When the going gets tough, the tough get going. I'm on a plane in 12 days time heading down to watch us play West Coast. I figure if I can head interstate at a time like this, most locals can give the Dees at least a month before they jump off.

Does one single person on this forum give us a chance against the Eagles?

Their plane could crash.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. I'm on a plane in 12 days time heading down to watch us play West Coast. I figure if I can head interstate at a time like this, most locals can give the Dees at least a month before they jump off.

Does one single person on this forum give us a chance against the Eagles?

Mate in all honestly, if we play like we did in R1 every week we will not beat anybody, GC and GWS both looked far better than us out of the gate. I pledge this right now, if we suffer the humiliation of finishing last again I am through with the club once and for all.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. I'm on a plane in 12 days time heading down to watch us play West Coast. I figure if I can head interstate at a time like this, most locals can give the Dees at least a month before they jump off.

Does one single person on this forum give us a chance against the Eagles?

Yeah, I do. Of course there is a chance. WE all know what is required for that chance to be transformed into an outcome. And that means that the chance, the odds, are poor. We are a team with no known history of winning. We have to create that now. However, once the penny drops...

Mate in all honestly, if we play like we did in R1 every week we will not beat anybody, GC and GWS both looked far better than us out of the gate. I pledge this right now, if we suffer the humiliation of finishing last again I am through with the club once and for all.

There has been a lot of people saying very similar things since yesterday. There has been much talk of walking away and many of the most positive and passionate seemed to have taken one hit too many. This club needs a win. I thought I'd fly down to see it. My only worry is that I might be a week too late.

I wonder whether port played above themselves partly because of the loss of John McCarthy in the off season. They certainly seemed incredibly switched on.

I remember how well Melbourne played against essendon the first match after Troy Broadbridge's tragic death.

I'm not offering this as an excuse, just drawing attention to an interesting parallel.

I wonder whether port played above themselves partly because of the loss of John McCarthy in the off season. They certainly seemed incredibly switched on.

I remember how well Melbourne played against essendon the first match after Troy Broadbridge's tragic death.

I'm not offering this as an excuse, just drawing attention to an interesting parallel.

Thought about this too. There was a big build up in the press before the Broadbridge game.....I can remember no such build up around Port before this game.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. I'm on a plane in 12 days time heading down to watch us play West Coast. I figure if I can head interstate at a time like this, most locals can give the Dees at least a month before they jump off.

Does one single person on this forum give us a chance against the Eagles?

Possibly.

The biggest fear Essendon have next week will be: wtf are we going to be facing next week....they (and us and anybody) will have no idea.

Could be anything.

Could be anything.

There is not even the tiniest hope it will be anything good, 10-20 goal loss maybe even worse

Possibly.

The biggest fear Essendon have next week will be: wtf are we going to be facing next week....they (and us and anybody) will have no idea.

Could be anything.

In all seriousness, if the final margin is less than 100 points I'll be surprised.

You know, I'm going to have a son in late June this year.

My partner is a Collingwood supporter.

I'm going to do my damndest to convert my son to the Red and Blue but she seems quite keen to turn him to the dark side.

It seems like this is gonna be a realllllll struggle.

Careful - you could be charged with child abuse and excessive cruelty

edit - usual typo

I wonder whether port played above themselves partly because of the loss of John McCarthy in the off season. They certainly seemed incredibly switched on.

I remember how well Melbourne played against essendon the first match after Troy Broadbridge's tragic death.

I'm not offering this as an excuse, just drawing attention to an interesting parallel.

Like Melbourne after stynes's passing?

They won because they deserved to win and we didn't. Too many players did not put in and left it to the youngest guy in the side and a mature recruit who at least both appreciated that it was a priveledge [or used to be] to play for the Demons.

