Me too. Fast become my favourite player. Hes got the bit of aggro, hes got the talent, he knows when to take it on himself, at the same time incredibley selfless. I just hope he continues on this upward journey and lives up to his true potential.
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Was a good win. I honestly didnt think we had it in us. How is it we can come out a week later with fierce attack on the ball, run into spaces, and pass to each other? What is it that makes the difference. Is it the endeavour? the bigger ground? the night game?
Was like a completely different team. Our midfield, which had been half hearted at best, suddenly decide they know how to play and so do.
And the midefeld is the key, if they deliver to the forwards look what happens, we kick goals.
Good effort from most of the team, lets hope they can produce it again next week.
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Dees fans really have nowhere to go re the Saga: The players to blame? But you got Melky and Pig. Staff the problem? You hunted Goodwin. All Dankās fault? Just take a seatā¦
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Dees got 5 goals from frees. Ess got 3 goals from frees. Chumpires inserted themselves into the game way too much, with a series of soft free kicks paid most of the night.
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My guess would be a different focus. Polish was mentioned by Zaka and Worsfold. Attacking mindset was very noticeable, we werenāt hesitant and our skills improved.
I thought we did pretty well with one less rotation and Smith missing 2/3 of the 2nd qtr. A few players got sent back out there after running to the interchange for a break. Itās impossible to know the impact but I feel Mutch going down cost us 3-4 goals. We still have plenty of improvement to make with our disposal.
Polish has to remain the focus, itās not even close to the best disposal teams and whatās required to be a great team.
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If your attack is damaging enough, the opposition has no choice but to defend - which means they arenāt attacking. Which is what happened to us most of the first two games. We havenāt got the in-game balance right yet.
It still looks like heās not back to full Zerret mode to me. His attitude has quelled a little, and heās been less adventurous. May just be the way Iām seeing it, I donāt know.
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Our hardness at the pill and then the speed to break away into space was the key. More please.
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I think itās at least partly structural, ive noticed him waiting a few metres behind the contested stuff, but heās still carefully positioned, my guess is heās either conscious its not his turn or heās keeping the numbers even with an eye on an opposition player.
but he didnāt think a melbourne loss would be that bad for them, as he could see them going on a 10 game winning streak anyway. sounds like someone whoās put a lot of money on Melbourne to win the flag this year. what a goose. woman bashing goose. allegedly.
I think he is related to one of the Melbourne players. .
Edit : above comment is incorrect, as other posters have clarified below.
Normally reasonably fair. Not this game. Bias was very noticeable.
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I agree it looks structural and deliberate. He seems to be waiting and that might not be a bad thing. Heās never been the type to bust through a pack like a Fyfe or danger. My gut feel is the ankle at the moment is preventing him from being peak explosiveness and balance in a tackle.
Side note and relative, golfers work on ankle strength for balance and to increase torque with the ground for them extra few yards.
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We got free kicks that we normally donāt get. But it doesnāt mean they werenāt there.
Carey mentionedā¦āI am not saying this because he is my relative but Angus Brayshaw is a super starāā¦something to that effect.
That to me explained his bias towards Melbourne and him over reacting to the umpiring decisions. He wanted them to win because of the tanking pressure put on them and also that they might fall behind in the finals race. There is no place for ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā like that in the commentary box.
Maybe he just wants to win his tipping competition against browney
Wasnāt he taking to James Brayshaw. Who is. Relative to Angus.
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He was referring to Brayshaw being a relative of JB, who was also commentating the game.
EDIT: @barnz beat me to it!
Thanks guys. That explains it. Ignore my previous comment.
One thing that became obvious was the lack of defensive running by Melbourne mids. Their defence is getting exposed by their āgunā midfieldersā laziness on defence. Oliver just hunts the ball and then moves forward. Jones and viney once the ball clears congestion are merely spectators. Brayshaw shows some token interest in getting back to help the defence but really only Harmes has the desire to work back hard the other way, mainly because heās set a tagging task. Our speed on the outside burnt them. Heppell and zaharakis showed some strong leadership and McKernan battled the game out well under duress. That intensity must become the standard. Need to back it up against a slick lions team now. Would love to see Parish assigned a run with role on Neale.
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He was biased towards Melbourne though. You see it a lot barracking for the bombers over the past few years. We are usually the underdog and so we make them look silly if the favorite doesnt win.
And if we cause an upset then tbey usually put the but into the losing team for losing to us.
I guess as comentators they are meant to understand the game and predict the outcome ahead of time, but instead of analysing they just read the papers or maybe just the betting odds.
Nathan Jones looks cooked.
I think our good players played well, but also our bottom six beat there bottom six.
Hibberd, Frost, Nealbullen, Jetta, McDonald x 2
Clarke, Baguley, Ambrose, Guelfi, Saad, Mutch
Tippa made Jetta look like a Amateur. Dees fans were thinking Jetta deserved to be AA small defender last year.
Frost got samashed by MCKernan
Nealbullen is the type of player that would ahve kicked four if Essington turned up.
McDonald got smashed by Ambrose
Mcdonald in defence wasnt great either, Frost and McDonald could get any intercept marks.
Clarke was serviceable for us, made a couple of Blues, but played a part in the win, creating contests,.
Ambrose shutdown McDonald played well beat his man
Hibberd shaded Baguley, but Hibberd didnt have a huge influence on the result so it is still probably a win for us as he didnt provide much run for Deesā¦
Mutch did hammy early and had no influence. still not worst on ground that probably goes to Frost 
Saady wasnt at his best and lost some confdience after giving away early frees for holds, that were pretty soft IMO.
Guelfi wasnt great, but he has improved on his form last week.