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

[winalotroos]

OMG a lot of people getting piss off over a practice game.

I thought for most of the game our mids dominated, they used the wind better then us in the last.

 

[chickenonachain]

35 pages! You people are freaks.

FOS looks very good, but how ridiculously good is Harry?

I don’t want to hear how good anyone is I only want to hear how good our team is which at the moment is shit

 

[LB2Snake]

Just finished watching second quarter on delay. …….can anyone name me a more over rated defender than Corr. He’s the worst I can think of. Everyone loves to bag LMac, including myself, but at least he looks like he gives a shit. Corr is on 500K+ and has effectively stolen a wage from us. What a shocking recruitment in hindsight.

 

[datakid]

We really missed a shot to ship him off as a FA and get maximum compo last year.

Face it, the problem was no one else was paying. Ship him to where?

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Larkey has been fist ****ed by nobodies.

He is a fair weather forward.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Just finished watching second quarter on delay. …….can anyone name me a more over rated defender than Corr. He’s the worst I can think of. Everyone loves to bag LMac, including myself, but at least he looks like he gives a shit. Corr is on 500K+ and has effectively stolen a wage from us. What a shocking recruitment in hindsight.

He has delusions of grandeur.

 

[Uncle_Leo]

He'll be on a fat about now....

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Yes absolutely cranking one out

You could see this result coming a mile away. We are still 3-4 years away from winning games like that

 

[Devington]

Just finished watching second quarter on delay. …….can anyone name me a more over rated defender than Corr. He’s the worst I can think of. Everyone loves to bag LMac, including myself, but at least he looks like he gives a shit. Corr is on 500K+ and has effectively stolen a wage from us. What a shocking recruitment in hindsight.

Underdone he's a bit of a spud. When he's fit and healthy he's capable of really good form usually. Just not too often that he manages to be reach that.

 

[travelli]

LOL!

McKercher is no A Grader. He was instrumental in West Coast winning the ball back all day.

Based on today FOS is a country mile in front of McKercher.

McKercher will be dominant. You can tell by his frame and the way he moves. FOS too, but I don't want to call it after 2 practice games.

 

[shinboner magic]

I don't see it with Bergman, tbh.

Get a grip - he played 5 minutes.

How about the other hacks that played all game.

 

[Roosurgence]

Playing players like McDonald, Corr, Comben, Tucker, Stephens etc is like dick punching yourself.

If you are going to lose because of these spuds at least play kids with talent that will learn and get better.

 

[hilly]

No because that would be a win and that would piss off about half of the big footy crew.

Agree, Eagles are a top side and to push them to a goal in the wind, heat and hayfever is a great sign for 2025.

 

[shintemaster]

Just finished watching second quarter on delay. …….can anyone name me a more over rated defender than Corr. He’s the worst I can think of. Everyone loves to bag LMac, including myself, but at least he looks like he gives a shit. Corr is on 500K+ and has effectively stolen a wage from us. What a shocking recruitment in hindsight.

You're welcome to your take, unlike McDonald though Corr actually has to stand next to an opponent for most of a game and win 1 v 1's. He's a little short of run still, but has a couple of extra weeks to come good.

Playing players like McDonald, Corr, Comben, Tucker, Stephens etc is like dick punching yourself.

If you are going to lose because of these spuds at least play kids with talent that will learn and get better.

Tucker was fine from a role playing point of view. Comben / Corr is what we had to work with. Stephens won't start Rd 1. If I was choosing between Tucker and McDonald it wouldn't be a hard choice.

 

[deano28]

Seriously, relax, we played well, kicked poorly and lost, would everyone be more happy with the performance if we kicked one more goal?

Played well ??? Can’t cop that . Lost the clearances , poor defending in the D50 , shocking kicking for goal . That’s not playing well .

 

[The Brady Bunch]

He kicked it straight to a West Coast player when a North player was in 20 metres of space, all because he was a lazy ****.

I think the West Coast player on the mark may have got a hand in and changed the trajectory of the bakk but that doesn't mitigate the fact that Larkey should have hit his target who was 20 metres in the clear and streaming towards goal.

 

[Passmore]

Yes absolutely cranking one out

You could see this result coming a mile away. We are still 3-4 years away from winning games like that

Just one?

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[shinboner magic]

Forward line is shit a lazy pack of hobos

 

[jay317]

Everybody outraged about Corr like this isn't typical of every year for him. He hits his top gear middle of the season.

 

[Event Horizon]

Positives:

- midfield looked real good. X, LDU, Powell & Phillips all had a really good impact.

- Sheezel just continues to raise the bar. A freak in every sense of the word.

- FOS had some fantastic moments, really loved the moved to the half back in the second half, he really got involved and can actually defend.

- Daniel was so good. Class ball user, stuck some big tackles makes us look so much better, playing like he has a point to prove.

- RHJ found the ball, used it well and laid some solid tackles.

- Maintaining possession through big periods of the game was a real nice change.

Negatives

- Despite winning around the ground we just always found a way to lose. Getting a win would’ve given us some confidence going into round 1.

- We dominated between the arcs but our forward structure and backline really let us down. Our forward line looks clunky and there is never much space. We need to find a way to create more space.

- Our key backs are a shambles. Comben can’t be trusted ball in hand, Logue looks overweight and has seemingly lost his agility, Corr looks underdone and simply put, just shit.


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I would not give up on Logue and Comben over this.

So many positives from today. Just a bit rusty


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[Samsquanch]

He kicked it straight to a West Coast player when a North player was in 20 metres of space, all because he was a lazy ****.

It was probably worse than that.

He had a teammate in 20 metres of space around 50 out from goal on the right angle to ride the wind and who had no opponent who could have cut off the run into the open goal. Larkey wasn't under a lot of pressure given that even a kick roughly in the teammate's direction would have been good enough but instead he popped it up and it went directly onto the chest of a WCE player who himself was 20 metres in the clear and the rest as they say, is history.

 

[Mr north man]

dominated most of the day and lost to the wind lol, its all good, lots of positives, no injuries oh and the biggest positive is no wind at Marvel round 1

Yes and once we get Carey Blight and Shimma back in the side we be right wake up we will be lucky to win 2 games we have gone backwards.
As for Clarkson like McDonald will see out his contract he arnt going anywhere

 

[Possession]

That Larkey mung that should've gone to Konstanty, that Comben fluff, Archers duff one .... ah well

These kill me, man. They actually kill me. There was a lot to like today TBH but I'm feeling pretty frustrated about the sheer inevitability of our losing late in these kind of games and those familiar God awful turnovers.

 

[Roosurgence]

McKercher will be dominant. You can tell by his frame and the way he moves. FOS too, but I don't want to call it after 2 practice games.

Dominant?

He runs into space and handballs it to the opposition or a teammate under pressure.

He will never be dominant with decision making like a reserve grade suburban footballer.

Yes he can run, but what’s the point if you just torch it.

 

[Horizons_00]

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I know we lost but that top 5 looks nice.

Stats don’t win games

We still can’t even beat the shittest team in a practice game with having top 5 of the possessions

It’s more of a red flag imo

 

[shintemaster]

Frustrating game. We really need to win something, I don’t care that it’s a praci game, it’s a mindset thing.

Zurharr I can’t even. Hasn’t shown an inkling of improvement for years. He should’ve been the easiest decision to let go in FA and reap the rewards of another high pick, but alas.

I get why they couldn't do that - they were done bleeding players, about to bring in Darling, Parker and Daniel but if I was pushed I agree and thought so before he signed.