At 16:40 on Sunday at Marvel.
All NM with 11m left in q1.
Must start hunting now
The umps are pro Norp
Good start from the youngsters
Hollands x 2, Carroll
Weitering blaming everyone else when it was his own fault.
Nige v sore
TDK off limping
One ruck you reckon. We will get demolished. We've tried 2, 1, lets give 0 a go.
In a bit of trouble here. They got pace
Good to see we got almost a quarter out of duedin. I know there was 1 turnover in that time too.
Surely Kemp should've been picked as well as, if not instead of durdin.
They have had all the play but we're up. If we get it on our terms we should put them away.
Nige + TDK in the rooms
Durdin in the rooms
I hope Cez, Cottrell find some touch soon
Just refusing to get aggressive at the contest.
Which screwing idiot on the MC dropped Kemp for Durdin? If so, hand your bloody resignation in now- not later - you Muppet.
And Austin ...draft another tall defender or hand your pass in you cretin.
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Pathetic effort from Cerra in that marking contest.
Lacklustre so far. Nth look sharper and more interested.
Anybody who refuses to go in 100% can run around in the twos for the rest of the year.
This bs stops now.
That means you Cerra. Smarten up of F off.
Q1
NM dominant hard ball
We're accumulating injuries, getting thrashed in the ruck + giving away frees.
Players out of touch causing unbalance at present.
Youngsters going ok
Go Blues
Siht game, siht umpiring, siht effort on our part.
Everyone just expecting it to happen.
No intensity.
Poor running forward and poor defensive structure.
Missing Gov.
Nothing to really inspire much confidence in that quarter.
North have played better footy during the season than their ladder position suggests, but really, when it's all over, they should not get within a mile of a legitimate top 4 aspirant.
If tdk is injured and it's the same exact injury that keeps reoccurring (ankle) then the MC need to have a good hard look at themselves.
Pitto is fit (and more durable)
If tdk is not right there is no need to force him to play, especially against North.
are you ready to drop your can't play them both barrow?
If not then you're flat wrong because if we are playing one ruck is De koning.
Bad matchup on the stronger Ford too...
Have we lost yet?
If you are picking one, I think it goes without saying that you pick one that is fit.
That stupidity is on the mc.
6 v 13 clearances
Need to lift
All NM again so far q2
Sam Durdin looks lost...
Feels like the gws game
Same defensive probs on the back of poor contest work
Nice goal Fog
That's what happens EB when we refuse to get some tall defensive cover in. Durdin, March bank, McG...can't be trusted to be available. But let's drop Kemp for some craptruck.... What an awesome MC, bravo.
MK in the rooms
Fantasia is hopeless.
If he’s playing he’s fit.
This is the problem with 1 ruck - 5% chance he gets injured. Deal with it.
1 ruck strategy is still better.
As it should be 31 v 43
Who's stepping up?
2nd to the ball, getting hunted, weak as piss
The ruck isn't the problem. Xerri won the ruck before against Harry it went to Carroll who fumbled, picked up by North, cleared goal.
He must be one of the unluckiest blokes going round as he keeps injuring himself in the same way/spot.
It's 100% chance of getting injured if you pick him when he is already injured.
Yep.. Prof we need better options...
It looks like NM have more players out there
Siht commentary
Agree...contest is the problem .
Cottrell thinks he is Nick Daicos.
Tdk 'chasing" in the background there shows he's done. Couldn't catch a cold like that.
I'd park him at ff and ruck Harry for now.
The one ruck model is flawed when that bloke is so frequently injured. And if we need to run Pitto as cover then our structure is shot.
That's why motlop is in. Takes the most of his opportunities that fantasia wasn't doing.
Fogarty..been good.
Motlop taking his chances 🙌
So I've heard.
Motlops role is to help the team.
Fantasia played way up the ground. Cottrell has the role now.
Love how the callers stopped complaining about that Charlie holding the ball when they saw the tackle was high.
Can we drop Curnow
Durdin on Comden has been a disaster...
Bloody Curnow has only one effort and then lairises
Can anyone let me know what durdin offers us that Kemp doesn't.......besides a terrible moustache and a couple of inches in height?
If nothing changes drastically. This will be the final result.
Poor in the contest. Out marked all over the ground. Not enough pressure on ball carriers, especially i50.
We look like spectators and our structures are flaky.
What changes?
Cowen has been on him some of the time. The whole defence is a mess.
McGovern and Boyd injured
Weitering clearly still injured.
Why would you drop Kemp?
Nothing.
Freaking insult to Kemp dropping him for that clown.
Can we just stop this debate now. Fantasia is gone, past it. Motlop is far more dangerous near goal. End of story
Agree. He has been very ordinary so far.
What has Weitering offered? He has been putrid. Moving like a truck finger pointing at everyone else. If you can't run, you can't play.
Fantasia is the poorest selection I've seen in 60 years following this club, followed by an amateurish MC that still thinks it's the 1960s.
On one leg he has at least intercepted the ball (on numerous occassions) and found teammates more than durdin has had touches.
