Review R17: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Melbourne Demons

[DangerSloane]

80% of the team looked out of sorts yesterday

And watching a little closer yesterday it's fair to say I've under estimated just how good May is. His ability to read the play and his timing is a little freakish

Hes on the same level as Wayne Carey in the shit bloke good footballer scale.

 

[SugarShane]

I think that game has been forgotten in the archives as I’m sure when the data came out a month ago about comebacks we were the only side that didn’t have a win with a 4 or 5 goal comeback win?

The report I'd been going on was specifically since 2022 - https://www.afl.com.au/news/1300218...eback-kings-with-another-second-half-comeback

To that point we were the only club (since 2022) to not record a 4 goal comeback win.

 

[SugarShane]

Should start a thread ''Quotes of the AFC ''

He will get a rest sometime this year
Murphy is finished
Youth will be prioritised
Smith is break glass
Nicks is a Premiership Coach

Murray Davis will sort out selection
His opportunity will come, he just needs to make sure he's ready for it

 

[CrowBloke]

He hasn't come back from addiction even half of that player.

A couple others have mentioned this; one even said it was 'coke'.
Does anyone have a link or more info about that, please?

All I could find was something about "Prescription drugs".

 

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

I'm confident that we'll rest him if he needs it

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His fingers are starting to look like he has shares in a medical tape company!

 

[madstar]

Sounds like someone went early with the 8 weeks

Or trolling

Not trolling. Just hoping someone was right. Would be very happy if it was a week.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

My Couch Votes
5. Rankine
4. Peatling
3. Keays
2. Soligo
1. Keane

 

[Eagleboy2011]

My Couch Votes
5. Rankine
4. Peatling
3. Keays
2. Soligo
1. Keane

I would like Dawson somewhere in there.

 

[Samcro24]

I would like Dawson somewhere in there.

Get your own couch then I guess

 

[Slime Roy]

Murphy gets dropped, then as fate would have it gets back into the side after a late out, then gets a half due to injury.

There should be a term for that, Lachie’s Rule or something.

"Goatos"

 

[SugarShane]

Murphy gets dropped, then as fate would have it gets back into the side after a late out, then gets a half due to injury.

There should be a term for that, Lachie’s Rule or something.

Murphy's Law?

 

[dani_giuls]

Just heard Rachele out for the rest of the H&A season, but hasn't done an ACL.

I was reading about the mushroom murder verdict so only half heard the story - they did mention the injury and compared it to a (Victorian??) player, but I missed it

 

[Soggy2112]

Good: did what good sides do and recovered after a flat start.
Bad: the forward entries, particularly in the first halves have been diabolical the last two weeks. I thought we’d got past that?
Ugly: Rach, crossing fingers and toes the news is good

 

[Samcro24]

Murphy's Law?

Nah that won’t catch on

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Just heard Rachele out for the rest of the H&A season, but hasn't done an ACL.

I was reading about the mushroom murder verdict so only half heard the story - they did mention the injury and compared it to a (Victorian??) player, but I missed it

Sam Darcy possibly

 

[cmndstab]

Coaches votes:

Adelaide v Melbourne​

10 Izak Rankine

23

Izak Rankine

Age

25

Ht

179cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

4star

CL

1.7

4star

D

13.0

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

4star

CL

1.7

4star

D

13.0

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

5star

CL

1.7

4star

(ADEL)
6 Steven May

1

Steven May

Age

33

Ht

193cm

Wt

101kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.7

4star

K

10.5

4star

HB

4.2

3star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.5

3star

MG

307.3

4star

D

15.5

4star

K

12.1

5star

HB

3.4

2star

M

3.4

3star

T

0.5

1star

MG

378.4

5star

D

12.4

4star

K

8.8

4star

HB

3.6

3star

M

3.2

4star

T

1.8

4star

(MELB)
5 Kysaiah Pickett

36

Kysaiah Pickett

Age

24

Ht

171cm

Wt

73kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.0

2star

K

4.7

2star

HB

3.3

3star

M

0.7

1star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.7

3star

D

8.0

2star

K

4.7

2star

HB

3.3

2star

M

0.7

1star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.7

3star

D

8.0

2star

K

4.8

2star

HB

3.2

3star

M

0.8

1star

T

2.4

4star

CL

0.8

3star

(MELB)
5 Ben Keays

2

Ben Keays

Age

28

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.1

3star

K

5.8

2star

HB

7.3

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.9

5star

G

0.4

3star

D

13.7

3star

K

8.7

3star

HB

5.0

3star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.7

4star

G

0.3

3star

D

13.0

4star

K

4.8

2star

HB

8.2

5star

M

1.4

2star

T

4.4

5star

G

0.4

3star

(ADEL)
4 Jake Soligo (ADEL)

