jnrmac

Where are the pegs?

We have won 6 on the road. Road trips are good for us.

I daresay you have seen the last of Garlett in a Melbourne jumper if you saw his game at Casey yesterday. No fwd pressure , no interest. The opposite of what we saw today from Hannan, Spargo and even Kent in the second half. Jeff is done.

A fair chunk of the last qtr.. It's OK. I was wrong once too. It was about 10yrs ago on a Wednesday afternoon and it was raining....

Hey @Nasher Did you enjoy TMac in the backline today? Love Simon

Good to see Goodwin showing some flexibility with TMac spending a fair bit of time down back. Thights on vanders elbow? I thought he was bracing for contact and Rioi (I think it was) slid low into him. Could be wring but thats how I saw to. Should be fine. Vanders was robberd with that free to Cripps gifting them a goal.

That's because we changed it. Good of you to notice

So today Petracca has a shot on goal and gets too close to the man on the mark. Ends up sky-ing the ball and it is touched on the goal line. When will someone at the club tell him to get back off the mark and have a proper [censored] kick??

He's got some real belief in himself. Has pretty good skills and great attack on the footy and oppo players. Has had a really good year. One of our most consistent

As in 'smoke the weiderman'?

Competed very well today. Just what he needed to do. Halved or won most of his contests.

Bull S*** Beveridge won in his second year. Chris Scott won in his 1st year. Parkin won in his 2nd year Longmire won in his 2nd year Daniher took Melbourne to the GF in his 3rd year Ayres made the GF in his 1st year Pyke made the GF in his 2nd year. Simpson finished 2nd in his 2nd year and made the GF in his 3rd year. Stop trying to excuse Goodwin because of his 'inexperience'. He has had an armchair ride into coaching. Similar in a lot of ways to Longmire. It is not the reason for his poor coaching against top teams. We can't defend. percentage of 66% against top 8 teams.

It's not funny. It's pig-headedness by the coach.

From The Age article (ps: I have been saying this all year.. It's blindingly obvious but the Panglossian posters just ignore facts): "Against teams outside the eight this year Melbourne have a percentage of 160.8. Against teams in the top eight they have a percentage of 66. That is a crazily big gulf and feeds the idea of the team as flat-track bullies. They have been labelled that and while these numbers point in that direction, in truth, it's not really very fair.The problem is not that Melbourne win the ball nor that they can score, it is the inability to stop the ball going the other way. This is the point that Melbourne can’t defend. Actually, the point is that Melbourne don’t defend. Melbourne cannot hold the good teams up. They win the ball against teams good and bad but the good teams get them on the outside. The good teams close down the space on the player with the ball, slow Melbourne up and try to force the turnover. When they have possession of the ball they then play keepings off and chip-kick the ball around." That's the blueprint on beating Melbourne. That's how the Eagles play. Lets see if 'head in the sand' Goodwin can match Simpson today.

Yeah I was referring to you in the ("yawn") bit...

Lewis is still contracted for next year isn't he? That means he will still be in the cap.

YEAH HOW ON EARTH DID YOU GET SUCH GREAT INFO???????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If we lose both games our season is a massive bust. No [censored] excitement there.

You have mates that support Port? time to find new friends.....

Has been dropped by every coach he has had a senior level. FFS he even dropped himself he was playing that bad. Bruise free.

"I didn't like our first half much at all. I think our ability to defend in the first half wasn't to the level that we certainly trained all summer," Goodwin said. "Ultimately when they have 20 scoring shots from 24 inside 50s, that's the game in a nutshell. "They had 80 points to half-time. We were really disappointed with that first half. We just didn't defend the way we would have liked." We had 14-9 i50s in the last and scored 1g 7b. Geelong were without Dangerfield and lost Harry Taylor in the first quarter. We butchered that game and some numpties say 'if only'.....(yawn) We are not up to finals footy although they could change that 'narrative' with 2 wins in the next 2 weeks. It's up to them. Somehow I doubt it. The record to date says we choke.

And Casey let a team score 7 goals in a quarter to blow the game apart. Rawlings is taking his copying Goodwin's game plan to new levels...

Garlett has been woeful. Was woeful last week against the Swans and if you want to see how a small fwd should operate Murphy for the Hawks has been outstanding. My guess is that Garlett is on the chopping block. Went back to Casey to focus on his contested side, made the senior team to be dropped again for lack of pressure, comes back to Casey and has a nightmare game with a real lack of interest. Great decision to drop him. Need players that will bleed red and blue. Sadly Jeff isnt one.

You keep bringing that up. But in rd 1 we let geelong score 80 pts in the first half. 20 shots in goal from 24 entries. We let the Swans score 7 in a row on Sunday! With 2 men down. The second game against geelong we didn't know how to ice the clock and lost the game. That is a finals side. Pfft. Some people aren't intelligent enough to understand the type of football you need to play in finals. Nuances my rear.

Garlett had to go. Was unsighted before his first kick half way through the last qtr. (Yes he was burned by Petracca in the opening minute that would have been a certain goal) Nowhere near enough pressure and infuriatingly never even contests in a one on one. Stick a fork in him. Not a Kent fan but when he came back last time was full of pressure and played well. Will do well in front of his home town (well WA) crowd.