frankie_d

If this was a home-and-away match, it would be a very good test of our "system-based" approach - @binmanhas had a couple of great posts which point to that being a key to our success. We had a good system, had complete buy-in, and had the cattle to execute. I wonder if the backline will have the cattle to execute. Who cover's Salem's judgement and disposal (which won us the first quater of the GF, I reckon)? Hunt/Rivers I get, but I reckon Rivers was more damaging, and better defensively. I guess Tomlinson does the May thing on the gorillas. Smith/Hibberd - OK. Going to be interesting. If we thrash them, I will be a) surprised (57 years MFCSS sufferer) and b) quite optimistic coming into 2022. Go Dees.

Yze. our centre bounce work was extraordinary. Lewis said that Roos taught us defence, Goodwin taught us contest, and Yze taught us patterns and moving from contest to contest. i think he’s made a huge difference

my man. Frankie D lovely bloke!

absolutely. Jordan Lewis remarked that those actions, when you’re having a quiet game, make all the difference. If TMac doesn’t overpower Cordy, then no goal and the clock runs out for 3/4 time. i think it was TMac who got a crucial hand into the marking contest that set up Trac’s brilliant dribbler.

"Never gonna give you up..."

I've been looking for "down the ground" vision of those goals - taken from behind either goal. Has anyone seen that around?

I was there is '64, and the son and heir has to suffer with me for about 30 years. He moved to Adelaide for work at the start of the year. He got tickets and saw the win. We will royally celebrate when we can get together!

richmond?

This! This!! Unbelievable decision-making under intense pressure. If Viney gets the handball - Daniel tackles him, maybe he gets a handball away to Clarrie. Maybe. But Jackson made the rugby "cut out pass" and took that option away from the dogs. I wonder if the clichéd "basketball" experience plays a role here. Not sure basketball develops that sort of decision-making... if you've got it then it's very very valuable in basketball. I'm not sure you can coach that sort of decision-making. He's a wonder. Could be a ruckman sized Pendlebury.

TMac is the only bloke in the pack to get his hand on the ball and it spills to Petracca. Not mentioned in the commentary. And of course he got Cordy out of the way for Sparrow's goal Viney at the both the centre clearance - I just don't see how anyone can keep their bearings in that chaos and do what he did. I've been down on both of them over the journey - wrong.

Yep, me too. A couple of flubbed kicks in the first quarter of that game, and I was a serious doubter. Very very wrong.

After the Thursday night training before the '64 Grand Final - good memories!

[censored] yeah. I’m outside walking up and down the street. Don’t know if I can stand going in to look at the last

Dropping the ball?

Tmac taking out fritta. Several times taking out his team mates

May. Lever. they’re trying their guts out, but I reckon one isn’t fit and the other is our coached.

Yep. Party Pies, Pringles and Pavlova for dessert. never been so nervous

The son and heir and his wife are there with tickets. They have been fully briefed and are ready to roll.

What are others' memories of that week? Melbourne colours on tons of kids at school, like Hawthorn now. Alf Browne tipping the Dees Full of confidence, having thrashed the Pies in the second semi. Looking forward to Saturday with the invincible confidence of youth! Going to the final training session at the G. I've been reluctant to post this, but if not now, then when? Everyone knows how much a win means to all of us. Go Dees.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/geelong-fringe-players-set-to-explore-options-20210911-p58qst.html?btis A virus ran through the cats 2 days before the game. Does that change how we assess our win?

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/geelong-fringe-players-set-to-explore-options-20210911-p58qst.html?btis Hard to not see this in an MFCSS light. The win was just fascistic, but if the cats were crook …

I loved seeing Gus in there .

Brayshaw in the middle at the end. Great to see. He offers us much more than Harmes there and clearly more than Sparrow. Leave him there. Who goes on the wing? Harmes? Viney? Yes, I know about the selfless team role that Brayshaw has played on the "defensive" wing - I just reckon we get plenty more out of him when he's on the ball. I wonder who suggested that?

Just put Brayshaw in the middle for a bit - he's a natural midfielder, and I know he's been doing a great job defensively on that wing, but I reckon he'd be better in the middle than Harmes/Sparrow combined. Who goes on the wing? Harmes? Viney?

What are the Center clearance stats?