Game Day Community Series. North Melbourne v wc Saturday 1/3/25 Bunbury WA

[The Nostradamus]

No injuries the main thing

But not playing teakle or hardeman at all is a joke

 

[domiroo]

Same old shit .

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Reid is getting a tonne of star treatment for a bloke who hasn't done much yet.
Can't tell me the constant backpages haven't had an effect.

 

[Amicalola]

Having not been able to watch the game and only seeing the higher number of scoring shots. Should we have won? Or is it misleading?

We should have won but it is our own fault that we lost. I would take both the positive and the negative interpretation as accurate in this case.

 

[Roosurgence]

How can that be a handball?

When you are umpire that wants to keep the locals happy or are genuinely ****ing hopeless, that’s how it’s a handball.

The games become a bit of a parody now.

Umpires decide more results than players these days.

Any game that has a margin of less than 2 goals is a genuine coin flip based on how bad the umpiring has been.

 

[Disco Dew]

I'd have larkey and Comben in the votes for West Coast. Umps get the 1 votes for their sheer stupidity too.

Corr gets the 3 votes for giving them their first 4 or 5 goals of the game

 

[Gasometer]

Well that’s going to be a shit of a ground to play at in the middle of winter with that wind


A good solid run

Calm the farm

And Darling

 

[norfnuffie]

Was insane the amount we were getting held off the ball in those last 5 minutes

 

[apollo_creed]

24 shots to 16. Frustrating

Who cares?

We’re just lucky they didn’t get it in more. Our defence is horrible. Inaccurate kicking should not be what we take out of this game.

A shit side scored against us with limited opportunities and with consistent ease. We have shit defensive players and no defensive structure. Even when we dominate in the middle we can’t even beat the second worst side.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Failing to capitalise on periods of dominance juxtaposed with conceding five goals in six minutes.

 

[Ligma]

eh. I hate when we lose and easy to get carried away but it’s literally just a practice game. We have to hold our heads high and learn from this game.

Cannot wait for the season to start

 

[scottywiper]

Lots of promising signs. Honestly we dominated most of the game but were let down by pretty poor performance from our forward line. Larkey and Zurhaar in particular had shockers.

I was told Cam would get off chain with Darling there.

 

[Roosurgence]

Reid is getting a tonne of star treatment for a bloke who hasn't done much yet.
Can't tell me the constant backpages haven't had an effect.

He was ****ing shit.

Someone’s going to pay a boat load for an overrated bloke that does something special every now and then, but not much else.

 

[Amicalola]

Was insane the amount we were getting held off the ball in those last 5 minutes

I always wonder: why don't we do this to other teams? I feel like everyone does it except us....

 

[scottywiper]

Fair effort to choke in a pre-season game.

 

[Horizons_00]

Our defence is shocking

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Should be a team rule when we play WCE - anyone who kicks a juicy lob into our forward line and McGovern marks it they get a $10,000 fine..

Why the f*ck can’t we drag McGovern away from the play with a decoy?

 

[domiroo]

Jeez the melts here are funny. We’ve absolutely dominated. The signs are good

But they lost . That’s the point . We are still rubbish.

 

[Proeagle]

not sure what’s more embarrassing

Our performance or the Eagles celebrations for those last 2 goals

You guys did ok. Just kicked badly at goal. And those celebrations was not because of the scoreline. More about Hunt kicking an arsey goal from the boundary and the second was Bakers first goal for the club, albeit a practice game.

 

[jay317]

I know we lost but that top 5 looks nice.

 

[LB2Snake]

When waterman outmarks you it’s time to give it away

Corr is not a very good footballer. Has been killed and responsible for WC first 3 out of 4 goals.

 

[Themanbun]

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I know we lost but that top 5 looks nice.

Sheezel is a freak.

 

[Only Forwards]

Our ability to lose a game in a short stretch of a game would have to be almost unrivalled.

We lost that in the first 6 minutes of the second quarter.

See sawed the rest of it after then.

Let’s see how we go under a roof.

 

[archereleven]

Jeez the melts here are funny. We’ve absolutely dominated. The signs are good

Pretty sure there have been very similar posts for the last 5 years...

Signs are good?? [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

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[itchyscratch]

Deep breath. Well, FOS was great, Xerri, Darling, Daniels, Sheez did well. Mckercher had a howler, as did Larkey. Zuurhar lazy, Comben, LMac, Corr absolutely rubbish. I hate that we lost, but there were definitely some positives. Just such a load of shit in defence and apart from giving Whitlock a go I don’t see how they can turn it around.