out of their hands.

Yeh I think you're right. Winning form is more important going into finals and I refuse to believe they would be considering anything other than a win.

Are Port even genuinely trying to win this? They should at least make it look like it.

Still think we can finish the lions up at The Gabba so oh well..

The swans aren't fit. They couldn't get the ball in the last and Adelaide were running on top of the ground. 

Does anyone know why this is being played at marvel and not the MCG, any particular reason?

Let's hope Collingwood get it done today

This further proves that Collingwood really haven't been travelling as well as their W/L suggests in the last 6 weeks. They become so vulnerable when the pressure is on and are easy to get on turnover.

They will be found out in September.

Should have won the game today by 6+ goals on expected score. This will, or might have already cost us a top 4 spot!

They need to get their act together it’s truly swung too far the other way in comparison to early in the season.

Anyone still worried about our performance should have a look at Essendon’s game tonight against Freo. They just came off their bye and they were completely gassed.

Judging by Freo’s performance against Gws one could have thought they were a bottom 4 side a week ago yet today they looked like a different team against a top 8 side.

Modern day footy is based very heavily on fitness and it shows.

5 hours ago, beelzebub said:

@binman

I only really have one reservation about the voracity of your suggestion of loading fatigue.  Had we been playing on a 5-6 day turnaround I might give it more heed.

But we weren't.  We had 10 days.

Sorry...not really buying it.

That makes no sense and you clearly do not understand the science. 10 days makes it even more likely the fatigue played a role. The fatigue from the (overtraining) training loads can last for multiple weeks after they do it.

Geez the overreactions on this thread are truly ridiculous.

Everyone should know that today's performance wasn't us. We are up there with the likes of Collingwood in terms of flag contention. Even in our flag year between r12-17 we played some very bog ordinary games and we were nowhere near a flag, or so it seemed.

The season is long and we still have 9 home and away games to play. I suspect we will lose one of the saints or gws game in the coming 2 weeks but will find our run and form and finish the season off strong with a W/L of 17-6.

Our contest work and defence is still elite and our ball movement/offence has taken a hit, especially in the last 4-5 weeks but it'll come good. If you're worried about our forward line then look at us play at the start of the season. That's how it'll look come finals.

2 hours ago, Tom Dyson said:

'No doubt there tackle pressure and contest work were critical in the last,' if it is so clearly critical and obvious to you now, then why not address the players at 3qt time and stress the urgency of ramping up pressure in the last, from memory geelong had laid 8 tackles in the last before we laid our first. 

Is anyone else getting annoyed by Goody's press conferences, deflects questions about our flaws focusing on what we did well for however short a time, praises the other team while stating we knew the contest would be tough, identifies learnings to work on for the next game even though they've been the same learnings we've needed to work on for 18 months and haven't really gotten discernibly consistent at executing. 

Just about every d-lander i reckon knows how these pressers will go before they happen. Just seems like all talk. 

We simply didn't have the gas in the tank to go hard in the last qtr, couldn't you tell?

Now the problem is our percentage!

6 minutes ago, Red But Mostly Blue said:

Where’s our energy advantage here?

 On the other side we’d be saying we’re coming off a 6 day break, we’ll that’s them so are we going to stand up or what? Where’s our run?

Who will make a difference?

I can't believe people are still asking this question around the bye.....

Good opportunity today to bank another win against a struggling cats outfit and make our charge for top 2. 

Pretty confident we will get it done but it will be a slog, especially if it rains. Let's hope we don't put together another wet weather performance like we did against the bombers.

Dees by 22 point, come on!

I just wanted to give my appreciation for Binman's analysis and insights, they are very good! I was very intrigued at how confident he was that we were going to dismantle Collingwood's gameplan but am now even more impressed as most of what he said came to fruition.

It is easy to get caught up in the individual games but we are a seriously good team and have improved from 2021/22 in my opinion.

God King is an insufferable [censored]. He used to love us and now sucking Collinwood's d.

Other than that an unbelievably dominant win, should've been 40+ points. We look to be back to our 21' Premiership winning best. We can do it this year, no team is untouchable!

12 point turnaround there

D50 ground ball a problem there

We are definitely loading. Happy we managed to win but holy [censored] we can barely move out there. 
 

as long as we don’t [censored] up the program we should be alot better later in the year.