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Yeah, that would work actually. Good call. In addition to having the tank and making good decisions, nibbler role is very similar to langdons, in so far as it involves lots of defensive running between the arcs, much it near the boundary. In that scenario JJ stays in the middle and Captain Jack takes nibbler's role - a position he has played so is familiar with. Minimal change and captain Jack is not thrown to tbe wolves first up against a super midfield. Club house leader Kenty

And for the same reason, ie consistency, I suspect jj will play wing and captain Jack the inside mid role jj has been playing in vice captain jack's absence. Minimises positional movements

Captain Jack is back!

Maybe we should wear a prison bar jumper!

That's exactly what i was thinking. Sure there will be plenty of Pies fans in SA, but they can't get cant get 20, 00 people to their games in Victoria. How many neutrals are going to want to come watch a team that cant kick a goal in a half of footy in perfect condition, and whose coach is happy with that?

Completely different contexts though pates. In Europe, they are travelling to countries where there are still thousands of cases a day. The sytems are in place to protect the players from getting covid. Here the systems are designed to stop the players spreading covid in states where there are zero cases and no community transmission. So the goal is to protect the population.

That's a bit tough. Never heard of leather poisoning?

Seven day lockdown.

Would make sense. If they made it a week, it would lift Friday week. And then after 2 weeks in lockdown people are going to want to get out and about, including on the public holiday Monday. Very frustrating, but probably good risk management. Throws the bombers clash into doubt crowd wise The Feds should come to the party, get as much vaccine to victoria as possible and support the vic gov to have use the lockdown period to vaccinate as many people as humanly possible. use the army to support Starting with the poor buggers in disability accommodation, aged care facilities and all the related front line workers. Set an ambitious goal. Make it a war footing. And vaccinate Victorians. This is not state issue. This is a national issue. For Christ sakes we are a country, not a series of self governing islands. The feds need to step up. Leaving potics aside it is an abject moral fail that the feds have not sorted the vaccination to the disability accommodation, aged care

The design has a prominent white collar.....

Ta. They're pretty good numbers. In terms of the question of the thread I'm actually of the view that it is in large mental. My gut feeling is he puts too much pressure on himself. And gets down on himself too quickly and too often , so gets tight. In 2020 tmac was out of the side and Jackson was a baby (still is). So Sam's spot was locked in. Played with some freedom. This season he probably feels he is in competition and has to take every chance. He is a good cricketer. Batting is all about getting into the flow state. Freeing the mind and focusion on each ball, and only on rhe ball. He should try and bring that accross to footy. But marking isn't my concern really. My issue with Sam is i don't think he plays with enough intensity. That applies to his attack on players with the ball and one on one. Too many half efforts. That is totally fixable.

I might be wrong, but I suspect the dr is not really a dr

Yes, well part of the problem with the vale of this number is the other stat you put up about the distance he covered in 2020. I suspect most of his marks in 2020 were taken well up the ground and mist were uncontested. The threevreal stats you want to know for a key forward is marks inside 50 contested marks total AND contested marks inside 50. How did Sam fare in 2020 on those metrics?

Nothing wrong in tbe trip to nsw. But the peanut first experienced symptoms on 25 may. Worked s a afull day in an enclosed office 26 may. Thank God for lockdown because didn't get tested unti yesterday. Did however go shopping in tbe city on Sunday. Tool.

It was before lockdown

Apart from running harmes on a mid, I reckon they will just go head to head. I'm pretty sure the lions don't bring an extra to the stoppages. Like us they just rely on how good their mids are at winning clearances. We'll miss viney in this game. I reckon the problem the lions will have against us is they are pretty methodical in transition, which gives us time to set up our defensive structure. And they rely very much on winning around the ground stoppage clearances and scoring from them. If we can match them in tbat area they will struggle. Funnily enough the clearances numbers might end being opposite to the dogs games ie we lose centre square clearnces and break even or win around the ground stoppages

Since the Victorian outbreak began, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has kept the state border open, and earlier in the week said that the 5-kilometre limit imposed on Victorians would protect her state. "When Victorians aren't allowed to travel more than five kilometres outside of where they live that obviously does not concern us because they can't travel and get to NSW," Ms Berejiklian said on Monday

Welcome to demonland junty. Give it all you've got and represent us all!

A broken clock is still right two times a day.

Ta. Fixed. https://www.zerohanger.com/footy-talking-points-melbournes-defensive-structure-and-the-plus-one-2021-84050/

Its a good question who we might tag, or indeed if we will. Hibberd to Cameron is an obvious one. I got hsrmes tagging a mid right, but got the mid wrong. Terrific move to [censored] down libba. The lions are brilliant at stoppages and McCluggage is as important as libba for them. Logic suggests they will send harmes to him. But rich is really important to the way they move the ball. They'll want to put some work onto him. Different positions, but Salem plays a similar role and is similarly important. The other player who worries me is bailey. Exactly the sort of player who troubles our defence. And boy, is he going to be a gun.

Please yell go redlegs super loud whenever we kick a goal. And a quieter c'mon redlegs when we need some encouragement

Borders are open but we are in lockdown. Not allowed to leave for footy games

Good points Dee. And there are any number of players who have taken time to fulfil their potential. Weed has time. And the potential

Good article in terms of the discussion about our clearnce set up at stoppages and how it relates to our intercept game. It is after the blues game, but poses an interesting question about how we will fare against the dogs. A question we answered pretty emphatically https://www.zerohanger.com/footy-talking-points-melbournes-defensive-structure-and-the-plus-one-2021-84050/