Few different ways to break that down, but at least there was agreement on the best five players.

I'm surprised to see Keays in there... did I underestimate his game? I would have had Dawson, Peatling, Turner, and probably a few others in there ahead of him.

 

[Cromulant]

Coaches votes:

Adelaide v Melbourne​

10 Izak Rankine (ADEL)
6 Steven May (MELB)
5 Kysaiah Pickett (MELB)
5 Ben Keays (ADEL)
4 Jake Soligo (ADEL)

Few different ways to break that down, but at least there was agreement on the best five players.

I'm surprised to see Keays in there... did I underestimate his game? I would have had Dawson, Peatling, Turner, and probably a few others in there ahead of him.

Season high disposals, 5 shots on goal.

I probably underestimated his game a bit too. Dawson was very good also

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Amazing that it was Keays again, but I reckon we got away with that goal review. The angles on the review completely ignored McVee's swat. Spent all the time checking May and the other defender, and by the time they rewound the tape enough they'd already made their decision. Don't know for sure whether McVee made contact, in real time it looked like it, but they didn't even go to a different angle on his touch.

Doesn't quite make up for the Sydney one, but Melbourne could rightly feel a bit annoyed by that review.

Looked a clear touch when they finally showed the whole play but as you say, by then the goal had been paid.

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Coaches votes:

Adelaide v Melbourne​

10 Izak Rankine (ADEL)
6 Steven May (MELB)
5 Kysaiah Pickett (MELB)
5 Ben Keays (ADEL)
4 Jake Soligo (ADEL)

Few different ways to break that down, but at least there was agreement on the best five players.

I'm surprised to see Keays in there... did I underestimate his game? I would have had Dawson, Peatling, Turner, and probably a few others in there ahead of him.

Viney stiff. Thought he was close to BOG.

 

[CrowBloke]

if he has a long career, he should think about getting some shares
or
get his Manager to do an Ad. deal with him ... as in:
"Hi, I'm Riley Thilthorpe Crows forward, AA team player and Premiership Medallist and I want to tell you about [name of bandages here]" ... <<holds up packet in Knuckles-Kerley type hand>> ... "which have held my fingers together for over 10 years".

 

[CrowBloke]

I'm surprised to see Keays in there... did I underestimate his game?

Maybe.
I thought he was in the mix.
2 goals, busy up and down the ground. I'd like to see a heat map of his game

 

[CrowBloke]

Watching the afl mini-match replay.
Another poster suggested that it might have been a Coach instruction to play from behind I50, especially to get Thilthorpe one-on-one in space.
In the first 15 minutes, the ball is delivered a few times towards Thilthorpe (behind) but not long or deep enough for him to muscle his way into a mark.
Each time, the kick forward is picked off.
That's on the blokes kicking forward, the deliverers.

 

[n4sir]

A couple others have mentioned this; one even said it was 'coke'.
Does anyone have a link or more info about that, please?

All I could find was something about "Prescription drugs".

Is that like Wayne Carey's plastic bag of "Ibuprofen" that he was busted with at Crown Perth? (that has to be close to the most expensive no-brand painkiller going around)

 

[n4sir]

One to add to the ugly pile: what was the story of the line marking at AO not being refreshed during the week? Did they forget to do it, or couldn't be arsed? The leftovers from last week looked pretty shabby when the sun was out - it was almost impossible to see the outer center circle.

 

[CrowBloke]

Is that like Wayne Carey's plastic bag of "Ibuprofen" that he was busted with at Crown Perth? (that has to be close to the most expensive no-brand painkiller going around)

I have no idea; never heard of the incident, sorry.