We've got a whole bunch of threads dedicated to panic, anger, and trying to be zen, but I thought it might be handy to have a place to post the articles that inevitably come out about us this week.

Starting with post-match reports..

"But it was the complete lack of any system in Melbourne's play that most distressed its fans"

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/teams/port-adelaide-smacked-a-shocking-melbourne-at-the-mcg-in-round-1/story-e6frf9mf-1226609877776

"On Sunday's performance, Melbourne face another long season"

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/port-adelaide-smashes-demons-at-mcg-20130331-2h178.html#ixzz2P66V3qzl

Might be interesting to see how the focus changes leading up to Round 2.

Edited March 31, 201312 yr by stuie

Deserving to, we are going to cop it all this week. Thankfully I dont have pay tv so I will miss what Roos has to say, Sheehan and of course healy. Then there are the rest of them.

We will be on the back pages and in the news.

Venom Denham will have a field day with this.

Could've give a stuff what any of them have say. It's like kicking a dead horse at this stage. I think many of them feel the same now. Denham is an exception, somehow he musters up the energy to lay the boot in on a consistent basis. I think he just hates the club.

Deserving to, we are going to cop it all this week. Thankfully I dont have pay tv so I will miss what Roos has to say, Sheehan and of course healy. Then there are the rest of them.

We will be on the back pages and in the news.

Venom Denham will have a field day with this.

I don't think the media will bother sinking the boot into us any more.Whats the point????everyone knows we are a joke. We are completely irrelevant and even GWS and GCS wouldn't fear us anymore.we don't even deserve to be talked about in any capacity

There are a few other teams that had a disastrous Round 1.

You can fit only so much on a back page.

Thankfully it's only a short week.

Wow. Just wow. These quotes are extremely disappointing:

"We didn't see that coming," Neeld said after the game.

"Our execution was poor and Port Adelaide was able to captialise significantly on that. Once that happened it was clear to everyone at the ground that our confidence dropped unbelievably."

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2013-03-31/dissapointing-dees-downed-by-port

Yet Neeld did close to nothing to counter.

We have two captains, a huge leadership group, and a tough talking coach, yet it's being left to a first gamer to talk to the players....

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-03-31/melb-v-port-mark-neeld

This football club is incapable of defending itself. This club just gives the media a free run every year.

Zero credibility and it is deserved.

We have two captains, a huge leadership group, and a tough talking coach, yet it's being left to a first gamer to talk to the players....

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-03-31/melb-v-port-mark-neeld

I am GOBSMACKED by that. He's an 18 year old FFS!!! What the hell is going on?

I am GOBSMACKED by that. He's an 18 year old FFS!!! What the hell is going on?

Probably because he seems to be the only one around the club with any passion for the MFC.

Edited March 31, 201312 yr by stuie

I wish I was still in America.

Can someone please tell me who were the commentators on 3AW. After the game there were comments like "well what you would you expect when a team was coached to lose and now the chickens were coming home to roost" and that the club was a train wreck. Melbourne hating media are going to have a field day sorry week having a shot at us. Unfortunately we probably deserve it but we dont deserve comments like what I heard from the gutless wonders on 3AW. At least SEN commentators from what I heard driving home were trying at least to be constructive.

Viney can do as he pleases as far as I am concerned.

Cue Greg Denham

We deserve what we get.

I was at the game as a paid up MFC/MCC Member.

I want answers not spin. This club is in deep sh!t

We have two captains, a huge leadership group, and a tough talking coach, yet it's being left to a first gamer to talk to the players....

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-03-31/melb-v-port-mark-neeld

That is a joke. I am happy to praise Viney - he deserves it - but what does it say about the other rabble (Mitch, jones and 1 or 2 others excepted)?

Wow. Just wow. These quotes are extremely disappointing:

"We didn't see that coming," Neeld said after the game.

"Our execution was poor and Port Adelaide was able to captialise significantly on that. Once that happened it was clear to everyone at the ground that our confidence dropped unbelievably."

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2013-03-31/dissapointing-dees-downed-by-port

Yet Neeld did close to nothing to counter.

Sorry, who the f*#k do they think we are. A statement like that is treating the supporters with utter contempt and insulting the intelligence of all of us! We have eyes and dont have to be in the 'inner sanctum' to see what went on today.

Port touched the ball about 30 times before we even managed to scrape a few grubbers to the boundary line from the back pocket! Port went inside their forward 50 god knows how many times before we entered ours, let alone a forward 50 entry with any purpose!

If he thinks heads dropped throughout the course of the game and thats to blame for the shambles we saw, he is more deluded than I thought! WE STARTED WITH 0.00000000000 work rate, competence and spirit!FFS... you have to get a kick in the first place to stuff up. Get a bloody shrink if your self-esteem is so delicate.. not a high performance fitness manager or whatever the club are forking out their money on!

Edited March 31, 201312 yr by suicide hotline

Here it comes...

"Melbourne's season plunged from optimism to misery on day one"

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/demons-in-despair-20130331-2h178.html

"At times the home team applied so little pressure it looked like it was saving itself for next week."

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/bad-from-the-word-go-20130331-2h1gs.html

"Asked if he was tempted to take radical action this week, either on the training track or at selection for Saturday night's clash with Essendon, Neeld said the most radical thing the Demons could do would be to start playing the way they have been training."

In other words, I have no answers or ideas. FMD.

Dear Jack Viney, I am very sorry.

when we finally racked up our first 10 disposals port had had racked up 10 tackles....

i wasnt sure that was possible at first......

Does Anyone really think the press will have a field day with us? We are completely irrelevant in this league. No one else in the league cares about us and with what the club serves up week after week the supporters care less and less. The less said about us the better.

As others have said and I watched a lot of fitzroys last year or two, we are on our knees and god only knows how we won't succumb to their fate.

"Neeld, flanked by equally stunned captain Jack Grimes at his press conference, was at a loss to explain his team's inability to bring training track form and rudimentary footy basics to a Round 1 clash with an opponent, on average, actually younger than his Demons."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/teams/melbourne-was-booed-off-the-field-after-its-shocking-round-1-loss/story-e6frf9mf-1226609956801

The only thing they can say on todays performance is "we were right".