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Very much the idea i was alluding to. Tis all very well to run around all day clocking up the miles....but it's irrelevant. Hitting up players...and the right ones at the right time is footy-gold. If Goody can somehow find the path to allowing good football players to play football ( not a too overly contrived style ) then we have a much brighter future. It's nigh on impossible to transplant footy 'smarts' .

Spargo is a Footy player. That is he has a football brain with nous and abilities to use it. So many in jumpers AREN'T. I wish the lad well and a long and prosperous career at Melbourne. Oh btw...suck shlt North

Pies looking good .. Must go wash mouth out now...

Aye ... great leadership ...make that Jones chap capt eh......oh....wait fmd....all going into shells !! except the untainted ones

All Class Essendon...all class !!!

Had i known Ernest ...

Normally this is a game eldest lad and I attend. He's a Bomber... Even he can't get interested.

I swear that things welded shut.

Two things...whom are you actually adressing ? Secondly i stated quite clearly..id rather he play..and play POORLY which is what he's been doing abd still likely to if OUT OF SORTS.

Strangely id rather Joe play...but poorly...than someone else. THEY might just a day out lol

Thats not what im getting at.

You said we had them on the ropes at 3/4 time We were LOSING obviously we see things differently I CAN read a Scoreboard !

Was thinking more "road to nowhere" tttt lol

Sorry..my gist was/is...are we too preoccupied with them....up our end of the ground ? I understand trying to stop the ball coming back out but it seems all very arze about at times.

No I hadn't...all my own ramblings ???

It didn't even look like we tried. No one there...all busy crowding ourselves up the line

Am i the only one that find it odd that we seem to place more emphasis on worrying about THEIR defence than actually promoting the essence of OUR forward function...i.e...an old ideal i acknowledge...SCORING !!! It ought to be them worrying about us up that end, not other way round. It's essentially a defeatist's outlook.

Take a bow....champ..sorry chump. You dont make any of the rules of life any of us need to be concerned with. You are most welcome to live your Demon life however you wish and more power to you for following the Dees. But don't ever be so presumptive as to judge anyone else. Go Dees

We have better

Joe will come right up the ground if starved of supply. He does this. Also means Ess path to goal becomes weaker...showed up against Pies.

Id try something different. This will not happen as its a 'bridge to far' in terms of anything likely to have been part of trained- structures. The better functioning area currently is defence. It still has canyons through it but its possibly the least dysfunctional. Lewis adds , for mine, a bit of stability. Our path to goal is stalling. Left field perhaps: ( but not untried ..in bits ) Play Weed out of the square as lead up fwd. Max resting there as swap out...ie Weed to pinch hit ruck to rest Max. Max CAN mark. Hed be a bloody nuisance for Ess defence. How to match up..stuffs their structure maybe. Tmac CHF. Just cruise around provide target. He can/knows how to spot up ( in front arc lol ) Hogan as R/R like utility between the arcs... but swap with Tom as a psuedo rotation to keep our fwd 50 fresh...and stuff up their ideas about match ups. If the ball can make it into our 50 enough times Milkshake will have a good time..Spargo will be lively, hopefully wanting to impress... Fritsch is quite capable. Ess were dlcking around the back a lot with the Pies. I don't think Collingwood put nearly enough fwd pressure on this. I can't see us winning by a mile but there's potential for exploiting their mediocrity. This won't happen of course.. we'll be instructed to play dumb again.

An interesting take Actually. He'll need 'minding'. That depletes their stocks.

Which bit ? All smells suss.

Was something that crossed my thinking . Interesting roll of the dice none the less.

Like it or not they'll have to gingerly manage his game time (tmac) on Sunday. Just stupid not to. I like that he's there for what he'll bring...but i would have rather he had 2-3 qtrs in the Magoos first. Beggars can't be choosers i suppose. I worry about these scenarios. We never seem to come off well. Go Dees