Jealousy

[Bitter but optimistic 22,289]

Imagine beating Hawthorn 10 times in a row.....

I'm getting a stiffy....10 times!!!

Now you're dreaming WYL!!!

[Dr. Mubutu 867]

Imagine beating Hawthorn 10 times in a row.....

I'm getting a stiffy....10 times!!!

Imagine winning 10 games in a season.....

[Forest Demon 4,681]

Exactly my thoughts while I was watching the game. At the end of the game I got up and muttered 'F@#k Geelong and F@#k Jared Rivers' purely out of jealousy. My girlfriend is worried about my mental state after what happened yesterday. I can see myself sitting in a straight jacket, rocking back and forth in a padded room one day talking about this football club.

[Macca 17,120]

You've got too hand it to the Cats. They literally play the game as it should be played. Their forwards play in front. They move the ball quickly through the corridor. They all play for each other and they are the very definition of 'team'. Not sure about being jealous but certainly full of admiration. They are a hard team to hate.

Our players should be locked in a room for a week and forced to watch Geelong games vs Hawthorn.

The coaches can do it for a month.

[Gorgoroth 13,189]

. I can see myself sitting in a straight jacket, rocking back and forth in a padded room one day talking about this football club.

You will have a lot of mates in there with you,

[Sir Why You Little 37,342]

Exactly my thoughts while I was watching the game. At the end of the game I got up and muttered 'F@#k Geelong and F@#k Jared Rivers' purely out of jealousy. My girlfriend is worried about my mental state after what happened yesterday. I can see myself sitting in a straight jacket, rocking back and forth in a padded room one day talking about this football club.

i am already there Forest. Its not so bad.

The drugs are good!

[Old Man Rivers 326]

Imagine winning 10 games in a season.....

. Imagine being competitive for 10 minutes. Or leading on the scoreboard for 10 minutes.

[Jara 1,153]

I'm agreeing with Macca. Watching Geelong, it seems so easy. I mean if you're p aid all that money to play football, why the hell not get in there and play the bloody game as we all know it should be played. Not rocket science: get in front, kick it up the guts, have a bit of faith in your team mates. Try! How radical is that? My god, Neeld has lost me; I've been giving him the benefit of the doubt, but all this farfing around the boundary, tiddly-winking, standing around looking like lost sheep. I reckon guys like Watts et. al. can play, they are just being poorly led by a Malthouse lapdog.

[Jaded No More 68,976]

. Imagine being competitive for 10 minutes. Or leading on the scoreboard for 10 minutes.

Imagine spending 10 minutes not feeling utterly embarrassed at being a Melbourne supporter.

Big rich clubs, even when they are having a down patch, can feel safe in the knowledge that they have supporters, money and power to help pull them up the ladder.

We are dirt poor, have a small supporter base on the verge of a well-deserved nervous breakdown, and are constantly treated like crap by the AFL.

We need every bit of help we can get, and yet we continue to stuff up draft picks, coaching selections and game plans. We can't even help ourselves, so how on earth do we expect to ever become the sort of powerhouse we are all so damn jealous of?

All we seem to hear from our club is "stick with us", "we need to become an elite club", "the performance/ coach/ draft was unacceptable, but we are working on it". And all I want to hear from our club is our song, at the end of a match, against a decent team, more than once in 2 years.

[DemonWA 3,940]

Exactly my thoughts while I was watching the game. At the end of the game I got up and muttered 'F@#k Geelong and F@#k Jared Rivers' purely out of jealousy. My girlfriend is worried about my mental state after what happened yesterday. I can see myself sitting in a straight jacket, rocking back and forth in a padded room one day talking about this football club.

Haha this post is iked by a guy called 'suicide hotline'

Classic

[whatwhat say what 23,660]

Love the Cats. Terrific to watch.

[Curry & Beer 5,444]

Delighted for Jared Rivers. Now knows what it's like to play in a great team!!

Agreed, and what an indictment on our club that supporters are actually happy for a bloke for managing to get away from us and enjoy real football.. doesn't get much lower than that

[Nasher 33,617]

I can't bring myself to watch any other footy to be honest.

[billyblanks29 184]

Rivers did a lot of "Melbourne-esque" things today. Got penalized throwing the ball, handballs missed targets, etc. You can take the boy out of Melbourne but you can't take Melbourne out of the boy?

[Macca 17,120]

Always watch the Cats/Hawks clashes. These games never fail to deliver a terrific spectacle.

Tend to only watch the big clashes but it's nearly always with a view to see where our club sits in comparison. Unfortunately that view often ends up as "Why don't we play like them?" or "We have no chance of competing with this mob" or "What are they going to do to us when we play them?".

As painful as all that is, it's a necessary evil. Otherwise we can't critique our own club properly. It's always best to compare our club with the best rather than those clubs around us or just above us. Geelong and Sydney (or a combo of both) are 2 clubs that our club should aspire to.

That's a big reason why I watch other games. Our players and coaches could learn so much by watching the centre clearance work of the better teams. Had a close look yesterday at the centre bounces and 2 things that stood out. (as usual)

1 - Apart from Jones, our other various midfielders don't play in front of their man enough and don't hit the contest or the ball with any pace - we spectate. Hopefully Viney will at least equal Jones going forward.

2 - There doesn't seem to be any sort of real system in the centre square compared to nearly every other club. It's like watching a suburban footy team at work.

It's been that way for years. When we do win a clearance (usually by Jones), nothing much comes of it. In other words, we rarely, if ever, score a goal when we win a centre clearance.

Playing from behind should never be tolerated by the coaching staff. It's a fundamental of the game that has to be adhered to. We started doing it in 2007 and nothing much has changed.