spirit of norm smith

Clarry was well beaten today. 6 possessions up until half time and 14 in total. He battled on and tried but was well below average. 99 metres gained. It’s ok to say he was below average (he’s aStar and we love him) . McGuinness did a job on him and held him until moved off him onto Riv for the last quarter.

Oliver ??? Love him but he was tagged and had little influence at all !!!

No votes at all for Oliver and Trac. Both failed to make a contribution although Trac did exert himself in the last quarter. 6- Rivers 5- Lever daylight 4- Melksham 3- Brayshaw daylight 2- Gawn 1- JVR for his straight kicking 3 goals apologies to Hunter, May and Langdon average -,Bowey Sparrow, Mcvee, Tomlinson, Smith, ANB, Chandler below average today - Kozzzy , Trac, Oliver, Salem Laurie worked himself into the contest but might miss out next week Schache only played a soft 25 minutes (he is as physical as a 12 year old schoolboy)

Average. Just average win

Darcy. Stop barracking for hawks. Amon looked at JVR and stepped into his path to block. It’s a free all day long. Get off the favouritism.

Joel Smith 👏👏

Kozzy. 2 decent games in 12 weeks is not good enough.

2nd 🤮Salem free in space kicks straight to Sicily Oliver poor Melksham 4 behinds 🤮🤮🤮🤮 Trac beaten one on one by 1st gamer Hustwaite 🤯 Trac relaxed handball to May tackled straight away 🤮ANB 25 metres out Didn’t make distance Langdon to Chin ✅ Melksham soccer goal ✅ Melksham goal ✅ Lever ✅✅

1st quarter Poor. Slow. Salem 🤯🤮🤯🤮🤯 handballs to no one May slow and unmanned Bowey lost in space Trac - is he playing ? Oliver - tagged and now mcguiness owns him !! Pickett 🤡 runs into trouble ✅✅ Viney

Grundy to Cats Grundy to Power Grundy to Swans lots of options it was always a strange decision to recruit him, and how would they go sharing ruck and playing forward. An experiment at best but if he goes, who’s the backup ruck to Max. Verrell is still developing. Needs another 12 months at least. Farris-White is still learning, too raw and skinny.

Harmes. Out ??? This weeks mystery??

🤣🤣🤣🤣funniest thing I’ve heard

9 George Hewett (CARL) 7 Patrick Cripps (CARL) 7 Nicholas Newman (CARL) 3 Jack Viney (MELB) 2 Angus Brayshaw (MELB) 1 Christian Petracca (MELB) 1 Jacob Weitering (CARL) so Goody. Voss Hewett 5 4 Newman 4. 3 Viney 3. 0 Cripps 2. 5 Petracca 1 0 Brayshaw. 0. 2 Weitering. 0. 1 Goody is a %^&*+}[>€£. Favours votes to the opposition. Bizarre !! We lost by a “phantom” fingernail. My votes. Viney 5. Gus 4. Newman 3. Rivers 2 Cripps 1. Time after time, Voss and many other coaches give votes to their own players as a preference.

I’m still angry. It was a goal. Marchbank didn’t even protest (unlike Silly-Silvagni I’m the 93 GF). How did the goal umpire categorically decide it was touched. Usually the call (99-1 ratio) is “it’s a goal but it may have been touched “ but MFC got the one umpire that decides he categorically thinks it’s touched. Sure it wasn’t the sole reason we lost … but it was one of the reasons we didn’t win !!!

Tough games now. Heard the phrase “Every game is like a final “. If we want second place, we have to win both these games. Hawks are up and about. Best the pies. Beat the dogs. Good young list coming together with some confidence. We should beat them but don’t underestimate this one. Sydney in Sydney. Round 23. Buddy’s farewell. Swans are back in form , in the mix and in top 8 now.

I agree Redleg. So many wasted chances on the weekend from MFC and at Casey. Skills are disappointing. Forward 50 entries desperately need more work. Goalkicking needs serious improvement. Scoring is s as crucial part of the game and we are lacking right now.

Must. I agree. JVR is too raw. We can’t expect him to carry the forward line. Schache is not the answer. Tmcd and BBB will be in retirement at season end. At least Tomlinson can mark the footy and I’d back him to kick at least at 50%.

We were missing Fritsch and Petty. Petty gone for the season. Blues had 6 of their best 18 out. And two of their best 5. Sure we were robbed in the last minute. but overall we missed chances and couldn’t get it done. We simply were not good enough. Goody should be really disappointed. I am.

I’ve watched it about 40 times. I can’t see it as touched. Marchbank was not protesting. He didn’t touch it. Simply the goal umpire GOT IT WRONG. Umps don’t have a say in the match. What rubbish. We should have won. It might cost us 2nd or 4th.

6. Viney 5. Rivers. 4. Trac 3. Brayshaw 2. Langdon 1. Hunter The following need to visit the house of mirrors. Grundy. Salem. Bowey. Milkshake.

Agree. He and Bowey were not good. When I look at the runners from half back and run and carry , both Bowey and Salem need to do much better.

Mostly correct. Tough on Lingers perhaps.

Spot on. Thought they might try more angles

Maybe Salem can be the sub next week. Send a message.

Ditto. We are our own downfall!!! Insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Bombing it in … FFS