Adam The God

4 turn overs before it and completely changed the momentum. Thw most important factor in modern footy.

Petracca again. What a terrible game he's having.

Less of Max with ball in hand, please.

Some horrible work from Harmes and Gawn in this first quarter too.

Petracca 5 touches, 4 turnovers. And people bang on about Oliver.

Fair enough. I'd just want my best ball winner in the middle and as I say, he won't learn anything about his shortcomings from playing forward IMO.

I don't mind being held by the hand in sports commentary, as long as what is being said is constructive and insightful. I think what you propose here is far too chaotic, but each to their own and I'm glad there's a fellow filmmaker on DL.

Agreed. I think Viney plays mostly forward and rotates with Clarry. They compete for the same ball but Oliver is a much better decision maker.

What a great article. I agree with DJ in that they should simply provide more camera angles to their audience. Fox used to do it on occasional games and given what we pay for Foxtel, they should certainly do it now.

I'm not saying Clarry can't improve but bloody hell, he's got a record as good as Cripps (but much younger), he mauled Cripps when we played them and Cripps is considered a star of the comp. Meanwhile, Clarry's 'defensive game' isn't good enough and he 'doesn't hurt opposition enough'. [censored] off, David King. He's the extractor of just about all our clearances. If our players are so fit, then their defensive deficiencies are either laziness/mindset or poor coaching/lack of constructive instruction. It'd be like taking Chris Judd's clearance dominance out of the middle and saying he needs to work on his defensive game, so let's play Juddy at full forward. It just doesn't stick for me. By all means rest him up forward occasionally, but he's got to be our #1 starting mid. He needs to work on his decision making (which I think is mostly a coaching instruction) in the heat of the midfield. Playing him forward is not going to help that at all. Each to their own, mate. I disagree on the more regular move forward.

I don't mind the direction you're heading in but the vital component of our 2018 surge was Oliver's extraction. The anti Oliver sentiment is absurd in the media and on here. He's definitely mid #1, with support from Petracca and one of Gus or Harmes, with Viney and Melksham for bursts.

But you don't want Tommy Mac playing back do you mate? My heart couldn't handle it.

Only just saw it mate. And Morrison's clearly intent on killing the economy. Since the Libs took over in 2013, they doubled all national debt since Federation (since Federation!) in 6 years, in strong economic conditions. But you'd never know it because Costello runs Channel 9 and The Age, Murdoch still has the largest circulation of newspapers and Sky News, the ABC has been gutted (turning into the Government's mouthpiece as Tony Abbott said they should be), Channel 10 have Joe Hilderbrand (need I say more) and 7 West Media may as well be the official mouthpiece of Gladys' State Government. There's multiple instances where countries have defaulted on loans and the CCP have stepped in (see Sri Lanka), which is why Andrew Robb's deal for the Darwin Port to his new Chinese company that he sat on the board of was so traitorous. But in terms of our club, in the short to medium term (the next decade), we'll survive because there's money at stake and the AFL is a multi billion dollar business. But in the long term... unless we start winning, I don't think we'll survive.

The Clarry bashing wouldn't happen at many other clubs.

His Chinese mates are only in play because Costello and Howard let all those multinationals take billions of mining profits off shore, which has left the Federal Government refusing to co finance basic infrastructure projects with the state governments because it claims it doesn't have the money. So the state governments, McGowan, Andrews and Berejiklian are all co financing with AIIB, where China has the majority ruling. I don't agree with taking the money but where else should they get it when our own Federal government refuses to co finance Australian infrastructure projects? As for the MFC base, it won't get done in the MCG precinct. I think we have to look back at commercial property in South Eastern suburbs.

Yep, they've definitely backed the coach in, but it's hard to know what went down and whwther it was the right move in the end. Time may tell.

That was in 2018. He was gone a year later. Disagreement is perfectly healthy.

I agree to an extent but you're contradicting yourself a bit here. You refer to teams exploiting Oliver and Petracca's defensive games and then suggest that the only way to change it it game style. That won't help poor defence in midfield.

Great post as usual mate.

Just watched it. It only goes for 3.42 "Red Mist Exposed". There's nothing about the way St Kilda played?

I'd love to know what our kick out stats have been like this year. I've found May's kicking out to often be very underwhelming. He kicks to contests far too often.

I expect nothing less from the Murdoch press than this rubbish, but given the lack of TAC in 2020 and the ensuing COVID-19 flow on effects, I'd say our trading in this instance looks even better. Time will tell, but the 2020 draft was likely to be severely compromised and now the 18 year olds being drafted have missed a pretty crucial year of development.

Anyone got vision of this footage? What does it show?

Is the insinuation here that there's friction between Mahoney and Barlett or that people aren't happy with them individually?

It's an interesting observation, because I'd say that from back to front our only strategy is kick long to a contest. Since our intercept numbers are heavily down on 2018, I'd say that within our system there, if we could move the ball quickly from the back half on turn over, we can score very quickly. Melksham's goal last week was proof of that. It took 4 kicks to score: * Hibberd's attacking kick into the corridor. * (dropped by the Richmond player) into Petracca's hands, his kick to Fritsch at half forward. * Fritsch's kick to Melksham in the square, goal. Our connection from the midfield to the forwardline is too slow on the rebound or misdirected from centre clearance. Our connection from the backline to the midfield is too slow and predictable. Both problems are associated with the midfield though and work rate. Given our alleged fitness levels, it's an intriguing dynamic.