Adam The God

I've always liked the KPF and second KPF/ruck. That could be Jeffo and JVR, but it has to be Petty and JVR at the moment. Jeffo will fill the Melky role in time, if he makes it.

In: Viney, JVR Out: Sharp, AJ, Laurie McVee May Lever Bowey Turner Salem Windsor Oliver Langford Langdon JVR Chandler Kozzy Petty Melksham Max Trac Rivers Lindsay Fritta Viney Sparrow Sharp I think that's the strongest team we can put out on the park if Viney is fit. The sub role is up for grabs. Sharp does have good assets for the sub role and almost always hits the scoreboard. If Laurie was more trustworthy, I'd have him there.

Yep, we allowed them a lot of transition goals because our pressure and contest was poor.

I'd argue lots of posts saying the game plan doesn't work without being specific. The only thing most critics can point to is bad goalkicking. 🤦

Just thinking on our defence, I liked that we tried Turner forward in the last, but he seemed lost after that first shot on goal. We certainly have issues with our KPFs, but Petty is serviceable and JVR will find some form at some stage. The bigger questions for me surround our defensive set up. I have genuine question marks over May and Lever moving forward. May because he's starting to lose 1v1s and is slowing down. Lever because he struggles to play on smalls or talls and if the game is fast, I don't trust him to win contests behind the ball. May started to try and hit the corridor kicks yesterday and we need more of that at the right time. Turner needs to stay back IMV and I know @Slartibartfast is a Howes fan like me and has suggested if Howes came in, Windsor could shift to the wing, perhaps Lindsay to half back to use his pace and ball use. I also hope we get Adams into the team if there are injuries to May or Lever moving forward. I'd structure the back half of the ground as follows: Howes May McVee Bowey Turner Lever / Lindsay Windsor Oliver Langford Langdon and Chandler to remain high half forwards. Rivers to stay in the midfield.

Lever was terrible at AFL level, TMac was terrible at VFL level. Wrong lever to pull.

I'm not going to explain the differences again. Read any of my approximately 20 posts on the matter this year.

You continually shift the goal posts. I pulled you up because you said the game plan doesn't work. When I pointed to our previous two wins, you started talking goalkicking. If you'd started with goalkicking and not mentioned game plan, I would have agreed with you, but you started with the shallow analysis of the game plan doesn't work. I don't think any Melbourne supporter would disagree with the far from enlightening idea that our goalkicking is often atrocious. Aside from the end of 2021, the start of 2022 and the start of 2023. If Chocco is still deemed valuable for our development pathways, keep him on, but we need a new voice for goal kicking coach.

Did Brisbane give up? That doesn't bode well for their season.

You're avoiding the question. Did the game style work the last two weeks?

Did it work last week? Did it work the week before?

It wasn't that hard if Oliver kept finding himself free in the corridor, hence the 3 goal assists to half time.

Lol mate, you are king of the flip-flops. You had it slammed shut at Round 3 too, and then it miraculously opened itself the last fortnight.

We had 3 top 4 finishes in a row. You might have been negative all the way through 2022 and 2023, but I loved it. And the 2023 flag was there for the taking if we'd had a bit more 2021 luck.

No one was tagging Oliver. To half time he had 6 disposals. 5 of them were uncontested and 1 contested. He had 3 goals assists and 4 score involvements to half time. He couldn't break from stoppage, that was the problem.