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Juk3b0x

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  1. Making my way down from QLD for my first live final, and will be camped in with the Carlton supporting family members… Hella excited and unbelievably nervous - as much about having to walk home copping it if we go down. #carnthedees
  2. Has had in spoiling 2-3 F50 marking opportunities…
  3. This was what I heard too, so I went into the replay later on focused on what BBB offered and couldn’t disagree at all. Keep making leads, was our exit target outside 50 (successfully and unsuccessfully) on a number of occasions, kept impacting the ball in the air and bringing to ground, and forward of centre was minded by two opponents in his own and what I assume was a float spare (i.e the Lever type role) without being beaten in the air - but not having the support there to stop the turnover once it hit the ground. Was a bit surprised by the DL opinion on his game - I’m hoping he keeps getting a game and gets some more reward like his start to the 2023 season.
  4. Just rewatched the game after only being able to catch some on the radio and reading through some of the Demonland reviews. Have to say it feels like poor BBB really does not get the reward for effort he puts in, or the recognition of that from DL. He lead at everything he should have including high up the ground as our exit so many times, and he competed up our F50 end perpetually with two opponents and STILL managed to bring it to ground every time, which would unfortunately be collected by that spare Crows player. The commentators on both the radio and replay all recognised the unrewarded, stat free work he was doing playing a role. We’ve looked better and straighter with him in the team no matter what he’s adding to the scoreboard or the stats sheet. I’m hoping we persist and BBB and DL get the reward we saw in his first three games of 2023 before injury.
  5. Didn’t make our yearly pilgrimage down from Central Queensland because it was “sold out.” Bit disappointing to see those numbers, as good as they were for King Birthday and the Big Freeze, because it’s obviously not sell out numbers.
  6. Fox footy are on the mark with us. Out of form, out of confidence. Forward connection is terrible, don’t kick to space or advantage, bomb it in. Selfish plays either not taking the best option, or not hearing it or expecting them to be there Good players missing easy targets. Dropped marks. Gawn seems either underdone or disinterested - there’s no fire there, no angry Max.
  7. Agree with a number of points from OP, but the biggest being that our structure starts from the back. We were at our most threatening with 3 tall's and Lever playing as the third. We still have all the same players on the list, why the hell would be move them around from where they played their best, and where we looked our best. It also had such a flow on effect to our small defenders, excepting the addition of McVee who I've been impressed with, who remain our same premiership winning line-up of Hibberd, Bowey, Rivers. Gawn also played a bigger defensive role from the ruck, being a consistent marking thread staying a kick behind the ball when the team pushed forward, and I don't see this from Gawn/Grundy as often this year. Our midfield setup just confuses me, and has for some time. In our premiership year we often played from behind, less man on man at stoppages, running forward and it worked well, but as a number of opposition analyses show, it's not that hard to counter and seems to have been - Gawn likes to hit forward left/right of the centre bounce and stoppage, so when he rucks play their mid's the same way as ours and start from behind but hold back slightly from bursting through and we'll likely force feed them first use of the football. At the same time their ruck aims to hit forward of the centre bounce should they win the tap and task the 3rd mid running forward of the centre as our midfielders seem coached to run through assuming we'll win majority of the taps. So as expected we consistently win hit out's, but lose clearances and when we do lose its usually from opposition just walking the ball out uncontested, handballing wide, or winning an uncontested possession forward of the centre bounce when they do win the tap. I honestly don't know what to say of our forwards... I don't watch them well enough. But no one in the league would look at our team sheet and think we have any Key Forward that is particularly threatening or hard to stop (i.e. Cameron, Curnow etc) except maybe Fritsch who shouldn't have to shoulder that as a medium forward. Our current tactic gives me PTSD flashbacks - long, high bombs to a pack of forwards who have posed zero big pack crushing/marking threats in 2 years. JVR is too green, McDonald has the speed, turning circle and intensity of fully laden flat bed truck, BBB hasn't even been given the chance, and Petty just doesn't seem like to the guy for the job. Our F50 small forward brigade, who were a thing to be feared in 2021 for their defensive pressure and crumbing ability don't seem to have hit any kind of consistent form this year. Do we even know how to lead in our forward 50? I'm not convinced its something anyone except Fritsch and maybe our resting midfielder in Petracca know how do to. We've got most of the same cattle we had in 2021, all capable of playing the same roles where we looked our best. We've lost Jackson but added a genuine talent in Grundy, have some fresh exciting players in the likes of McVee and Chandler. Even in 2021 our forward setup seemed to rely on goals from our midfield and medium/small forwards, and not our necessarily on our tall's - how have we lost our edge so quickly?!
  8. This… so much this. For the life of me I don’t get our forward set up, the ball can burst out of the centre or backline and somehow we STILL have 2-3 tall forwards all in the spot contesting for the same ball, with rarely a small still there to crumb. I’m regularly screaming at the TV asking how week after week we don’t address this. Worst of all opposition with an otherwise organised defence don’t send all defenders up at once so our forwards spoil each other and they have the numbers when the ball inevitably spills out the footy rebounds with ease. Don’t get me started on the F50 entries either. Long, high bombs of the horror years are back in vogue for the Dees and it’s just awful football to watch happen again and again and again…
  9. Encourage anyone that was curious about this topic to replay the game and watch a lot of the taps. The point above is painfully accurate and part of the reason we got monstered in this stat. There's 2 perfect example centre bounce taps that Gawn wins without any real opposition but he puts the ball forward in front of the contest... except we don't have anyone forward of the contest and there were no players running through, so Port win it and run away virtually uncontested for a F50 entry. I understand that this has worked for us at times and its looked good when we have, but this isn't 2021 where teams let it rampage through to win the ball forward of the contest... the times I had to watch us tap down the oppositions throat on Friday was infuriating!
