Pros:

Moved the ball pretty well. Won the inside 50 count.
Cerra, Ed and Weiters.
Walsh and Acres are about our only players who seem to find the ball in space. Their ball use wasn't great.
Curnow was good, but his kicking was even worse.
Forward line looks more dangerous with Martin in the side.
Encouraging games from Boyd and Kemp. Best I've seen Kemp kick the ball.

Cons:

Inaccuracy and inability to get players free in forward 50. You're never going to win when you can only kick 6 goals a game. Opposition know they can play really attacking, because once they get to 7 goals, they've won the game.
Too slow.
Midfield beaten again.
Tackling insipid.
Umpiring was very poor. Lots of sock Essendon* goals from frees. Normally the hopeless team gets a little sympathy. But not yesterday.
Young, Cripps, Docherty, Kennedy, TDK, Motlop, McGovern.
I know it's hard when you're constantly losing. But getting a bit sick of Voss telling us 'we'll go to work on that'.

Yeah , extremely low behaviour . We really deserve what we get . All families have arguments but you never take it out of the four walls . Fancy airing your dirty linen in public . It is worse than low actually .

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All my dangerous friends

There’s always the truckload of chicken manure outside Princes Park approach.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Yep. I understand the frustration and I was as frustrated as anyone but you don't stand there behind a fence abusing players trying to make a hero of yourself. Telling Jack he's a disgrace to the family name etc.
Embarrassingly pathetic.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

Pro

It was good to see at least some change and focus on moving the ball quickly and being far more attacking than well any other time this season.
Cerra is a very good player despite some inconsistent form here and there, this kid can play.
Good to see a little more use of run and carry - especially looking for and using Saad more often.

Cons

Whilst its good to have a more attacking free flowing intent, you simply cannot have no or little forward structure in place to take advantage of it. How many long range hope for the best shots were taken from fast breaks, but noone to kick to in the forward line?

Not sure who does tackling drills, but all of our team basically cannot tackle well, if at all, or at least aroound the arms of the player with the ball so that they cannot get an effective handpass away to a running outside player. The druggies managed to do this numerous times and got multiple goals from it.

I know Motlop is young, but generally he has had zero impact. But he isn't alone there. Our small forwards have been fairly ineffective all round.

Cripps. I love him. But he looks cooked, injured, lost interest .... to name a few, maybe its a mixture of all of them. Nice of him to strongly voice not to question his motivation etc for this club, but you haven't shown it for a long long time. Words mean nothing. You are our captain. Show us u are and lead by example!

Goal Kicking x 100000000%. FFS. These are professional AFL footy players, and they miss, miss, miss and miss again... WTF!!!

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Cripps is the man

'if we kick straight we win' is so simplistic. So many of our shots were low percentage, high degree of difficulty. We make it so hard through all elements of our play.

The kicking for goal is abysmal though.

Like every other aspect of our game.

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Congratulations CK95

I agree
They are having a go but simply not good enough
Unless we change our List strategy now we will be out of final 4 calculations for a while

Also he kept spoiling teammates in marking contests. Or maybe they were spoiling him. But that stuff last year about being the best teammate you can be doesn't seem particularly evident in how they're playing.

Agree with all except JSOS. May not be the most skilled but I can't question his endeavour for the whole game

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If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you!

I present Exhibit A Your Honour

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If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you!

Yes, it goes deeper than just having a day off with the boot. I think Carlton's opening score of 1.5 came from5 shots outside the 50 (or 4 - I can't be sure).

And what is Exhibit A evidence for?

North pushed Essendon* more so than we is and only got beat at the end by 6 points.

Wow where are we at?

We're bottom 3, Rod. On current play, there's no way we beat hawthorn. As it is, norf nearly beat us.

Sorta competitive for large chunks of the game . Sorta . But Essendon* are a very young side and severely depleted with a swag of injuries . So , all in all it was another bad day at the office . Time is now to bring the youngsters in to see if they can cut it . At a minimum Kemp , Cowan , and Binns must play in the remaining games .

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All my dangerous friends

That's OK if we are a developing team to have developing players learn their trade, but we have been after a Finals spot: top 8.
Our small forwards should be developing in the VFL.

Motlop does have a good first quarter when he's giving it his all, like a small forward, but then he runs out of gas.
A bit early for an AFL player to be running out of gas. This has been all year long except against the Eagles.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Papley would be quicker and hussle to win the ball.
Rachele and Rankine would be quicker and bring some party tricks.
Lachie Schultz would be quicker and kick a goal or two
Liam Baker would be quicker and find a tackle or two and kick a goal
Bolton would be quicker and kick a goal or 3, and win a few midfield battles
Gresham, Butler and Higgins would be quicker and find a goal from a good tackle free
Charlie Cameron wiould be quicker and burn off opponents to score 3-5 goals
Weightman would be quicker, tackle harder adn snag a goal or two
Junior Rioli would be quicker, take a mark or two and klick a goal
Bedford would be quicker and kick a couple goals
Melb and Pies are loaded with faster smalls

Get the drift?

Motlop, Durdin, Owies and Fisher are not possessed with speed needed to survive in the AFL imo.
It has stood out since day 1.
Having said that Durdin did look bloody dangerous as a dfending small forward on day 1.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

I would have gone if I was in Melbourne.
I gues I could have made the effort, and would have if the Blues were definetely going to give it a crack.
I thought they might, but I have builders on site renovating for a few weeks, and I dont trust them...the builders and the Blues.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

8 months younger on average with average of 9 games less experience

Take Ed out and same as us

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If you allow the Government to change the Laws in an emergency
They will create an Emergency to change the Laws

Syd Jackson has come out in support of the players.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/it- ... 5dg80.html