Adam The God

I was at the game last night and we couldn't get out of first gear. I'm sure that was obvious on TV too. Yet we were level and should have been ahead 15 mins into the last quarter. It was very clear watching it from the top of the centre wing stand that our defensive transition wasn't on all night. We allowed them short chips that we don't usually allow when we're on, we allowed Duncan to constantly sit at the back of stoppages unmarked and we allowed them to get into some incredibly dangerous goal side positions completely unmarked. Highly unusual. They constantly got it on the outside at stoppage too. How often have we been beaten at stoppage like that in the last 5 years? I can't remember us losing stoppage by so much. Our fumbling was dreadful, May in particular was terrible again. I've said for a long time now, even for much of last year, that May panics with ball in hand in deep D50. Much prefer Petty, Bowey or Salem with ball in hand. Lever also dropped quite a few marks he'd taken the previous two weeks. You can't let the ball hit the ground against their forward mob. We each had a five day break, but we had interstate travel, they played at home against the worst AFL side since Melbourne in 2012-2013. Can you tell I'm building an argument for exhaustion being a big factor in last night's game? It'll be interesting to see how we go against Port and the Bulldogs. If we've timed our run well, we should start to see a fitness turn around against Freo.

Yep, I'm happy to keep our percentage as healthy as it is and bank the 4 points.

Always brilliant to see Carlton lose. McKay is a deadset muppet. Kick a drop punt, you joker. Carlton 12+ on the free kick count. Won't see a more one sided umpiring display than that. Carlton are still an ordinary defensive transition team. If their mids aren't on top, they leak goals. (yes, I know they were missing key talls) Hill vs Walsh was interesting. Hill killed them, Walsh ineffective. They gambled on each other. If you make Hill accountable, you can really exploit him defensively the other way. Terrible coaching from Voss. There's no way our half forwards would let Sinclair, Hill and Wanganeen run around like that. Just about every time St Kilda had a stationary ball at half back, one of those three guys would run around the back of the kicker and handball receive. The good sides don't allow that. Anyway, excellent result. I still harbour a small hope that Carlton miss the finals altogether.

This is a very school holidays type post haha.

I dunno. I've watched him the last few times and he's super ordinary, might get a cheap goal that's set up by a team mate, but that's about it.

Is Cam Rayner the worst number 1 pick of all time? Maybe Andrew McGrath. I don't see any elites traits. Rayner just doesn't have the intensity.

Oliver's handballing is poetry.

Given Clarry's durability, he's every chance to break our games record now. Brilliant.

This is the big one. Our midfield is set for the next 8 years. You beauty. Well done MFC and well done Clarry.

In the footy side I coach at Caulfield Grammar, 5 of the 22 are MFC supporters. Not a bad strike rate, but then it is an APS school.

The MFC Turley came to is not the 2021 Premier variety.

He seemed pretty confident to me. We don't normally go to press with excitement and positivity unless we know a deal in our favour is close or already over the line. I reckon he's staying.

Interesting... it's almost as if Scott never hit anyone behind the play. 😉

Glad they had such a great win for you mate.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/781691 "It's what we do during the middle period of the year. We double down, even more than we might have done in previous years," Scott said. "We might cost ourselves a little short-term, but we set up our program to be at our best when it counts. "If we finish ninth because we try to prime ourselves to be at our best later in the year, then we'll live with that. "We haven't been able to execute that over the last few years anyway. That's a reason to do it better."

I agree mate although we will bomb it in at times anyway as that's how go to if we can't move it in quick enough. Having two talls for this strategy is still plenty though.

Having the flu at the moment, which caused me to miss Thursday night's game (wifey was on my case about exacerbating it by attending), I can't imagine trying to do high intensity exercise with this.

I could be wrong, but Scott's comments I read were that they hadn't got it right the last few years, which is a reason to go even harder. I think it's their game plan and personnel, not their fitness at the pointy end.

Yep, loading is a bit like the Tasmanian Tiger. FMD, you post some nonsense. Here's Chris Scott. You don't have to be Columbo to work out what he's saying here: "It's what we do during the middle period of the year. We double down, even more than we might have done in previous years," Scott said. "We might cost ourselves a little short-term, but we set up our program to be at our best when it counts. "If we finish ninth because we try to prime ourselves to be at our best later in the year, then we'll live with that. "We haven't been able to execute that over the last few years anyway. That's a reason to do it better."

I don't know about that. I think they'll win 3 or 4 of their next 4 games and could even be ahead of us after the next month such is their draw.

He's a clean as Oliver at ground balls as a rule. He didn't nail them last night, but we were rarely caught out defensively after the first quarter, so he executed his role.

Bowey is struggling? He was perfectly fine tonight. Played his role.

Head in the sand, mate. Staggering some are still fighting this. As has been noted, not everything will be plain sailing from here, but the heaviest of the loading is likely over. Tonight we were running on top of the ground and in waves. We won ground balls, got it to the outside and generally ran Brisbane off their feet.

What are his groundball gets like? It's more than just hit outs mate and you know that.

And gee whiz. Oliver runs our midfield, @binman. Petracca wouldn't get it half the time if Oliver wasn't giving it to him. Petracca has dynamic moments and could turn a GF as we've seen, but over the four quarters I'd have Oliver, but love Trac too. 😜