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Honestly, probably the sort of loss we needed to have. Instead of getting these tighter results which allow the team to just barely hang on to the delusion that we're a premiership threat, a capitulation like this forces us to be realistic about where we are and will (surely!) provoke some...

Surely we can't just keep adding NQR key forwards to the list until one of them succeeds. If we take Howes we're going to have a Casey forward line of him, Brown, Fullerton, Schache, Jefferson and Turner if we want to develop him there. I know nothing about any of these players, but a 23 y.o...

Graphic design is my passion:

He says it was for his mum, but inspired by the jersey (about 1:20 in):

True, but you can only play against the team you're matched with on the day. I think that's just the sort of game that St. Kilda get other teams to play, and I thought we exploited it pretty well. I checked St. Kilda's results against other top 8 teams, and they also had much more than 80 than...

Good: Much cleaner with the ball this week, able to find space and move it much better. I mean that was partly due to St. Kilda being quite terrible, but scoring 100 against them is still pretty decent. We're only the second team this year to have scored 90+ against them. It's easy to take...

I honestly think we could have won the flag last year if Melksham and Petty hadn't gone down injured. We lost our two finals by 12 points, and Collingwood won their 3 by 12 points. It was a really even season, and while we wouldn't really have "deserved" to win, I don't think there were any...

From 2021-23 we saw a consistency of effort and a solidity of structure from this team which made us hard to beat even when we were playing poorly, but that's come apart at the seams this year. We were consistently second to the ball today, failed to run to create options when we were attacking...

Russel Robertson

As part of a 20-goal win vs the Tigers: I was at that game as a 10-year old, and I think I could have kicked 4 or 5 if they'd given me a pair of boots that day.

Melbourne players who qualify for anyone who cares: David Neitz (31/9) Garry Lyon (31/10) Players who nearly qualify: Jeff Farmer (27/9) David Schwarz (29/9) Allen Jakovich (25/11) Gerard Healy (41/8) Andy Lovell (36/8)

Only able to watch the second half, and not sure what to make of that. Effort there from what I saw (no idea what happened in the first half, obviously) particularly given the 5 day break, but still some dumb football and classic MFC frustrations along the way. But incredibly we probably should...

Interesting to remember that we apparently offered pick 6, 11 and a future first for Reid before the draft. I think there's still a legitimate case to be made about Reid being streets ahead of everyone else, and some uncertainty about what becomes of Tholstrup and the F1 pick, but given what...

We had pick 27 before all the priority picks, academy selections, F/S picks and so on. I had a quick look and it seems like there were 11 of those prior to pick 27, effectively turning our pick into 38. Logan Morris was taken with 31. I agree that we should have made better use of those picks...

Brisbane are cooked here, but Gold Coast are just trash. Same shit we've seen from them for the past 15 years.

Um, yeah, games against good teams are very often going to be 50/50 heading into the last quarter. That's what makes them good teams: they're not going to allow themselves to be steamrolled every time. Collingwood won their 3 finals by a total of 12 points - were they deserving premiers, or not...

Great in theory, but how do we execute that? We don't have players like Saad or Daicos in our back six, who can break lines or pick off perfect passes. We don't have a pacey midfield who can spread at the drop of the hat and consistently create possession chains from one end of the ground to the...

Haha, have a day off lads. Maybe it's time to touch some grass, or hug a puppy or something. You're endlessly trying to pass off mindless cynicism for hard-hitting realism on this board, and it's getting old. Take the L tonight and move on. Or, better yet, instead of posting memes, tell us what...

McAdam for Chandler might be a possibility, given that Chandler's been pretty quiet the last couple of weeks. But Chandler probably offers more up the ground and defensively than McAdam would. Hunter and Laurie probably the only other possibilities for Billings and / or Woewodin, but the latter...

"They only won because we were so shit" is one of the weirdest flexes you see in the BF ecosystem. Like, yes: you lost because you were shitter than the other team. That's how football works, generally. It doesn't mean you'll be less shit next time, just that you are capable of being shit. Great...

Good: Lever BOG second week in a row, and putting together a great season. Will be AA on current form. One of our better midfield performances of the year. Like I said last week, Langdon is back to his best form this year. Viney, Oliver and Petracca were down again in the first half, but I...

Yeah, I don't think I saw Hore make a single mistake all night.

On The Couch this week they were asking, "how do you coach against this Geelong side?" Well, that's how. A lot of people happy to sink the boots into Goodwin when things don't go our way, but we came in tonight with a clear plan to shut down their overlap game and their main movers (especially...

How many times in the last 6 years have we had these ****ers on toast, burnt all our chances, then watched them pluck goals out of their arse from everywhere?

Our forward efficiency has been one of the best in the league so far this year, which is impressive given the talent we've been running through there. Honestly, I don't mind watching these slogs, and I don't know why everyone here is being so negative. We're leading at half time against an...

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Feels like the last 4 Anzac day eve games have played out the same way, where they throw the kitchen sink at us for 2-3 quarters, we absorb it, then just roll over the top of them for a relatively comfortable victory: The good: Disco obviously. Don't think I had him becoming our forward...

Obviously you've got to nail the top draft picks to build a team around, and that's going to take time, but you've also got to find some players with lower draft picks to fill the team out, and trade effectively on the basis of needs, and North have failed badly at both of those. Here are the...

In a similar vein, the two lowest possession counts ever recorded are from this North Melbourne vs South Melbourne game in round 1, 1965: https://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/1965/121619650419.html I was thinking there might have been some difference with how stats were recorded in those...