They won because they deserved to win and we didn't. Too many players did not put in and left it to the youngest guy in the side and a mature recruit who at least both appreciated that it was a priveledge [or used to be] to play for the Demons.

the frightening alternative possibility is that our players were doing what they were told to do

Supermercado always makes an interesting read - Cleanup in Aisle 666

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. I'm on a plane in 12 days time heading down to watch us play West Coast. I figure if I can head interstate at a time like this, most locals can give the Dees at least a month before they jump off. Does one single person on this forum give us a chance against the Eagles?

20 goal loss...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. I'm on a plane in 12 days time heading down to watch us play West Coast. I figure if I can head interstate at a time like this, most locals can give the Dees at least a month before they jump off.

Does one single person on this forum give us a chance against the Eagles?

187?

Possibly. The biggest fear Essendon have next week will be: wtf are we going to be facing next week....they (and us and anybody) will have no idea. Could be anything.

They know exactly what they're gonna get...... A team with absolutely rock bottom confidence, coached by a man who has them scared or confused about whether to go with instinct, or instead stick to a game plan which allows the opposition the most uncontested freedom they will ever have had, or seen, and who has NO idea, (by his own admission) how to fix it.

We are going to suffer flogging after flogging until this situation ends.

What that end is..........?????

They know exactly what they're gonna get...... A team with absolutely rock bottom confidence, coached by a man who has them scared or confused about whether to go with instinct, or instead stick to a game plan which allows the opposition the most uncontested freedom they will ever have had, or seen, and who has NO idea, (by his own admission) how to fix it.

We are going to suffer flogging after flogging until this situation ends.

What that end is..........?????

Irrelevant

I'm sorry, but i just don't understand how so many people have gone into meltdown after 1 game. Our loss was bad, yes. But, wasn't Brisbanes? how about St Kilda's? We had a terrible second half yes. That's because the flood gates had opened. IMO the second quarter wasn't too bad. There was definitely some signs of good play. How about instead of deciding everything and anything involved with the MFC needs to go, and talking about losing by 20+ goals, we wait until we have all our key players back. We wait until players are 100%. We support this team. Things are only going to get better if you take a positive attitude and actually believe that they will get better. I have the up most confidence that Melbourne are not as bad as people on here, in the media or where ever are making them out to be. Oh, and i might add a quote from Chris Scott last night on Footy classified and that quote is 'One game doesn't make a season'. It doesn't. I am still very excited for this year and the years to come because i believe that we will be a very good football team in the near future.

Basic physics tell you that if two players run pretty much the same speed but one starts 5 meters behind the chances of him catching the other quickly are ZERO. If one player is standing still waving his hands in the air protecting blades of grass and the opposition player is moving then you would expect the one moving would again have a speed advantage. Zoning is teaching these players to play LAZY football looking for cheap kicks, not going in and earning them, corralling the opposition on the boundary line instead of going in and tackling shows a defeatist attitude, though given the number of time port players danced around our players makes you wonder where all our tackling training was for.

Zoning will NEVER work against good opposition, so we are playing a mode of football that may work against lower teams like US who cannot kick, though Saturday proved even lower teams can kick our butts with such stupidity. Footy classifieds showed on short of about 7 port players in the frame around the 50 meter line all unopposed, while inside the 50 meters were 4 or 5 melbourne players again defending their chosen blades of grass.

There better be some serious changes to personnel this weekend. Some of these guys need to realise they can't just turn up and expect to play. I want Terlich, Jetta, Kent, Dawes, Mcdonald, Trengove, Spencer in and out: Garland, Gillies, Nicholson, Tapscott, Sellar, Mckenzie and Jamar. Frawley and Watts hang on just for one more week.

I don't care if the players are less skilled I want guys who give 100%. There's no point having good skills when you can't get the ball anyway.

I believe Wines has got the rising star nomination this week.

I reckon after the game Oli would have said to one of his team mates "So glad they picked Toumpas"

Supermercado always makes an interesting read - Cleanup in Aisle 666

summed up completely and poignantly. Sigh !!!