God it is hard watching the demons at the moment

[Guest DeesPower]

I find it very difficult to watch the demons when they are such awful starters. They seem to totlally forget their gameplan. No corridor, no pressure. I know they are a young team, but this is a terrible indicment of the coaching staff. This is so painful

[stuie 7,374]

When a team of coaches has 12 rounds to change something but can't in the slightest it's not a good sign

[mikeod 21]

Let's be honest, it's actually embarrassing that the players can allow this to happen week in week out.

Three or four times Melbourne players have stood and watched as Adelaide players have just waltzed in and taken the ball.

Pretty pathetic.

[Guest watts04]

woeful

[MikeAlphaTango 150]

I don't post often, and I am generally a pretty positive supporter but this is disgraceful.

[pringle 42]

We are embarrassing. Wooden spoon a REAL possibility.

[Daz's Dee's 113]

[censored] poor on all fronts

[Guest watts04]

im concerned about the spoon

[Guest watts04]

scully needs to realise he aint a tagger, besides the end there he is second to the footy and just tackling because he is second to the ball

would have 6 or so tackles

[Mad_Melbourne 877]

every player on the field in the red and blue besides, jordie mckenzie does not want the pill.

we need to go hard for the ball, that is something that even when we are losing we should be doing.

we look scared.

we look like we should be playing vfl.

we look worse than we have all season.

and then we have one good minute of play resulting in a game to end the second quarter..

[pitmaster 3,578]

This was a real opportunity to show progress this year and to break a hoodoo.

It is simply a disgrace. It destroys so much good work.

Dunn Bate and Frawley have been ok.

Watts not bad but needs to look upfield rather than sideways.

And the FD might want to rethink the one ruck approach.

[old dee 23,872]

every player on the field in the red and blue besides, jordie mckenzie does not want the pill.

we need to go hard for the ball, that is something that even when we are losing we should be doing.

we look scared.

we look like we should be playing vfl.

we look worse than we have all season.

and then we have one good minute of play resulting in a game to end the second quarter..

They weren't in red and blue. They were in that god terrible white thing, seems very time we put that on

we play like the Manangatang seconds ( apologies to Manangatang we were not that good).

The game today was as bad as anything we have dished up over the last three years.

At the end of the game today the over powering feeling I had was we have not improved at all this year

to be beaten that badly by a team below is betond belief.

Am I wrong?

[Pates 9,660]

At the end of the game today the over powering feeling I had was we have not improved at all this year

Today was bad, but of course we've improved. Last year it would've been a 70+ drubbing, at least they did show some fight (even if it took them 2 quarters to find their ticker). Adelaide have been bad this year but as the commentators pointed out they came into the match with the better form line and they beat Fremantle who are currently genuine top 4 contenders. I'm not excusing them at all for the insipid performance they put in for 3 quarters, but the improvement from the group is obvious to anyone with one eye open.

But as much as we have improved, our form says we've won one of our past 8 games with one draw and one close shave v Dogs. We have to get ourselves back on winning terms, the commentators were (stupidly) talking about our season being over because they were talking of finals, but finals has never been the goal this year so our season is far from over. We have 9 games left in our season, we must make every single one of them count, make the competition worried when they see us coming.

The best place to start is this week, tackle the saints head on and give them a bruising encounter. Get back to what made us the talk of the competition with hard tackling and second efforts, forward line pressure was the cornerstone of our wins and near misses. One thing i'll agree with DeePower on, our starts have been insipid and that was meant to be addressed this week, we put in a start like this week and it'll be a 10 goal deficit at quarter time.

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

im concerned about the spoon

Don't be. This happens every year with the bottom four. Even we had a chance of getting off the bottom last year.

As for our starts, in the first half a dozen rounds we were GREAT starters. Remember the Tiges game?

We can do it, but I think the coaches are focussing on other things at the moment.