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Skill errors, lack of intensity and awareness, pea hearted players, dubious umpiring at best and a sprinkle of 1.5 quarter efforts.

Bake for 4 quarters.

And you have a MFC special.

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No Gawn or Hogan. We can't keep pulling wins without those 2 sort of players.

Goldsteam dominated the ruck. Forward line was bereft. Weideman is not up to it at all. And I would like to give Bugg a darn good spanking for missing so many easy shots at goal. One of them he didn't even glance where the sticks were. Kent has no heart to do anything hard ( I am being polite ).

We are up and down like a yoyo.

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You'd think we would have shown more fight for Jesse given what he's going through but no, we played a quarter and a half in a very winnable game and it's time goody gets tough 

id personally drop oscar, weid, Kent, Wagner and bugg and that would be a start 

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I'd argue that we leave too much up to players with less than 30 games experience. Lewis may be a general around the structures but he's just not doing enough with ball in hand for me. Jones turns the ball over too often when under no pressure.

Weid isn't ready. He cost us 2-3 goals early by their confidence to mark in defence. I've defended Kent but he was terrible and I think Harmes deserves a crack in his spot. Hannah showed he's capable. 

We sit exactly where we deserve to, and I think Goodwin has a task ahead of him to figure out why he can't:

A) Prepare a team to play 

B) Get anything from his leaders on the ground when the chips are down.

 

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I've been angrier this year. I thought they had a dip. Same old story though. We don't have a KP forward to deal with old telescope arm Brown, Waite and Goldy. They were the difference. Our worst 6 were so bad. Not necessarily through any fault of their own. Watts isn't a KP forward. Never will be. Any one of Pedo, Hogan, Gawn play FF we actually would have had a clear target to kick to to cause a spillage and draw two defenders. We knew this would happen. Roos brought huge effort. 93 tackles. We did too, but just don't have the cattle.

That's gonna be the story of our season. Two very tough hard weeks, now GC off a bye. If we're 4-6 I think it'll be too late.

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The bald umpire- number 15.

He's on my list.

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Kent looks like Tarazan plays like Jane. Soft as butter. 

Bugg is a joke. 

Watts put in a half arsed performance. Trac and Oliver well shut down. 

OMac and Weids have a lot of potential but until they put on 15kgs each they won't be competitors. 

Very very very disappointing. The one game I wanted to win this year just showed us for the mentally weak team that we are. 

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1 minute ago, frankie_d said:

Thought Salem was ok

Has been poor defensively every game he has played at half back this year except last week, is good with ball in hand but anyone with a bit of speed will lose him on the spread. More frustrated at his cheap shot which was lucky not to get reversed and will see him miss a week or two. Similar to Rance on Watts.

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Essendon and Freo above us !!

Thing is they deserve to be.

Take a bow losers.

Woeful... bordering insipid for some.

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Helps when you know everytime you go near the ball you're going to get a free kick. Bloody number 15 again.....

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Jones, Vince, Lewis just don't provide the leadership when we need it.

Jones plays like a perennial loser too often. He's just not a winner.

I hate seeing guys like Petracca, Oliver, Viney even Tyson work so hard to get this team over the line, but then face one-way running and no options. 

Garlett was shocking. Watts is having a bad month. Pederson does what he can but is fairly limited. Still think he is best 22. 

Our depth has been tested without Hogan and Gawn, we've been in winning positions but simply can't get over.

We're just not finals quality. Had an opportunity to go to 6th and failed miserably. Sydney will bounce back. Freo, Bombers, Port, Saints all vying for one or maybe two spots.  

Last week was nice but it means nothing after today.

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1 minute ago, Biffen said:

The bald umpire- number 15.

He's on my list.

Get behind !!!!

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Still happy to just plod along and win an occasional big game when we are under-dogs and be happy about it it seems. And that's about it guys.  We don't have the will or the mental application for a sustainable 4 quarter effort for more than a week or two at the most and we rarely ever win matches we are expected to win.

Demons my arse.  They just lack the will to win mentally on a regular basis.  Especially when things get tight on the scoreboard or we are clear favorites.

Always too much left to too few and going into our shells at the start of matches. You wont win many games of footy playing that way nor will we win many with so many hangers on and also ran players that can't get the basics right, can't finish and often don't see any of the footy for sustained periods of time.  This includes some of our so called leaders in the leadership group and our more experienced players.

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1 minute ago, willmoy said:

Helps when you know everytime you go near the ball you're going to get a free kick. Bloody number 15 again.....

He's had it in for us ever since he sooked it up when Gawn hit one of his pathetic recalled shi!thouse bounces away from him.

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4 minutes ago, Biffen said:

The bald umpire- number 15.

He's on my list.

Thats Nichols. His done is to us for a while. His the same guy who cracked the sooks when max Gawn whacked the ball from his [censored] bounce last year.

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Mentally weak. Fuming!

A game we simply should have won but no, typical Melbourne [censored].

And Weideman is utter useless. Send him back to Casey and leave him there till next year when he puts on weight and actually grows a pair.

That was one of the weakest games from Jack Watts since 2012. Your a 145 game veteran, play like one!

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Bugg was actually very good today.

Frost was terrible- then awesome.

Jones was immense.

We were too short and couldn't get a free kick.

Kent wasn't great.

Weeds is getting game because of his height.

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We didn't turn up in the first quarter but I was more disappointed in the third because we fought hard to come back and let our intensity slip again which was unforgivable.

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