Cards13

Razor Ray was at his best today, not quite sure of what is going on but just itches to chuck the whistle in his mouth, says a bit about him I think.... Very promising and so annoying. Listened to Brocky on the radio after the game and as he said "handball happy" early, our rubbish (I need a new adjective) disposal in traffic kills us. Tackling is something we have improved considerably this season but as I mentioned couple of weeks ago we get brushed off tackles, and allow opponents to get there arms free to dispose of the ball to a team mate to often. Aaaahhhhhh I call it soccer the game the Crows play, just a rolling 4-4-2 zone set up they will never win a flag playing that chit footy!

i don't know mate as i don't have kids, but think peoples use that as a crutch and a cop out for the weather not being nice enough and the time not quite being suitable to them. That is life work around it we need all of us going along as often as possible.

Don't think he is soft, he is just so under developed physically. Whenever he gets a ball in a congested area he invariably turns it over or misses targets as he is rag dolled around the place. When he finds space he is a much better proposition. He needs antoher couple of preseasons to develop like his brother.

Good point, his best game this season was against the Pies and he was taking grabs well up the ground on the wing and through the middle. Playing the Crows that is hard to do unless you move the ball quickly from defence to attack which we only did in the last qtr because of there zoning. As was raised above though his 2nd efforts at ground level becuase of his lack of quickness and propensity to loose his feet are horrible to see time and again. Again he is only 22 but how much can you improve your pace and ability at ground level at this level??

I don't know Real Dee when the club is still at it's lowest ebb we need people to turn up. We keep hearing other clubs and supporters rubbish us for our fair weather supportes and efforts to turn up, today just showed again they are spot on and it really gets my goat. I hate it so much but again it is proved correct not good enough Real Dee in my mind and it needs to change or we will still be a second rate laughing stock to other supporters, sponsors and teams. end rant

I thought he was very ave today but then again I think I miss/forget a lot when watching a game live. I will watch the replay this week to get a better guide but when he went onto Goodwin he got towelled up I thought. His lack of desire for contested footy for a bloke his size today really stood out I thought, maybe I'm wrong but I noticed on numerous occasions he half goes in half stays out of a contested situation, he should be going full tilt into them.

Although I do agree he is glacial and rubbish bending over and he will not improve these at his age so think he is limited in what he can do with out good fast delivery. Otherwise absolute rubbish. When all of our fwds are constantly having to deal with 4,5,6 defenders zoning back on you. When the fwds have leads completely ignored there is not much you can do.

[censored] poor effort from the Melbourne "faithful" today. Parked my car just near the Tan and walking over I saw maybe 10 MFC fans wandering over I knew it was going to be poor. But to see so few people at the game was nothing short of disheartening. I had two mates who pulled out and gave them a spray for being soft ons.

If we can get a full side to choose from in the next few weeks Jetts and Benny would be playing two's. Only reasons being they are still not quite up to full AFL fitness and strength. With a few coming back into the 2's this week you might see them having a spell. jetts looked out of gas early in the 3rd qtr. Both had little influence besides Bennys fantastic fantstic tackling. Robbo in for sure and if Maric does no play I think it is ridiculous we are crying crying crying out for a small fwd. The number of times we had 3 talls in the fwd contest the ball and the cros run it from there feet so easily was infuriating today!

Thanks for the updates KC. It is much appreciated.

just heading off now!!! bbbrrrrr

Great idea will be there along with my St Kilda supporting missus!

Sewell....... sigh.. if only... Ferg you duffer you might still be playing if you had of agreed to the trade and we would have had a fantastic footballer on our hands. 20/20 is a great thing though...

Was not saying they are similar players at all, except they seem to only go one way. Maric fwd, Barts defensive with no other strings to there bow. So why does the defensive ones keep getting a run if the fwd ones are not. I know the answer but I would have thought at least one bloke who from reports is developing the defensive side of things would get a run. Anyway all in good time i hope to see Maric lobbing shots from the boundry after running down is opposite number!! They obviously showed something as they have stayed in BUT DB has a habit of playing guys for a number of weeks then setting them things to work on in the magoos. They might get another couple of weeks before some changes are made. Someone (KC from Casey) is trying to find out, it was raised in a Casey thread earlier.

Fantastic. But don't expect to see instant results or full games like his first half last week. Hopefully he will build into becoming a consistant performer.

My only issue is that Bails doesn't seem to be using the same brush for all. Barts skills are appalling, he runs himself into pressure and more often than not turns the ball over. if your a tagger or not you still have to have some semblance of skill, Barts at the moment doesn't where as someone like Maric is super skilled. I assume Bails is getting him to work on getting his fitness up adfter off season surgery and also work on defensive side of his game but still very disappointed again he is not in the 18. I would rather see Maric than Junior at present to be honest.

One of the great mystery’s of footy is each individuals own perception of what is out in front of them, I love it. If you talk to other knowledgeable people about football you can see things differently than you normally would. 2nd comment is gold, do not agree though thought he was putting in and having a real go at it. He is keeping his feet better than in the past and working up the ground helping create more pressure on backs and mids when we don’t have the ball. It's only a week though....

Not sure it was perpetuated on this site it was a fact, he was dropped after 1 rnd last season and struggled to get back into the bottom side. That said the weekend was in my eyes clearly the best game he has played. As people pointed out already, contesting really well (hopefully he will be able to take some of those pack marks as he improves). He chased and put numerous pressures on the tiges backs, in one case causing a free kick which we goaled from. Tank needs to improve so does his kicking for goal. Light at the end of the tunnel hopefully.

As a number of others have said in Maric out Green. Only changes. Newts contested, chased and harrassed most of the day his kicking really needs to improve. Bater had a little bit of a downer but he is working as hard as most, he was ignored numerous times whilst on his own in the fwd 50. Pettard needs to stay on the ground more often for mine and not fly into contests when we have Miller, Newts and Bater also looking to fly into marking contests.

I'm sure I read on he <_< re someone mentioned they spoke with him after the game and he said he had done a quad..

We're only 1 win out of the 8...

Crumbs!!! I am dumbfounded Maric has not got a game........ I am desperate to see him in the fwd line crumbing the taller fwds we have. No one else comes within a bull roar of being able to do what he does at a fwds feet in the match day squad. Is it just me or does Marci seem to be given a lot less of a look in than a number of other players (read Newts, old Col etc..) getting a game in the 1's?

I see what you're selling there and from the outsides it looks ok. After having driven it around the block a few times not sure if I am sold as yet.

aaahh I only heard a part of that snippet from Robbo, I thought he was reffering to Watts. Didn't he then say he is only 18.. blah blah blah.. saviour of the club Mousey or did I miss the boat completely?

Hhhmm Doubt Riv has the tank to go with Richo when he is roaming from wing to FF, Martin would be my option on the big fella. Messen will play another 3 or 4 games unless he puts in a Newton type performance from rnd 1 last year. Bails has shown time and again once he elevates a player he plays then for a number of weeks in a row unless they are really putrid.