RalphiusMaximus

9 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Joel Smith has dead set lost the plot.

Would it actually hurt him to ****ibg stand next to Cameron!?

According to the commentators Salem had Cameron for those goals and Smith has been shifted on to him after the third. 

How is Charlie Cameron on his own AGAIN?

Geelong playing an interstate away game and they still get those ridiculous free kicks going their way.  What does it take to make the umpires call a fair game? 

4 hours ago, Engorged Onion said:

Is that meaningful @dazzledavey36?

Possibly just means that they are limiting travel and he'll be doing the WA combine instead.  Not a big deal, although if it means he drops down the order I'm all for it. 

I have never seen a Melbourne flag.  I missed by well over a decade. 

4 hours ago, Jaded said:

And two Geelong forwards who looked very shell shocked. You can literally pin point the moment Hawkins goes "ah [censored]"... so beautiful

That moment when Hawkins looked around for whoever was supposed to be covering Gawn, only to realise it was him?  Solid gold. 

Honestly, the number of people from other clubs who have told me that if it can't be their team this year they want it to be the Dees is ridiculous.  There is so much good will towards this team right now.  Everyone can see how hard they have worked and how much it means to them. If it means that the neutral crowds interstate are going to be cheering them on, I'm all for it.  Jump on the bandwagon and help lift them to a flag. 

We've seen in another thread that Jake has the most Intercept Marks EVER in a H&A season.  Other than that this season we have...

Max Gawn - 1st for hitouts, =2nd for contested marks

Tom McDonals - =6th for goal asists

Fritta - =7th in the coleman with 47!  (Just ahead of Dixon, Daniher and Darling)

Christian Petracca - 1st for Inside 50's, 1st for score involvements, 6th for centre clearances, 9th for metres gained, 10th for clearances,  11th for stoppage clearances

Jake Lever - 1st in intercepts, 9th for 1%ers

AND

Clayton Oliver - 1st for contested possessions, 1st for clearances, 1st for stoppage clearances, 5th for total disposals, 5th for centre clearances, 6th for score involvements, 7th for effective disposals, 12th for tackles. 

Looking at that, it's been a hell of a year for a lot of these guys. 

So given he played every game, that would also be the highest total intercept marks in a H&A season.  Just putting that out there. 

1 minute ago, A F said:

Btw, Lever's second half was 🔥. Incredible leadership.

I'll have to watch the replay to see if Geelong just put the cue in the rack ready for next week, or whether they just ran out of legs, or whether our pressure and contest work simply overawed them. Maybe a bit of all of those things, because we only got the game on our terms in the second half, arguably half way through the 3rd, and despite leading early in the match, it wasn't quite on our terms. 

We got our defensive mechanism working later in the game, which translated into generating scores and repeat entries from back to front or simply from centre clearance forward. 

I'm.still staggered though that we came from a 44 point deficit late in the 3rd, truly a remarkable win.

They ran out of gas.  There's a reason Scott keeps wanting shorter games.  He has the oldest list by a fair whack.  They can't match the fitter sides for four quarters. 

Just a side-note.  They were talking last week about the record for the most intercept marks in a season.  I'm pretty sure Jake Lever has just smashed it with another seven today.  That gives him a season average of over 4 per game. 

Just now, gs77 said:

Not sure about the Brownlow given the vagaries of its polling, but he HAS to have sewn up the AFLCA. Bont surely not polling this week.  Carry was a monster tonight.

Clarry really does will the ball into his hands.  When we need him to step up he seems to find a way to get hold of it.  I've been pretty critical of his goal-kicking, but he's still winning us games even if he doesn't hit the goals as often as he should.  I've loved his last few weeks. 

How good was that interview with Trac?  What a legend. 

Trac in tears being interviewed on the boundary.  Loves the club. 

Damn.  I can't believe that happened.  Gawn is a beast. 

We also use the substitute less than other sides, which is obviously linked to this stat. 

I wouldn't be surprised to see him named Sub in the GF if we make it. 

Fritsch - Did Bugger All

VDB - Worse than Fritsch

Umps - Played for Eagles

Play restarts.  Goal to the Umps 

What are the odds of them calling it a draw?  😝

3 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

Way too many passengers

Koxxie

Melk

Spargo

Fritta

Gus

Kozzie has been scragged every time he gets anywhere near the ball. They never holding the man for him.

Goal to the umps to start Q2

Interesting quarter.  We looked good to start but then the umpires started to exert a bit more control on the game and swung it the home team's way. 

4 hours ago, Return to Glory said:

Did they not recently make a change re a boy (forget the name) we had put time and effort in up Darwin way? And what do you know, he's now probably going to the Gold Coast Basket Case.

4 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

Possibly... I was referring to the Mac Andrew NGA rule changes for the draft.

 

 

Pretty sure it's yes on both counts.  Fortunately there are enough clubs with strong ties to AFL house who are expecting FS picks in the near future that they haven't changed those rules just yet. 

Three word summary of that game? 

Free kick Hawthorn.