Dee*ceiving
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No one keeps him out Bub. I think the question is 'is he physically and mentally ready for senior footy or will he be better placed to succeed after a game or two for Casey?' We can only speculate. Jake will need to decide if he is mentally ready (suspect he's the type that will always believe he is!), and the FD will assess if he's done enough work to be physically ready to impact.
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Melk will play the role Fritta played on Harris Andrews last week when he returns. Which will free up Fritsch to do some damage (& JVR & Petty 🤞). If he's physically fit and he says he's mentally ready I'd be ok with throwing him in this week. Start on the bench and can be subbed off if wavering after half time (injury permitting).
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Jake is 32 I think. The knee does throw a spanner but for smart players that diligently maintain their fitness, 32 isn't as old as it used to be with modern high performance and medical. A lot more players seem to be still contribting at 35+ than we saw 10-20 years ago
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Spot on. It was Stanley or Blicavs I think, v Geelong. The knee felled Max who was left rubbing his head (again) whilst Geelong whisked the ball away for a goal. Utterly ridiculous, amateur hour stuff (and/or corrupt umpiring)
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Not malicous, but I'd query perhaps reckless and certainly avoidable. I would guess every key defender would have at least 1 or 2 chances each game to do some damage with a knee to someones back, but only 1 has managed to do significant damage, twice in the space of 3 weeks... To my knowledge Jake Lever has managed not to hurt someone with a well placed knee in 170+ games...
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They did that last week. Fritsch played a selfless role to negate Andrews (who is a much bigger bloke than Fritta) and did damn well. To the extent that Petty clunked more marks than he has at any other time this year and Roo hit the scoreboard a couple of times. Fritsch also kicked a goal and missed a couple. That last shot was most unfortunate, didn't miss by much & he would generally nail it (and most importantly we might have managed a draw or even a sneaky win had he kicked it). Like a few others, signs were good v Brisbane. We'll know on Sunday if that form was fleeting or a sign of things to come.
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To my eye, Darcy is choosing to insert his knee into his opponents back. I would argue he could have still spoiled effectively v Witts and Trac whilst having his knee avoid his opponents back, eg. Moore's knee passes by their left hip, or, Moore turns his body to the right so that his upper thigh/hip strikes his opponent in the back. The overarching rule and concept should be; All players have a duty of care for all other players on the ground Players taking any action, whether it be to contest the ball, in the air or on the ground, or shepherd /block for team mate must act in a manner that minimises the risk of their actions resulting in an injury to an opponent, even if this means risking their own well being Taking any action that results in an injury to an opponent, where in most circmstances an injury would not occur will be subject to investigation, repeat offence may attract discipline/punishment That's just a quick/simplistic wording trying to convey the concept... The word mimises is key for mine. This is a 180* turn from the 100+ year culture in footy where making an opponent 'earn it/feel it/regret it' has been a motivator/sign of strenght/badge of honour.
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Collingwood have just trademarked a handle for Darcy's right knee... "The widow maker" Soon to feature on PPV...
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Disgraceful. Collingwood have become a law unto themselves. They do as they please, entirely unaccountable...just like the media. Disgusting there wasn't at least some commentary about Moores actions leading to tracs injury, low and behold it's happened again a month later. Bring more victim blaming, that's what we need!! 🤦
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The 'starter' for the demonland sourdough, unpredictable edition
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To the naked eye we ran harder v Brisbane than we had for some time... Probably the Geelong game or 2nd half v Carlton. We really only needed one goal to close the game in the last. Two might have applied enough scoreboard pressure to cruise to a 4-6 goal win. Unfortunately we didn't take our chances, lions had momentum and 4 extra players wearing yellow. Effort was exactly where we need it to be though. Proud of that
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Timing from robbo! 😂 He's as subtle as a wet fart
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Great post. Something in this. The umpires definitely don't operate as a team. The challenge for the master umpire would be trying to keep an eye on everything. I wonder if we could manage with two on the ground and one in the arc with direct audio to the on field umpires?
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It's not just umpiring sadly it's the entire administration of the game that is a mess. KPIs are way too heavily skewed to $$$ TV networks dictate way to much, 'fix'-ture is screwed, too many games, 5 day breaks, stupid byes... Changing rules in season, don't trial rules at lower levers Umpires not professional 4 umpires just means more amateurs making poor decisions. Make them pro and go back to two
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Anyone else notice the massive hit side bottom put on rowell in the last. Straight after a centre bounce, levelled him with an elbow/shoulder to the chin head on. No free kick. Watched it back again this morning, looks like weeks to me? About 11mins to go in the last.
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Great effort from the dees. Officiating disgraceful. Surprised no ref bump and run in... No way rivers ran too far and for a whole half of football we only got free kicks from holding the balls. For 60 minutes of football not one Brisbane player infringed on a Melbourne player. Please!
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Obviously highly unlikely but Smith would be ideal for us. Has pace and we've got a spot for him on the inside if he really wants it (not sure why one would though? I wouldn't count out the Pies in a two horse race with anyone for a signature, even the Cats (sadly). Cotton on can become Nike pretty quickly I suspect and there's plenty of real estate in Melbourne too
