Preview Round 1 - Melbourne v Freo - The Doom Starts Here

[Gysberts2Bate]

Roll Trac, Kossie and Gawn through that forward line and it’ll be fine. As I’ve said elsewhere this is just going to come down to midfield dominance.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

Brown himself did less than 20 matches ago

Edit: though depends what you mean by 'take the game over' - I think kicking 6 to half time meets that description, even if a lot of his teammates also had great games.

AFL 2019, Round 22: Ben Brown kicks 10 as North Melbourne thumps Port Adelaide

Ben TEN! Brown creates history as Kangas thump ‘pathetic’ Port

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Port was just abysmal in that game. Brown kicked fewer than half of North’s goals. Still impressive obviously but his midfielders put it on a plate for him, which ours would not do even if they were as dominant against such pathetic opposition.

 

[Topkent]

Brown himself did less than 20 matches ago

Edit: though depends what you mean by 'take the game over' - I think kicking 6 to half time meets that description, even if a lot of his teammates also had great games.

AFL 2019, Round 22: Ben Brown kicks 10 as North Melbourne thumps Port Adelaide

Ben TEN! Brown creates history as Kangas thump ‘pathetic’ Port

www.foxsports.com.au

That's a training run. North still win that game by 10 goals even without Brown.
When did Brown last do that in a game against a good side.

 

[mrmonkey]

Another look in for the pin heads who thought the man on the mark rule changes anything.

17 goals tonight. The same game last year without the rule and with shorter bloody quarters had 18 goald.

Hate to nitpick but the corresponding game last year had 20 minute quarters but I see your point was pretty boring after the first five minutes the second half I started to fall asleep which I couldn't be bothered fighting.

 

[Topkent]

Hate to nitpick but the corresponding game last year had 20 minute quarters but I see your point was pretty boring after the first five minutes the second half I started to fall asleep which I couldn't be bothered fighting.

Did they shorten the quarters after round 1?

 

[00Stinger]

Gawn will have 20+, 5 contested marks & kick 3 today

bookmark it

 

[ImissFrosty]

If Gawn and Tracc kick 3-4 goals between them we win. EZ game

 

[Dory_77]

Did they shorten the quarters after round 1?

Yeah was part of the restart the game situation. Round 1 was normal length and rotations but they rejigged it after the shutdown

 

[Topkent]

Yeah was part of the restart the game situation. Round 1 was normal length and rotations but they rejigged it after the shutdown

Yeah well s**t lol

 

[booshboy]

Pert saying we are only expecting 23-24k. * me that's a poor turnout. Very long season for the club if we lose today if people aren't turning out in their droves after 18 months away.

 

[00Stinger]

Pert saying we are only expecting 23-24k. fu** me that's a poor turnout. Very long season for the club if we lose today if people aren't turning out in their droves after 18 months away.

If it is only that I'll be very disappointed

Should be 35k+

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[ImissFrosty]

Pert saying we are only expecting 23-24k. fu** me that's a poor turnout. Very long season for the club if we lose today if people aren't turning out in their droves after 18 months away.

Collingwood didn't even reach capacity last night, so maybe not all club related.

 

[Bluelegs]

If it is only that I'll be very disappointed

Should be 35k+

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That's pretty bad for a round 1 turn out. Pretty sure we had like 28k vs GWS a few years back.

 

[Topkent]

Pert saying we are only expecting 23-24k. fu** me that's a poor turnout. Very long season for the club if we lose today if people aren't turning out in their droves after 18 months away.

That's ******* gross. I was pumped for a big crowd.

Got another new bird I'm showing footy for the first time. Gonna look s**t with 25.

 

[mrmonkey]

If Gawn and Tracc kick 3-4 goals between them we win. EZ game

How about McDonald steps up and kicks a few for once. Apparently is in good form but this is yet to be seen.

Was thinking about the last game I went to which was our last home game against the swans. I had a big day at work and couldn't be ****ed going but changed my mind in tje last minute. I figured it was going to be my last chance to see them play for a while. I didn't expect that it would be the whole season lol. Anyway here I am on the train this is happening go dees.

 

[schmuttt]

23-24K would be a horrific turnout.

 

[KickLongTackleHard]

Are some people still cautious returning to crowded situations due fear of COVID maybe? Particularly older people.

 

[Topkent]

23-24K would be a horrific turnout.

We are halfway to Tasmania if that's the best we can do.

 

[Jamurp]

Was thinking perhaps we could get closer to 40k, low 20k would be really disappointing, ah well, find out in about an hour I guess.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

We got 20k against Freo in R14, 2019 when our season was truly done. Would think we’ll get around 30k today given we’re basically singlehandedly supplying the crowd. I except the Doggies preseason game turned a lot of people off who only saw the score at the end.

 

[Russian Demon]

That's ******* gross. I was pumped for a big crowd.

Got another new bird I'm showing footy for the first time. Gonna look sh*t with 25.

I think we have a mini draft of Topkent's Canadian birds.

 

[schmuttt]

Nice weather and early Saturday game, can’t really get much better from a spectator pov.

 

[mrmonkey]

* all people here yet im cramped between two groups yet there's four rows diagonally in front of me completely empty. If no one fills them soon I will take them.

 

[rhaz]

I don't really understand the ticketing system. Non-members couldn't sit with me, but then I couldn't find any GA tickets left when I was on the website yesterday. Is it the AFL members and MCC that mean we'll have an average crowd?

 

[AmericanAFL]

Game starting here. LFG