buck_nekkid

Hawks are abysmal

Not Oliver’s elbow.....

Surprised by Langdon’s poor result. Was far less visible in this game, even if he covered mountains of distance in the game. Injury late would have had little impact on the score. oliver is unbelievablely good.

Cloaca....only on a MFC fan site!

Not one game can impact our ladder position!

Max also gets smashed by opposition teams. Blocked, held and scragged at every contest, without any protection from the maggots. Once last night he got the first touch in a marking contest, his opponent simply grabbed him on both shoulders from behind and dumped him backwards. No free. max is superb, and I love the big fella

Weids did better when we stopped having 3 Dees fly for the same ball. Kicked more goals than Naughton did. Langers is a beast and hard to replace - his kms covered are massive, he has great separation speed and is our path to many forward thrusts. Like for dislike probably Baker. Otherwise, no change.

Changing of the guard? https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwii6KCSr-3wAhU__3MBHdDXBwQQwqsBMAJ6BAgJEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOj_cP2Y5aos&usg=AOvVaw0x_QvmL9Cv4kOh14pRKPJw Flat track bullies now shown up...

Held them to 2 goals per quarter. Brilliant

Yes

This game will be won if we halve the midfield and slow them down. We need to have the ball halved in contests and the defence able to set up. Bruce and naughton work well with fast delivery. If we stop this it goes a long way to us winning. can see us winning if we blow the pressure gauges out of sight. If we play like last week, we will get cut open badly. we can win, and if they grunt it will be a 25 point win.

Marvel now a contact site...

I see the MSD as having value in 3 dimensions: 1: immediate top up with state league player to fill a specific hole - ie, ruck for GC. 2: grabbing talent that you were unsure about at the previous year’s drafts, but has has 6 months to prove their wares. This includes that you dont want to risk them getting to the full draft. 3: a surprise talent emerges through the state leagues worth adding to the list Players in the MSD are not likely to be match ready until the end of August (unless case 1 is desperate), so either they do a marlon Pickett or develop for next year inside the club.

More resemblance to current squad than the game last year - Preuss in the ruck? It also represented an attempt to use the new game style against them (ineffective).

We won’t win one soon because it is May. Grand Finals are decided usually in September.

The pre season game at Marvel was the last time we met- we lacked defensive pressure and they smashed us

I think we need to get through Monday meeting and Tuesday training. See how much the boys want to make amends. Looking at the play style of how we got cut open and beaten in the contest, and who is simply too tired or sore. our system got cut open too often and too easily, and the dogs are great at winning the contest/clearance and applying pressure. We need to build the game around doing the system based actions that matter, and executing the basics. think we give jordon and May a pass on those games. Weid will be under pressure, and Viney and Salem are immediate ins if available. We only lost by a point, but it was the method that has been slowly unravelling over the last 3-4 weeks. Time for that reset they keep talking about.

Melbourne run out to Hell’s Bells. Do the crows run out to Banjos?

I see this as another bankable 4 points. I would like to see our midfield improve clearance work - winning more, but also putting more pressure on any wins that they get to impact forward flow. 2 way running will be critical as always. The Dees squeeze is on. The backline is phenomenal at absorbing pressure, and I hope we give the boys down there lots of support. We need to have cleaner short exits from backline contests (cost us 3-4 goals last weekend). Forward of the ball, would like to see Weid physically dominating by crashing packs, taking marks and hitting the scoreboard. Melksham to play a feeder-into-50 role, hopefully he has received a message about tackles and forward pressure. Kozzi in dry conditions (in front of family he has over there) to cut it up and put on a clinic. 2.5 goals better per quarter = 10 goal win. I would like to see them held scoreless at least one quarter. Go Dees.

Must of missed it, what did he do?

They score through Tex. May will thrash him. They have few other avenues to score. Teams with struggling defences might be pushed by them. When they score under 40 points for the whole game due to the dee squeeze, it will be how far.

Watched the replay to confirm thoughts seeing it live. BT is an absolute tool, understands so little. The game was tense, not boring! I think the team trusts the defense to do the work a little too much - we gave them paths into the 50 that better defensive running would have cut off. Our pressure was good to great most of the time, but they got around us more than I would like. 1.7 in the last! most of the blues goals came from lucky snaps where they had a loose man outside the contest in our front 20-30, and we pumped it out too close to the contest. Something to watch in future. Loving the unsung heroes in our team - Jordon, Rivers, ANB, Spargo all doing great. Hunt and Langdon moving like Maseratis. Oliver was fantastic, Gus got to all the right spots but his kicking radar was a bit off. Frittata marked well and contributed. TMac was superb. Weid did well, brown tried hard and impacted some contests. Thought they flew together or interfered with each other too much. When they get that sorted, the front end will be much better. not our best performance, but the effort was there and we kept their score low, so even when we are not great, these two things will see us right more times than not. Still not great on clearances yet. i look forward to when we put it all together. I am a very happy demons fan this year!

Would like to see TMac share the rucking duties, leaving Weid and brown forward. TMac has the ability to go forward and back with the play, and be a link man through the middle. Carlton fans are a despicable bunch. I would welcome the chance to dack this bunch of pretenders. Good pressure all day and they bust open early. Will make the excessively priced beer taste a bit better.

7 goals until half time. Woeful

Huh? We are in the Sunday FTA slot, the other game is the junk slot