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Autopsy Roast & Toast for North & Changes for Dreamtime v Essendon

Top 5 v North

  • 1. Nick Vlastuin

    Votes: 31 20.1%
  • 2. Jacob Hopper

    Votes: 41 26.6%
  • 5. Jack Ross

    Votes: 16 10.4%
  • 7. Rhyan Mansell

    Votes: 2 1.3%
  • 12. Ben Miller

    Votes: 3 1.9%
  • 13. Hugo Ralhsmith

    Votes: 17 11.0%
  • 14. Tim Taranto

    Votes: 68 44.2%
  • 19. Tom Lynch

    Votes: 4 2.6%
  • 21. Noah Balta

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • 22. Sam Lalor

    Votes: 94 61.0%
  • 25. Toby Nankervis

    Votes: 68 44.2%
  • 26. Jonty Faull

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 27. Thomson Dow

    Votes: 5 3.2%
  • 28. Kane McAuliffe

    Votes: 29 18.8%
  • 30. Tom Brown

    Votes: 8 5.2%
  • 31. Luke Trainor

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 33. Kamdyn McIntosh 200

    Votes: 32 20.8%
  • 35. Nathan Broad

    Votes: 16 10.4%
  • 38. Tom Sims

    Votes: 4 2.6%
  • 41. Sam Banks

    Votes: 54 35.1%
  • 44. Seth Campbell

    Votes: 93 60.4%
  • 48. Steely Green

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 49. Kaleb Smith

    Votes: 2 1.3%

  • Total voters
    154
  • Poll closed .

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What game were you watching?

Lost clearance by -21

14-4 out of the centre.

Xerri is the comp's best ruckman at the peak of his powers. Nank is at the tail end of his career, and both were their sides best players. Xerri dominates games, and he beat Nank 55 to 52 hit outs.

We were always going to be beaten in the clearances by a side with 4-5 first round midfielders - hence "fought valiantly" - we were beaten, but the mids adapted after 1/4 time.
 

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Was okay. Lalor played well, Kmac2 played better but lacked composure, seemed like he was rotating with Ross in the centre which brought Ross into the game so that was a win. Banks making a strong claim to permanently replace Short in that position.

Hopefully this finally forces Yze to make a bigger change to our midfield comp. You can't put Nank, Hopper, TT and Dow into the centre and get trounced in clearances like that. We need someone like Campbell rotating in there imo so at least we win can win on the outside. TT can play half-forward.

Don't think Green is going to make it. Plz retire Dion and let us get Raso in the MSD.
 
these are actually the games to be most disappointed by, evenly matched opposition and we had the better of the play.
I'm disappointed we lost but why do I feel like it wasn't that bad? Maybe because I thought we'd be smashed.

We were never going to be smashed because North Melbourne are hopeless; where we lost (aside from a handful of pathetic efforts from senior players in the last quarter) was that we dominated the play for a quarter-and-a-half and only put five goals on the board
 
we dominated 3 3 qtrs. but couldn’t move it past chf. thought nank was beate and got beaten in clearance’s. we need a bobby hill and a clean moving mid. we made lots of mistakes with ball in hand but intensity was strong. yze should have changed things up. question marks still on greene dow and hugo.
 
we dominated 3 3 qtrs. but couldn’t move it past chf. thought nank was beate and got beaten in clearance’s. we need a bobby hill and a clean moving mid. we made lots of mistakes with ball in hand but intensity was strong. yze should have changed things up. question marks still on greene dow and hugo. balta has low footy iq
 
To be sure, our experienced players had some poor moments. But I also saw a lack of composure and poor decision-making from our younger players in the last quarter. They’ll get better with more games.

That’s fair - I often see that our players have a tendency to be stationary, rather than getting on their 🚴 and making space and getting more dangerous. This is one of many things that we don’t do well.
 

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we dominated 3 3 qtrs. but couldn’t move it past chf. thought nank was beate and got beaten in clearance’s. we need a bobby hill and a clean moving mid. we made lots of mistakes with ball in hand but intensity was strong. yze should have changed things up. question marks still on greene dow and hugo.
I thought Hugo was pretty handy today,
 
our midfielders are clueless at centre bounces. it's been the same for like 4 years

was two instances of Nank tapping it directly to them on the full and we still managed to loose those clearances

then the next one Nank just grabbed the ball and got the clearance himself because he knows anyone else is just gonna drop it or handball it to the opposition

Caracella is our midfield coach apparently.. idk why we suck at clearances so bad

This is what I call the Nankervis conundrum. In the same game, showed why he's so valuable as our ruck and captain, but also the biggest issue with him as our ruck. Will tackle and take intercept marks the way you want you ruck to do, but when up against a ruck that has a size and reach advantage that can also match him in the contest, our midfield will always be on the back foot and chasing tails.

The difference was the missed shots at goals (Lynch, Campbell and Taranto) - All three shots were U12 standard. Then there is Mansell who really cost us the game with the undisciplined act off the ball. If I were Yze, I'd be dropping him for that act alone. Green should have been subbed halfway through the third, but Smith turned out to be useless as him anyway.

Thought the first one he gave away was quite egregious, the second one is just the rule being stupid in the way it's adjudicated (imo). Think Jason Dunstall made this point yesterday, but once a player begins the motion of tackling (like Mansell did in that second fk), there's not much he can do if he gets there after the ball is disposed of. Ideally, you don't pay those down the ground fk if the tackler is already in his tackling motion.

What game were you watching?

Lost clearance by -21

14-4 out of the centre.

The numbers look bad, but end of that first quarter, it looked like we were going to lose by 100 points because of how dominant the North midfield was. We at least equalised and nullified that for most of the game since then, so I think it was valiantly fought in the middle.
 

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dream time will be lucky to get 70k next week

will be the lowest one in like 15 years yet they made it fully ticketed

You won’t be going anyway, what’s it matter to you
 

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