  10. JVR needs a spell. Ran under every footy repeatedly, reckless and stupid free kicks given away. Costly! Gawn no impact, small forwards unseen in what should have suited them more than the talls. Petracca obviously being managed forward with ankle in first half, tries to carry team home in the 3rd. Viney, 33% D/E and another brainfade sliding in taking legs late… making that mistake at that point in the game was dumb. Tom McDonald is just dumb at times. Isn’t a game he doesn’t try and take on a tackle, ignores first option, gives away HtB and moans about it while the teammates he burnt just have to stand fuming. Frustrating watching.
  11. The bad Melbourne turned up… it’s always clear in the first quarter which version showed up, and this feels like the one where I stop watching about half time…
  12. Wish that was always the case but of the 3 ACL ruptures I had playing footy I didn’t hear a thing for 2 of them and only had mild discomfort and a feeling that something wasn’t right. First one was also a similar action to Max with a player crashing in. I’m so nervous for Max!! Fingers crossed.
  13. 17 at 35% and many of those awful no look flick or kick out of a pack which almost never works to our advantage… Absolutely love the bloke. HATE his flick out possessions.
  14. Great win against a side that really cannot handle wet weather, and a game style they don’t seem to be able to adjust. The wet suited our contested style and relentless pressure - with more fumbles and more dropped marks they were just given zero opportunity to play how they wanted. Backs were impressive. Setup and talk behind the ball was back where it needs to be and stay. Petty might not get the touches, but the spoils and blanketing of players is crucial. Rivers had some important defensive clearances early, and hopefully Lever recovers fine. Viney probably having a career best season, absolute beast. With Clarry tagged, Petracca and Brayshaw covered well. Saw some criticism for Sparrow but thought that was a far better effort, better disposal and involvement. The negatives for mine were obviously Weideman just having no involvement. Some said in the game day he was competing in the conditions but I rarely saw that. ANB had a rough game, didn’t play to conditions and even before injury I genuinely thought Jackson was disinterested. Weak in the contest, little follow up - almost had an individual moment of brilliance before the main break but otherwise disappointing. Reckon on that kind of form and pressure we’re perfectly ready for the Pies! Go Dees.
  15. May is out of it, absolutely no head in the game. Hasn’t taken a clean possession…
  16. Forwardline entries were just embarrassing. It’s like we actually aimed for Paddy and Tom McCartin and Florent - at what point do these players actual think to themselves ok they’ve marked the last half dozen long high entries maybe that isn’t the way. I thought those days were gone.
  17. Harmes is an absolute liability tonight. Has he had a clean effective disposal? Some of the handballs to each other are absolute hospital balls to zero advantage. Combine that with the umpiring again it’s so hard to watch.
  18. Put that one down to Petracca, Hunt and Selection Panel. For the 2nd week in row Petracca absolutely disgusting by foot inside 50. Butchered multiple easy chances to deliver the most basic of kicks. <50% DE again... Hunt, absolute momentum killing last quarter. All the praise we've given him for playing such a more composed, mature role this year slowing down hitting the right target and taking the first option - gone in a matter of 3 awful game losing blunders holding the ball. All the old habits are back, and the same inept forward setup.
  19. Re-watch the game... Brayshaw was sensational as the defensive wing. Don't recall him losing a single one on one, and his 1% efforts were fantastic. He did everything you could ask him to do without the football. Daisy Pearce was on the money all game, that he was doing a brilliant, thankless job on the wing.
  20. As someone that's gone through 3 ACL tears, 4 surgeries and the subsequent recoveries playing footy, 6 months is definitely not "plenty long enough." 9 - 12 months would usually be the minimum to have sufficient nerve and vascular growth through the graft (ligamentisation) to achieve the strength of the original ACL and also provide the brain with enough information about the strain you're putting on your knee. At 6 months unless you're rocking some incredible quads and have one of those rare recoveries, you're taking an enormous risk of redoing your knee, or as is often the case, doing the opposite knee through unconsciously favouring it through a hasty recovery.
  21. Was out for the day, watched it on delay so avoided Demonland - and boy I’m glad I did; the response to a win on here, and the first game of the season is genuinely sad. We were like 1-10 on clearances after the first, so won clearances for the rest of the game. Out defence was fantastic, and the transition out of it for most of the game was also great to watch - Rivers, Hunt, Langdon; even Spargo and Kozzie having decent runs. The link up will only getting better as the season goes. Yes there were fumbles, so did both teams - and so has every game so far. Yes we dropped marks and missed goals, but so has ever game so far in round 1; 29 behinds Tigers v Blues and 20 Pies v Dogs. Lighten the [censored] you sad miserable pessimistic old bastards, footballs back and we’re on the board!
  22. Wow... I had legitimately forgotten just how good he looked marking it overhead with confidence - monstered some of those opponents. Good jump, step and could actually sprint to contests and for those marks... Watching that it's hard to believe it could be anything but an injury (long or short term) that has derailed him.
  23. At no point during that entire game, did Melbourne ever look in the slightest bit like they had a plan or tactic... Watching turnover after turnover turn into a Port Adelaide kick to kick training drill resulting in a F50 mark and goal crushed me... I want to cry it’s that hard to keep watching this team fail with the absolute basics, and doing it for 4 quarters...
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