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Gulden has stepped up big time.

Surely these lessons should have been learnt 100 x before?

This is one of those classic games where a coach has to decide whether we change the way we play to beat the opposition or where we try to play the way we want to play and trust that it's good enough to win. The latter seems to be Goodwin's style. He's shown very little tendency in the past to try and alter the way we play. However the record says they beat us regularly so it remains IMO an acid test for the coaching staff to see what we have learned from previous games. You could argue that in the H&A 2022 we were unlucky with injuries as we were leading handsomely before they struck. They also kicked goals out of their Jackson from the boundary etc Guys like hayward, Reid and LMcDonald played blinders. Mills was BOG from memory. Their pressure rating for the whole game averaged 190 which is huge. Expect a repeat. We also led in the finals game and were going well before being overun like all of our losses last year. Sydney laid 14 tackles in our fwd 50 in the last qtr! So the instruction would have been to keep pressuring us and we would wilt. Its a massive litmus test for us and we can't let them run free.

GWS played last week in a "brutal" game. Was 36 degrees and hard running. They lost two mids and always looked like this was going to be a hard road trip

He didn't want to leave but Goodwin wasn't a fan. They lowballed him and he got a 3 yr deal at WCE,

Is this the first time the Dees have been out of the top 4 for 2 years?

I'll be at the Grand Prix which starts at 3.00pm, 20m before kick off. :(

Its pretty simple This is the real test for whether Goodwin and Co have learned anything from last year. The Swans are a good side and their style of play is difficult for us. We have tried to play the same way and come unstuck repeatedly. We have to stop their overlap run and ensure their mids do not get control. Last time Buddy took May out of the contest and their other talls killed us as well as their medium fwds like Hayward. If we have learned anything it will be on show here. If not the same fate most likely awaits us.

They're tanking. But because Hawthorn its all OK.

Haha nice try That's not what you said though They have never made a difference....ever.

Such a BS statement Pretty sure they cost us the game in Adelaide a couple of years ago

Grant Thomas rightly getting poleaxed on Twitter

Brisbane last 5 games 54 point loss 71 point loss 13 point win 2 point win 58 point loss Just saying

That was an interesting moment in the game, We were absolutely under pressure and our team made a few funadamental errors. he Dogs pressure rating at that point was 215 which is phenomenal. But they steadied quite quickly and returned the pressure back around onto the Dogs. It was game over after we saw off their best efforts

Sounds like a guilty conscience decided to give it back via a third party

So, was the medal stolen at some point?

You can't let them run it out of their defence.

Luke Jackson 0 marks 0 goals.

Exactly what I said last year. He would have been paid a bomb to stay at Melbourne under no pressure and go back to Freo for his superannuation in a few years time. He may well struggle for some time. There is no question we have won with Grundy on the short term.

The Dogs skyscraper fwd line had 50 i50s and they kicked 9 goals Their 4 talls kicked 2 goals. Your judgement is terrible Muriel

$cully $cott Thompson Dogga Can all get stuffed

The Dogs board on BigFooty had some funny comments First the hilarious headline "Dogs discombombulated by Mt Buller" Then the Poll "Do you still have any faith in Bevo?" Then the comments..... Daniel horrendous down back. Get him out. delivery into forward line absolute dog****. pantsed in the centre clearances. Ours are scraggy kicks into the forward line meanwhile Melbourne transfer into goals Massive work rate and fitness disparity between the teams. Melbourne absolutely dominated the GPS numbers I've had colonoscopies that were more enjoyable than tonight's game Teams walking it out the middle on 5-6 goal runs where we STILL don't seem to have an answer for. I didn't think it was possible but a full pre season of work has actually made Bailey Smiths kicking even worse. Saints next week will be a good test to see if we are actually bottom four material or just our usual mid-table I wanna give Baker a chance but the Dees have the best talent ID and coaching atm, so them delisting him is a bit of a red flag. 1 tackle for the game is just not good enough. Pickett and Chandler had more tackles between them than ALL our forwards combined Williams wtf? You're a 100 gamer with more anxiety than my ex SLobb has managed to pilfer us out of $3m, well done young man Hannan had 6 disposals, 4 of which were clangers and 3 that led to turnovers Once Max inevitably decided enough was enough and took control of the game. What did we do? We continued on with our determined strategy of proving to all the football world the very definition of insanity by sticking with the one paced centre combo of English, The Bont, Macrae and Libba. It was clear as the view from the top of Mount Everest on a sunny day that Max was spoon feeding his dynamic duo the ball out wide and that none of our centre combo had the speed to go with them.

She had the most horrendous screech. Everyone around us commented on it.

Pressure factor of 215 in the second qtr. We withstood that pretty well I thought...