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1 hour ago, chook fowler said:

Just watched a replay - 2 things stood out - The Kolt had an impressive second half and Cross’ efforts resulted in 3 goals apart from that beauty that he kicked that seemed to turn the game.

First half... well especially 1st qtr...

We were in poor positions and passed to poor positions...and did it... you guessed ...poorly .Handballs executed without real regard. The ideas of the kick passes maybe seemed good to the player but looking on just looked off. All like gears not meshing.

Some declutched and reselected during the second. Passages of play started to resemble good football.

3rd .. Gears and engine working in sync. Classically we started to get traction and start going somewhere

4th.... someone flipped the N20 switch !!

A lot of players started to play cohesively.

Funny ..in a way, the main difference between 1st and 4th was 1/2 a metre...and a split second. These differences changed how the players were in relation to each other and to opponents

Whatever was said at qtr time started the ball rolling . They reset at half time.

19 minutes ago, praha said:

I watched the replay.

This might seem hyperbolic but after quarter time we actually had shades of our 2021 team.

Dare, well calculated risks, strong defense, composed under pressure... I even saw some of those shades in the Freo game, some passages that were just awesome to watch.

We had 56 points with 12 minutes left in the last. We ended with 100. We haven't seen something like that since the '21 Grand Final. Few teams have done that. Just absolutely blew them away. And EVERYONE standing up.

We are still going to cop it a few times this year. And that first quarter was pretty flat... but wow, our turnaround after quarter time was mesmerising. Even only kicking the one goal in the second, you could tell we were picking up the pace.

And well you might...

As we were succumbing to the Pups that day the lads were encouraged, ne emplored to play "footy" .. there's no next week to worry about, play to your strengths, your instincts. We won because we effectively ditched the playbook of the time.

FFWD >>>

King's ethos and edicts: Yes there's a few 🙄 different ideas about setups and plays etc but the underlying ethos is to go out and play to your strengths....and a bit of follow your gut. Trust the basics, trust your team-mates , .... trust yourself

( same as on that 2021 day 😉 )

and there might have been shades of bang Bang BANG out there yesterday 🤔

5 minutes ago, Redleg said:

A problem for one may not be a problem for another, but a problem nevertheless in any negotiation.

I take issue with the nonsense that ir is a problem.

Lets call it what is !!

9 minutes ago, Dannyz said:

I'm not saying it's hard to achieve, however, I think it's easy to surmise from the publicly available information, particularly the betsy article, that any building a new tunnel would have implications on the primary use of Caulfield Racecourse Reserve.

That Betsy article is someone's agenda.

Could not be more full of 💩 if it tried....and it did try hard 😉

It's a fabricated stance.

4 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

It's worth listening to the whole call. Brilliant stuff this.

Hilarious... talk about Blue-BAGGERS !!

🤔🤔Well.... kinda 🙄

1 minute ago, Dannyz said:

the tunnel is most definitely the obstacle

No its not.

It's dime a dozen engineering.

Why do you think it is ?

29 minutes ago, danielE288 said:

I think we're underestimating them slightly.. they went toe to toe with the Swans in the opening game before getting blown away and Cripps and Walsh always get a hold of us.. plus they've added Hayward and Florent since we last played them.. Won't be easy.

Thats right...the Bloods used them as dunny paper... and the Toiges nearly got them.

We got this

25 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

I've just had a browse through the Carltank line-up. They've only got seven blokes that can play. If we can't beat this mob then . . .

Im not going to dismiss them quite so readily. But I tend to agree we ought to have them covered.

I can't see how they would be able to get a hold of us.

I could see this could be a break out game for some of us... I mean....why not 🤷

6 minutes ago, Waverley said:

They want new training facilities, and they know that will get it, because they're marginal seat and they get 100 millions of millions every year, where not even asking for the government to fund all of it, but Geelong are, and i bet you they will get it

Yes , it's sickening. There are any amount of reasons to despise Geelong...but this ranks highly. The favoritism shown this lot 🤮

Dees by 5/6 goals pulling away in the last.

