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I am 11 but that doesn’t mean I can’t have opinions or post on here.Peter Knights. Vanderhaar.
Chris Grant etc etc etc etc.
Are you a teenager by chance?
My strategical take is this;Mate you are one of about three people I respect on here in terms of strategy of the game.
Its going to come down to this as I wrote ij
1) System
Dees better
2) Battle hardened
50/50. Yes Dogs have has a tougher run but Melbourne fought back from 44 points down and make no mistake that’s when they announced themselves as a champion team.
3) Belief.
Im going to give this to the Dogs. Every team has a form slump in a year and the Dogs couldn’t have had there’s at a more perfect time. They are in red hot form and full of belief. No one can underestimate that win in Brisbane who played unbelievably and still lost.
Melbourne are better. Plain and simple.
Game changers, Oliver, Petracca and Gawn
Possible best defence ever in Lever, May and Salem (which wins GF’s btw)
Lastly they have a whole bunch of players who can impact things too and fly under the radar. Fritsch, Langdon, Spargo and Pickett.
But the Dogs have two things.
Massive belief and speed. Speed if they have the guts to use it without fear is capable of stopping your defensive setup, breaking your zone and your midfield isn’t the fastest around.
Genuine 50/50 and haven’t been this excited since 2008 where I concreted in a sign to the side of the Geelong Freeway.
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Same.
And they can thank us for Pickett if they win!
Yeah don't worry I aint underestimating Naughton. Type of guy that can get off the leash and bang on 3 quick goals.Yes I agree that the midfield battle will largely win the game, but that Melbourne defence shouldn’t underestimate Naughton. This guy’s ability to mark the ball in contests floors me at times.
We probably don’t have to tell an elite defence like Melbourne’s one though.
Port offered nothing in terms of pressure at the contest last night. They were really soft. We will crack in. This game is made for Viney and Oliver.Yes I agree that the midfield battle will largely win the game, but that Melbourne defence shouldn’t underestimate Naughton. This guy’s ability to mark the ball in contests floors me at times.
We probably don’t have to tell an elite defence like Melbourne’s one though.
?I can't believe this.
The statistics weren’t anything unusual in the PF between the WB and Port Adelaide last night. Not real outliers, but the following was crucial and where it was won.
Inside fifties - Dogs by 12
Uncontested possessions - Dogs by 30
Marks I50 - Dogs by 5
Contested marks - Dogs by 7
Port actually dominated the hit outs, yet the WB were able to get more clearances.
So essentially this is Melbourne’s key info sheet. We are going to win hit outs but we simply cannot allow the WB to clear the ball. Thats pressure. That’s stoppage intensity.
Going forward also important. The WB were able to get more contested marks and marks I50. That’s Allir getting held out. Whatever we decide, Lever simply has to be protected. So that’s going to mean someone stopping the lockdown on him. How do you free up a defender? No idea. The WB clearly had one option and many others played the defensive role to allow Naughton to Mark ahd fly.
The only way I can think of preventing that is the midfield. Win that or break even and don’t let clean ball in. It all comes back to stopping the WB winning those clearance stats. This needs to be our best tackling and pressuring game yet.
30 more uncontested touches is big. That’s just dominance in the outside due to control. Again, zero pressure from Port.
It’s really not that simpleWe've been threatening to do a number on other teams like we did last night all season but instead of kicking 7-2 in a quarter we' d kick 3-6 to make opposition teams look respectable. Even last night could have been a 100 point drubbing if we kicked some gettable goals.
Felt like injuries would be a cruel end to our season but I knew if we could get through the first two finals Dunkley and Treloar would find their mojo when it mattered. And so it came to pass.
Martin is a massive in for us because Bont, Libba, Macrae, Dunkley, Smith, Treloar match up against any midfield and just need a ruck to contest to get going.
Our defense has conceded 36, 78 and 45 points in the last 3 finals. Keith will be back too.
We will have 9 players that have done it before to pick from.
Its simple: we kick straight, we win.
You won’t be playing against a midfield that forgets they’re playing in a finalBont, Libba, Macrae, Dunkley, Smith, Treloar is why the hit-outs didn't matter. That's 6 of the best. Good luck stopping them for four quarters.
It’s funny because it’s true.Stevic was down on form for us, if he picks up his game we’ll be hard to beat.
It’s really not that simple
You won’t be playing against a midfield that forgets they’re playing in a final
You won’t get the chances you think against our backline. You could say that for us, we go in with a better forward line as well.We will get the chances. We just need to take them.
Port were abysmal. Essendon would have beaten them last night.We know.
Might have even beat Port by 100 if the umps didn’t gift Port 3 of their 6 goals.It’s funny because it’s true.
You won’t get the chances you think against our backline. You could say that for us, we go in with a better forward line as well.
Port were abysmal. Essendon would have beaten them last night.
We’ve improved since then.You beat us when we kicked 8.11. And we beat you when we kicked 13.7 Just one scoring short more and we won. We will get the chances.