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It was wet from the opening bounce. We won the i50 count in the 1st quarter.

Kicking i50 during the first half was abominable. Even the kick from Sparrow to Tracc for our first goal was appalling and was lucky the Carlton player went backwards expecting it to go over Traccs head. Half time stats for our fwds were disgusting. Fritsch Petty kozzie didn't touch it. Disco with maybe 1 And Carlton kicking goals in the first 30 secs in the 1st, 3rd and last qtr. I mean WTF?? Cripps and Walsh cutting us to ribbons. We had the blueprint from Collingwood last week where they were both manhandled out of stoppages We need a massive revup before each quarter. The team is basically asleep.

11 Frees to Carlton. In one quarter

Not really sure. I don't watch them enough but I suspect a couple of things: Firstly their defence is leaky. It needs all the help it can get and playing a fwd half game allows them to keep the ball away from their defence. Second McKay is playing higher up the ground. He was woefully out of form last year and is a difficult match up further up the ground. The leaves from space for Curnow to operate in. Maybe thats the plan. Carlton have a mosquito fleet in their fwd line like Owies, Martin, Fantasia, Durden. etc So the more space the better The other reason might Walsh is back and their clearance game they see as a strength. Win the clearance, jam the ball fwd. Maybe personnel meant they had to revert last year to a turnover game. It coincided with Voss being almost sacked so its difficult to separate some of the issues.

Against Geelong , Carlton conceded 10 goals from their first 19 entries (into their D50) Their defence is their weak point. McGov helps enormously but teams have gone to work on Weitering and dragging him up the ground. A role that I expect Disco to take. Carlton remind me of us when we pushed so high up the ground and were vulnerable to the checkers/leapfrog attack out the back. Collingwood nullified Carlton's stoppage game by pushing Cripps and Walsh away from every stoppage Will be some interesting tactical ploys tonight. Dees by 17

It is good but I have to say our backline hasn't missed a beat. They have been a rock all year. If anything our midfield to me seems like it hasn't really clicked all year. Yes we are more focused on the post-stoppage clearance but still it hasn't to me clicked yet. Oliver getting back to full fitness will help. I would like to see Bowey kicking inside 50 more often though. His kicking is generally outstanding and he was super fit over the summer. So he is a great addition

Umpire 22 Williamson. We are cooked. 9 - Matt Stevic 11 - Curtis Deboy 22 - Nathan Williamson 32 - Jacob Mollison

Brad Johnson - who is apparently on the Rising Star selection committee - just said that he would be ranking the Rising Star at this point as 1. Windsor 2. Reid 3 M Roberts Correction: Brad Johnson was giving his views to Kane Cornes who IS on the selection committee

Can we pre-emptively lodge a complaint to the AFL about he number of frees Carlton will get this Thursday night?

I don't mind this measurement but I agree it has its deficiencies. For example Melbourne's offence is not ranked as a Premiership threat according to this chart but look where we are defensively - the number 1. We are the most difficult team to score against by far over the past 4 years. So you don't have to score big numbers if your defence is so strong even though we would all like to score more.

There is not a snowflakes chance in hell that Goodwin gave 5 votes for Holmes.

If anyone was in any doubt that Scott is a - insert banned word from the Demonland naughty list - then this dispells any doubt he is a petulant and jealous child with low intellect Remind me who won the game again? What a laughing stock Scott is

We had 5 players on 10 games or less. And McVee and JVR on 28 games and 33 games respectively We were a very young side out there. Maybe they underestimated us. Haven't seen one media commentator point out our young team. Its all Geelong were off. Crapola

Disco may play defensive fwd on Weitering. He is too good a mark for Weitering. to leave alone so he can drag JW up the ground where he does no damage

I'd say he is guarding the quick kick fwd plus the backward handball if we clear the stoppage.

Have DM'd those above

Jason Taylor: the Tradie behind Melbourne's success

Very interesting Leaderboard with May Lever3 and 4

Schoolboy error

His playing weight was about 43kgs by the looks of him

Yep they would have had a whine to the Umps and will be protected this week. But watch what they do to Clarry and Tracc

Interesting footage on Sunday Footy Show showing the pies keeping the Carlton mids away from the centre bounce. Pendles physically kept cripps 5-7m away from the contest. Another pie kept Walsh away. It really disrupted the Carlton clearance machine

And lets not forget McVee 33 games Roo 28 To add to: Taj 10 Laurie 9 Howes 8 Windsor 8 Turner 5 I think its the benefit of a systems based game plan where players learn their roles....

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Please. Max is the GOAT Petty had a great game though. He's nearly back to where we thought he could be A few decisions he would like back but that performance would put fear into oppositions