AFL Game Day R21 2022

[G-Mo77]

I hope Bevo shows our lot what happens when not 2 or 3, or 5 or 6 but 22 players tackle their hearts out for 4 quarters.

And show all our forwards those tackles from Elliott.

Reminds me a of a team in 2016.

[Dry Rot]

Ben Brown is a really tall useless piece of s**t unless he marks the ball.

[comrade]

That Maynard tackle on Neal Bullen in the last was just a thing of beauty.

[MrMahatma]

That Maynard tackle on Neal Bullen in the last was just a thing of beauty.

It really was! He loved it too. His interview after the match was good viewing!

I’d like to hate the Pies but I don’t. I definitely hate the Dees.

[Grantysghost]

That Maynard tackle on Neal Bullen in the last was just a thing of beauty.

With the move towards non contact footy (stand !) it was a refreshing reminder of how great defensive acts can be.

Speaking of stand how many more goals would Dunstall have kicked if he could run around the mark outside 50.

Need to have an asterisk next to all records post stand.

[soupman]

McCrrey for the pies is a tough player that makes good decisions except for his hair cut

It's straight out of an aged care facility, we've been calling him Mother Hubbard all season.

[soupman]

Who should we have played Lipinski in front of? Forgetting that we offered him a contract that he didn't accept, and forgetting that we tried to squeeze him into the side on a wing but he couldn't nail the spot, who should we have played him in front of out of our regular brigade of midfielders?

I'm really interested to know what the answer is because it never seems to come to light in these discussions.

This belongs more in the list management thread, but this is why I am comfortable with losing a Dunkley (and maybe even Smith aside from the fact he is gonna be a superstar). I don't think we need all of our mids to be guns, and putting all your salary cap there means elsewhere gets neglected as we've seen. If we can redistribute that money so we are better balanced as a side i dont think we lose that much in our midfield.

Our midfield is an amazing list of players, but is definitely not greater than the sum of all it's parts, and freezes out anyone else coming through.

It sounds dumb because Dunkley is clearly better than Lipinski, but i dont think we lose that much if we swapped them. I agree with all your posts on this matter in this thread Jeemak, Lipinski was given chances in a multitude of positions and couldn't take them, but our inability to offer him a spot in his true position is what led to his departure and I don't think we gained that much by having someone else there instead of him.

I think there are a few benefits to us losing one or two of our gun mids:

-More opportunity for young/fringe players to actually get gametime there. Atm if you're a young mid with us the best you're getting is some gametime on the wing and otherwise you are just playing forward. West for example has seen virtually zero mid time in years. Also it has been mentioned that Dunkley and Smith are our only younger mids, which is partly because we don't have any room to develop any more coming through.
-More competition for spots. Atm the gulf between our last autopick mid and our first contender for that spot is so vast that dropping the former is only ever as a statement and the latter never gets a good enough run at it before they get swapped back. By giving those fringe guys a chance to prove themselves it puts pressure on the top guys to justify their selection.
-Less cruising. The more guys we can get in there that aren't already stars the more desperation we are going to have, which hopefully would help fix our issues of defensive lapses and workrate. If you can get a few types in there that embrace that challenge hopefully it kicks the remaining stars arses into gear. It could also mean that the remaining guns perform better as gamebreakers because there aren't 5-6 players in there all trying to get 30+ touches.

It reads much better as a hypothetical and is much harder when you attach names to the whole thing, and I'm not necessarily advocating pushing these guys out, but if they do go it could actually benefit us aside from just the picks we get back.

[bornadog]

That Maynard tackle on Neal Bullen in the last was just a thing of beauty.

The great thing about that tackle was it was all legal, no concussion, but would still have hurt. There was also a great tackle on Daicos when he played on. His ribs were really hurting.

[Testekill]

Ben Brown is a really tall useless piece of s**t unless he marks the ball.

I remember a lot of sleep being lost over how the Demons got him so cheap, he's not a great mark and flops the instant he doesn't get hands to the ball. Any competent tall forward could look great with that Demons midfield feeding them and yet Brown can't even do that.

[Bulldog4life]

Wish we had some of this Collingwood never say die attitude. They are a tough side to put away.

Last club to beat them were The Doggies. We beat them easily

[Bulldog4life]

Pickett has been as hard as a poo sandwich the last few minutes. I mean that's easy for me to say with my fat guts on the couch.

I can't figure out whether I'd be scintillated or really annoyed if I was following Melbourne right now.

Judging by your posts Jee I envisaged you as slim, taut and terrific.

[bornadog]

Judging by your posts Jee I envisaged you as slim, taut and terrific.

He is.

[jeemak]

Judging by your posts Jee I envisaged you as slim, taut and terrific.

He is.

Ha. Let's just say COVID/ lockdowns and working ridiculous hours over the past couple of years haven't been kind to me!

But, I'm turning the ship around ever so slowly.......

[GVGjr]

Just got a message from a Saints mate saying that they have thrown a player into the job of 'tagging' Stewart and at half time he has had just two kicks. Is 'tagging' one of theses new hip footy terms? Unheard of.

[DOG GOD]

Just got a message from a Saints mate saying that they have thrown a player into the job of 'tagging' Stewart and at half time he has had just two kicks. Is 'tagging' one of theses new hip footy terms? Unheard of.

Makes you wonder why “some” teams refuse to tag.