Besides the defence being crap our midfield is being beaten.
Cripps doing OK
Walsh and Cerra crapola.
Right now we could be 5th at the end of the round. Who'd have thought?
Cmon Blues. Let's work hard and get some momentum coz we've had bugger all to date.
We have 2 quarters to get out of this of top 4 is out.
Dropping kemp was an awful decision that is proving very costly.
Getting out coached... again
Give him a gold star. Not going to win us games.
Need to be more physical, Its been very bruise free from us.
Nth won the half but we are still in the game and just need more effort to break even at the contest and our greater talent should take over..
Mick McGuan and Stephen OReilly say hi
Weitering has 7 intercept possessions. 9 total.
Durdin has had 3 IPs, 4 total.
Your eyes working OK?
Desire, workrate. Its that simple. Commentators said it, players are standing around waiting for someone else to do it.
Time for a rocket from vossy.
Our pressure has been as poor as its been all year. Can't see it staying like that for 4 quarters.
A couple of us had a theory that we are going through a heavy training load at present and results like this, and constant injuries, seem to back that up.
I'd be looking to bring in cunners.
Either pull the pin on tdk/durdin/Kennedy who are hobbled or get someone like cottrell off.
Expecting Cunner to turn it around is waiting for Godot.... 5 possessions, two goal assists three handling errors and then a blown calf or hammy
Is it too much to ask for some fair dinkum effort?
Our pressure has been off since we started losing.
These blokes have convinced themselves they just need to go through the motions.
Some of them are currently "legends in their own mind".
They need to get serious again,
How do you like a comment over and over again?
Was that durdin's fault lol?
Missed the first 2 minutes after half time.
We have Kennedy on Treakle. Weitering couldn't get there to assist because of the corky he is still suffering from.
Better pressure.good finish Charlie
Is that Weiterings fault or the MC for picking him.......or NOT picking Kemp.
Even on one leg, he is our best KD, daylight second.
Keep up the pressure or .....
Saad brilliant.
Saad excellence
Has Charlie not learned anything from Harrys snapping woes over the past few years?
Not a fan of his increased snapping. He f**ked one up earlier. Surely from 15m you got a drop punt.
Getting it on our terms atm
Capitalise
Amazing what happens when we bring screwing pressure
Great finishing Mowies
Pressure paying off
Keep it up
Walsh smashed. No 50 might be injured.
Now, we've only got one ruck....on one leg.
We've dragged ourselves back into this and starting to walk away with it. How have we done that?
With pressure.
Who applies the pressure? The talls or the smalls??
The smalls are the ones up and about and getting us back on the path we want to be.
Don't sacrifice small pressure! Get more of it!
Cottrells chance to lift 🫣
Yep. We picked a running team and we're running over them.
Gee Curtis alone a lot 😒
Acres injured
And just like that they have our measure
H concussed?
Harry concussed
Charlie 💪
Concussion test passed!!!
Pressure is king
Should’ve been a free to Walsh there hit after he kicked
Not out of the woods by any measure
Whatever happened at HT worked.
Ruck, clearance, pressure, composure. The hunter finally returns but the job's not done.
Bring that again
Go Blues
Walsh has to be one of the most scragged players in the game IMO
TDK been good in third quarter, we got gifted some goals but our contesting work is now at the level it needs to be and we should take the game out comfortably as Nths kids look tired.
George H 3rd best midfielder on the ground
Better, need to keep going Norf won't go away.
Yep, hopefully now in the driver’s seat🫰
Ollie having a ripper
Larkey acting like he got punched by George Foreman.
Saad groin ??
Hewett been very good, why he was dropped is a mystery..
Cunners > Blacres?
Acres the one subbed off.
Saw him hobbling. Leg injury of sorts.
Saad and Walsh injured
Running out of soldiers.
Imagine if we had a 2nd ruck instead of a runner now?
Yep.
Might just be a corky, but he was struggling to run.
Danger time
Injuries are piling up
We are winning by 8 behinds.
Could be 8 goals
Saad deserves that 👏🏼
Footy gods smiling on us...
H 🙌
Keep up that pressure
Moo 👏🏼
Composure and belief
Cheapie from Xerri on TDK?
Oh wait, charlie has gone back?
Where was that the last 2 weeks when we were getting smashed with no momentum
4 points, luck on our side, a somewhat unconvincing win and injury concerns. Very bittersweet IMO. A tough physical game, and a 5 day turnaround before we play Port next Friday.
We just did enough and not too much more
What a relief. We were certainly challenged by a very good young side
They certainly just turned up for a jog around the park. Pressure rating hit 240 for a while in the 3rd qtr then it was through the motions.
What sh$ts me is we were never "a good young side"... We stank and then we cobbled together enough decent players to be ok.... But we need to strike now because I fear our window is very narrow because there is nothing comping through under the senior group.
Agree, Pies had nothing young and upcoming Daicos kids excepted but managed to keep the team together and won a premiership but now it's facing a rebuild of sorts. We are younger but need to build depth for the future and be like Geelong and a contender every season.