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Centre clearance

Brayshaw. 'He slipped so is not a free' Tmac. Wtf???,,,

He's from SA. amazing how ppl life lift playing at home

Petty has had a great night. But his last 3 weeks have been terrible

Exactly the same as Fritsch who thought he got hands on it first

They got one

Fritta of his right foot Anb get off

Kozzie!!!!

Petty playing well

Anb fumbler has returned

Teams try to control the ball rather than bomb it in to lever and may. Probably makes that stat lopsided

35 to 21 according to my stats

We look switched on which is great. Need to settle and use our composure.

Falks over high tackle [censored]

[censored] Adelaide umpires are cheats

Why? We are playing poorly and have been for weeks. It is beyond dispute. The stats back it up. If we fix the problems we will win. If we don't win we clearly wont have fixed the problem. the coaches know what the problems are. It whether they can do anything about it that matters.

Usually Pickett is in the first bounce. regardless, It is absolutely on the coach if it keeps happening. Change it up or something. Anything but doing the same thing week in week out for the same result.

No on rests in the fwd line any more, that went out in the 70s. The fwds are expected to run up the ground and support our exit out of defence, then sprint back into the fwd line. We are out of kilter vs the comp with regards to game time. Oliver seems to get better in final quarters though. He has generally been outstanding the longer the game goes on.

I want to see a ferocious Melbourne from the first bounce. The achilles heel of Goodwin - getting the team up for the contest from the word go.

Maybe. Perhaps if you could compare Langdon and Brayshaws pressure points (which I don't have access to) that might tell the tale. It seems to me the whole team has dropped off. Intuitively if one part (say midfield) drops off then it affects everybody. Its all in or nothing

No one said the sky is falling but if you can't see the relationship between our pressure earlier in the year and our performance then versus now you aren't watching very closely. I too would be hopeful that the coaches are addressing it but we are 3-3 from the last 6 games and they haven't addressed it yet.

It starts in the middle. GWS waltzed out of the middle and smashed us in clearances. It is in the fwd line where earlier in the year we were holding it in. Our defence is under huge pressure and is holding up but can't keep doing it forever. You can see it with your own eyes. We not running and closing down oppo thrusts. We're relying on scoring from our def 50. We're also playing a lot more stop/start with fewer play ons than earlier in the year. But above all we aren't pressuring the opposition when they have the ball. Thats what good teams do, That's what we did earlier in the year, We have stopped doing it.

Goldstein has played more minutes this year than Max. Just sayin..

Most of us can see when the team is not switched on in the first few minutes of a game. Very frustrating We know when the team pressure is off and they are not working hard enough. It was clear against Collingwood, the Giants, and North. Well here is. What most if us intuitively know: From Pure Footy: Aside from an alarming drop in scoring in recent weeks, Melbourne also has an issue when it doesn’t have the ball. “In the first 10 weeks of the year Melbourne was the No.1 rated pressure team in the competition, they were flying,” Hoyne said. “Since then their pressure has dropped to 14th.” James Jordon’s pressure point are down from 63 to 29 per game, while James Harmes, Charlie Spargo, Christian Salem, Clayton Oliver and Kysaiah Pickett have also dropped their pressure significantly in that time. “If you’re poor without the footy, you’re not winning the flag. It’s as simple as that,” David King said. So all of those saying: 'nothing to see here', 'if you had of asked me at the start of the season that we would be 12-3 I'd take it', 'everybody stop panicking' etc etc take a good look at the stat We were no 1 for pressure, now 14th. That's alarming and it is the easiest thing to fix. Its effort and attitude. If we don't bring it its on the leaders and the coaching staff. So why isn't it being addressed? Why has it dropped? Why has no-one been dropped (other than Melksham and Weid) for not putting enough pressure on? This is the difference between finishing top 4 or finishing in the bottom half of the 8. Are we going to let this opportunity slip us by? Are we going to hold the leaders and coaching staff accountable or simply do what weak teams do and blame othersor the draw or some other BS. And say 'gee we had a good year didn't we?' We as supporters need to demand more of our team and our club. Its not good enough to play the way we have been in the last 4 to 6 weeks

Salem shoud be dragged if he kicks less than 20m. We need 50m bullets and he is the one that can do them,