Everything posted by Tony Tea
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Is play-on at all costs still the way to go?
Play on at all costs is fine if you get free players ahead of the ball and have players who can kick it to the free players, but too often our ball carriers have no one to kick to, so they kick in hope.
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Umpires hate Melbourne
I have relatives and older friends who swear that the umpires hate Melbourne in the 50s and 60s. And just for the record. When Melbourne beat Essendon in the 1941 grand final, Essendon won the free kick count around 40-10.
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Casey Demons v Port Melbourne - Round 7
As long as Lever is okay.
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Has the 6-6-6 Rule Backfired?
In the OED there is a picture of the AFL logo next to "unintended consequences".
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Fumbles - a DEEVIOUS strategy?
Players fumble when they don't know what the are going to do with the ball as they approach the ball. They also fumble when they are expecting contact - timid Garlett, for instance, who is only in the team due to injuries. If you know what you want to do, and you are positioned to get your hands on the ball first, you get it and give it regardless of the opposition.
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Salem Re-Signs Until 2021
Salem has done a very unDemon thing: he extended his contract and is subsequently having his best year.
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POSTGAME: Rd 08 vs Gold Coast
Heaven help the competition if we ever work out how to play footy forward of centre.
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Jack Trengove signed by Port Adelaide as a Delisted Free Agent
I'd have him back.
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- POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
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POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
There were a couple of clear 50s not paid to Melbourne in the last quarter. One to McDonald when a Hawks player booted the ball away. Another when a Hawks player returned the ball to the wrong Demon player after a Demon free. You'd care less, if it wasn't for the lame 50s paid against Harmes for maybe infringing the protected zone.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
If ever there is a side I thought we would lose to, it's Hawthorn. Clarko Footy is our Achilles Heel, and on top of that Hawthorn are a long time bogie side. GREAT WIN! (With half a side.)
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Each week, we're actually getting worse
Never in doubt, ya muppet.
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Each week, we're actually getting worse
Ha! What makes anybody think we're going to beat Hawthorn?
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Goodwin signs on until end of 2022
Manage of Liverpool in the 60s and 70s.
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Goodwin signs on until end of 2022
I first heard Bill Shankly say it.
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Josh Kelly
10 years is a Buddy long time, if you get my drift.
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Gary Pert
I haven't heard anything bad about Pert, he hasn't been there long enough to be a problem, and I assume our poor form this year is purely coincidental with Pert's arrival.
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The Melbourne Curse
A family friend was on the MFC committee when Smith was sacked, and said to me pretty much the same thing. The Demons urged Smith to apologise, but he refused, hence the settlement. Regarding our onfield demise. The Demons flag had a scent of the 1991 Hawks flag - a last hurrah of a champion team. Unfortunately, while the Hawks have managed to unearth a revolutionary coach in Clarko, the Dees have gone from dud to spud, rinse, wash, repeat. Fingers crossed Goodwin's 2018 is not a flash in the pan. While I had a strong sense that 2019 would be a bust, I have just as strong a feeling the 2020 will be a good one for us.
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Max Gawn we feel your pain
Post what?
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Jon Patton
Yes. If the Hawks are into him, he has already committed to them. It's almost as if the Hawks modus operandi is to instruct a player to get injured, pick him up cheap, then turn him into a gun.
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Speed algorhythm - Uncontested Possession
Grunt matters in big games. When it comes to the big games it's player on player. If both players are equally skilled and equally quick and equally fit, as is mostly the case in finals, the stronger player will win because whenever the two players come together at the contest the stronger player will buffet the weaker out of the way and win position and possession. Take StKilda. The Saints are currently running hard and long. But they don't have a raft of grunt players. If we were well conditioned, rather than our current fitness shambles, and we were equally as fit as the Saints, I would back us to win. We have the grunt, but we are just all over the shop with our fitness and conditioning. Currently I'd back, say, Geelong and Collingwood in any big game against the Saints.
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Dusty Martin’s assault on Hibberd
I tweeted it at the time. Sly elbow to the head. But it's Dusty, so it will get a pass.
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CHANGES: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
I'm not against giving Weed a run in defence. Worth a try.
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CHANGES: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
Give Lewis a run in the guts. He's too slow for a sweeper / QB.