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I'd say we just threw him up there because what the heck. Unlikely we put him forward to mark Stewart in the last 5 mins, when you're up against it the last thing you should worry about is fugazi like that.

At least Grundy held his marks.

That's a massive drop off in the last quarter for team pressure... We really needed a 2 or 3 goal lead minimum at 3QT to be a chance judging on that. It makes sense though, combined with the wet ground which couldn't have helped. You only had to look at the way May chased Rohan on the open goal. Rohan was always going to win it but May looked like he was running on fumes. I'm seeing fewer coincidences than I used to in these games. Would be interesting to see how we'd go at Geelong in rounds early or late in the season, like Round 23 for instance 😉

Nice one mate! What kind of clubs are you rocking?

I just hope they don't start some big winning streak against us as payback for 2021. Virusgate

Scores from turnover - they did it, we didn't. Game over.

Hardly noticed Sparrow but he had 19 touches. Needed to use that long kick a bit more.

Well spotted Febes, I also really liked Fritta's defensive efforts and thought he tackled hard. Unlucky with the sling. The chip mark games run us ragged, would kill for a little more time in possession but instead we're just doing a lot of running without the ball late in games and getting gassed.

Surprised no-one has argued yet.

Burn baby burn..

Correct, we did everything right in those games it was just the end product that was lacking. It's a worry but if we could clean it up then it will take us a fair way.

After missing 6 weeks of footy and being possibly underdone was it a harder task for Petty to play down back than up forward?

The Stewart thing annoys me the most, even more so thing bringing Petty back in. The number of coast to coast scoring chains that he started were hard watching. The real bummer sometimes to our system based approach is that we won't go for the hard tag or other bold move when it may be necessary. That's fine but if we are backing our system in to win the ball back then it requires enough good decision making and clinical execution once we do win it back. Otherwise we are just hamster wheeling it.

Spot on and you would have had the best view of this at the ground. In tight they were able to get a quick 1 or 2 handball chain then sky it out of their backline to a contest on the wing and then a boundary throw in. This equals territory and it snuffed out a number of our attacks and momentum.

Hope it's nothing too serious mate. Selections have mostly been on point this season but this was one of the worst. If we're going to be experimenting at this point of the year then we might as well get the Woeys and the Howes' involved or someone keen to come in and make an impact.

I love our focus on pressure but I think you make a decent point. Our forwards need more cutting edge, simple as that. We look toothless up front and it's hard to see an avenue to goal. Footy is hard and AFL defences are hard to play against, we get it. But this is why you need to keep evolving your play and coming up with new ways to get looks at goal.

Definitely would have helped in getting our inside to out game going with quick handball out of congestion. We probably would have butchered it anyway.

Mark Brayshaw is a Dees fan? That's awesome!

Have we ever been a good wet weather team though? There are very few games that I can remember where it rained raining and we didn't keep handballing and looking for run and carry, maybe the Richmond game in 21.

You're right, I'd rather be an in form 3rd or 4th team than the broken and battered 2nd team we were last year.

Haha, "Rubbish Binny was left out by the selectors last night"

If she actually said that Tomlinson won't be playing in September effectively ruling out the bloke's chance for any future selections then that is really disappointing and he should just quit or seek a mid season trade that doesn't exist.

It really should be pinned, will get a few votes in the postlow award come end of year. Go The Biff should write like this more!

Seriously, when we finally hack a long and useless ball into the 50 I half expect our forwards to go for a spoil. You could be forgiven for thinking the midfielder just kicked it the wrong way. We need to be proactive as forwards, Fritsch is the only one that will vary his leads up and actually give his opponent something to think about. Smith, while he took some nice grabs just doesn't offer this. Stewart was lying out there sipping pina coladas as he got intercept after intercept.

All this is true and I'm aiming for this attitude but it's so much easier to just complain until you run out of energy and fall asleep. That's the MFCSS way.