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Sucked in Port.

I liked the fact we look to move the ball quicker and at times through the corridor. The fwd line seemed less congested and we delivered it a hell of a lot better than we normally do. TMac should be offered a one year contract for next year.

Quick ball movement and low penetrating kicks to a leading fwd.

Fritsch is a gun.

Ball movement so much better. Entry into fwd 50 so much better.

Hogans set shot routine just went next level.

Logan McDonald had re signed for 4 more years.

Is the salary cap going up next year? If we’re serious surely we could offer a bit with cap increase plus pending retirements.

Of all the years to do a Melbourne, we chose this one.

Jack Higgins miss highlights what’s wrong with fwds.

Any chance of anyone kicking straight. Saints and Port making hard work of it.

Watched parts of Suns v Pies & Cats v Bombers. Again once the Pies force a turn over they are off, and rather than just bomb it down the line their players sprint to find space and a series of low quick kicks finds them hitting up a fwd, Hill more often than not who has sprinted towards goal via the corridor. Geelong seemed to from what I saw leave Stengle or another (not sure who it was) deep fwd at times so when they turn the ball over they have a fwd leading up at the ball. I think we could also use tactics like these.

On Fox Footy this morning they were replaying highlight packages from previous encounters between Melbourne and the Lions. The one of most interest was the 2021 qualifying final, we moved the ball quickly (not like Collingwood do now but quicker than we do currently) we would take a mark at half back or on the wing and we would turn and go kicking towards CHF before turning and kicking to a less congested fwd line. Our small fwd were at the drop of the ball and our pressure was immense. Anyway that seems like a lifetime ago now…..

All good, I’m on holiday and I’ve had a couple so just thought I’d clarify.

Is Rooter JVR?

He’s 27, (not being smart, just sitting in an airport waiting lounge with time to kill).

Why?

I think the Eagles are a chance today.

Stuff me Bub, I’m getting over a bout of influenza and it hurts to laugh…..

If Trac and Lever played last night what would have been different? Obviously you could start with potentially the score line and argue that our backline would have been more organised with Lever there or with Trac in the middle we would have stretched Norths match ups. But would it have changed Oliver’s game? Would it have changed the way we move the ball or our entry inside fwd 50 which is clearly affecting Fritsch’s game? Would it have changed some of our woeful set shots on goal, basic skill errors or our inability to not score in the last qtr? What about when we kick in after a behind and we nearly always go long to Gawn? We have too much talent to be playing like this, my biggest concern is we’ll start to have talented players want out come seasons end. Goodwin clearly doesn’t see a problem with the current gameplan or doesn’t have the skill set to do anything about it. We’ve done the whole swap some assistants around and that hasn’t worked. Look at Hinkley, I laughed when Port extended his contract. Difference here is Goody has a flag so what he says goes.

Exactly, I made a comment in the game day thread about isolating Fritsch like the Pies do with Hill but we’ll never do it.

Fritsch is a class player, why is that? Our ball movement and delivery plays a part, you can only see so much on the tv.

Maybe they’re sending a message.

Keep bombing it in, only the supporters that enjoy criticising the club have a problem with it. All the other coaches are loving it.

For different reasons.