Game Day North vs Deez (round 15)

[franjon]

Temp might be round 0 when you leave the ground at 22.20 Sonof.

That's cool (see what I did there ), James B will have me singing by then.

 

[Val Keating]

Don’t like the media pumping us up for this game. The boys faded badly last week (most weeks tbh) and despite their form, Melbourne play very good football when on.
I can’t get my hopes too high off the back of 2 games. Not convinced that the lads have turned the corner yet, I want to trust them, but I need a bigger sample size.

Simpkin back helps if he’s in the middle because he can run out 4 quarters, also his leadership will be handy.

 

[czero]

They need to be prepared for a Melbourne side that will plan on absolutely smashing the first quarter with everything.

I assume Melbourne will be attempting to break the spirit early, hoping to break the confidence that the team has been building. Whatever happens in that first q, they need to stay focussed and keep the belief.

 

[Devington]

Don’t like the media pumping us up for this game. The boys faded badly last week (most weeks tbh) and despite their form, Melbourne play very good football when on.
I can’t get my hopes too high off the back of 2 games. Not convinced that the lads have turned the corner yet, I want to trust them, but I need a bigger sample size.

Simpkin back helps if he’s in the middle because he can run out 4 quarters, also his leadership will be handy.

My expectations aren't too high either, moreso because I think the opposition will take us seriously rather than us not maintaining most our improvement, but it sure feels damn nice going into a game and thinking we're a chance.

I also think our goal kicking accuracy has inflated our status a bit. 11.8 against west coast is fine, but the 19.4 against Collingwood was elite conversion (just not in the final minutes!!). However the flipside is that we lost the scoring shot count by 6 in both games.

 

[justroyal]

Usually when we get ****ed by umpires it carry’s on into the following round and becomes a massive momentum killer.

 

[JGreezy]

Looking forward to watching Wardlaw, Sheezel and co.

 

[The Maestro]

We have improved in the last couple of weeks. I’d like to see us concede less scoring shots on goal.

Below are how many shots we’ve given the opposition in each game across the season.

29 (vs Collingwood)
26
27
26
35
28
38
28
32
32
27
36

If we can concede less than 25 shots to Melbourne tonight we’ll give ourselves more of a chance to win the game. But currently this is the area that is holding us back.

 

[Roosurgence]

Umpires for our game are:
Chris Donlon (1), Shizen Haussen (5), Andrew Heffernan (29), Brent Wallace (33)

EFA

 

[Roosurgence]

We never win when Donlon umpires us .. he will pull out a controversial decision where everyone will go wtf ?
100% tonight.

Terry’s son will be the one to get Melbourne over the line.

Bloke has a serious hatred for North.

 

[RossHenshaw]

Terry’s son will be the one to get Melbourne over the line.

Bloke has a serious hatred for North.

 

[RossHenshaw]

They need to be prepared for a Melbourne side that will plan on absolutely smashing the first quarter with everything.

I assume Melbourne will be attempting to break the spirit early, hoping to break the confidence that the team has been building. Whatever happens in that first q, they need to stay focussed and keep the belief.

That’s what happened last year at this very same time & venue. Think they had 10goals by the time we got our first

 

[fusion]

He regularly takes contested marks down the line to releive their pressure. goldy did it in his prime. X is way down on this metric and it's why he doesn't get noticed much.

Neither take as many as we think. Gawn averages 4.6 marks a game, which includes 2 contested marks a game.

Goldy averages 0.8 contested marks a game - it was rarely a feature of his game, and a total of just under 3 marks/game. His tap work is miles ahead of Xerri though.

If he can just keep competing and force those long kicks to ground, it's a whole lot better than uncontested marks by the opposition backs which then setup goals.

Gawn and Goldy average about 0.5 goals/game - this year Xerri kicked 5 goals from 13 games. If he can keep this up it's handy.

 

[fusion]

Is it actually delusional to think that looking at the team line ups tonight, we actually look like the stronger team?

Yes, time to see a shrink.

 

[r00boy96]

Jy and LDU good to go?

 

[Cyber_punk]

Don’t like the media pumping us up for this game. The boys faded badly last week (most weeks tbh) and despite their form, Melbourne play very good football when on.
I can’t get my hopes too high off the back of 2 games. Not convinced that the lads have turned the corner yet, I want to trust them, but I need a bigger sample size.

Simpkin back helps if he’s in the middle because he can run out 4 quarters, also his leadership will be handy.

I agree. I can see a 'come down' even though we lost last week and the dees stomping us pretty handily.

The Richmond game is the one I'm more confident about.

 

[Frank Thring]

We never win when Donlon umpires us .. he will pull out a controversial decision where everyone will go wtf ?
100% tonight.

We never win with any umpire

 

[Frank Thring]

I'm not confident. I get the feeling that Fritch and Kosi will burn us as usual.

 

[Val Keating]

I agree. I can see a 'come down' even though we lost last week and the dees stomping us pretty handily.

The Richmond game is the one I'm more confident about.

Hopefully they surprise us by backing up the effort. I’ll trust them if they do it tonight

 

[Only Forwards]

Pressure rating over 200 across the game.

Opposition to score less than 100.

Back up what we brought last week.

 

[RossHenshaw]

I'm not confident. I get the feeling that Fritch and Kosi will burn us as usual.

Yep same here… these 2 worry me plus Chandler …

 

[Harris 10]

I'm not confident. I get the feeling that Fritch and Kosi will burn us as usual.

Yep, I’m expecting a big reality check after the last 2 weeks.

 

[backtothedraft]

LDU and Jy both been out on the ground and are good to go

 

[franjon]

I'm not confident. I get the feeling that Fritch and Kosi will burn us as usual.

Most forwards will burn you if the ball is coming in ad nauseum. That won't be the problem.

 

[leighlee13]

Stephens is the sub.

AFL R15 final team: Returning Roo to start as sub

Co-captain Jy Simpkin is one of two North Melbourne inclusions for Saturday night's meeting with Melbourne at the MCG

www.nmfc.com.au

 

[giantroo]