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Oliver and Jake Melksham questioned Jordan Lewis as to why he had not taken possession of a ball in a contest with O'Meara near the boundary. The ball, instead, went over the line. Suffice to say, Lewis did not appreciate the feedback. The Age The author actually takes note of a few interesting incidents in the game. A good piece by Pierik The leadership myth

OMac - Meet the ball. Frost - Simpletons were wrong. Goodwin - Restructured with anchor Hawthorn - Played for frees Oliver - Heart and sole Trac - Important last effort Umps - Whistle and guess Lockhart - Persist with him Wagner - Earned his spot Lewis - Spending his super Gawn - Effort all day Brayshaw - Solid as rock Chompers - Killed them today Melbourne’s short kicking - Can’t hit barn Fritsch - Some selfless acts

Below the barrel argument. If he was a footy realist, today should have been his last game of AFL football. The game past him by in 2016. Clarko knew it, and a few others. Only the simple and the desperate didn’t.

When is this club gunna learn that you don’t offer 3 when no other club would. Who the hell was going to pounce?? Another one-paced hot and cold player. Goodwin must love him. I reckon he is overrated and selfish TBH. Hope he proves me wrong.

Just me from the outside, but I reckon Melky has him well covered in the me me me stakes.

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How many tall one-dimensional slows do you you want? I would trade Preuss, and I actually rate Preuss. A slow team can't carry slow footballers, that will struggle to lay a tackle.

Weed looks like the guy who ripped his hair out in Charlie’s Angels.

Who is he?

Give me trac and his bulk over the flimsy lightweights we have that can't break a tackle.

Judging by what we have done with our super-draft pick, I am sure we would have found a way to waste them on nth-order things like 'leadership'.

Only 1 or 2 smart posters on here, warned that the finals form of 2018 was more likely an event than a trend, in light of KPP development of guys like Hawkins, Boyd etc... No one should be surprised that consistency for him is still 2-3 years away. That said, I would have like his competitiveness with ground ball and tackling pressure to be better than it is. Something tells me he will end up at Collingwood before his time is through...hence the ambit claim of 700+.

After the worst coaching performance I have seen in my lifetime against the saints, Goody came back with a vengeance against the Tigers with some common-sense changes at selection and on-field. He finally found a way to strip the magnets off his board and actually move them. This week, he is contemplating sending McDonald forward again this week. 3 cheers from me. Don't pigeon-hole him. McDonald's 2018 was all class, and class is permanent as Clive Lloyd once said. E - Saints - The wings are no place to hide anybody. B+ - Tiges (actually A in that he did it in a short turnaround) A? - Hawks.

The Age reporting that Misson presented to the board before the season and warned of the massive discrepancy between pre-season 2017/18 as opposed to 18/19.

A low grade AC injury is a partial tear right? So what happens when you subject more tension (+/- shear) to a partial tear? 1+1=2 The basics here are not being adhered to, in more ways than one. I admit that diagnosing in the heat of battle is not easy. But when you have a player in a game that is over, there is no upside at all. The outsider can't really make a call most times, but when you have clear examples of injured players being put out again in dead rubbers/phases, then it absolutely astounds me, as it should most paid up members that are looking at the sky and asking why are we in this predicament.

Gee wiz, when will this end? Viney injures himself. Gets assessed. Returns to the field when the game is over. This is just history repeating. Who is running the show? You can spend all you like on rooster blood in Germany, hyperbaric chambers, world class facilities, the prettiest pilates instructors and the like...but it all counts for zip if you are not smart and strong enough to 'fold em' after an injury occurs. Also, isn't this AC right near the plate he had put in courtesy of WOJO in a VFL game in his first year? Viney's foot....May's groin....Viney's AC....Smith?? Too many examples of getting blokes to play injured when the game is done or not worth anything. Will all come out in Pert's review at the end of the year, but these are basics that are not being adhered to.

TGR: "Jordan Lewis kicked out well from full back last week"

We'd still be slow? The sad fact is that some of those were preventable (recruiting Lewis, who Cornes reckons would not have been offered a likeable deal by any other club) long ago. Lewis didn't suddenly slow down over the pre-season. He was slow when he walked in the door. The other sliding doors moment happened during the finals in 2018, where Scott and Geelong totally revamped their stocks (youth, talent), where we were comfortable beating slow teams on the G. In contrast, we traded our way out of the super-draft, and paid big money for icing rather than cake. When this club has review at the end of 2019, all it had to do was read the preview here in the past few years. That is the sad reality.

I can't believe that this guy isn't in every current AA team at the moment. He has, with Brayshaw and to a lesser extent Gawn, carried the team. He actually positions himself in dangerous/valuable positions when we come out of D50. Many skirt wide looking for an easy kick, but he is there in the guts ready to be whacked 360. Debatable whether he should start out more and leave the centre clear, and then sweep into space, but he is gutsy and almost has the best hands in the comp. With Jones's second quarter heroics, his efforts in the 3rd quarter, where he put his body on the line v Sydney, saved us from 0-6.

Clean hands. Can break a tackle, which is underrated in today's footy. Needs to be more selfish around 50m when his big kicking is more reliable than his short 15-20m passes. Has pulled out of 1.5 contests this year, unlike Oliver and Viney...which in addition to lack of pace are the only downsides. But the ability to break a tackle and have clean hands is priceless. We are trying to make up the fact that we unnecessarily pulled ourselves out of the super-draft, when all these kids are making an impact for Port and Geelong etc... We have to sleep it the bed that Goody/Viney peed in, rather than trying to chase a loss and throwing the baby out with bathwater.

Billy Slater takes tackling drills for 1-2 hours with the saints. He is pedantic with his instruction apparently. Kent also stated, according to a colleague, that the outside drills the Saints do are chalk and cheese to what he was used to here.

No bigger fan of Roos than me....and that was long before he came to Melbourne. I just can't work out how he refuses to state the bleeding obvious in relation to the speed of the list and its deficiencies; amongst other low-priority nit-picking...granted.

Just heard Bevo describe Freo as having 'speed and grunt'. Nail on head. Our speed (Hunt, Spargo, Garlett) has no grunt. Our grunt (Petracca) has no speed. We pass on grunt, but fail with speed. Richmond, I'd say is full of speed and grunt. Algorithm imbalance.

Has anyone got footage of the torpedo kick-out crime? Obviously the ball came back over poor Dunn's head in quick time.

Disagree. We came begging. Credit to Roos in that he was/is a man of his word, unlike Malthouse. The club and the supporters knew exactly where he was at. Irony was that some on here wanted Goody to take over before Roos was out the door!