jnrmac

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....

Any updates on this? Have the club accepted it?

What are the club doing about the Sparrow suspension? Accepting it? Fighting it? Haven't seen anything about it

The vision I saw was Sparrow airborne holding onto Day who had one arm free. Very different to planting one foot and slinging a player with arms pinned. Once Sparrow was airborne he could not exert any pressure as centripital force would have ket him travelling in the same direction as his initial momentum.

Yeah shocking kicking a ball 40m to our fwd line is terible.

errr I don't think you are correct on that one. Get a new dictionary

@Bitter but optimisticmight be able to stand in

Shocking stadium. No transport Built in a total rainbelt with around 25inches of rain more than the CBD! A car park that became a bog with the slightest rain. Cars couldn't move. 38000 cars all trying to exit out of one gate and get onto the monash freeway via one entry ramp Shocking stands that sloped gently so that row 20 was miles from the action A 10m wide boundary line that meant you needed binoculars if you were further back than 10 rows. I could go on.....

The original plan was to have had the train line extended for patrons but they never did......

People have got short memories. Frost got booed loudly a few games back because he was getting very aggressive and downed a Melbourne player They haven't booed him for leaving melbourne. He was just a d*** when we played the Hawks with his faux toughness.

I suspect its hard to put on a lot of size when you do so much cardio, You can only eat so much food a day!

Extrapolate this into every contest and you dont have a game of footy any more. Every single contest has potential for someone to get hurt. Gawn would get 300 frees a game Imagine players going to tackle and not being committed because they are worried about repercussions. Possibly more injuries would occur because natural instinct and ingrained actions over 15-20 years will be second guessed.

From Big Footy There’s not much to be happy about forward of centre. 17th for inside 50’s 14th marks inside 50 17th shots on goal 18th goal efficiency from inside 50’s 18th goal accuracy 17th for contested marks

Pretty sure Sauce Baker handballed it straight back to Tracc when we played the Dogs!

Petty serves two roles. He takes the opposition key defender and playmaker like Collins from GC or McCartin/McDonald from Sydney, Weitering from Carlton, McGovern from WCE etc and tries to stop their intercept marks. Against Geelong he would probably play Stewart and against the Pies probably Mihocek. The other is clearly to mark and kick goals himself. He isn't being recognised on here for the first paragraph.

Fair question. I presume its predictability but its also predictable to the oppo. In th pre season we varied our kick ins a lot. Have we reverted to old habits? Watch the geelong game last year to see how they crushed us at the kick ins by having Blixacvs (!) jump over the top pf Max and smash it 15 m away where the Geelong smalls swept it away. Our players were at the feet of Max. Good coaching by Scott. We learned nothing from that game IMO

We have a lot of trouble with tall forward lines. Reid from Sydney has given us a lot of grief. Hipwood, Mason Cox, Casboult, Lobb on occasion. Daniher has created problems but fortunately can't kick. We don't have a tall backman - ie over 200cm - that can take those players. Instead we rely on pressuring delivery. And when that breaks down we look terrible against the talls.