Vent your Spleen

[gOLLy 401]

ARGH!!!

Fire away!

[Felix 92]

back to being known as the joke side.

[gOLLy 401]

Jones

[Striker475 696]

Garland getting hurt was probably the worst part of it. Bailey would have subbed him if it was a harder body - but it was Bennell on the bench.

We've been torn asunder by injuries and the Trengove suspension. Now Garland and Bail =( of our best 22, we have 6 and possibly seven (if you include Dunn which I still doubt) missing from next week on.

I've never actually been happy to see a player reported til now - Lynden Dunn, good riddance. I've never been sold on him and probably never will be, and today shows me why.

Honestly, I know I jumped on the Bailey train after the WCE loss, but I don't for this. This was players unsure of themselves, players who either just aren't good enough being thrown in (Jetta) or too full of themselves to actually work hard (Bennell).

I would love never to see Jetta play a game for the MFC.

Edited May 14, 2011 by Striker475

[Range Rover 1,935]

E.T. phone Mick Malthouse.

[Sir Why You Little 34,979]

What is it with Nought Melbourne & Etihad Stadium??

It is upstairs obviously....This is the ingredient the club must address.

I will not wear excuses.

[bing181 8,228]

This was players unsure of themselves

Sums it up.

[Juicebox 628]

Green has been woeful. Not just today, but all year. After kicking 50+ goals last season, why the sudden change to bring him in the middle? Kicking for goal is rubbish, so he is waste up forward anyway.

Dunn once again fails. Attempts to be that menacing pain in the ass on the team, but my god; talk is cheap when ya can't get a kick!!

Newton, Jetta, Bate, Wonna, Bennell, Maric and Macdonald are all passengers. Feel free to add to that list.

[Felix 92]

What is it with Nought Melbourne & Etihad Stadium??

It is upstairs obviously....This is the ingredient the club must address.

I will not wear excuses.

I dont think its Etihad, as they also beat the Demons at the G last year.

The side is just inconsistent.

[Range Rover 1,935]

What is it with Nought Melbourne & Etihad Stadium??

It is upstairs obviously....This is the ingredient the club must address.

I will not wear excuses.

Entirely upstairs. Entirely. No other explanation for it.

The Apologists will come out and tell us we had injuries, we're a young side, our expectations are unrealistic etc and around the hamster cage we go again.

When is the penny going to drop at this club?

When?

[Felix 92]

Entirely upstairs. Entirely. No other explanation for it.

The Apologists will come out and tell us we had injuries, we're a young side, our expectations are unrealistic etc and around the hamster cage we go again.

When is the penny going to drop at this club?

When?

to 99% of the MFCfans, the penny surely dropped last week... Obviously not.

[Striker475 696]

Entirely upstairs. Entirely. No other explanation for it.

The Apologists will come out and tell us we had injuries, we're a young side, our expectations are unrealistic etc and around the hamster cage we go again.

When is the penny going to drop at this club?

When?

I'm willing to an extent to let this one slide. It's bloody tough to pull up with that sort of injury hammering. Now it's even worse.

The issue I have is more particular players this time. Brad Green - was he playing? Neville Jetta - just not good enough. Jamie Bennell - thinks he's better than working hard. Lynden Dunn - choice four-letter words.

We can't rely on Moloney to have a stormer every week.

[Juicebox 628]

This was players unsure of themselves, players who either just aren't good enough being thrown in (Jetta) or too full of themselves to actually work hard (Bennell).

Same could be said about Norf in the first quarter. Only difference is Scott was able to turn it around.

It's Bailey's responsibility to have them switched on and backing themselves at EVERY contest. Admittedly, a lot has to with what's going on between the ears, but the coaching staff must get the best out of the playing group week in, week out. We aren't seeing that at the moment.

[Akum 2,660]

Garland getting hurt was probably the worst part of it. Bailey would have subbed him if it was a harder body - but it was Bennell on the bench.

We've been torn asunder by injuries and the Trengove suspension. Now Garland and Bail =( of our best 22, we have 6 and possibly seven (if you include Dunn which I still doubt) missing from next week on.

I've never actually been happy to see a player reported til now - Lynden Dunn, good riddance. I've never been sold on him and probably never will be, and today shows me why.

Honestly, I know I jumped on the Bailey train after the WCE loss, but I don't for this. This was players unsure of themselves, players who either just aren't good enough being thrown in (Jetta) or too full of themselves to actually work hard (Bennell).

I would love never to see Jetta play a game for the MFC.

You are absolutely joking if you're going to lay it on players like Jetta & Bennell!!

This is when a side needs its senior players to stand up. Green looks totally lost out there. Moloney seems to need it shoved down his throat, because he was SMASHED man-on-man by Swallow who was probably BOG. Dunn is simply not AFL standard. For a start.

Does Davey have a hammy? He doesn't seem want to kick it over 30m. He was great today in getting the ball, but his disposal was the worst I've seen.

And why was Garland, who could hardly run, kept on Edwards for so long? Stupid stupid stupid.

Ridiculous to blame what happened today on Jetta & Bennell.

