Toast Round 13 = Melbourne 71-72 Collingwood

[PieBeast]

I thought Langdon had a very good game; his tactics worked. Melbourne's tactics worked.

He kept arguably the best player in the competition to, as you say, moderate impact. One of the reasons we've been very successful over the last 2.5 years is because of Nick.

Langdon's primary role was to stop Nick and he did it successfully, and it was one of the reasons why Melbourne was in the game up their eyeballs against the best team in the comp.

But happy to disagree.

The argument that Langdon's 4 possessions game made them one player down is dumb as dogshit given he restricted Nick to being half a player he is.
It's glaringly obvious this had a more detrimental impact on us.

 

[JuniorB]

This was a script the WWE would be proud of! Well staged AFL! Turned me off AFL, but yeah, hope you get those short term dollars!

Even pausing the song again.... and pan immediately to the May/Gawn incident.... too fake and poor scriptwriting!

Not a product worth investing in anymore sadly.

They paused the song because Bobby was having a shot on goal.

 

[Apex36]

I think Gawn is getting too much credit here. He took 6 marks, not 16. Cameron was as much, or more, of a marking problem for them with 9. Gawn's marks weren't even close to game breaking.

Gawn had the ruck ascendancy but Cameron got the aerial and around the ground points. It was an even match up.

 

[Black_White]

Guess which one was a free kick?



No prizes as it’s pretty damn easy…

 

[Apex36]

I thought Langdon had a very good game; his tactics worked. Melbourne's tactics worked.

He kept arguably the best player in the competition to, as you say, moderate impact. One of the reasons we've been very successful over the last 2.5 years is because of Nick.

Langdon's primary role was to stop Nick and he did it successfully, and it was one of the reasons why Melbourne was in the game up their eyeballs against the best team in the comp.

But happy to disagree.

Other players have been able to keep Nick to similar numbers without shutting themselves out of the game.

It can be equally argued that one of the reasons Melbourne didn’t win was because a player who they usually rely on to move the ball forward was unable to have any offensive impact at all.

 

[Apex36]

This was a script the WWE would be proud of! Well staged AFL! Turned me off AFL, but yeah, hope you get those short term dollars!

Even pausing the song again.... and pan immediately to the May/Gawn incident.... too fake and poor scriptwriting!

Not a product worth investing in anymore sadly.

Fantastic does this mean you’ll stop posting?

 

[BillyElliott]

I thought Langdon had a very good game; his tactics worked. Melbourne's tactics worked.

He kept arguably the best player in the competition to, as you say, moderate impact. One of the reasons we've been very successful over the last 2.5 years is because of Nick.

Langdon's primary role was to stop Nick and he did it successfully, and it was one of the reasons why Melbourne was in the game up their eyeballs against the best team in the comp.

But happy to disagree.

No one has a problem with legal tagging.

But a lot of what Langdon was doing yesterday was not legal. And it should have been called out by the umpires earlier in the match.

 

[IlovethePies]

I only want one of his legs to fall off completely.

....oh, so only a flesh wound...

 

[IlovethePies]

No one has a problem with legal tagging.

But a lot of what Langdon was doing yesterday was not legal. And it should have been called out by the umpires earlier in the match.

Yes, Langdon didn't try to hide it. He was out there, infringing with eyes wide open.
It was the umpires who allowed it to continue.

 

[foreigner]

I thought Langdon had a very good game; his tactics worked. Melbourne's tactics worked.

He kept arguably the best player in the competition to, as you say, moderate impact. One of the reasons we've been very successful over the last 2.5 years is because of Nick.

Langdon's primary role was to stop Nick and he did it successfully, and it was one of the reasons why Melbourne was in the game up their eyeballs against the best team in the comp.

But happy to disagree.

He didn't even get single vote from his coach

 

[Fat Jesus]

This idea won’t age well if we get to the finals and Cameron has picked up an injury. I haven’t seen any poster comment that Steene or Smit is ready for the AFL yet.

Steene and Smit definitely not ready.
Just my opinion

 

[PIEWITHSAUCE]

That shows what a smart player Pez is.

And what a flog Pickett is..............running with his arms outstretched appealing for "too far" when a desperate effort may well have resulted in sticking a tackle.

 

[nahnah]

Next time we play Dee’s we should put Howie and Moore up forward and McStay and Mihocek in the backline, confuse the crap out of them. May will probably play as a forward the whole day without realising

 

[Big Bryza]

Yeah the Dees defensive structure was the most disciplined I've seen against us all year and combine that with the hard tag on Nick (too hard most the time obvs) it really nullified our run and quick transition. Feel like this game will be a great learning reference for September.

Watching from Level 4 it seemed as if we were content to take them on in an arm wrestle. Numerous times we could've switched the play but continued to go long down the line.

 

[Big Bryza]

Plus our down the line game has been good this year. We've been hitting ground balls hard and getting it in to Elliott in space. Just got to applaud them for clunking ****ing everything. They were awesome in the air.

