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    Re: Melbourne FC

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Lost to Adelaide in Adelaide (bottom 4 at the time)

    Lost to Woods in Sydney (bottom 4 team)

    Questions about travel? Not invincible.

    Games to come in Port, GCS, WCE & Geelong.
    We played dumb footy against them. Need to hunt Oliver and Petracca and punish them physically at every opportunity - ditto Gawn. Also need to spot up the short targets inside F50 to take their intercept marks out of the equation.

    They are an excellent team but not infallible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sedat View Post
    We played dumb footy against them. Need to hunt Oliver and Petracca and punish them physically at every opportunity - ditto Gawn. Also need to spot up the short targets inside F50 to take their intercept marks out of the equation.

    They are an excellent team but not infallible.
    Gawn was shaded by Max Lynch in the ruck today, have to get physical with him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    Gawn was shaded by Max Lynch in the ruck today, have to get physical with him.
    They’re similar to us. Get physical and their game drops away. We decided to do the opposite when we played them. Very similar to the elimination final last year against the saints. Show a bit of physicality and intensity and the result may have changed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogsthru&thru View Post
    They’re similar to us. Get physical and their game drops away. We decided to do the opposite when we played them. Very similar to the elimination final last year against the saints. Show a bit of physicality and intensity and the result may have changed.
    They shopped early against us with Libba and it was very effective. Oppo teams need to do the same on their big guns in the middle - they didn't like it today.
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    Re: Melbourne FC

    My concern is we are not naturally a physical or aggressive team.
    More of an In Bruges guy?

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    Re: Melbourne FC

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Lost to Adelaide in Adelaide (bottom 4 at the time)

    Lost to Woods in Sydney (bottom 4 team)

    Questions about travel? Not invincible.

    Games to come in Port, GCS, WCE & Geelong.
    There might be something too that BT but it's a good competition and closer than many people think. You only have to be a bit off your game and you will struggle to win.

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    Re: Melbourne FC

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Lost to Adelaide in Adelaide (bottom 4 at the time)

    Lost to Woods in Sydney (bottom 4 team)

    Questions about travel? Not invincible.

    Games to come in Port, GCS, WCE & Geelong.
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    Re: Melbourne FC

    Quote Originally Posted by azabob View Post
    My concern is we are not naturally a physical or aggressive team.
    How do you define physicality and aggression the way football is played now?

    We already are an aggressive team winning clearances, stoppages and top 3 in contested possessions.

    Both games we have lost was due to not counter acting with a strategy when Libba was beaten. We missed Dunnkley badly and need a plan b when Libba isn't clearing the ball.
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    Dunkley to Oliver next time. Give that pig faced git one hell of a night
    Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.

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    Re: Melbourne FC

    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    Dunkley to Oliver next time. Give that pig faced git one hell of a night
    Hopefully back then
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    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Hopefully back then
    Reckon he's every chance.
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    Re: Melbourne FC

    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    Reckon he's every chance.
    Yeah Dunks will get back earlier than expected I reckon. He'll will himself to heal!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ratsmac View Post
    Yeah Dunks will get back earlier than expected I reckon. He'll will himself to heal!
    Not with his questionable character and commitment.
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    Re: Melbourne FC

    That was the first time this year that the bad traits of Melbourne from years past reared its head. Low pressure (Spargo, ANB and Pickett had 4 tackles between them), lax defending across the ground and particularly through the corridor, their inside mids reverted back to being like bees to a honeypot and forgot about their opposition on the outside and they just torched the ball by hand (Pendles had an insane amount of intercept possession for a midfielder).

    Oliver and Petracca both had their worst games for the year.

    I thought as a club they had stamped out these behaviours but they're still lying dormant if today's performance is anything to go by.

    Oh, and one last thing...

    Weightman > Pickett
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    Folks have put Pickett into their mid season All Australian team, and while I know Cody's only played four games this year his numbers in those four games compare quite well with Pickett's:

    https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/...&fid1=S&fid2=S
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