[Mousey 47]

Sick of it!

Need a fresh change! I am sick of us getting wins against travelling interstate teams and losing against in my opinion a very, very ordinary North Melbourne side.

Dunn is useless other than give away stupid free kicks, all year it has happened!

Wonna needs to do more!

Green is doing nothing performance wise, and inspirational wise! Its a real worry!

Its so freaking frustrating and something needs to be done, someone needs to light a fire under these boys because its not good enough and not good signs at all.

[Striker475 696]

You are absolutely joking if you're going to lay it on players like Jetta & Bennell!!

This is when a side needs its senior players to stand up. Green looks totally lost out there. Moloney seems to need it shoved down his throat, because he was SMASHED man-on-man by Swallow who was probably BOG. Dunn is simply not AFL standard. For a start.

Does Davey have a hammy? He doesn't seem want to kick it over 30m. He was great today in getting the ball, but his disposal was the worst I've seen.

And why was Garland, who could hardly run, kept on Edwards for so long? Stupid stupid stupid.

Ridiculous to blame what happened today on Jetta & Bennell.

Jetta always seems to stuff it up. That's my problem with him. I know Dunn had a bad game, and he's no better, trust me. But I think Bailey knows that Bennell is a downhill skiier - otherwise he would have been on as soon as Garland went into the rooms. He just doesn't work hard enough.

[Juicebox 628]

Ridiculous to blame what happened today on Jetta & Bennell.

But once again the going gets tough and they have absolutely no influence.

Ridiculous not to be frustrated by their efforts.

[Mousey 47]

It's Bailey's responsibility to have them switched on and backing themselves at EVERY contest. Admittedly, a lot has to with what's going on between the ears, but the coaching staff must get the best out of the playing group week in, week out. We aren't seeing that at the moment.

Agreed!

[Gorgoroth 12,365]

JETTA = waste of position on the field and on the list.

I say this after every one of his games, he shows nothing except how to give free kicks away and get caught with the ball.

I was wrong in saying Green would make a good captain, but I stand by my comment that I do not think Moloney or Davey are one either.

Absolutely no leadership, as soon as the pressure comes, most fold and it becomes all too hard.

[Sir Why You Little 34,979]

I'm willing to an extent to let this one slide. It's bloody tough to pull up with that sort of injury hammering. Now it's even worse.

The issue I have is more particular players this time. Brad Green - was he playing? Neville Jetta - just not good enough. Jamie Bennell - thinks he's better than working hard. Lynden Dunn - choice four-letter words.

We can't rely on Moloney to have a stormer every week.

Willing to let a loss to Nought Melbourne slide???

Sorry i am not. I have had enough of feeble excuses. Watch the first Quarter again.

Attack the Ball, you tend to win the contest.

[Striker475 696]

Willing to let a loss to Nought Melbourne slide???

Sorry i am not. I have had enough of feeble excuses. Watch the first Quarter again.

Attack the Ball, you tend to win the contest.

Look at it. Garland is effectively rooted end of Q1 cos of his injury. Bailey takes the punt to leave him on there injured, because he knows Bennell isn't going to offer anything defensively. Swaps his matchups to put Garland on the weakest of the Roos forwards - Aaron Edwards. He is, but he could get space because Garland was injured. Bailey took a punt and it didn't come off, I understand where it came from and can accept it.

Then we lose Bail in Q3 to drop us to 20 men. Doesn't help that he's our primary tagger.

[Pates 9,537]

It's definitely mental, we were all over them in the first and allowed a few junk time goals, suddenly when they had a few early in the second the players started thinking "here we go again".

I was looking forward to seeing the likes of Bennell and Jetta take an opportunity and run with it, but my god Jetta looked useless out there today, and Bennell came on early enough to get himself I to the game, but simply didn't.

I think what really did us in was as not taking our chances, we had simple shots on goal in the 3rd quarter to really put pressure back on North, but we missed them and then it went up the other end and they scored.

Extremely disappointed, now we've got a tough run ahead with injuries coming out of our ears and low confidence.

[Adzman 2,085]

There are a number of players that would be in the hot seat if we actually had fit players to replace them with!!!

Disgusting pedestrian display by the MFC.

When the F^&k is this club going to turn the corner?? Poking our head around the corner doesn't count.

[Akum 2,660]

And I'm afraid it had to be said; MFC badly badly lacks a match day coach. It's definitely not DB, and it would seem that none of the assistants has the capacity to bail him out. Once we get behind, it's left up to the players to get themselves out of trouble, because the coaches aren't capable of doing it.

What annoys me most of all when we play North is that we make them look so good. They're a well-organised and well-coached side, but very very ordinary players. They have a coach who can get the best of his players by his structuring and organisation. Again and again we get smacked by sides like this - West Coast, North, Carlton - but they are the type of sides we should beat easily.

Edited May 14, 2011 by Akum

[Range Rover 1,935]

You know what we are at Melbourne? We are premiership quality excuse makers.

If points were awarded for the quality and quantity of excuses we come out with after crappy performances we would be sitting 12 points clear on top of the ladder.

This culture has to end. I'm sick of it!