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    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.

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    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.

    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?

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    2 hours ago, Deestroy All said:

    I’m frustrated. 

    I wanted to gouge my eyes out until Oliver started hitting chests inside 50. Is it that [censored] hard?

    Excellent games by Gawn, Oliver, Brayshaw and Hogan. 

    Opposition were rubbish. I need to see us beat a good team. 

    People like you bore the crap out of me.

    You're team has just won by 50 points. Whinge when we lose, not when we win.

    Just freaking enjoy yourself. Who the hell comes on the forum 10 minutes after a solid win and complains that the oppo were rubbish?

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    2 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

    The big question for mine is who slots into his position going forward.

    Do we do a 'like for like' swap and bring Tyson straight in?

    Do we push a flanker (ie Harmes) into the middle long term and go for someone like Bugg (just an example) to play that flank role?

    Do we take someone from a back flank like Salem and give him more midfield time?

    While it's a big blow to lose him, I think we can be creative in covering for it without losing too much on field.  We did win plenty of games earlier in the season without him and there is no reason why we can't continue to do that.

    Has to be Tyson

    We've got team balance just right and has to just be like for like.

    Definitely leave Salem where he is - he was fantastic today.

    I'd like Bugg back anyway - we are better with him.

    1 hour ago, brendan said:

    I tend to agree Bolton has that mark neeld feel about him, I would be chasing a Roos type coach to right the ship before it sinks

    A few weeks ago Roos was on Triple M talking about how AFL has got its coaching structures all wrong, and that clubs should be far more focussed on deeply experienced coaches. He cited NCAA basketball coaches etc who were winning titles in their 60s, 70s and even 80s.

    At the time I thought it was a really odd thing for him to be so passionate about, given he had overseen the exact opposite with us. However, coaches like Bolton etc haven't got a hope in hell of lifting a crap team off the bottom. They need an Eade, or Malthouse type, despite their obvious limitations.

    15 hours ago, Nasher said:

    At half time, King and Zaharakis pointed out a couple of occasions where Carlton players would turn looking for a handball to a runner that wasn't there, and since then I can't stop seeing it happen to them.  They always look like they've got one less player at the contests than they were expecting or something.  At least these days when we've got the ball, you'd back us in to keep it move it forward.  I'd have a heart attack every time I saw a hot ball if I barracked for this lot.

    Let's face it, we've been there/done that for many years. My default position is heart attack when pressure is on.

    12 hours ago, america de cali said:

    Bombers injury strife. Stringer out for a month and Ambrose for the year. Players for our finals rivals are dropping like nine pins.  This may be the end of their season.

    I did notice this - touch wood, we have players like AVB etc returning, and have a pretty skinny injury list, whilst WCE, Collingwood, Sydney, Essendon and GWS in particular seem to be losing players at a rate of knots.

    1 minute ago, Wiseblood said:

    Garlett may have been a bit quiet, but he has laid 6 tackles this evening.  You can't fault that effort, even if we all wish he had hit the scoreboard a little more.

    No, but you can fault his lack of impact.

    Just now, Return to Glory said:

    FFS, we're over 50 points up in Darwin. You'd think we're down by 80 with some of the negative Nancy stuff

    I was just about to write - I've done a hell of a lot of whinging for what's going to turn out to be a 10-12 goal win!

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    Just now, DeeZee said:

    I’m so over Jordan Lewis undisciplined play.

    Every week he gives the opposition goals on a silver platter.

    They always seem to be at really inopportune times as well, and come as part of an oppo run on.

    29 minutes ago, Bonkers said:

    Hard not to be frustrated by that half with the uncapitalised dominance. Probably should have been game over by 1/4 time. This game is almost a replica of the game against Gold Coast earlier in the year. We are on track for a record I50 count.

    I noticed Goodwin has moved smith forward in that qtr. Not sure why?

     

    Maybe to check whether he is ineffective all over the ground, or just in defence.

    Turns out it is everywhere.