The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[Dee Fan 3,247]

Perhaps we should have a fourth category; embarrassing.

That's what we were today in front of 76,000 people and a large television audience.

I'd like to hear from the ones that were so vocal and so confident about the direction we were headed after we beat Essendon last week.

We are flat track bullies who can beat other teams that are on their knees (sometimes) but struggle to be even competitive against any team that has a modicum of talent or game plan.

We were [censored] against North and St Kilda and they have been beaten consistently this year; if we were any good we would have beaten them.

Now roll out the stats and the age of the players, and how we have 3 more players than them that have played less that 50 games blah blah blah...

[Dee Fan 3,247]

Did they? I dont think so. But well done on the voice of reason.

FWIW, I think most posters realised the win against Essendon came with qualifications to it.

Would that include the ones who posted on the I owe Dean Bailey and apology thread and the various other threads where anyone that had queried the party line was blasted?

Edited June 13, 2011 by RobbieF

[Nasher 33,607]

Kick Outs - Zts a positive if we get it to a throw in at centre wing.

I'd rather have the job of being Osama Bin Laden's sacrificial wife than have the job Strauss had today with the kickins. "Here son, here's the ball. Your 17 team mates are all within 75 metres of you, they're all manned up on, and not a single one of them is actually moving. Good luck."

[Trisul 664]

I'd rather have the job of being Osama Bin Laden's sacrificial wife than have the job Strauss had today with the kickins. "Here son, here's the ball. Your 17 team mates are all within 75 metres of you, they're all manned up on, and not a single one of them is actually moving. Good luck."

So, if in doubt and you can't kick it to a 2 on 5, kick it 20 metres over the boundry line, that'll stuff 'em.

[Chicken Deelicious 0]

I've had it with Jurrah's workrate. Drop him for next week and make him earn his spot.

+1 - "jog it Jurrah". He would get a possie, and then WALK or JOG, rather than run and provide an option. Twice he walked to square with the player with the ball. May as well hold up a sign "Dont kick it to me!".

Sublime player, but needs to work a lot harder. Either injured or lazy. Both are reasons for a rest.

[Choko 493]

I'd rather have the job of being Osama Bin Laden's sacrificial wife

LOL

[waikikkamukau 62]

Good

The Mav's got up

Didn't have to go to work

Scully staying

Morton going

Big Col

Newton didn't play

Martin and Gawn

Leaving at half time!

Had special time with the wife!

The ball being kicked into the umpires face! Priceless

Bad

Jurrah's work rate

Midfield

Lacking key position players

Decision making on and off the field

The 6 goals it took for a change to be made!

Roller coaster's

Umpiring

Collingwood [censored] me!

Ugly

Collingwood supporters

Planet Eddie

Joffa, (fell out of the ugly tree hitting every branch on the way down)

Anyone involved with the MFC coming out a saying the cliché lines in responses to the loss. (It was an unacceptable loss, we have to get out on the track this week and look each other in the eye. We let ourselves down and our supporters down, it was our biggest game of the year and we got embarrassed.

Collingwood supporters.

[jnrmac 20,055]

That umpire is a disgrace

I heard at one point he paid 11 frees to Coll and 2 to Melb. He is a total [censored].

[Tatu 416]

The Good

Jack Watts

The Bad

Tom Scully's field kicking

Brad Green lack of second effort's

The kick's that consistently fill short of their intended targets.

Players dropping their heads, when the game was still in the balance.

The one-way umpireing

The Ugly

Collingwood supporters absolute disreguard for others (including their own).

Edited June 13, 2011 by tatu

[bjDee 1,249]

Good

Newton didn't play

Had special time with the wife!

The ball being kicked into the umpires face! Priceless

Bad

Collingwood [censored] me!

Ugly

Joffa, (fell out of the ugly tree hitting every branch on the way down)

Collingwood supporters.

These are GOLD. Bit generous with Joffa though.

Edited June 13, 2011 by bjDee

[Dee-licious 1,949]

Good

Jack Watts getting better all the time

Morton - good when he has a role

Moloney - really hard at it

Jones - head over the ball

Bad

Structures

Clearences

Options to deliver the ball out to

2nd efforts

Ugly

Jones - disposal

Midfield pressure

no one in the forward line to kick it to

[RalphiusMaximus 6,027]

Morton - good when he has a role

That's a very insightful comment I think. Looking back, all of his best games have been when he's had a very clear role to play. Perhaps using him in tagging type roles for the rest of the year will be good for him? He could go to Pavlich next week.

[Mad_Melbourne 877]

Also

Good

Brent Moloney diving smother

Jack watts chase

morton playing on pavlich wouldnt work, due to massive mismatch in weight, pavlich would just move to full forward!

[dee-luded 2,959]

The Good

Morton!!!!!

Sylvia

Bennell

The shutdown job on Pendlebury

Gawn winning body-on-body

Howe

The Bad

Rivers on Cloke

Jones' first half

Trengove

Making our tackles stick

Two men up with no Pies player going up

Brad Green (credit to Deeflog)

The Ugly

The gulf in class

The 76-year-old (approx) Collingwood-loving woman behind me in the Olympic who told me to [censored] off to the snow in the 3rd quarter when I was still vocal

Razor Ray Chamberlain

HaHa, beautifull work there Striker. I'm surprised she didn't spit out her Falsies with that mouthfull.

