Game Day AFL Round 13 - Matchday Discussion North Melbourne@Collingwood(Gabba- 7:10PM)

[GreekLunatic]

North tanking

 

[Good_Old]

Appleby is rotten. Need to get rid of him.

 

[mike123]

Who does he replace in our backline? Nobody I'd drop for that absolute butcher

Varcoe, Noble or pushes Maynard higher up the field.

 

[AuTo00Z]

A win's a win, but gee that was ugly.

Better than our last 3 games, so I'll take it.

 

[gouki88]

As well as Cox has done in a few bits of play he still gets edged under way too easily

 

[Chilli Con Incarnate]

He's not a defender either

Must be a mid! It's all been a big misunderstanding

 

[Chrispiesssss]

I’ll tel you what pisses me off... we let them get an easy rushes behind. That’s just little things that show the commitment.

 

[gouki88]

Varcoe, Noble or pushes Maynard higher up the field.

Quaynor replaces Varcoe, and Noble is much better than him. We're also missing Howe and Langdon. He would never get a game, and rightfully, because he's terrible

 

[soreplums]

Imagine being one of the people tearing shreds off Madge the last few weeks, fu** you'd feel like a goose. Gone at ~90% by foot every week since he came into the side.

I wasn’t a huge fan, but he has been good tonight

 

[Doc1763]

Well, it was ugly as hell, but I didnt think we'd win by 5 goals.

 

[Brad Goodman]

Makes sense that the only teams we can beat are 16th, 17th and 18th.

 

[gouki88]

Makes sense that the only teams we can beat are 16th, 17th and 18th.

And 15th, lol

 

[gouki88]

How about Pendles in that 2nd half!

 

[AuTo00Z]

What a snooze fest

Well Appleby at least tried to make it entertaining by acting like a complete clown.

 

[CaptainHowdy87]

Come on Rhyce, you know the words!!!

 

[Horaceg]

Well I don't know how they do it from your way but they don't tell players to go out there and lose...so not sure how it affects culture.

If you are "managing" (given tanking seems to stop peoples rational thought process) a poor season it is done through selection, player positional experimentation and the blooding of youth whilst senior players are sent for surgery to prepare for 2021.

Systemic tanking is another matter, the type Melbourne and Carlton did where they sought to occupy the bottom 3 of the ladder for an extended period 3-4 years whilst removing all senior talent from the list. This is what kills a clubs culture and can have a negative impact for a decade or more.

This season is still on, if we can make finals anything is possible

 

[LuckyLee]

Phillips 9 touches and had no impact.

He has really fallen away badly from last year, when he’d get 30 touches and have no impact.


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[mike123]

Quaynor replaces Varcoe, and Noble is much better than him. We're also missing Howe and Langdon. He would never get a game, and rightfully, because he's terrible

YNoble is ok but he doesn’t have the speed or physicality of Marley and his kicking whilst better isn’t better enough to get him ahead. Howe or Langdon replace Madgen and I wouldn’t play both as it slows us down too much.

 

[soreplums]

Imagine finally getting a game and you get played at the wrong end.

Worked for Mihocek

 

[Leviathan Pie]

Phillips 9 touches and had no impact.

He has really fallen away badly from last year, when he’d get 30 touches and have no impact.


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He's delist areas.

 

[Black_White]

Phillips 9 touches and had no impact.

He has really fallen away badly from last year, when he’d get 30 touches and have no impact.


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Should be 9 touches and a goal.
DEAD SET CHEATS!

 

[Ugene41]

Just wondering why when our players get the ball,instead of just kicking the damn thing,they stop,prop,and handball backwards to someone who’s in a worse position than they are.It’s just so obvious.Surely the coaches aren’t coaching them to do this,are they?

Pretty sure that's just Mayne. Most useless 24 possessions I've ever seen. Even when he gets a free kick in our attacking half, he wants a 15m chip kick so someone else can have the responsibility of kicking inside 50.

He even handballs directly to a player 1m in front of him with their back to our attacking half such that they need to run backwards around Mayne to kick it forward. Bloody infuriating.

Scharenberg is like Brad Hill in terms of metres gained compared to Mayne

If he gets another game....

 

[jathanas]

Phillips 9 touches and had no impact.

He has really fallen away badly from last year, when he’d get 30 touches and have no impact.


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I'd argue he's more efficient these days. Same impact with less effort.

 

[bunter]

Phew!
just made it with no cans to spare, onto a bottle of red to celebrate the win.

 

[No SPIN]

YNoble is ok but he doesn’t have the speed or physicality of Marley and his kicking whilst better isn’t better enough to get him ahead. Howe or Langdon replace Madgen and I wouldn’t play both as it slows us down too much.

Noble can kick both sides, is faster and a far better user than Marley - all that is trumps Marleys aggression.