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Not a great score review. Should have gone back more

No change is good by me.

Yeah what's the deal? I have it too

Takes a pretty bitter and asinine jerk to head into the MFC cheer squad area and pull something like that after a game?

Sounds like a wager to me.

First point a good one. Second point hmm...

Great player but wouldn't be upping his salary at us.

What stand was this in? Should be handing out 12 month bans for this straight away.

This is what is annoying, it's just a game of musical chairs. I'm a bit like this as well in that I want the remaining Victorian clubs to stand shoulder to shoulder even at the expense of a Tassie team that may or may not work. I'm aware this is one of my rare moments not based on logic or business sense but that's how I feel.

Firstly, happy to see this thread back in action as it’s one of my favourites. I was asked last night by a fellow fan this question: “Do you think our game style this year suits the list we have? I’m not sure if it does” Not a terrible question but one that definitely got me thinking about it. I think right now it’s an easy knee-jerk response to say that it doesn’t but looking at it week by week probably isn’t the way to go. It’s clearly a work in progress and in my opinion a tweak that needed to happen to go to the next step. These things take time and I’m sure the FD weren’t planning on losing two of our best distributors to injury so early on in the season. Yet we sit 5-2. As the others have said, our game under Goody will likely always be about defence and contest first. It’s the layers of a gameplan that make it what it is and can be hard to explain to people who feel that a contest game is purely about winning the ball in the middle and getting first use of it into the 50. This ‘Route 1’ style of football is what we all love but we need to give credit to AFL coaches and accept that the sport is indeed a much more complex and tactical one than many give it credit for and is the reason why the Sam Newmans of the world have no place commenting on the modern game these days. While many were unhappy with the performance last Wednesday I thought our defensive positioning and structure was spot on and in terms of scoring chances generated a lot by form of intercepts. I fully agree with Binman that score from turnover is the one we care about (although I was surprised to see us so high in scores from stoppage). This method in some ways puts much less importance on the personnel of our forward line whereas the previous one may have exacerbated any potential issues. When you see a stat like 26 scoring shots from 50 I50s you have to stand up and take notice. Taking the space when it’s there and taking any territory you can get when it’s not. Hitting up a lead when we can’t go fast is more often that not going to be better than blazing it into 50 and having to repeatedly work our rears off getting back to defend the rebound. I am hoping we can back this method for a period of time and embrace any imperfections that come with it. The likes of Collingwood in the last few years have challenged other teams to up their transition game and if you’re standing still with your game you’re going backwards (See Lions) so we just need to trust the process and see it through. I do feel Binman’s PA is onto something with Petty. I think we missed a trick not playing him up forward in a negating role last year on Stewart and this could give him a different focus other than marks, kicks, goals for a week. Providing that the fitness is there of course. We’ll see exactly where Melbourne are at in the next two weeks but I’ll be looking much more closely at the manner of performances than the results. Though it would be nice to nab a win out of the two.

Now these are the stats I care about.

Playing the team they played in that year's Grand final this weekend too.

The Giants just monstered Brisbane in contested ball and if that wasn't bad enough they worked harder on the outside and spread better too. It felt like Brisbane never had an easy touch and 23 tackles inside 50 for GWS probably explains why.

Nice stuff Joeboy and glad to see Howes get some credit for some good 50-50s he won

Yeah I'd be running it back selection wise. Petty won't be dropped and I'd stick with Woewodin this week as well. Goody won't tinker with a winning formula.

I don't know but the way he's kicking lately on his set shots looks seriously wrong. Last year he kicked through the ball beautifully and now at least 4 times this year he's shanked to the right not even close to the target.

Nothing. But I can't recall many games where they go to a ground like this and boss it. Tigers at home, pu$sy cats abroad. Unless of course they're playing Melbourne at the MCG.

I'd also point out the 52% inside 50 efficiency with 26 shots from 50 entries. We were recently getting telephone numbers for entries and doing very little with them. I'd like to see our average across the season but this shows we're doing something right.

Pathetic from Brisbane

A goalless quarter for the Lions. Simply can't play on grounds like this one

Good job selection whisperer

Consider it logged Jaded

How can anyone hate something that people refer to as the sport they are watching being the winner?

I actually thought our clearances and work out of the middle was some of our best in a while. We're a work in progress, yes it will be a big jump to next week's opponent but I'm also happy with where we sit.

They should do a penalty shoot out and if everyone misses then no points.