GAME DAY - Round 2

[Face Your Demons 175]

He has HUNGER - it looks as if most of the others have had it too easy

But they seam to loss it after playing a year in this team

[monoccular 17,328]

Honestly I think there is something wrong with the team. Too many players have gone light years backwards. Im starting to think we have a mutiny on our hands.

Well, we certainly lack any on field leaders anyway. :-(....

[Sir Why You Little 36,667]

Magner

Yes. I already apologized for that omission!!

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

Gees I wonder what Neale Daniher would say.

Hes at West Coast these days....

[Sir Why You Little 36,667]

It is not Neeld. It is what he has inherited.

I put $$ on that.

[4JacksandaKing 52]

Priddis the golden child..umpires love him

[stuie 7,374]

It is not Neeld. It is what he has inherited.

I put $$ on that.

Bulldust. Neeld did NOTHING today. No AFL list should play like that. It's both. I like Neeld as much as the next guy, but you can't blindly stick up for a NEW coach.

[reynolds46 1,056]

18th tonight and probably at seasons end too

[Tankey 2]

Magner, Clark and Matthew Bate BOG for us. Everyone else needs a long hard look in a mirror.

1st gamer, pick-up from another club, and someone clearly so fed up with the Melbourne culture that he was screaming to get out last year. Everyone else is indoctrinated into the zombie-like fluff and chocolate (thanks WYL) outlook endemic to the MFC.

Took the words right out of my mouth. We may be looking at the death of the Melbourne football club.

[Demonic_Inferno 17]

I cannot fathom how I am going to type this...but we are actually going to have to do some sort of a rebuild.

Someone must die for picking so many sub par players over the last few years.

[Sir Why You Little 36,667]

Bulldust. Neeld did NOTHING today. No AFL list should play like that. It's both. I like Neeld as much as the next guy, but you can't blindly stick up for a NEW coach.

Shuffling this team around would make no difference. Our playing group is not there.

[Norm Smith's Curse 2,423]

Well to look on the bright side if Melbourne do ever manage to stick around, rebuild and eventually (and looking increasingly unlikely) we do actually win a premiership my god am I and every Melbourne supporter going to celebrate. Such long suffering...

[Norm Smith's Curse 2,423]

Shuffling this team around would make no difference. Our playing group is not there.

You cant polish a terd...

[stuie 7,374]

Shuffling this team around would make no difference. Our playing group is not there.

"Stuffing them around"... how about making a change when you're down by 12 goals?! Players don't learn anything from just getting beaten, I would have thought the last 6 years would have showed you that!

[demoniac 1,296]

So we ARE tanking then? Why wouldn't you be trying things to win otherwise?!

And obviously the gameplan is garbage when you're down by 12 goals so....

We are poor in decision making and fitness and Neeld is implementing a game plan that will be more durable. Remember other sides laughed at our fitness and game plan under Dean Bailey.

Neeld and Misson know the numbers posted by Pies and Saints players and our players were not in the same ballpark fitness wise. Misson has put 1 pre season into them to start to address the fitness issue. One pre season wont fix it. We are simply not fit enough to match the relentness running up and down the ground that the modern game requires and the teams with elite fitness can handle.

[Sir Why You Little 36,667]

"Stuffing them around"... how about making a change when you're down by 12 goals?! Players don't learn anything from just getting beaten, I would have thought the last 6 years would have showed you that!

Stuie i am as shattered as you, but positional moves would have made no difference. When players are not running and have VFL footskills what can you do??

[monoccular 17,328]

I remember discussion in the optomistic days of November / December about what a great midfield we were developing.

!!!???#{%}^}*#+%+#€~>|>. !!!

We have no midfield - Magner and Jones, but you need 6 or more........the rest just don't do nearly enough.

And whilst I am usually the first to have a go at the umpires, today the Eagles got in front, got the ball, and we tackled poorly notwithstanding the Selwood slide from the opposition. Also we kicked appallingly and I lost count of the OOB on the full.

To me this effort (using the term very very loosely) was almost as dIsheartening as the 186.

And PS: they are bloody lucky they got my money before last week's game!

Edited April 7, 2012 by monoccular

[jackaub 1,402]

Methinks Magner might be in front in the b n f.

What does it tellu about the mfc players that a second game player again shows that it is not that hard run, chase tackle win the footy get posesisons

gessus this team is the worst in the league i cant believe the brains trust selected Watts over Natanui and passed on Darling what a bloody joke and for all you posters that

defended them at the time hang your heads

People here tried to make this point and idiots here derided them

MFC is a

joke

[stuie 7,374]

Remember other sides laughed at our fitness and game plan under Dean Bailey.

Oh yeah, and I bet they're shaking in their boots now....

[stuie 7,374]

Stuie i am as shattered as you, but positional moves would have made no difference. When players are not running and have VFL footskills what can you do??

Probably no difference to the result, but how would you know when you don't even try and just wave the white flag in the 2nd quarter?!

What's that favourite saying kicking around'Land at the moment: The definition of insanity is attempting the same thing over and over and expecting a different result...

[jackaub 1,402]

I remember discussion in the optomistic days of November / December about what a great midfield we were developing.

!!!???#{%}^}*#+%+#€~>|>. !!!

We have no midfield - Magner and Jones, but you need 6 or more........the rest just don't do nearly enough.

And whilst I am usually the first to have a go at the umpires, today the Eagles got in front, got the ball, and we tackled poorly notwithstanding the Selwood slide from the opposition. Also we kicked appallingly and I lost count of the OOB on the full.

To me this effort (using the term very very loosely) was almost as dIsheartening as the 186.

Thank god we have Magner first year player obviously the culture hasnt got him yet give it time its destroying this once great club

[premiers13 48]

We are the weakest team I have seen for some time. Before you castigate me, I have supported Melbourne for over 40 years. We surrender today very meekly. Neeld, good luck. Does the number 16 have significance?

[jackaub 1,402]

Well to look on the bright side if Melbourne do ever manage to stick around, rebuild and eventually (and looking increasingly unlikely) we do actually win a premiership my god am I and every Melbourne supporter going to celebrate. Such long suffering...

We keep doing this and we will be playing in the VFL if at all

[DemonDan83 95]

What does it tellu about the mfc players that a second game player again shows that it is not that hard run, chase tackle win the footy get posesisons

gessus this team is the worst in the league i cant believe the brains trust selected Watts over Natanui and passed on Darling what a bloody joke and for all you posters that

defended them at the time hang your heads

People here tried to make this point and idiots here derided them

MFC is a

joke

Well it's definitely turning out that way! How can every other clubs young developing players come on so quickly! One of the commentators said something on fox footy that rang so true, look at the culture of Collingwood, Geelong and West Coast and no wonder their players develop and come on, their clubs have the killer edge and the attitude. Look at our clubs culture, we are constantly struggling to stay afloat, controversy after controversy, no success for over 45 years and players that have no ticker!! No wonder we can't attract players and develop a winning culture... so over it, totally pathetic MFC!!

Edit: Grammar mistake

Edited April 7, 2012 by DemonDan83

[jackaub 1,402]

We are the weakest team I have seen for some time. Before you castigate me, I have supported Melbourne for over 40 years. We surrender today very meekly. Neeld, good luck. Does the number 16 have significance?

Dont apologise you are right

dont listen to the aplogists on this site they have been deluded for as long as i can remember gee most of them supported Bailey and Davey and WattsYa ya ya ya