frankie_d

This - 100% this. The big issue is blowing up what seemed to be (and what we were told was) pivotal to our success. Not that he would give a continental... but May has lost me. I still want him to play for us, because he's a gun. I hope this doesn't happen again

May is reported to have said to Melksham: "If you played in the GF, we would have lost". In the "Momentum" video (a beauty - I'm sure all DLanders have seen it...) Gawn talks about a meeting before the 2021 season where Aaron vandenBerg said to the group "we have to stop slagging off at each other" . Someone would say "Jake Lever had 11 intercept marks", but then someone else would make a smart comment like "well, he doesn't play on anyone"... Not true, and also brings Lever down. So they decided to stop doing that, respect each other, cut out the [censored] banter. And won a flag. And May has brought that back. "It's just a bit of banter"... THAT's a serious problem.

Infection after 3 days from hitting a bloke in the mouth and getting a penetrating injury from the teeth. Absolutely possible and serious if that's what happened.

Times have certainly changed from Kennedy/Barassi coaching. And I would say for the better... This is the second upload by the club- the first one obviously cut off early.

Injury report (apologies if this is a repost). TMac, Salem, Harmes, Langon all available , as is Petty (MRI -> no structural damage)

Goodwin's press conference Petty "has a bit of a knee" - ugh. we don't need him out 6-8 Petracca "woke up crook" - ok, that what it looked like

What’s Mays diagnosis?

disco music after the goal. FMD

his kick out to sparrow at the start of the last quarter of the grannie was a thing of great skill and vision. he’s a beauty

The lesson from tonight is that we all keep learning. BT is not the worst commentator...

How will we go against a "play on the edge" hard tough punishing thuggish team?

joeboy - back in form!

the precision kicking was extraordinarily

is lever ok? and trac looked a bit sore. superb win

Yep - I noticed that too. I think @binman made some comments last year about this. That our ability to strangle the opposition isn't just a negating defensive necessity, it's an active part of our plan. I thought that remark of Goodwin's was the most revealing he's made in a press conference! Touch of (well deserved) arrogance?

Make himself the target and take the heat off the players...

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.