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Except the article had the same measure for Richmond who were 7th best, and a score of 7.9???

What a disaster of a post. Thanks. meant to be short

Shaky? - Scary was what we were thinking and , albeit never having seen him before, wonderered what the hype was that he got a game. He did improve and showed courage in later plays so hopefully its an experienec thing only.

Perefct timing. Big occasion, big audience for first impressions for everyone, home game. She's smart

Looks like another episode of Vera coming up for me. I like Dees Sunday 3.20 though.

The final stat in this article is : " Scores against per inside 50's conceded" MFC result: 18.9 (1st in the Comp) Can anyone explain what this means. The higher the score the better it is apparently. 18.9 goals 18.9 point 18 Goals 9 behinds?????? (Iv'e got a maths degeree but I wish some analysts/journalists would re-read what they write before hitting enter) Thanks in anticipation

Tony Anderson was a gun defender and got tetanus from memory and was never the same after being out fror ages, although still pretty good.

Agreed , but Hunt seems to be under different instructions now from his earlier days pre-2017 as a half back when he'd generally run and gun with a long , often ill directed kick. Now he runs anytime, but then passes off directly to an opponent with well executed shoter, 30m , passes. I suspect he's been told no more long kicking or just doesn't need to anymore. He has now come into his own, along with some gut running to become a link player outlet when needed.

Followed up by jack Viney's pile on. Nowadays jacks joined bigtime by Oliver who doesn't put up with nonsense to himself or teamates

I cannot believe the posts here discussing dropping Tomlinson. The defence is now solid and it includes him, plus he has versatility to play wing if needed. As he said post match last Sunday - The hawks kicked 27 points in the first 1/4 , then 27 points for the rmeining 3 1/4's. Tomlinson is a key to those sorts of results and we now have a premiership-standard back 6 or 7.

Leave Clayton alone. His hair is a work of art and perfectly frames his angry face (see Frost exchange last match)

Your post is absolutelty spot on and was my ongoing view until I saw AFL 360 and Goodwins thoughts and Garry Lyons views on On the Couch last night. Just once we should cut Nathan some slack and have him enjoy the milestone game on the big stage, irrespective of my earlier views on professiosnal team selection. I fear another lousy Junior moment if we don't so its the right thing to do. We can't lose second spot and will be 8 wins for 1 loss after round 9. My apologies to Nathan Jones and I wish him a great game. The team definitely doesnt need him to be fired up for the occasion - theyr'e clearly more mature than that now.

Good call P2J. I thought that writing the post that they seemed to generally be loitering around half back, and at one stage 35 players were forward of center and Lever in our defensive zone maybe 50 m from any other player. Just enjoying the view I guess.

We tamper with our forward pressure capability at our peril. It will open the door for the Tiges approach big time as you say.

Jordan 20 possesions, and 11 in the final 1/4 when the game needed to be won. And 4 tackles. He stays unless exhausted. Who'd be a selector this week?

He played fewer minutes on Sunday (by his standards) at 90%. I wondered if he was being rested to some degeree for the Tiges game once the game was over. He looked spent on the boundary near the end. Only Lever and Tomlinson played 100% - mainly saving the game for us, but most others seemed to be rested a bit more than their normal TOG%'s. - forward planning

Without jake levers first half heroics we would have been well behind at half time. Big improvement needed next we to even be competitive.

Nailed it. Esp your reading the ball comment to strengthen levers support

8 point game last week for sure, given the cats will beat a lot of other sides/contenders during the season and help us out in that regard.

Great post Chook. The Saints are fair dinkum pretenders regarding pressure when compared to MFC, tiges, Port Adelaide and Dogs. The stats for last night are deplorable saints-wise as if the white flag was raised at 1/4 time. Dusty with 10 disposlas in final 1/4 supports this view.

This reflects Dermies comment the prvious game against GWS about Oliver's tag. Dermie sees tags as a compliment and just another player to beat, which is the mindset he suggested Oliver could take on. He said Olivers eilite enough to just play through the problem. Seems for certain Petracca is. Olivers performamnce on Satuarday, still with Cats hanging off him at clearances suggest he might have takne this approach.

This is a good point. The problem for oppo teams is that a traditional tagger can't run with Langdon, and so would need a couple of them to lock him down in bursts. Not achievable.

Possibly the most articulate and cliche-free interview from a player I have heard. He nailed the selflessness issue wonderfully in his response to why he runs 100% game time - He can run all day so it allows power-based players (Oliver, Petracca etc) to have their rests needed under the lower i/c rules. What an inclusion into the team and its culture.

Sorry Bigred but I disagree. No Melb fan would ever under appreciate YZE. One of the smartest payers of the Daniher era, a Clarkson strategist for nearly 10 years and was wanting to come home 2 years ago. Rightfully Clarkson made him stay. Williams is brilliant in other aspects and a great coaching addition. But underestimate YZe's imact on the way the team is playing? - Never. Clarry's signature sosays so too.

Correct p2j. There's some fascinating trade stories behind this current team. Kossie pickett is the most intriguing given Taylor's single mindedness to get him to the club.