Wrecker45

Yep. It’s half time in round 2.

Maybe, but there are curses!

Measuring sleep patterns is an interesting one. We’ve recently had our share of talented players with party habits. Hard to maintain if the club is monitoring your sleep.

Rewarding form builds a good culture. Keilty has better form. Upside is important if developed correctly and i think we do that now but Keitly for mine he has earned his stripes, He can also take a contested mark.

I agree. If other teams like Richmond go small in the forward line, opposition backlines respond. If we play teams who go other way we expose them.You can't defend the best forward line with small backman and then when the trend changes you need have big gorillas to go with them..

DeeSpencer a very measured and thoughtful response. I would expect nothing less from you. Keilty has demonstrated to me time and time again he is a better contested mark than Weid. At VFL level only but until we have to give a game how do we know otherwise? Keilty is better in the ruck from what I have seen also. I am not blind or biased Wied is a much better player when the ball hits the ground but that is not what he is there to do. We have players to rove the football, this is not Weid's role, despite being good at it.

This is what I have been told by people within the club with much better football analysis skills than me. Apparently Weid can take a mark at the highest point and is a tall player with a leap. This, therefore, theoretically, makes him a unique forward who can break modern zones. I don't see it.

Just follow my punting and count the cash. Happy for you to check my history. I posted for everyone to take Oliver most bronwlow votes for any Melbourne player at 50-1 in his second season and got it. Posted it here and got banned from crownbet because I smashed it.

Take no prisoners. I am blaming everyone. In all seriousness I have had some outstanding bets on Melbourne in previous years that have seen me banned from crownbet and bet365. I smashed Brisbane at $4.50 to beat us in JLT. With TAB. We will probably lose next week and the week after that. Then load up everyone, because Richmond can't touch us without Rance, we have Geelong, Collingwood had one good year, and no one even rated West Coasts list a year ago.We are better and carry more weight for the premiership, particularly with Petracca.

How is Bedford going?

Gary Pert - Poor track record

I hope Pert isn't there. He has done enough damage to the club already.

I was about to start a thread on our "chaotic" gamestyle but given your chaotic post I'll give it a go here... (not an insult by the way I just think we are all feeling the same way.) We hadn't played finals in 10 years and so have had pre-seasons with better conditioning that start earlier This year we played with the big boys late into September and our better players had late season operations. Hibberd will bounce back he is an elite footballer. There is no reason to suggest he has slowed from August to March. On the chaotic game style we are trying to implement we are missing the obvious ingredient which is surprise. You can't have chaos with out an element of surprise. Why we kick straight down the line every single time is an embarrassment to the club. Switch it occasionally. We need someone like Travis Johnstone to run along the wing and then instead of slamming it into the forward line find an angle that absoluteltely confuses the opposition structure and increases our chances of kicking a goal.

Put a mirror up mate. You are what you perceive Keitly was promoted from the Casey list and has been in the system now for a couple of years. He was far more effective than Pruese in the ruck in the pre-season game I watched. We got smashed against Port on the weekend and part of the problem was when Weid went into the ruck. We needed a better option. Ohh that and he can actually take a contested mark over his head unlike Weid. Keilty in for mine.

We had an off night last night. Brayshaw started well but they were able to do something to nullify him. Oliver was off for the first time I have seen, I hope it is not because of the shoulders. Viney and Jones clearly were not fit to play. Not everyone can be Dermott Brereton and we weren't playing in a grand final. Just rest them until they are ready. It's round 1 why did we jab jones to the point he couldn't even catch it? In a close game, we want to win early in the season to get momentum, why were we playing Weid in the ruck and Petracca at his feet? Unless we are waiting for our odds to blow out for the premiership, to pay for the end of season trip it is madness. It is very unusual for me to criticise a coach but that was [censored]. Weid is hopeless overhead but great below his shoulder line for his size. Max Gawn began like that so there is hope. Petracca cannot start in any ball up in the centre. He is hopeless at it. It is even worse when Weid loses the tap and it goes to the opposition advantage. Please Goodwin when considering rotations do not allow the worst combination to come on together. ie. Weid in ruck Petracca with him waiting fir it. We have Brayshaw, Viney and Oliver who see ball get ball. Petracca cannot. Harmes can see it, get it and defend. Petracca cannot. If I see Petracca in the centre at a ball up again I will spew. He has strengths and if he becomes a legend of the club, like I hope he will, a big strength with be, outside play and converting shots on goal. But at the moment he can't covert a goal from a set shot. Despite his strength he will never be someone who uses it to advantage. He is more Jack Watts that Dustin Martin.

Bring him straight in for Weid.

Dom Tyson - desperately needed yesterday

ProDee you wont get much love around here promoting facts. And I'll cop that myself when I bagged Weid in a post on the main forum because I perceived he was a poor contested mark. You came back with an evidence based response showing his stats and in that area they were above average. Appreciate the logic and evidence provided but we will argue about that in another thread. I still disagree. Fukishima was a wild like saving gift that as you say probably never killed a sole. How many birds have been saved because there was a nuclear plant on the foreshore at Fukushima and not an 18th century technology, giant blade in the sky that chops up wild life? The danger to wild life is only important to leftists if it can be used as a tool to prevent capitalist projects. When I was a kid growing up (no where near early enough to see our last premiership) I used to watch solar car races on tv, promoted by the universities and it was fascinating. Solar was the future. The technology was leading to further and further distances being able to be travelled (raced) by vehicles. I was a massive believer. I loved the races and different shapes of the vehicles to try and maximise the sun power they could achieve. 20 years on solar has proven to be a lemon. Technology in general has improved exponentially. What computers, mobile phones, GPS and the like have done over that period have changed our lifestyle. Solar was the rising star, had all the funding, was a more understood technology and it has barely improved. The technology in my oven, couch and fridge has improved more than solar over the period. A major problem with western society is the lefties are so desperate for capitalism to fail, they stymie the technology that can advance us as humans and a healthy planet, under the guise of environmentalism.

With no evidence or inside knowledge but 10 years of solid observation jones was jabbed left, right and centre to get on the field today. His coordination suffered.

Just switch the [censored] footy.for some reason we kick down the line every time. We have Brayshaw, Oliver and Viney who are more likely to win posseession and get it more often than whoever they oppose. But when we switch we create options. keep them guessing.

Drop: Weid never ever play Petracca in the centre when Weid is ruck. Neither can play that role. They are both talented but hopeless.

Barayahaw first q Melksham Fritch i won’t hear a bad word about jones who should not have played. Numbing the limbs of a bloke who should not have played is stupid. He was there body but not Co-ordination

Why we think we can play weid in the ruck and Petracca on the ball is beyond me. t

I think getting him back later has been. I don’t think the similarity with Croad has.

I know both well enough to say their issues are / were near identical.