Post Match Discussion - Round 14

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

Just now, dazzledavey36 said:

Don't care what anyone says, we were absolutely robbed by those [censored] maggots!!

It wasn't just the soft ones Port were getting, Tom McDonald would have kicked ten tonight if the umpires dared to look at all the holding he was getting.

[Buzzy 929]

Hogan missing AGAIN in a big game.

Petracca HELLO?

Oscar absolutely terrible again.  Stuffed our momentum multiple times with his sloppiness.  Admit he's awful. I can't excuse him any more.

Midfield tried hard.  Did all they could.  Not you Tyson, everyone else.

Lost it with our forward entries YET AGAIN.

Sloppy free after sloppy free.  No composure. Fumble fumble.

We are pretenders as everyone expected.

[Undeeterred 2,839]

1 minute ago, Jaded said:

I think we will probably scrape into the 8, and lose week one. 

Too many players who give us nothing under pressure. Bloody Jetta and McDonald literally bleed for us, while Petracca, Tyson, Hogan, Neal Bullen etc disappear. 

Losing Lever was the end of our season. 

I hope we make finals to get over that mental hurdle, but sadly we are nowhere near good enough to impact in September. 

Never truer words spoken on Demonland.

[Ungarie boy 233]

Would love to know how many goals they got from frees and setup from frees.  Umpiring was atrocious, bodering on criminal.

Edited June 22, 2018 by Ungarie boy

[brendan 3,380]

29 more inside 50s is a disgrace not to win, just cost a top 4 spot 

[beelzebub 22,225]

Not as good as we think...despite the larva

Pretenders we are

No Silverware for you !!

[deebug 1,754]

1 minute ago, Luther said:

Neville Jetta is one of the toughest players to ever don the jumper.

!00% agree.

[praha 10,270]

We lost it in the back of a deplorable and selfish first half, whereby we were racking up possessions with no clear directive or goal.

Our leaders let us down when we needed them most.

 

[ProperDee 1,698]

ANB, Harmes, Tyson......FAR COUGH! 

Very poor decision not to play another tall defender.

[Rod Grinter Riot Squad 5,636]

I would like the club to publicly question the block on Melksham, momentum killer that disgusting decision 

 

[Dee1987 277]

As I have been saying we are now cactus. I cannot believe people thought we could make finals? We are so over-rated and I cannot believe this mob believes there is something special happening at the MFC, 2019 and maybe onwards?

[Monocology 1,108]

Astonishing onesdided umpiring. Practicaly blowing the ball towards their goal line.

Just filthy.

[Undeeterred 2,839]

1 minute ago, big_red_fire_engine said:

How many goals did Dixon kick? 

How many utterly 2017 gazelle in headlights frees did McDonald give away?

[DSP 1,488]

This loss really got to me.

Umpires aside, we are are own worst enemy. We could of almost sealed it by half time.

Look at what the injectors did last night. Could of very easily been us, but we blew constant getable chances.

Then we finally get up, have the lead and its MIA time! WTF happened? Again, momentum KILLER. Went into cruise control and it all fell apart.

Looks like another year wasted. Where is that HUNGER?

God this club really knows how to disappoint.

Edited June 22, 2018 by DSP

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,578]

Slaughtered by the umpires.

How many goals did port get from frees?

We got absolutely molested in forward 50 and got sweet F all.

Still can't believe the free paid against Melk.

[Wiseblood 24,636]

We had 'em.  We fair dinkum had 'em in that third term.  When Salem kicked that goal to put us 20 points up I really thought we could keep it going.  Even when they kicked a couple and we got one back, I thought we could keep them at bay.

And we just couldn't do it.  For all of our dominance, and I believe we were the better side on the night (yes, I know, smash me for it, I don't give a stuff), our conversion inside 50 sucked and it lost us the game.  We moved it too slowly, or missed a target, or just bombed away and it hurt us.  I thought we had rectified it in the third term but then we kicked only 1 of the next 7 goals and we lose the game.  Heartbreaking stuff.

Full credit to our backline who many believed would be undersized and outmatched - that really wasn't the case at all and shows we made the right decision in terms of selection and the players we used through there.  Our midfield rectified the clearance problem against the best clearance side in the comp, yet we couldn't capitalise often enough to take advantage of it.

We have a huge 3 weeks to get things right - we simply cannot lose any of the next 3 games against sides we should most certainly be defeating.  No excuses there.

I'm pretty deflated and disappointed with the outcome but, at the same time, happy to see us respond in a positive fashion after the debacle of Queen's Birthday.  

Keep your chin up everyone, if you can.

[olisik 4,060]

Forward line absolutely pathetic. Not leading, not tackling, not bringing the ball to ground, not marking. Hogan, Trac ANB in fumbling city.

[SFebes 4,692]

We have no stars.

Umps awesome 

Jones, Vince, Tyson, Viney, Lewis too slow

Hogan MIA

Effort was there but didn’t want to win.

Petracca useless

Omac needs help, they clearly drew him upfield leaving our backline short, if it weren’t for Jetta we’d be stuffed. Omac cannot do it himself, lucky it was a scrap

Garlett needs to play, missed a crumber 

Jetta BOG

Devastating

Bye bye top 4

Edited June 22, 2018 by SFebey

[DemonOX 8,530]

Lost opportunity tonight caused mainly by stupid, stupid, stupid entries into our F50. 

Something to practice this week at training. 

[ProperDee 1,698]

Oh, and Petracca....leave yourself alone son. You must have RSI in both wrists by now!

[GCDee 3,006]

Just now, Deestroy All said:

Deserved to lose. 

Taking out Spargo and not bringing in another crumber, having all those useless inside 50’s with no one to pounce, while Tyson comes in to do some bit part stoppage work in some sort of made up role is just nonsense. 

Worst part is Port were awful. 

How could you possibly say we deserved to lose? We killed them in all aspects. The maggots literally got them over the line. 

I will not be watching the AFL anymore and cancelling foxtel until they fix up the complete inconsistencies with the disgusting decision making. 

Imagine explaining the rules to someone who watched that last quarter. It literally just shows they are run by the betting companies. Money talks and unfortusntly the league is not what we think it is.

[spirit of norm smith 12,886]

Poor very poor

another week at work hearing

‘Melbourne are pretenders. They have beaten no one. Too soft under pressure ‘ 

 

[grey wolf 226]

Show does Petracca get a game ahead of Garlett.? Potential or runs on the board

[Ungarie boy 233]

Apparently our players dont have heads while theirs start at the hip.

[Bates Mate 3,818]

Gutted too many passengers tonight. Petracca , hannan, tyson, anb , hogan , t smith, were all missing