Hellish Inferno

That's some man bun on our trainer

Grrr need to make the most of this. Cats will have their time

4 minutes ago, buck_nekkid said:

Need to be disciplined as the umps love them and they are a bunch of ducking snipers.  

They really know how to milk and play for free kicks. The bastards obviously train for it

Definitely Scott's influence (along with Selwood). They probably justify it by the 'whatever it takes' mantra

25 minutes ago, John Demonic said:

It just doesn't look right without the 2021 mop on his head... 

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2 hours ago, Nasher said:

Hunt and Langdon were excellent tonight.

There was one moment where Hunt got it at half back and handballed to Langdon on the wing, then both of them sprinted down the wing together with their hair blowing back. If someone could dig out a screenshot of that, that'd be great, I need a new avatar. Think TMac has had his time :-)

Trac...

Happy with this. Yes it's not pretty all the time, but GWS are having a crack and making it difficult

Hopefully we kick away by a few more goals. Dees by 30

Wow GWS playing pretty dirty and getting away with it, so many borderline frees not being paid to us.

They've been fortunate with things going their way, but reckon we'll blow the game open at some point in the second half.

2 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Been looking at scoring maps on statsinsider.com.au. Here's a comparison of heat maps of all our shots on goal from Round 1 2019 to date, compared with Richmond.

Obviously Richmond have generated more shots through that time than us given our relative poor form, but we seem to generate too many shots from 30+ metres whilst Richmond are more central and closer to goal.

Hopefully we see more shots from closer/straight in 2021 than this.

Wow those hotspots in the pockets for Richmond have to be a set play

We definitely struggle to kick goals from centrally 20-30m out

I don't think this rule has even been exploited fully yet.

On Saturday Fritsch took a mark about 45m out and was standing at the end of his set shot routine from about 65m. Rivers called for it running past but when Fritsch handballed it to him, the ump called play on so the man on the mark was able to run towards Rivers who had to kick it from about 55m. Wasn't really the smartest play to call for it so far out.

To exploit this, once the ump has called "stand" the player taking the kick should be as close as possible to the mark and have players running past. This way Rivers should have been able to clear the man on the mark and kick from 40m.

Previously the man on the mark would have seen this and shifted sideways to cut off the run through. It may even cause a 50m penalty if the man on the mark goes too soon

1 hour ago, Rusty Nails said:

Then there's Gus.  Another that seems to be pretty wasteful given the amount of footy and opportunities he has to deliver.  I'm not sure what it is.  He looks like a million dollars at times.  Other times he looks VFL standard at best.  Possibly choosing when to push and when to switch off and gets a tad lazy upstairs.  Never really hit his heady season form of 2018 other than in patches.

That's my impression also

27 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Fritsch's set shot technique.

They're doing plenty right but leaving a lot out there too.

Actually think his run up and kicking technique is good. Straight, steady etc.

The issue is the ball drop and I wonder if his head is looking up to soon. Also, clearly thinking too much about it

Wow dumb football around goal

Special comments from Luke Darcy as King takes a set shot

"Good looking kick. Slightly across the face...in fact he's missed the lot..."

HOLD YOUR FCKIN MARKS!!!

Darcy "Good looking kick...slightly across the face...in fact he's missed the lot"

Where are the players??

corrupt

Dumb

Smug umpire

9 hours ago, demonstone said:

This innovative and radical move would save Melbourne millions of dollars and shore up their financial position in perpetuity.

An anonymous source from within the club says that they have long valued and admired the collective judgement and football wisdom of Demonland posters and that it would make sense to make use of their talents, particularly when it would cost nothing at all. 

Get stuffed, I command a high price for this level of wisdom and insight

Goal to Cox

2 hours ago, Deemania since 56 said:

I'd think that this is too tangential to actually worry about. All players, despitie roles and placements on the field, should have developed and inate awarenesses, realisations and known responses (from coaching) to onfield circumstances. I don't imagine players just loitering around awaiting (more senior) instructions and cues to perform their respective roles. Our player strengths and weaknesses in relative terms are already known and observable, surely? (If he does that then I must do this.) I'd rather think that each player can determine how to support the playmakersat any time - or most times - to best effect and thus, join the playmakers' group. Is that not the role of teamwork?

 

Yep, good teamwork and well drilled coaching - sadly two things we seem to lack right now.

Address this and we're top 4

43 minutes ago, bobby1554 said:

Petracca by the length of the Flemington straight. He is the future of this club.

Trac is a ripper, but what makes him a good leader that marshalls the troops and responds in game to opposition tactics?

I feel our group were hurt more by the loss of on-field runners delivering messages. The best teams are well drilled, disciplined and have senior players that are also coaches on the field

Part of the problem is that so many of our mids only know one way and that was drilled into them since they were kids. 

The issues we saw with the midfield may look bad because the players are trying to do something different as instigated by Yze and co, and it doesn't come naturally so the first few games are still an adjustment period. Let's hope they figure it out soon