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Goodwin summed it up... games like that are decided by moments. The moment... Salem kicked a goal. or. The moment... Salem sprayed it and didn't even make the distance. The moment... JVR is awarded a free kick on the boundary. or. The moment the umpire conteoversually sees but doesn't call a blatant free kick in a high pressure game. The "moments" fell Carlton's way. Barely anyone is talking about Carlton three goals to start the quarter. All of the "moments" were Melbourne non-moments: Melbourne had control of the moment but it didn't work out. Literally a finger tip away from 2nd and likely a home QF. Salem makes the most of that "moment" in the 2021 Grand Final. Ditto, Petracca: his shot on goal was almost a mirror for the first goal in 2021 GF. Moments make a difference. They didn't go our way. Three weeks ago the "moment" was Melksham's. The moment on Saturday night was that it wasn't Melbourne's moment.

Reality we face is that the weekend is a must win to cement top 4. If we lose and Carlton win, then odds suddenly shift in Carlton's favour with them facing GWS at Marvel. Bet your house that Mitchell will get the Hawks up for this to severely dent our season. They will throw everything at us. They are primed to end the season well. An absolute must win against Hawthorn. We have to close it out.

Carlton has the best forward in the league and looked far more inept.

We should win by at least 5-6 goals. I rate Mitchell as a coach and he's got them playing good football. But surely they don't roll Brisbane, Collingwood AND Melbourne?

he also beat his opponent considering conditions.

Nah was maybe 65-35 Carlton way. Maybe 70-30. And I was in AFL Members surrounded by Carlton.

Carlton never looked like scoring in the 1st. They kicked it to contest after contest hoping Curnow would clunk one. We absorbed it brilliantly but couldn't get it out. We defended better than they did imo across the entire game. We gave them easy access and possession and entries but we set up behind the ball very well. That was finals calibre defense. They had 26% F50 efficiency. You just don't win finals with that.

I'll let them wear it. Haven't played finals in a decade. We were the same once. And I gave it to them last year. They deserved it. Good on them.

Carlton maybe deserved to win that but we were undoubtedly robbed. Confident we beat them in finals. They would be filthy with that loss. Hopefully it motivates them. Brown is done but he's a better inclusion than Grundy because he doesn't infringe on Gawn. We'd have been better without Grundy tonight. Carlton were desperate to play finals. That was always a loss in the books. They needed to tick that box. Felt like tonight was similar to Melb v West Coast circa round 22 in 2018. If we meet them in finals we'll bury them. They won a 50/50 H&A game tonight. Not threatened by a team that loses 6 in a row during the year.

I don't think we're playing average. They are just all over it. We've taken our chances. They need to put us away.

Carlton has the best forward in the league and they're playing ultra defensive against a premiership defense. they need to open it up. We'll [censored] this in otherwise.

Toby Greene Tom Papley Maynard Bailey Smith Tex Walker

lol But anyway he should never have left Melbourne.

Petty is averaging less than a goal a game and has already missed 6 games this year. It's a big loss but we can recover.

King is brutal in his assessment of North. Reads like a comment in the Game Day thread on Demonland.

Back over 125%. Couple more would be nice.

HOORAYYYYY

0.5 this quarter. Should be 10 goals up.

I guess than Brown comes in for Petty.

Ideally no more goals for North and we kick at least 3-4 more.

Landon has had a great second half to the year. I was a very vocal critic but he's found 2021 form. He was close to being dropped.

This is turning into a carbon copy of the game here in 2021.

omg Harmes lol

Omg Gawn got a free kick!

North are going forward and kicking a goal on their first entry. You can smell it.