Everything posted by Lord Travis
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When is the acid going to be put on Melbourne’s woeful season
This pathetic season is on the coaches IMO. The players for the most part have won the clearances and territory battle to win inside 50s, but are losing games. They’re doing what the coaches ask them to, but what they’re being asked to do is play a losing game. I wouldn’t be against a big coaching clear out come end of season.
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A loss to Carlton ...
Maxy probably wont be able to do much about it from the sidelines. He’s highly unlikely to play.
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A loss to Carlton ...
6 years worth of rebuild and we’re fighting for second last place. Pathetic. This club kills me.
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Kobe Farmer
Based on that you'd think Kobe will wind up at Freo if he is good enough to make an AFL list. Wiz talking about coming back to Freo now after 11 years, getting involved there again, his love for Freo, urging people to buy memberships and support Freo. Kobe lives there, his dad is now at Freo again, he'll go to Freo. Shame as he could've been what we needed - a small forward with a bit of magic!
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Rounds 18 to 21
And rightly so. We’ve been pathetic this season and are a joke amongst the league again. Brisbane absolutely embarrassed us on the weekend, thrashing us around the stoppages - the core of our gameplan apparently. It was insulting and shows how far we’ve fallen since the second half of last year. Until there is a big change in gamestyle, every team in the league would rightly pencil in a win against us. Even Carlton this weekend would fancy themselves after knocking off Freo in Perth minus Cripps and Curnow!
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Target 70,000
Members have done their bit. The club has not. Disappointing result for all.
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2019 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch
I’ve been banging on about Noah Anderson all year. As sad as it is, we might actually land him!
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Possessions
It’s a fair point you raise kongwacker, but I think it’s more to do with lack of structure and opposition pressure than our players possessions not being damaging enough. Clarry is the perfect example. He’s my favorite player, but sometimes he makes me tear my hair out. Some weeks he absorbs opposition pressure, takes a tackle, holds the ball high and passes off to a free team mate. Other weeks he plays hot potato and handballs immediately for no reason and just shifts opposition pressure to his teammate. It comes down to that oppo pressure, but also our structure. He doesn’t want to move it quickly because he doesn’t trust our forwards to contest etc. Solve our structural problems and teach the players to absorb pressure and not [censored] the bed. Our possessions will then have more meaning.
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A loss to Carlton ...
Carlton will be without Cripps and C Curnow. If we lose to them it will be up there as one of our worst losses in decades. Absolutely gutting how this year has turned out for us. Pathetic.
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Brisbane Lions
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Brisbane Lions
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Brisbane Lions
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Brisbane Lions
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Brisbane Lions
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Brisbane Lions
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Brisbane Lions
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Brisbane Lions
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Casey Demons v Box Hill Hawks - Round 13
They’re currently 7th, so middle of the road this year. We’re currently 11th and not great this year.
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2019 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch
100% correct. We don’t know the ins and outside of meetings and testing etc, but there have been clearly drafting errors in the past where an obvious talent is overlooked and then blossomed.
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Round 15 Non MFC Games
Still annoys me watching Miers run around and tear it up for the cats. Many of us on here were crying out to draft him after he kicked a bag at under age level in finals. He was still available late and was clearly a smart drafting choice. Recruiters often look at players performing well and think they’ve hit their ceiling and dismiss them. If a kids performing well at underage level, then he’s worth a chance IMO. Look at Sydney Stack now performing immediately too! Miers is a small forward who applies pressure and finds the ball. He’d be our leading goal kicker right now in the opening season of his career ?
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Round 15 Non MFC Games
Marked it. He was brilliant up forward in the last quarter. I wish our tall forwards were able to compete in contested marking situations like him.
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WELCOME TO DEMONLAND - ED LANGDON
No way Freo let Langdon go for third rounder. He’s worth a late first/early second round pick. He’ll be top 5 in their BnF two years running now and is only 23.
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Ken Hinkley - coach of the year?
Port are 7th and likely won’t make finals. Hinkley has been in charge for 6 years at Port and hasn’t achieved huge success with what I’d say hasn’t been one of the most talented lists during that period. Chris Fagan has been the best coach this year thus far for mine. Taken what’s been a bottom placed teams for years to 6th on the ladder, making them very competitive and likely to play finals this year. He’s built that club well. Probably too early for this thread. Best see what transpired in the second half of the season.
- What to do with Nathan Jones
- The Jack Viney Made Me Cry Thread