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He kicked it straight over the goal umpire’s hat about 45 seconds after the miss.

I know, but honestly. He was one player who had a bloody go today and it frustrates me when there’s about 15 targets well worth potting that people just resort to their usual go-tos whether it’s warranted or not.

Fair suck of the sav. Petracca close to the 6 DL POTY votes IMO, if I could be bothered voting.

How can you possibly pinpoint which coach is directly responsible for this problem from the outside?

Oh man. Feels like the bad old days where you just wonder where the improvement is going to come from. It’s been the same story every week really - win the ball and kick it to a forward line that is outnumbered, talls don’t mark it, smalls don’t crumb it and sweet nobody puts any pressure between there and the opposition goals.

Hardly.

Membrey is a good player. Edit: then again, so was Kent Kingsley in his prime.

This is the Essendon game all over again. Completely dominating the ball but slaughtering it going forward and giving away easy goals on the defensive side. I am tearing my hair out here. The good news is that we’re dominating in the ruck still. It could be we hit another gear in the second half ala the Sydney game. We can only hope.

I just took Demonland at his word. Seems like an honorable chap who wouldn’t lie or make a mistake ?

Weird, surely one would carry over? What happens if someone does a hammy in the warmup?

Travis Johnstone’s son is named Tigga? That is excellent. Next you’ll be telling me David Schwarz has named his son Ox.

I dunno - do guys who are pre-peak with (say) 500k on the table ever really go “pff, I’m worth 550-600 easy, I’m outta here”? Young players leave if they’re pissed off or get a massively better offer. The club rates Weideman, so I can’t see any realistic scenario where he doesn’t sign on.

His career tally against us is 19.9, with the best scores being 5.1 and 4.2, both in 2016, and another 4.2 in 2018. I looked all this up with the expectation of proving you wrong, but it seems you’re right. His goals per game against any club is highest against us, and he’s kicked 4 or more goals in 3 of the 7 times he’s played us in his career, and has never not kicked one against us. Damn. I disagree about his overall accuracy in front of goals though. His career tally is 131.71 including 44.18 is 2016 and 38.14 in 2017. He had a run last year where he kicked 6.15 including one game of 1.5, but across his career this is an outlier. He’s usually a pretty reliable shot on goal.

I was thinking the same thing re: Salem this afternoon. Definitely just quietly going about his business. He doesn’t have any flash tricks in his book that get players noticed, but he plays a tough brand, gets plenty of it and rarely wastes a kick. He’s had a really pleasing start to the season.

To be monitored through the week according to MFC website.

So he’s Sam Frost?

0 instances of spelling his name correctly in this thread so far. Edit: sorry 1 - apologies to DeeSpencer

Why would our captains need a rest 4 games in to the season?

Doesn’t matter how fast they are if we’re in control of the ball. We can beat them. Not saying we will, just that we can.

I’d hold fire on Garlett. It’s great that he had a big game for Casey. Spargo is already likely to make way for Lewis or Jetta; I’m happy enough with how the other players went not to feel the need to change it. If he keeps playing like that in the VFL his time will come, it’s just not yet.

I think you’re right. I reckon Healys go below Tom and Oscar too. Oscar’s played 65 games, the majority of which would have been with Tom. Anthony and James McDonald debuted in the same year and were both regulars in the side from then on, but Anthony only played 100 games.

Jetta was injured, hence the form. Surely it’s beyond question that a non-injured Jetta plays seniors. I can’t see any sensible scenario where Jetta plays at Casey.

We’ve had a lot of brother pairs over the years, Healy, Stynes, Viney, Cockatoo-Collins, McDonald (A and J) just off the top of my head. I’d love to know how many games each set played together. I’m guessing the order will be something like: Febey Healy McDonald A&J McDonald T&O Viney Flower Stynes Cockatoo-Collins Wagner @Supermercado? The Wagners will almost certainly pass the Cockatoo-Collins score of 1 game together and equal the Stynes score of 2 next week.

More likely explanation is that it was just a rubbish post.

So I have to confess, until yesterday I’d been sooking so hard about our crap start to the year that I had hardly paid any attention at all to the other games. I took a look at the ladder today and with a few exceptions, like Carlton being where they belong, it appears to be upside down. Brisbane 3-0, what the...? Freo 2-1? And a great deal of last year’s 8 have had slow starts. Going to be really interesting to see if by round 10, the early form has continued.