DL7's Round 2 requirements

[Arrow 1,257]

Today will go down as a more disappointing day than any in 2008, 2009, and any as long as I've been a Melbourne supporter. 22 years, that's not a good sign.

However, football is a game of 22 rounds and he who turns up on Monday still dwelling on Sundays results will be left behind very quickly.

Today pointed out a variety of areas that we are still way behind in, and my Round 2 requirements therefore goes as follows:

- There will be no open training session this week.. I want a whole week of behind closed doors, floggings of 44 players. Casey got polaxed and Melbourne worse.. It's actually funny how not one person on Melbournes list is actually earning his contract. Clark is great but still on huge $$, our closest player would be Tom McDonald.. Still on a semi rookie contract and a potential great player. I don't understand how it's happened but it's time for them to grow up.

- Neeld needs to adapt. Last year he had a grace period but that is up. Today showed he is pushing a game plan that is not working. When you lose to Port by what we did.. We WILL not win next week. There wasn't more than 3 hearts on that field today. We adapt so by Round 4 we're competitive. He will not last otherwise.

- Our young captains make a stand. Grimes wasn't close to good enough today. Trengove needs to force his way into this team and lead by example. I don't care if you lie about your fitness, you get out there and show your teammates what the baseline standards are to play for this great club..

- Subdue the key forward. Week after week we are smashed by KPP. It is time we move on from Frawley being an AA Backman. Schulz is no more than a good average footballer and he kicks bags on us every year.. Every one does. We need to play a better zone to fill up the space and force a ground game, we are decent on the ground.

- 4 quarter effort. If we lose by 5 points in a 4 quarter effort of good hard footy it'll be the best joy I've had since Aussie W kicked the sealer against Freo. This has hurt too much, fight back and prove we are going somewhere.

I am sadly willing to write this off as a bad week.. Teams have them and for whatever reason Hinkley had his team way more revved and ready that Mark did. Gillies comes straight out, as does Nicholson, Sellar and Tapscott. Rodan and Dunn I would be happy for both to go either way. Rodan did not even do close to enough for his role and Dunn applied no defense pressure and when moving forward he butchered the ball every time.

This is the final straw for the coach, 12 of our most established players and at a very long stretch our club. Rd 1 2013 better be used as a line in the sand because 22,000 will never return again if today ever happens again.

[Gippy Dee 48]

A lot of us lost hope today. This scar is deeper than some others.

I sit and think to myself, why doesn't any other club feel our pain?...

[Chook 15,022]

- Our young captains make a stand. Grimes wasn't close to good enough today. Trengove needs to force his way into this team and lead by example. I don't care if you lie about your fitness, you get out there and show your teammates what the baseline standards are to play for this great club..

Like Brent Moloney did against Geelong one infamous day? The basest of baseline standards is if you're unfit, you don't play. Why else were we huffing and puffing in the first quarter?

[Benson 254]

A lot of us lost hope today. This scar is deeper than some others.

I sit and think to myself, why doesn't any other club feel our pain?...

The club brought this upon themselves...

Just like how you do not feel sorry for an obese person eating KFC and washing it down with a litre of coke.

[Mad_Melbourne 877]

Agreed, I have never left a game before the end of the match, and I still maintain that i wont, but I was close today.

I am not disappointed by losses, but rather expected them this season, with the third youngest list and a midfield that is well off the pace of good afl quality, but the way in which we lost was disappointing.

I am no afl player, but there are a few things on the footy field that you can control no matter how good you are as a player, you can go hard at the ball, put your head over the ball, talk, sheppard/bump/smother, tackle, chase, keep your head up and never give up. From the list there, not many did all of them, let alone one of them. Too many times melbourne players were standing still thinking the next person in the zone would be able to cut it off, or they were not willing to make the 100m hard run to get across and cover the next man on in the chain.

I do not condone throwing punches on the footy field, but Nathan Jones was getting hammered left right and centre from Kane Cornes, who did not give him an inch, if i was Tapscott, Sylvia, Grimes, anyone really near him, I would have been coming of the lines and protecting him, at least once to let Kane Cornes know he couldnt do it all day. I just want some passion for one another, passion for the jumper, passion for the club, passion for the coaches and also passion for the supporters.

I do not expect melbourne to win games, but i do expect melbourne to play with 100% intensity the whole time, playing for each other, playing for their own pride and playing for us.

[Forest Demon 4,681]

Interesting those saying how we were huffing and puffing early on. Barry Hall was boundary riding for Fox Footy and noted after only 10 minutes how Port players were coming to bench exhausted, while our players cantered off in little more than a sweat.

[Arrow 1,257]

Like Brent Moloney did against Geelong one infamous day? The basest of baseline standards is if you're unfit, you don't play. Why else were we huffing and puffing in the first quarter?

He was sick, two different things. PF 2008 Luke Hodge breaks his ribs.. Did he miss next week..

True leaders lift and provide beyond their means because they find a gear. Jacks only downfall is fitness but that's all mental, if he needs to gut run, with a marathon running sister he should know all about beating the pain.

Mad Melbohrne, I agree with everything you say. We as supporters take time off work, out of our families lives to support and pay for these boys and men to do what they love. You'd think even lacking skills youd find a way to give 110%... Somehow we've found 30 blokes who aren't.

[Dockett 32 1,239]

I think the requirement for round two are a win at any cost. The players have simply got to learn to die for the cause. Sick of the excuses, its time we expected to win every week. Full Stop end of story. Just get it done.