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frankie_d

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  1. Careful. it might be vice-versa
  2. He’s a gun. Watching him play live it’s like they have an extra man. He’s not perfect but he’s a gun.
  3. it’s shocker, isn’t it. It’s got real Sunday afternoon 4;20pm game, circa 2014, feels.
  4. thanks dees. sorry. i’ve just blown a gasket with fritter and spargo doing a comedy act. the bloke in the seat in front of me is concerned for my health!
  5. ANB and Brayshaw in the wings. Is langdon injured?
  6. out coached
  7. not good enough. the atmosphere here is amazing not the umpires we played dry weather footy and thought we could turn it on any time we like. collingwood will kill us.
  8. it’s a bloody good ground to watch footy at. Trac is showing signs of life. Fritter playing up the ground a bit
  9. how to beat melbourne part A: never bomb the ball, kicks on the 45. Part B: win all the contested ball measures. HTF does a team with Oliver Petracca Viney Gawn and Brayshaw get beaten at the coal face? And yes, it does matter. We’re not winning “the next” possession either.
  10. love him. who goes out for Salem? a lovely problem to have!
  11. What is this relaxed feeling at half time, and thinking we’ll probably win? Enjoying the game from the 4th level….
  12. I saw a mean steak to Petty that i hadn’t noticed before. Not miserly, mean Excellent
  13. The crowd looks like Sunday afternoon footy in the Jurrah, Tapscott, Bate era.
  14. Not many here yet. Hopefully it will fill up. If we don’t win this then as well as watching the sky falling in, we will be able to ask if we are getting the most out of our generational list.
  15. It's an extraordinary problem. If we're winning, it doesn't matter... but not infrequently, Goodwin hasn't made changes when games are slipping away. Just more of the same. He won us a flag, so he gets plenty (nearly infinite!) credit, but I am not sure how good a game-day coach he is.
  16. At the G Saturday night with 70000 others enjoying a great concert. And the drummer proudly wearing the jumper! (Apologies for the quality of the photo) Hope every one enjoys the break and stays safe Go Dees.
  17. frankie_d replied to Skuit's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    My old man was with the club (not as a player) in the early 60s (so I have been there in person for one flag!), and I had 31 on my jumper of course. After RDB went to Carlton I didn't know what number to get. Hassa Mann and Tassie Johnson were the next captains, but I had met Frank Davis at the club (played on the half back flank in the 64 premiership), and he was always willing to have chat and a kick at the end of training. So number 6 it was (he was number 40 early in his career), and thus my username. Great topic!
  18. Agree 100%. I hate to bring them up but Daicos x 2, Elliot, Pendlebury, DeGoey, Sidebottom - all are very very good users of the ball. Have a look (if you can) at Collingwood's win - brilliant field kicking.
  19. This is a very important observation. Last year, we were the best third quarter team in the competition.
  20. 100% this. It is about taking until then last game of the year to try something. and i would be surprised if it was Yze who finally got a change
  21. why did it take half a year and 2 lost finals to make a forward change? I would love to know who’s ides it was to move Petty forward. If it was not Godwin’s (say it was Yze) that would worry me. The teams we have lost to this year have also set up much better at the fall of the ball in the front half. . they typically don’t try and out mark Max/BBBJackson. They out number in the air ( we had 2 spares behind the ball for much of tonight, so there were 2 extra lions in our forward line), and play strong contested footy at the predictable spoil. We also referred to bees to the j honey pot. all in at the ball, and no one on the outside ( except Lingers, who was consistently in the right place and i thought played well)
  22. i’m sitting here at the G after that. apart from being pretty upset, I am furious that Goodein failed to do anything about the dysfunctional forward line. it’s been evident from the Queens birthday game. and it took until the game was lost for him to put someone (Petty - kicked one and gave away another) up there.
  23. frankie_d replied to Gorgoroth's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    i’m sitting here at the G after that. apart from being pretty upset, I am furious that Goodwin failed to do anything about the dysfunctional forward line. it’s been evident from the Queens birthday game. and it took until the game was lost for him to put someone (Petty - kicked one and gave away another) up there who might change things up. We are in danger of being a one hit wonder.