Undeeterred

13 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

Great.

Never heard of a player retiring from a hot spot of the toe, let alone one as determined as Jack Viney. But what would the medicos know? They should consult us witch doctors, hey?

13 hours ago, sisso said:

Why so negative about his prospects?

Well, given he's played about 4 games in 18 months, why so positive?

He wouldn't be retiring from a hot spot. He'd be retiring because his PF is rooted, and they haven't been able to fix it without overloading other parts of his foot. 

This isn't just a toe issue. I'd be amazed if he was ever 100% again.

Yeah, let's change all the rules so games are watchable. D1ckheads.

2 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

I actually heard an amazing stat on SEN during the week there was something like 144 players unavailable going into this round.

When you look at that, weve done amazingly well.

True, but I'd argue we have a disproportionate number of top 10 players out (Viney, Lever, Hibberd, Melksham at a pinch). 

1 minute ago, Chook said:

This game makes me feel better. I don't know if it should but it does.

Me too. Right outcome, but shows how vulnerable each team is

10 minutes ago, Chook said:

This performance from Richmond in the last quarter should be compulsory viewing for every Melbourne player. Goodwin should sit his list down and get them to watch how Richmond has quelled the Geelong fightback so expertly.

Sort of....

If Geelong win this I'll bloody spew.

Oliver. 25 contested possessions and 14 clearances. 14.

5 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

The moment Joel Smith unnecessarily rushed his kick from a mark early in the last quarter I knew we were in trouble.

Zero game sense.

Oh FFS. 

Literally trying not to wet myself

That was a bloody circus

1 minute ago, Gipsy Danger said:

Surely this rain can only help us here

Depends if we fumble it like we have a couple of times and they get the skates on

ANB has had a few important involvements in this quarter

Time this club stood up and said we've f u c k e n had enough!

2 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Before the game I’d have taken a win of any sort. I’d really like another burial now though. We are poised for it.

Stop.

Just now, Elegt said:

makes up for the deliberate oob 

That's true. That was disgusting

Hogan gets reamed so often I have no trouble at all with him getting a freebie

Jeffy in second gear! Great goal

How good was Gawn's pick up and pass then

4 hours ago, Demons11 said:

9 tackles I think.  

No way he gets dropped 

Especially after Goodwin bear hugged him after the game.

1 minute ago, Moonshadow said:

Wouldn't call them passengers but any means, but Jones, Salem, Hannan, Jeffy and Jetta had reasonably quiet games

Nev was quiet, you're right, and their small forwards did kick a few. And he has so many credits I'd never call him a passenger.

Salem was fantastic - he was clean and hard at it every time he went near it. 

Jones, yeah, you could argue he wasn't too damaging, but see Nev above.

9 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

If we had 'many' passengers in a 50 point win then I'd love to see it when there aren't any.  200 point win maybe?

It's just such a ridiculous comment to make. If you look at who you might target:

JKH had 10 tackles and 15 odd touches.

Vince wasn't great but didn't do buckets wrong. Only made one really glaring error, and killed some really dangerous balls coming in.

Jeffy didn't touch it much but kicked 2 and was involved in a few more

Frost had one absolutely idiotic Sam Frost special but was excellent other than that.

Hannan was, definitely, quiet, but put heaps of pressure on and was thereabouts mostly. A bit of luck and he'd have had 2-3 goals

I just can't think of anybody else SFebey might be talking about

14 minutes ago, Nasher said:

I took “OOTF” to be a freudian slip and LH meant “deliberate out of bounds” - obviously an OOTF is black and white and it wasn’t one of those as it bounced inside the line.

As for whether it was deliberate or not - I think it would have been pretty stiff to have been paid. I’ve never seen anyone do a kick that unco and mean it. I thought it was a pretty clear skill error.

Brayshaw does this stuff way too much - he actually got caught in two minds and so went to kick it, but went to pull the kick and got it wrong. Only knock on his game at the moment.

1 hour ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Well that was an unusual game and one that might puzzle those analysts who figure they’ve got our game worked out.

Statistically, we had less disposals, less contested possessions, less clearances, less tackles and less inside 50s. These are areas where, during this season, we are usually in front of our opposition and yet today, we won by 50 points.

Anyone have an explanation?

Efficiency. We kicked 7 goals in 12 minutes, and it was a procession from Gawn to Oliver, Petracca or Brayshaw. 

On the disposal side, we were far more direct. Oliver kicked it. That's a big part of it.

On the down side, in the first half we struggled, Max's dominance wasn't captured by clearances, we couldn't stick many tackles, and let them muck around with lots of dinky possessions.

1 hour ago, SFebey said:

Gawn and Oliver take a bow. Brayshaw and Hogan ok. The rest, well, many passengers I thought. Fritsch did well when moved back in defence also

Name them. I genuinely didn't see many. Hannan was quiet. Who else?

2 hours ago, DemonOX said:

Kennedy-Harris has 7 or 8 tackles I think which is good but didn’t do much else imo. 

Given his vfl form I was expecting more  

Not sure if he keeps his spot next week. 

I thought he was good, and was involved in some key passages.

He got better as the game went on, which is fair enough given his time away. I'd keep him for sure. Who are you going to drop him for?