Winners at last

First time I've seen him live. He's quite little.

What could possibly go wrong?

10 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

You're an hour early, the game is at 1.10!

I used the future tense - "going".

I'm catching the 12.49 train which arrives at Jolimont at 1.03 pm. I presume there will be a massive queue to get in the MCC section.

I'll be there.

Did someone say something about a bagful?

Durham & Caldwell interviewed by Erin Phillips after the match. They seem like nice young men.

Should I feel ashamed for thinking/typing that?

I don't know which Daicos is which.

But one of them struts around like a peacock.

I hate Essendon so much ...

However ...  POS (Maynard), Crisp, Diacos (x3*), De Goey, Howe, Side-ar@e, even 'Pendles', Schultz (he's just annoyting), their disgusting supporters, Triplechins McGuire ... need I go on?

GO BOMBERS !!!

*I've included the father

15 minutes ago, Billy said:

Do you think Thommo should be a regular? I think he’s only going to get a game when there’s a matchup for him, and l don’t think the Eagles have one for him.

I’m happy with this team, we don’t need any more kids in the 23

Are you talking about Thomlinson ???   hahaha

7 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

I think Woewodin will be lucky to hold his spot. He needs to go harder and be cleaner if he is going to make it.

Tomlinson may only hold his spot if TMac goes forward. (Champion Data had TMac's game last week as exceptional but I doubt we really want a backline with all of Lever, Tomlinson, May and TMac.)

Melksham could be the sub.

TMac won't go forward, or at least for anything other than a cameo. He (and/or the Club/coach) have said that his fitness/foot issues make that non viable.

Melksham needs match fitness. Being the sub won't help that.

I can't remember which thread it was/is, but when D'landers are antagonistic towards each other, they would be well advised to heed the words of a great philosopher/thinker ...

Hmm, like some others here i think he should come back via Casey.

But fingers crossed he does well in his return with 'the ones'.

I presume he will get fairly low game time, perhaps 60% TOG?

Yermum ... 

1 hour ago, Swooper1987 said:

Probably the best individual hour of play by any Melbourne player I've ever seen.

I was there. He was brilliant. Shame we didn't win that match.

Some of Jakovich's performances were pretty good too!!

And the Wiz's second half v the filth at Doglands (I think) when he kicked about 9 goals.

I hate the filth so much that it's off the charts.

Apologies if someone has already mentioned it, but was training at Gosch's Paddock?

That's why some of these posts are getting a bit riddiculous. A lot of people seem to have collective amnesia about what Max King has been able to produce in the past, particularly in 2022 (before the shoulder injuries).

He needs a full pre-season and someone working with him who isn't a "2007-2011 St Kilda nepo hire". No offence to Harvs, but I have my doubts he's the best person to coach a key forward through a form slump. Get someone from the outside to work with him on his craft. Someone who understands what he might be going through. Give him whatever he needs. He's the future and is capable of great things.

FFS, saying he's "never going to be that player" is riddiculous when he's already shown it.

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This was posted was in the Saints bigfooty forum.

The incorrect spelling of the highlighted word ... lol ... classic oxymoron.

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I thought that Gresham and Billings were the same person.

Given that they aren't, I think we would have been better off with Gresham.

I hope the Demons players/coaching staff watched the GC/filth last quarter. There would be some serious learnings there.

39 minutes ago, dino rover said:

Lucky for me I took a lot of acid as a young man and know what you mean

Jackson/Wagner for Freo, Jordon/Grundy for Swans.

2 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

As a brief aside, was great to see the players step up to the league’s supreme [censored] when he chose to rough up an 18 year-old. 

I detest Zorko more than any other player in the game, and wish him a miserable post-AFL life. 

Maynard says hi ...

4 minutes ago, Fritta and Turner said:

Especially if it is repeated over and over and over again.

A bore repeats himself. A bore repeats himself.

Or herself ... Or herself ... 

45 minutes ago, binman said:

Yep.

Heartbreaking result.

But a fantastic performance.

Most on here gave us zero chance.

Lucky to get within 5 goals and all that.

On that logic we smashed the expectations of most posters.

I haven't read this thread yet - I hope those that had such expectations are acknowledging how good our performance was and not taking the loss at yet another opportunity to just pile on.

Any in the 'we are so hopeless we wont get within a bulls roar camp' who still choose to pile on are showing their true colours. And they aren't red and blue.

i was bullish about our chances and was confident of a really good performance. I was not in the least surprised that's what we got.

My expectations were we set ourselves for this game and that we would see a much more dynamic team running over the ground better and being better in the contest.

They met my expectations as that's what we got.

So much better in the spread, so much more gut running (which is why our all team defence was so good for most of the game - and why it dropped off in the last as we tired).

The intensity and contest was great - though the pressure  wasn't as good in the first as it needed to be. We we were lucky they only had a 15 point lead at quarter time.

Viney was immense.

Clarry was terrific, and worked himself into the ground. As did chin and others. 

Koz was simply brilliant.

The second quarter was our best quarter of footy for a long, long time.

We ran out of gas in the last, but not too badly - certainly not as bad as last week. 

Not helped by petty rolling his ankle or goody not bringing pup on early in the last, or even late in the third, to inject some fresh legs and run. 

Losing bowey really hurt, particularly given salo was out too.

Woey struggled down back and would have been sub if bowey played. And would have been a much better sub option than pup. More flexible in terms of role, more experienced and stronger. Goody would have brought him on earlier. 

But the biggest he issue was once again our inability to kick clutch goals.

2.8 in the second half was why we lost. Same story 

Poor kicking is our biggest weakness - and really the evidence is mounting up we have issues under pressure (which by the by is exacerbated by poor technique).

The other big factor was we couldn't generate enough intercept marks - though they ate less relevant in the transition game we were playing for much of the game. 

On the free against nibbla, he was unlucky because he was tripped. But the free was probably there and I want umpires to pay free they see regardless of the point in the match.

But what drives me insane is that free was in the context of us not receiving frees that were there late in the game. Where were our holding the bloody ball frees (made worse pinging us in the middle fir tge htb). Or May's mark that wasn't paid. Pay them for God sakes.

And was that 50 to rivers against rayner at the end? Marginal perhaps, but so was nibblas.

We are still well in the hunt this season. 

As goody had said all the season we want to be playing our best footy in August and September.

The second quarter looked like our best footy. We need to see that for longer in games, and I expect we will.

To misquote Paul McCarthy, reports of our death are much exaggerated.

"My expectations were we set ourselves for this game and that we would see a much more dynamic team running over the ground better and being better in the contest."

The players are highly paid professionals. Shouldn't this be a given every week?

15 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

I literally don't care.

2024 is dead to me. I already know the AFL will get their Sydney Carlton GF wish.

Same other than I hope the filth and Jee-long lose.

I don't think that the decision against ANB was unreasonable. However, I suspect it wouldn't have been paid at the G in the same circumstances.

As a senior player, poor old Nibs should have had better composure. He could have handballed into a Brisbane player's leg, and the ball would have gone out. And with a little luck it may have even gone off the opponent's boot. I've seen that done plenty of times,