jnrmac

So Robbo (apparently starting his name with SL is banned here FGS) has lashed out at Melbourne and JLo says Freo has the number 1 ruck combination in the AFL. Fantastic. The more pressure on this team and the coaching staff the better.

Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir reckons he has the best ruck combination in the AFL with Fremantle sitting No.1 in both hitouts (52 per game) and hitouts to advantage (15 per game) this season I am hopeful Max and Grundy read his comments. All duck no dinner!

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The pundits were saying the Dogs' 4 pronged tall attack would rip us to shreds.

The game was lost on ground balls, inability to mark and a clearance mauling

Some like me have MFC Memberships but sit in the MCC area. There's quite a lot like that who simply want to support the club financially and directly.

We get the gate receipts.

I wouldn't expect them to turn up very often??

Nothing, He twigged too late. But in previous circumstances the ump calls for the oppo player to clear the path and get out of the protected zone. Failure is automatic 50m

Hunter is a smart footballer but should have 'tripped' over Rozee who dived on the ball. ANB does that all the time. Just like Lever should have run into the PA player and earned a 2nd 50m penalty. But they're just footballers I guess.

Good to hear. I presume they will argue Hunter was moving towards the ball and then stopped and turned as Rozee lurched fwd to hit the ball away. Effectively he cannoned into Hunter. Plus the impact level was not medium as he went on to star in the game. At least thats how I saw it.

He's right. Was shameful how nobody stood up for Max

A win would have been hollow. And even during our first 10 rounds last year we were not playing good footy bar a few quarters here and there. The problems are the same however and the manner in which we play big games, games when we are favoured or when teams play a specific way to try and beat us. Aside from the great move of petty tagging McCartin against the Swans we rarely try to combat oppo players directly preferring to 'play our way'. Well when playing our way isn't working, we need to do something differently. We used to have a great record after half time as the coaches would adjust things and players would reset. Our final quarter record is good this year but we frustratingly allow teams to get a 'sniff' early way too many times.

Completely cooked my weekend when the team plays like a bunch of wannabees on a Friday night.

Its a given. We learn nothing. Could have added Essendon game Merret 35 touches. Parish 34, Shiel 28

Don't think Tracc had a CBA in the first half. He was the catalyst for our 3rd qtr run though in the middle It has bothered me for some time that Clarry spends way too much time wrestling with opponents at the Centre bounces. Great player that I love to watch but its a part of his game that frustrates the hell out of me

The Geelong game from last year is the blueprint to beat Melbourne We have learned nothing from it. Its what PA did all night. Jump into Max's back and smash the kick ins 10-15m fwd to a gaggle of PA players. Brainless coaching, poor set ups at clearance, extraordinary decision not to nullify Butters. Couldn't believe we kept Tracc in the fwd 50 for our worst performing first half in a long time. Gawn was hopeless. The PA positioning was superb at stoppages and when the ball was in out D50. They created a wall that we struggled to break out of. Our small fwd were pathetic. As were our big fwds. As for the panicking handballs, sliding below the knees and the guarding of the centre corridor it was painful to watch. 10-0 clearances in 2nd qtr from our much vaunted midfield? Changes need to be made. 10-2 in frees in the last quarter? Should be an investigation into the pathetic - bordering on cheating - umpiring. No front on contact for Gawn from Lycett? Dropped marks paid, ball hitting the ground and paid a mark? No second 50m for Lever? And astoundingly TMac gives away a free for HTB and the Tackler is penalised a week for a dangerous tackle? That tops the cake for how putrid umpiring is in our once great game. Our record against top sides is now alarming and while you can't win flags in May there is a consistent pattern that has emerged. And it about how easy we are to coach against and how badly our coaches can respond to obvious tactics used against us.

PA Rd 1. Beat Lions by 54. Good win at home Rd 2 Loss 71 pts Pies MCG Rd 3 Loss 31pts Adelaide Home Rd 4 Win at Sydney 2pts Good win Rd 5 Win Home v Dogs 14pts OK win Rd 6 Win Home West Coast 40pts meh Rd 7 Win Marvel St K 7 pts Good win Rd 8 Win Home Ess 5pts Avg win Rd 9 Win North Away 70 pts meh A few good wins but are undermanned big time at the moment. We have got this.

Right then,

We got this. 42 pts

You would have stood out because they have three heads don't they?

I notice the MCC is putting 4 rounds for sale on at the same time (Rounds 12-15) - a total of 7 games including Melb v Coll and Melb v Carlton and Carl v Ess These people are complete idiots. It will be chaos, the system will likely break again and fans will be left without tickets. Ticketek are the most frustrating organisation on the planet next to the AFL. We are supposed to buy tix for the Carl game and then the Coll game in two separate transactions. It will take hours to get online waiting for the start time and then get online to buy tix - twice. Aaaarrrgggh

Dixon has kicked 12 goals in 10 matches.

We wore the Narrm jumper 4 times last year (not sure why) and lost 3 times from memory. Personally I'd be happy to never wear it again if that is going to persist.

PallPepper is one word isn't it? According to the TV commentators it is....