Earl Hood

I am married to one! We sit apart at matches.

Mind boggling stuff. I was at the Melbourne game behind the goals but upstairs and the noise levels were off the chart with that ball coming in. And how many decibels does a ball supposedly glancing off your passive right hand as the ball missed Marchbank’s active left hand? Surely the goal umpires should be trained to call it a goal unless they clearly see a deviation of the ball. If they have any doubts ask for a review to clarify. But then the technology deployed at present is deficient.

The team is not tall enough!

They then fax the result of the review through to the announcer I believe. The wonders of modern technology.

6 Brayshaw 5 Rivers 4 Petracca 3 May 2 Lever 1 Viney

Yes I have noticed goal umpires calling touched when they could only be guessing. Unless you see the ball deviate or hear a slap it used to be assumed to be a goal. A few weeks ago one of the umps called touched from a snap 25 m out from goal. The review played back and forth on whether someone’s finger moved. I mean there was no way the ump would be knowing from that distance. Are they tending to guess now because they have the video review?

6 Brayshaw 5 Tracc 4 Hunter 3 Viney 2 Kossie 1 ANB

And don’t forget Viney!

Don’t get too cocky Uncle remember the Master Coach is back this week!

6 Petty 5 Gawn 4 Viney 3 Tracc 2 Melk 1 JVR

This is looking ugly

What’s going on at centre bounces? Zero pressure on the ball carrier, Max tapping backward when we have 3 guys forward of him. Set shots killing us but we need to apply a lot more pressure right across the ground.

Dissent is back but insufficient attempt to keep the ball in play is dead for this game at least if it involves Collingwood.

The Maggots have turned feral!

Hey dissent is back! It’s been missing for 15 weeks.

NUP

Yep Tomo stays in. If Petty is fit I think he could play forward replacing Brown or do a warm up at Casey as I think he hasn’t looked right in recent games, allowing Smith another chance forward.

6 Viney 5 Kossie 4 Brayshaw 3 Gawn 2 Chandler 1 Rivers

That wasn’t actually a high tackle.

Port should have been 5 or 6 up but now we have a ball game.

I am not sure what’s changed since last few years that has the media & our FD thinking that we have to convert Grundy into a gun forward or he moves on or plays VFL. We played both Max and Jackson in the team in 21&22 with Max doing the bulk of the ruck and Jackson more time forward where he was OK without dominating as a forward, he was a not contested marking beast. Jackson kicked 30 goals in 52 games. I note Grundy has kicked 9 in 13 games, similar return. Both LJ and BG are very mobile for their size and cover the ground well so not sure what is different this year, that we can’t run BG in the LJ role, perhaps with agreement Max takes 70% of the ruck duties. We know the forward line has been a shambles this season (but so has the delivery into it)so something had to change. I wonder if the loss of Fritsch, decision to drop Smith and the recall of BBB has convinced the coaches they can’t run such a top heavy forward line?

6 Gawn 5 Tracc 4 Viney 3 Rivers 2 Brayshaw 1 Melksham

Backs have no hope the way the ball is sling shotting back from our half forward line straight through the corridor. Our ball entry into our 50 is slow, predictable and inaccurate and just comes straight out again. We refuse to use the full width of the ground just kicking back into traffic inviting a turnover.

Buddy gets another soft free.

I thought Tom Freeman 67 for Casey played well today. Does anyone have info on him, his age, size. Looked very composed in the backline? Would he be worth a rookie spot next year?