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We're playing a stupid zone defense game and North is kicking right through it every time. Just watching space.

They kick it in from a behind to Kozzies pocket every single time. Playing like amateurs.

yeah okay nah this is genuine [censored] football now lol

North is throwing everything they can at us. Good teams don't play to the opposition's tempo and style. We do what we do. North has more energy this week than any other game this year. I wonder why? 20 points flatters them. Even with their effort. We're currently 4-5 goals better despite seeming like they're "beating" us.

people need to realise that every team is throwing absolutely everything they can to beat us. everyone wants to beat the best. we're not going to see many huge wins especially this early in the season unless teams completely throw in the towel which really only GWS has. WC gave it everything they could. As has North today. any mid table team playing North is going in with North just wanting to play their style. They get trounced. Play Melbourne and it's all about making it as difficult as possible for them to win. The margin minimisation strategy makes it seem like we're playing poorly and the opposition is playing well. in reality it's just two teams both competing in a great contest.

My Saints mate laughed when we got Dunstan. Pretty obvious why. 500k in Supercoach and no one knows how.

lol these umpires are so bad. Take the goal but wow.

Umpiring has been very poor both ways.

from the time of your post, or right now?

dees supporters outnumbering Norf 10:1 so far.

Rubbish. 10 rounds in we were 7-3, had scored 100 more points and conceded 100 fewer points. That's including beltings against Hawthorn and Richmond. They are definitely similar to our 2018 but suggesting they are already better isn't accurate. They're good but not better.

Can see Carlton beating us this season but confident we'll do away with them in finals. They remind me more of Melbourne 2018 than Bulldogs 2021. But they are so good in the air. Just don't think they're ready. They give up leads way too easy. But that can be fixed throughout the season. Just can't quite convince myself they're good yet. Even still they might pull a Richmond 2017. They are definitely playing better across 10 rounds than Richmond did in the first 10 rounds of 2017. Could have be a Hawthorn 2008 moment. Melbourne is still recovering from three Richmond flags. Not sure the city can handle a Carlton flag. Truly a scary proposition.

We lost a lot of games that year we shouldn't have. Adelaide at the MCG comes to mind. They had been belted by 100+ points a few times over the past few weeks and we went in as hot favourites. In true 90s Melbourne fashion we choked. Also lost a bunch of close games in the first few rounds after leading all game. North and Essendon early on. Led both at the last change and then got run over. We were also leading Carlton for most of the day but then got steamrolled and lost by 7 goals. Happened a few times throughout the year. Brisbane were undoubtedly more deserving of the final spot in the 8. Carlton would have absolutely destroyed us if we'd made it in. We were massive pushovers in 95 and 96

Seriously guys. We're likely going to win by 70-80 points. Did we really expect a 150 point win? Good on the Eagles for actually making an effort. This Eagles team would absolutely smash 2013 Melbourne by 10+ goals.

Would be good to score 100 points for once.

2.5 to 2.4 since quarter time. Horrid.

And we're ahead by 8 goals lol

May and Petty are hard body defenders. Which leads to 1-2 goals a game from weak free kicks. Kennedy will bank a few from that alone.

I'd much rather play top 8 teams twice tbh. Playing Geelong and Bulldogs twice last year, with games against both deep in the season, definitely helped get us ready for finals.

Thanks

Yep. It's not like he just had COVID or anything.

1pm is the dumbest timeslot for a Sunday let alone Mother's Day. Put it an hour later and I reckon it cracks 40k.

They dominated to only outscore us by 7 points. That was great by us to stem their drive.

King absolutely owed one

He was in front and had position. Misjudged. Langdon was at fault and he knew it. He should have contested.