Dee Zephyr

9 minutes ago, Neitz the Great said:

Anyone go today??

Will post shortly. 

Jesse is moving well, as is Salem. Notable absentees are, Vince, Hunt and Trac.

Is there a training thread for this week anywhere?

7 minutes ago, Is Dom Is Good said:

How's everyone looking?

They arrived about 5 minutes ago. Going through their warm up, about 34 in main group.

Weid, King and Filipovic training together with Stafford.

Can’t spot Vince though.

Hogan is on the track. Was heading home if he wasn’t.

2 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

1. Made many disposal errors

2. Was regularly outplayed by Menzel

3. His 1st half

4. The most important reason - the team will be improved with addition of those who replace him. 

We’ve harped on disposal efficiency many times before and it looked like he had a few howlers throughout the day but he was our highest on 93%.

It contradicts what we see. Petracca for example went at 58% for the day and he clearly was one of our best for the day.

43 minutes ago, praha said:

Throw in poor defensive efforts from our midfielders, and minimal two-way running, and you have the second quarter. 

Yep, all you have to do is look at the Guthrie goal in the second quarter. Infuriating!!

52 minutes ago, old dee said:

So the stated reason was BS?

Sorry OD, carried on a tad with my response.

IMO, yes to answer your question.

Pffft Plough!!! 

Conveniently he names Lewis as our third highest possession winner and only having 6 kicks but Trac had the same amount of possessions with 14 kicks and no mention of him.

2 out of 3 Cats’ highest possession winners had more handballs than kicks. 

1 hour ago, old dee said:

My are so many expecting Tyson to be added this week?

it seems he was left out because of his reduced pre season and that he had not enough game time before the first match.

He has not played since so he has had no chance to increase his game time.

If the stated reasons are correct then how does he play next weekend?

From all reports OD , Tyson was having one of his best pre seasons and only missed JLT 1 and a couple of weeks of training. He played JLT 2 and a Casey game the week before round 1 in which he was supposedly BOG. 

Compare that Lewis - 1 quarter of football in JLT 1 due to calf.

ANB- AFLX and JLT 1. Week off training due to groin/thigh.

Garlett - JLT 2 and a Casey game. 

Bugg and Brayshaw played AFLX , JLT1 and JLT2 and couldn’t get a look in. That’s a lot more game time than a couple of names above.

8 minutes ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

we will lose to Brisbane...mark it down. We are not where we think we are. We lack a key defender...Lever was never that and never will be. Our midfield has a core group of A Graders and then drops right away. We had no speed yesterday. The Forward line is completely dysfunctional, as is the plan to simply 'bomb it in' at every opportunity.  Goodwin has already stated he didn’t think he got any selections wrong, so given his stubbornness and unwillingness to ever take personal responsibility for losses, I expect an unchanged team and a loss in Brisbane. The Lions pushed us all the way last year and I expect that in Brisbane, they will be too strong. 

From the 5 talking points article.

Pre-game, Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin said Angus Brayshaw and Dom Tyson had simply been overlooked for selection, such is the strength of the Dees' depth.

So glad we can simply overlook those 2.

Max, Oliver and Trac combo.

Bernie steamrolling that puddy tat and putting him on his ass.

OMac’s rapid improvement.

8 hours ago, Males said:

Vince may miss a few games because of his hand? I know he played the rest of the game, but if it's a split webbing between his thumb and forefinger, he might be out for 3-4 weeks.

I believe Vince came into the game with the split webbing. The stitches tore off early in the game and he went down the race for repairs.

He’s a tough cookie our Bernie, loved his second half.

6 minutes ago, D4Life said:

 

The positive was Oliver, Trac, Jones were very good but not enough support. OMac held Hawkins to one. We only lost by 3 points and had a very average day!

One behind that is. The kid was really impressive today, never let Hawkins out of his sight even when they were basically walking through our goals in the second quarter.

Sitting behind the Punt Rd goals it was impressive to see OMac trying to settle our  other defenders down and barking instructions at them during that crappy 2nd quarter lapse. 

6. Oliver

5. Gawn

4. Petracca 

3. Vince

2. Omac

1. Jones 

Just now, Jaded said:

It looked high and it’s Vince and he plays for Melbourne. Probably 8 weeks suspension. 

Meanwhile Selwood won’t get looked at for the tunneling of Salem!

I couldn’t see from the other end if Vince got him high, it was marvellous regardless.

4 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Agreed. Sure he’ll get suspended but that’s how you make a stand, not giving away a 50 for mouthing off like an idiot. 

Our leadership continues to be a problem. Jones was good, but FMD our senior players have no idea. Jetta was good as always and I don’t know why he isn’t in the leadership team. More of a leader than Lewis!

Suspended? Are you talking about the incident when Vince had the ball and steamrolled the Cats player in our defensive 50 in the 3rd?

Vince showed Lewis a thing or two about leadership in the second half.

Hmmm, 8 goals 5 from 16 inside 50s the cats.

1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Darcy Moore to FF

Yeah, was it when they were 30 points down and 10 minutes to go?

25 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

Ethan, saving face on a footy forum, same sense of humour as @Petraccattack I see

 

Nah chap, the original intention was and always was, Rd 1  if everything went right, it didn't 

As anybody who has ever damaged a lower part of the body, in your rehab you subconsciously alter your gait, running style ever so slightly so as not to tweak the rehabbing  bit. this can lead to pressure on another bit that's not used to it

Think this occurred with both Viney and Tmac

I was just given an early heads up but kept it to myself knowing the Club was going to release

Going to training etc and talking I occasionally get a bit of advanced info, if I am told to keep it to myself I do

Hence my early call on a couple of selections last year, coz I was told I coukd or at least hint

Listen to Goody's bit abour rumour becoming folklore

You know what, %#%# that!

Various training attendees post reports to inform members on this site about training methods/standouts and they never make out that it’s about themselves. You do!!!!

Many appreciate your training reports but for crying out loud stop making out that you’re the only one privy to information. Your antics are tiring. I quoted you a month ago about Wagner’s progress and you had no decency to reply.

We are a resilient bunch and the discussion about round 1 selection has been fantastic. 

We won’t support the boys any less regardless of which 22 run out there!!!!

13 minutes ago, the rolling fog said:

Where was this, Dee77?

I should have posted it last night RF, apologies, from memory it was on Fox footy prior to the Druggies game last night. 

3 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

Tyson didn't look injured to me at training did the whole session

Brayshaw, maybe the days he missed took the edge off near game day

If you read my posts on this thread you would realise I don’t believe Brayshaw and Tyson are injured. This is some kind of statement by Goodwin IMO. 

I brought up Roos’ comments in case members weren’t aware.

It was interesting to hear the comments from Roos about selection this weekend. 

On Tyson and Brayshaw, “ they have to be carrying injuries otherwise there’s no way they shouldn’t be playing”. 

This is from a man that helped the club get better along with PJ. 

Forget fears for 2018, fear for tomorrow is four players having a case of Delhi belly tonight and having to replace them with some “ underdone” players.

Shame about Santos, just like Ace High he was stuck 3 wide the trip. You need to be exceptional to win under those circumstances in the wet. I almost got the first 4, the only piece missing was the winner.  

Well done to the winner!!