Dee Zephyr

It was interesting listening to Max last night. He talked about the variables that might have caused the second half fade out. One of them being how some of our players might interpret the terminology about patience with the ball differently. It might take a while before we are on the same page but this season isn’t that long. Here’s a terminology that can’t be read in different ways. Beat those [censored]ers on Sunday!

One of our main problems I believe layzie, especially when momentum is with the opposition. Seen teams do it against us time after time when we dominate possession but struggle to do it ourselves. After two rounds we are in the bottom 2 for contested marking. Lever, May, T Mac and Max 1 contested mark between them so far. We took 6 against Carlton. Trac -2....Hunt -1.....Salem -1.....Fritta-1 ....ANB -1.

Happy to go one last BB before spelling for the cold months fellas. Also happy to start Monkey again whenever everyone wants.

Ah, Anzac Eve maybe. He did a good job on T Lynch from memory.

That is correct od but I thought Skuit was talking about our match against Ess last season.

I remember T Mac hobbling on one leg that night Sku and spending some time on the wing early then a significant amount of time on the pine during that blitz. There was a lot of talk post match about us playing our best footy that night while T Mac was out of the forward line.

Interesting listening to May’s presser after training today. He said the Carlton game was reviewed in the rooms after the match so it’s fresh in their minds and they can start focusing on the Bombers instantly. Don’t mind that. May also touches on Harmes still getting familiar with that half back role. Doesn’t sound like Harmes will be moved out anytime soon. DB’s injury report has no new casualties, no idea how they will go this week with changes. If Weid is included I’d love just to sit him at FF.

Are we including 2016? Come to think of it, it actually reads worse since the start of 2017.

I will spew up if they drop Hunt. From what we were able to see on the TV, I thought he was very influential. Just need to look at the work he puts in as a forward. Classic example was Trac’s goal in the 3rd and the behind the goal vision shows that. Great team goal by the way when things weren’t going our way and Hunt was partly responsible. Oliver wins a contested ball at half back, handballs to Viney and puts a long kick to Trac’s advantage. While all this was happening Hunt made multiple leads to confuse the hell out of Liam Jones and in the end it left the square vacant for the ball to bounce through. Mind you, Hunt still beat Jones to the line. What are other forwards do we have that can do that? You don’t need a heap of possessions as a forward to influence the game.

We got a couple of mentions on the Carlton site. Jimmy Plunkett was one of the umps and we had 17 players enabling us 3 rotations whilst all 14 Blues played the entire 3x20 min periods.

I thought Curnow tagged Petracca or tried to for the majority of the game Dazzle. Did he switch on to Viney when Trac moved forward? I might have it wrong. Thought Viney lifted a bit in the last few minutes after been quiet for so long. Remember him getting to a few important contests.

Agree with that. The only thing to add is if restrictions continue during the regular season once you have been selected to attend a match you then go to the bottom of the line to at least give everyone a chance to attend.

Hope Hannan pulled up well after the scratch match. Takes Melskham’s place for mine.

6. Petracca 5. Oliver 4. Gawn 3. Rivers 2. Hunt 1. Langdon

Lol, unreal return to the footy. Likes for now.....Bennell looked like he got through ok. Trac is just a beast, would’ve lost without him I think. Rivers although not the same type as Whelan just looked like he belonged immediately. Reminded me of Wrecker’s debut. He might even get some votes. Good to see Hunt amongst the goals. Some of our boys looked dirty after the game

Never fails 3 up at a contest. Smiths fault

Rivers showing more composure than a few senior heads.

Lucky boy Smith

Awesome tackle Rivs

Good typing everyone. Go Dees!

Carlton tweeted there will be a report on the match on their official site tomorrow. Could be the same for us.

How long does it take for the roof to close?

From what we have seen all summer and the hard work they have put in both must be cursing themselves right now for something that just needed a little more thought in this current environment. Kossie so close to running out with his fellow draftees and Bennell, Spargo on the cusp of the 22. Like anything else, a learning experience. I’m sure Max will tuck both under his arms and have a gentle word to them.

Nibbler anyone ?