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Bates Mate

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  1. Hunt hasn't really been a spark of halfback for a couple of years. They seem to prefer using him to lockdown the opposition's quickest forward which he has done mostly a good job at when required. I think they prefer to have the ball in boweys and Salem's hands due to more reliable kicks. Issue is neither have been that great lately at being attacking with their kicks and we are paying for it with very slow, safe ball movement into our attacking half
  2. Strange gameplan having two talls flying for the same ball spoiling each other
  3. Scott is right. We are so predicable and goody is very staunch on is playing consistently the same way. It has it's pros and cons .I always think back to the GF and how the mids where instructed to shut it down with a couple minutes to go in the 3rd and clarry and trac said F it and went for it . The rest is history. Point is predictable and methodical is often a good way to play but sometimes you have to just go for it and we haven't done it enough this year which has hurt us
  4. Biggest thing that he needs to work on with our coaches and b.brown is positioning and leading patterns. Everytime he has played as second tall him and brown are competing for the same ball in the air and getting in each other's way. Tmac and brown don't have this problem
  5. 6 is a struggle,I don't think we had many winners in the night. Petty. Um..
  6. Agree on bowey been down for over a month. Rivers or Hunt can play taller and handle smalls. Disagree on Chandler had a great game against VFL players not AFL listed players playing VFL and only one game. Bedford has shown more at AFL level , although after tonight's performances I'd be happy to drop either Bedford or Spargo who were awful
  7. Out played all night, we were playing at 65%, geelong 95%. Pretty much had every player playing below par and still had a sniff. I'd back us in a rematch at the G or Marvel.
  8. Made up for it I guess
  9. Kozzie wtf
  10. Does Hawkins ever get a free kick paid against.
  11. Happy if we just take it on and play fast and loose by 5 than play conservative and lose by 2-3. We really shouldn't be this close
  12. Throw, We have so many players down. Not shattered if we lose this at that dump of a narrow ground
  13. Absolute BS htb against brown. Don't pay against Hawkins but part that ffs
  14. Need proper entries. Not the forwards fault we've kicked to direct opponents 10 times
  15. What a rubbish ground ball spends half the time out of bounds and you see more out on the full than any other ground. Should have been bulldozed years ago
  16. It's horrible
  17. Why do much handball, hard to see on the TV seems we have nothing to kick to
  18. Should shut up the haters 2 good grabs a contest then that snap
  19. Dee's wearing navy shorts and jumper, it's basically a home game !🤣
  20. I've tried a few times with no luck both Foxtel go and kayo with VPN whilst OS . Very limited success and I'm in the tech industry. I'd bite the bullet and buy the game on watch AFL
  21. Scott just on Fox saying he isn't going to send someone to clarry or petracca as it is like conceding the Geelong mids Selwood and danger are not as good and he didn't think that's the case. Same with playing a negating forward on lever or May. He might be foxing but he is dead wrong on his assessment of the mids
  22. PF last year was one of my all time favourite games. Smacking Geelong, given the history of being on the other end, Max going bananas kicking 5 and being in a relaxed state knowing we would be in a GF Midway through the 3rd qtr where all foreign concepts to me. I loved it
  23. Bates Mate replied to Blistering's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    The Oliver getting coathangered right in front of the ump when he didn't even have the ball was even worse if that's possible
  24. Oliver 6 , trac 5 , Viney 4, Langdon 3, Brayshaw 2, Jordan 1
  25. Completed I guess which is all you can ask but was pretty average I thought