I was thinking along similar lines, wondering if having to work so hard to get a decent shot on goal puts all kinds of pressure on the kicker to make it count vs knowing another shot on goal is just around the corner means less pressure and better accuracy
A classic Melbourne game, a comedic journey from start to finish, highlighted by:
- The obligatory giving up a goal in the dying seconds of a quarter. Not content with doing it once, 3 times a charm. Tick
- Managing to pull off the ever elusive 3 goal turnaround. Essentially costing the match...
I thought that as well, but turns out in that rookie draft we took Lachlan Filipovic at 8, and Tim Smith at 25, before Brisbane took Oscar at pick 37. We did use Pick 41 as well, but the boat had already sailed. So I guess we didn't like him that much
Dropping the third tall from the forward line as well as now using Turner as the 3rd tall defender makes us quicker and seems to help us play out games. But I can't help thinking that Goodwin will bring back the 3rd tall forward and we'll drop off again
I'm guessing van Rooyen will still be doing some minutes in the ruck, which sucks because it stuffs up his game and having our best tall forward needing to ruck at all is a real problem. would much rather Turner do that but not sure he has been tried
Makes you realise how lucky we've been making finals keeps us away from these knobs and the other C graders most weeks, I've got a feeling next year is gonna be painful listening
Yeh I'm feeling the same way, it took so many years to work our way up from one of the worst teams of all time to win a premiership, and not saying we should've won another one, but felt like we'd be thereabouts in the finals for at least another couple or so years. But unless there's some...
Yeh our selection integrity is completely cooked, has been getting worse over the last couple of years, but this year has rapidly gone from frustrating, to desperate to a denial spiral by the coaches. The standards the club worked for so long to build are all being undone in such short time...
I stopped watching after a few minutes when Oliver received a hand pass from Rivers, dodged back into traffic (fine) but then instead of feeding it back to 1 of 3 teammates who were open and facing our goals, he decided for no apparent reason to screw the ball over his shoulder with a 20 metre...