Long down the line tactic works against some teams but not the Dees and Cats for example who are strong aerially in defence.

 

[Big Bryza]

I think Gawn is getting too much credit here. He took 6 marks, not 16. Cameron was as much, or more, of a marking problem for them with 9. Gawn's marks weren't even close to game breaking.

Let alone his hack kicks that go a mile in the air and barely ever to a teammate. I never see any criticism on his poor ball use. DC got smacked in hit outs but was equally effective around the ground. and used the ball far better than Gawn.

 

[Big Bryza]

I thought Langdon had a very good game; his tactics worked. Melbourne's tactics worked.

He kept arguably the best player in the competition to, as you say, moderate impact. One of the reasons we've been very successful over the last 2.5 years is because of Nick.

Langdon's primary role was to stop Nick and he did it successfully, and it was one of the reasons why Melbourne was in the game up their eyeballs against the best team in the comp.

But happy to disagree.

So they used their best winger who routinely gets 25 touches as a tagger, who ends up with 4 touches and negative metres gained. The only justification for it is that Langdon has been bathed by Sidey in the past few games, so they wanted to try a different tactic with him. Nick was influential late once the umps cottoned on to the cheating antics from Langdon.

 

[sr36]

I think Gawn is getting too much credit here. He took 6 marks, not 16. Cameron was as much, or more, of a marking problem for them with 9. Gawn's marks weren't even close to game breaking.

He massacred us at stoppage and was a strong interceptor. It was a ripping game from Maxy.

 

[Vicky Park]

I don’t want to use it as an excuse but a massive shoutout of failure to the MCG curator.

The ground was in terrible state.
I haven’t seen so many mud piles all over the pitch before.

Having so many matches played on it this weekend d with the amount of rainfall …required extra care, which wasn’t forthcoming

It was a substandard surface to play on today

The surface was poor for the game. Although we had a lot of rain leading up to it.

I had to be there early (it’s complicated), and when I arrived I saw this contraption out on the ground, which I’d never seen before a game. But it didn’t do much for that patch of muddy surface which was still there when the game started.

But geez we have high standards these days. Brought back not so fond memories of the centre at Vic Park (glue pit?) in the depths of a Melbourne winter.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

I've gotta side with the Pipe here, that caller was a moron.

Yeah not sure what he was talking about but I didn’t listen to most of Midday Madness yesterday to full grasp the context

Gawn was objectively better than Cameron on Monday so not sure how anyone could think otherwise

But I’d be interested to hear what Dwayne’s thoughts were on the umpiring.

It’s funny how everyone wants a Royal Commission on the rare occasion Collingwood wins the free kick count but it’s all “suck it up, don’t blame the umpires” when we don’t.

I saw so many troglodytes highlight the Melksham “push”. Dude tripped over his own feet (most likely intentionally after feeling Darcy’s hand lightly placed on his back) and fell into Howe but they want a push.

All while saying Nick wasn’t pushed by Langdon for hand contact that was more significant than Darcy’s lmao

How people can be stupid enough to not understand how momentum works. Daicos didn’t even attempt to accentuate the contact and it was still obvious Langdon used his rising momentum to further push him under the ball to stop him marking

 

[sr36]

I only want one of his legs to fall off completely.

I've got no issue with his legs. It's the head I'd like to see fall off.

 

[Pistol Night]

And what a flog Pickett is..............running with his arms outstretched appealing for "too far" when a desperate effort may well have resulted in sticking a tackle.

I was pissing myself watching that. Dead set gave up and appealed and his arms nearly hit Beaus back. Imagine Shoota or Beau squibing a chase like that

 

[riddick78]

The surface was poor for the game. Although we had a lot of rain leading up to it.

I had to be there early (it’s complicated), and when I arrived I saw this contraption out on the ground, which I’d never seen before a game. But it didn’t do much for that patch of muddy surface which was still there when the game started.

But geez we have high standards these days. Brought back not so fond memories of the centre at Vic Park (glue pit?) in the depths of a Melbourne winter.

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Not sure if you do know what it is, but it's pretty much a big sun lamp. I wonder if they'll let me borrow it for my back yard.

 

[Nepotism]

The surface was poor for the game. Although we had a lot of rain leading up to it.

I had to be there early (it’s complicated), and when I arrived I saw this contraption out on the ground, which I’d never seen before a game. But it didn’t do much for that patch of muddy surface which was still there when the game started.

But geez we have high standards these days. Brought back not so fond memories of the centre at Vic Park (glue pit?) in the depths of a Melbourne winter.

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That is on the MCG ground all day, every day during the week. It is meant to grow the grass.

 

[Bianconeri]

The argument that Langdon's 4 possessions game made them one player down is dumb as dogshit given he restricted Nick to being half a player he is.
It's glaringly obvious this had a more detrimental impact on us.

Nick may have been half the player he is but Langdon’s game wasn’t even an eighth of what Nick is.