Voss to renew his dance of the daggers following game

Go us !!

[censored] them !! Cheating bastards

20 minutes ago, Grr-owl said:

And…. The north side near Caulfield Station already has one tunnel for pedestrians. The western end has a big one for vehicles. The southern end has none while being close to Glenhuntly station and its car parks, along with a Woolies car park.

In other words, a tunnel that suits us suits a whole lot of other people too, making it a valuable addition to the community and the new facilities that our MLA and many locals keep saying we need to make up for the fact that Glen Eira has the least amount of public green space of any municipality in Melbourne.

The tunnel is not the obstacle.

It's not. Anyone who stumps up a narrative it is hard to do has NO Engineering or project experience.

This is gamesmanship/petty politics.. Thats all

33 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

They walk among us ... 🥴

1 hour ago, binman said:

Yeah, I agree it's unlikely to be pace alone.

Who knows, Riv might have been given a specific role or task he didn't satisfactorily complete, or break a non negotiable team rule.

Or more likely, despite having reseonable disposal numbers, King, like all AFL coaches uses bespoke data and metrics to set KPIs for specific players and inform his assessment of their performance.

One such KPI would almost certainly be pressure, as evidenced by tackles (and pressure acts, one percenters etc)

In other words King perhaps king and/or the coaching panel wanted to get some more pace into the side, needed to drop somone to make that happen and decided riv was that person because he didn't perform to the level required.

or Occam's Razor 🤔

6 minutes ago, Flagdees said:

Dosent star at lower level?? Idk what Casey games you have been watching over the past 2 years

I know 'runner up' .. doesn't cut the mustard apparently 🙄

1 hour ago, Redleg said:

We need mids and he picks Cross after an average game at Casey.

Looking like Bill is not in King’s plans.

Was only talking with his Aunt earlier today. I even said I hope he gets a block of games.

Now... 😒 hmmm

Kinda feel for the lad. He has improved. He's quite comfortable in the middle. He has footy nouse ,good disposal. I would have thought that might work in his favour under the new regime.

I'm obviously wrong

22 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Kingy doesn’t strike me as the sending a message type of coach. Especially if dropping Riv is sending a message to Spaz which is what some folks on here are suggesting.

You would be well aware that King has spoken with Rivers ( as you've noted he's very big on that kind of communicating )

🤔I can only think whatever is going on makes perfect sense to those involved.

On the flip side.... here's your chance Paddy 😉

23 hours ago, Marco said:

Looking like Rivers maybe dropped this week.

Prescient 👏👏👏

4 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

I think King likes a small forward - may be because they look up to him.

Even Roo would have to look up 🤣

6 minutes ago, Dannyz said:

There is no doubt that Rivers has been dropped but I can also reveal that he’s been managing a knee injury since December. He was super keen not to de-load and wanted to take his place in Origin but no doubt this has affected his performance.

Cheers...lifts a bit of the fog 👍

Meanwhile over at Princes Park

3 minutes ago, watchtheeyes said:

While I understand the temptation to criticise Sparrow given is apparent lack of possession/impact, I’m also willing to consider that he is doing exactly what is being asked of him in the context of the team.. which maybe Rivers is not

In the absence of any real knowledge or explanation about how Rivers comes to be ommitted I can only surmise there is indeed a very good reason. ( we just don't know it )

Fair to say Trent got King hit...

Dropping Rivers 🤔🤔

Is this about sending a message perhaps ?

1 hour ago, old demon fan said:

Outside the box. I would like to see Max Heath on the bench. When Max Gawn has a rest put him down in the forward pocket. He would attract defenfers like flies freeing up the other forwards. What do you think?

You would like to think there may be some experimentation throughout this season. We aren't holding up a cup this year. It's got to be about bedding in a system and mindsets. Maybe seeing who/what works where etc

Would love to see some outside the box thinking implemented by the FD.

Just have to wait and watch 🤷