Toast How can this Melbourne side be stopped?

[Xtreme]

Long way to go, plenty of time to regain form, lose form, then regain it again etc.

You'd hope so, a fit and firing Melbourne is a sight to see!!! Their ball movement is great when they are on.

 

[Outtatym]

Ordinary football side. I called it a few weeks ago and got shot down for it. One of the worst premiership sides of all time. Gawn, Oliver, Petracca and May then a bunch of seriously average players.

Martin, Cotchin, Riewoldt and Lynch could also be written here to be fair

 

[Corn Cobbers]

Why is this thread still going?

 

[Goshka]

Martin, Cotchin, Riewoldt and Lynch could also be written here to be fair

Rance? Grimes? Vlastuin? Prestia? Edwards? Bolton? Yeah nah don’t think so pal

 

[matey]

A bottom 8 side over the last month!

 

[boncer34]

Rance? Grimes? Vlastuin? Prestia? Edwards? Bolton? Yeah nah don’t think so pal

Shane Edwards is the definition of an average player.

 

[Cyber_punk]

Why is this thread still going?

Because it's essentially a "where are x club at" now

Melbourne will be fine.

 

[dean33]

Shane Edwards is the definition of an average player.

You’ve been watching Essendon too long, best you take a break from football.

 

[Goshka]

Shane Edwards is the definition of an average player.

Will be an AA 300 game hall of famer lol

 

[Blue1980]

You'd hope so, a fit and firing Melbourne is a sight to see!!! Their ball movement is great when they are on.

Yes they can do it, except against Carlton

 

[staffonly]

What will Godwin’s next conversation with May be like.

His stupidness cost them a game

 

[lumpinee]

no good away from optus

 

[HavUEvaSeenTheRain]

Need to add in Clarko who missed 5 games. Cyril only made it back for the Grand Final.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/hawthorn/isaac-smith-believes-hawthorns-injury-crisis-provides-fresh-bodies-and-opportunity-for-young-players/news-story/0d23e618d477b6317d6e84ccd0226250

Hawthorn’s 2014 injury list reads like a roll call of war casualties.

Sam Mitchell (hamstring), Josh Gibson (pectoral), Brian Lake (calf/suspension), Brad Sewell (hamstring), Ben Stratton (adductor/hamstring/hip), Luke Hodge (knee), Liam Shiels (shoulder), Jack Gunston (knee), Matt Spangher (ankle) and Billy Hartung (elbow) have all missed multiple matches, but are fit again now.

Matt Suckling (ankle) could return to meet the Cats after missing Round 23, Cyril Rioli is at least another week away from resuming from his hamstring injury while Brendan Whitecross (knee) and Jed Anderson (shoulder) have been ruled out for the season.

Half those injured players are just very average role players plus Sewell who was cooked.
Yes Hodge and Gunston missed 2 and 3 games, most players do. Mitchell, Gibson and Lake missed during that period I was talking about where you played all the poor sides.
You got them all back when you needed them.

As that article states, the other sides also only had 4,6 and 8 players play every game.
It looked bad because a lot missed at the same time but you were fortunate that it coincided with an easy run of games and not during finals.

 

[Randomizor]

Must be one hell of a training load

 

[nineteen eighty]

Need to skip training for a punt and some drinks with Goody to get them firing again.

Needing some of that Goody "good stuff" more like it.

And to think, there are 500 pages of theories on how to beat them and the simplest has been shown to be the most effective...tackle the sh1t out of them. Their ball movement into the forward line is terrible (hasn't been good all year). And pressure applied throughout an entire game has them playing as a bottom 8 team. Some of the team would have been embarrassed with their efforts today.

 

[boncer34]

Will be an AA 300 game hall of famer lol

Half of that is true.

 

[Anja_Nees]

How many teams have won the flag or made the g/f after losing 3 in a row at some stage in h/a season? Someone out there may know.

Well we Dogs supporters don’t have to look too far back for a side that made the GF after losing three in a row!

Richmond lost four in a row (three by under a kick) in 2017. It happens. The bigger worry is that they’re struggling against top eight sides and they’re heading into the tough part of their draw.

 

[nineteen eighty]

Must be one hell of a training load

Yeah apparently they started it before the Freo game.

 

[gouki88]

Rance? Grimes? Vlastuin? Prestia? Edwards? Bolton? Yeah nah don’t think so pal

Besides Rance, none of those players belong in the conversation compared to Martin, Gawn, Petracca etc. type talents.

 

[Goshka]

Besides Rance, none of those players belong in the conversation compared to Martin, Gawn, Petracca etc. type talents.

So basically if you’re not a top five player in the comp, you’re a role player?

 

[PieLebo87]

Put a top 8 side infront of them.

 

[Danw0w]

Shane Edwards is the definition of an average player.

Ridiculous comment

 

[rado]

Shane Edwards is the definition of an average player.

3 more premierships than your whole organisation in the last 20 years rofl

 

[rado]

Besides Rance, none of those players belong in the conversation compared to Martin, Gawn, Petracca etc. type talents.

Only thing Gawn and Petracca have achieved is one flaky COVID premiership… you don’t fluke 3 brojo, and that’s what all those Tiger players listed have.
I realise that’s foreign to you being a Collingwood supporter though..

 

[Siberian Taiga]

Melbourne will be there when the whips are cracking.

SBYM, are you talking about S&M?