[Eth 4]

The Good

Sylvia

Strauss

Morton

Howe

The Bad

Sitting four seats away from my Collingwood-supporting Year 11 Chemistry teacher...'Better luck next year' as he walked past me at half time

Jurrah

Collingwood supporters appealing for a free whenever a player gets tackled

The Ugly

Green

Cloke kicking six before the change of opponents

Our kicking efficiency

The inside 50 count

The Absolutely Disgraceful

Razor Ray Chamberlain...when you're being compared to McLaren (by me, at least) you're a [censored] umpire.

Edited June 13, 2011 by eth38

[stuie 7,374]

The Good

Sylvia

Howe

Morton's first 5 minutes

The Bad

Rivers match ups, not his fault, tried hard but we needed Warnock, Garland, anybody else big to wrestle so Riv could chop off in front

Umpiring

Deeper into resignation about this year

The Ugly

Our "clumping" version of flooding gameplan, everyone get within 3 metres of each other and handball ALOT

Weak tackling, thanks for nothing Melbourne Storm

Morton's last 75 minutes

[QueenC 74]

Weak tackling, thanks for nothing Melbourne Storm

Don't go blaming the Storm, they manage it just fine!!!

[stuie 7,374]

Don't go blaming the Storm, they manage it just fine!!!

Apparently a couple of the Storm coaches gave us tackling lessons last week, that was what I was referring to there... Didn't seem to work to well today... Actually, now that I think of it, maybe this current team is simply uncoachable?!

[QueenC 74]

Apparently a couple of the Storm coaches gave us tackling lessons last week, that was what I was referring to there... Didn't seem to work to well today... Actually, now that I think of it, maybe this current team is simply uncoachable?!

Oh I know the Storm coaches came over to show us how they do it, and I understand the reasons why,

(Swans have been doing it for years up here) but clearly that didn't either sink in or catch on or they didn't want to do it.

But the Storm also won their match today and often out tackle their opposition.

So no blaming of the league boys here, they clearly know what they are teaching !!!

Edited June 13, 2011 by QueenC

[Webber 10,454]

Actually cloke kicked 3 from terrible turn overs where he just sat in the square, and two that were from kicks that he had to stretch to even mark which gave Rivs no chance at all. We made cloke look better than he actually was.

Correct.....how he was left 50m in the clear.....twice, just beggars belief! Train wreck coaching.

[Rhino Richards 1,467]

Actually, now that I think of it, maybe this current team is simply uncoachable?!

Hey, maybe they're young and inexperienced and have to learn that you must make tackles stick. ....

[Maldonboy38 6,390]

The Good

Sylvia - if he doesn't win the Bluey this year, something has gone seriously wrong.

Watts

Strauss

Howe

The Bad

Brad Green - especially his 2nd efforts.

Tackling.

Players not being aware of each other, bumping into each other, spoiling each other in the air, handballing to a target that was surrounded by opposition

Our chip kicking inside 50.

Jurrah. Casey beckons

Scully's field kicking (Marc Murphy's was this bad early on, by the way)

Gysberts. Was he on the ground?

The Ugly

Our disposal under pressure

Our crowded set up at stoppages that demands 5 or more dinky little handballs to get it only 10 metres away from the original contest.

Being 36 points down at the 5 minute mark of the last quarter, to lose by 88.

.

[QueenC 74]

Watching the repeat of One Week At A Time over lunch (and yes you can make any assumption about my world that you please to) where Quartermaine

and Lloyd were discussing the horribleness of yesterday for the Dees and Lloyd managed to single out Jack Watts (and only Jack Watts) to put his boot into,

saying he didn't put enough effort into a chase and just ran to the closest Pie available, so to Lloyd it looked like Jack was only putting in a token effort.

Now I have to ask that for all the awfulness that we and the media witnessed yesterday why is it that Watts is the only one that is singled out for criticism?

When in truth he was far from our worst, actually (despite fading in the fourth) one of better players out there. I feel sorry for the kid.

Just curious of peoples opinions......

Edited June 14, 2011 by QueenC

[clairen2805 0]

Morton did a few nice things but for the most part spent his day either like a slow tram meandering up and down a line halfway between the centre square and the boundary line and a high orbiting satellite, stuck in geostationary orbit around any contest. When he's not first in line he just doesn't go.

i totally agree. he never looks interested either.

[dees189227 12,373]

The Good

Sylvia

Watts first 10 minutes

Howe improving

The band I think it was My friend the Chocolate Cake singing our theme song just before the pre match stuff finished on keyboard. I liked the version

Bugle boy getting drowned out at the end by the siren

When the siren went

The Bad

Getting smashed out of the centre

Brad Green missing a goal that he would have kicked 99 out of 100 times last year

Green dropping an easy chest mark 2 minutes later

Morton twice in the last quarter not contesting with Brown and letting him fly for 2 marks

Howe kicking a goal and only 1 player going over to him

The Ugly

Our kick outs. Even I know that we do a little kick to ourselves then kick it out near the boundary

Watching poor Rivers getting thrashed by Cloke

The last quarter

The players apologising again on radio to fans for the loss. Stop aplogising and do something about it

Nathan Jones deciding to handball and turned it over