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Video...

Its bad.

That James frawley effort was awful. Compare that to his chase down of Lewis Jetta a few years ago.

WOW.... The scary thing is that that didn't even give us a serve, is that a worse word then irrelevant? We're in absolute crisis at the moment, let's see how we respond over the first half of the season. I really feel sorry for the young supporters! going to school after that rot was served up by their sporting hero's. Breaks your bloody heart...

WOW.... The scary thing is that that didn't even give us a serve, is that a worse word then irrelevant? We're in absolute crisis at the moment, let's see how we respond over the first half of the season. I really feel sorry for the young supporters! going to school after that rot was served up by their sporting hero's. Breaks your bloody heart...

This is what hurts me the most.

Im starting to hate the club for how they are making my 12 year old son feel.

He loves footy, and the last 3 years have ripped my heart out.

I want the media to hammer us all year. I now realize it is our only hope.

These prima donas who take the field & those who hide upstairs in blissful warmth & ignorance need to be hammered.

The members started it on sunday. It won't go away.

These Fat Cats need to get hungry or be exiled

This is what hurts me the most.

Im starting to hate the club for how they are making my 12 year old son feel.

He loves footy, and the last 3 years have ripped my heart out.

Take him to a Hawthorn Geelong game DeeZee

That will repair his faith in AFL

I want the media to hammer us all year. I now realize it is our only hope.

These prima donas who take the field & those who hide upstairs in blissful warmth & ignorance need to be hammered.

The members started it on sunday. It won't go away.

These Fat Cats need to get hungry or be exiled

Rarely I agree with you WYL but spot on here Bud!

It makes you feel sick in the guts watching this but I had to watch it a couple of times just to understand how bad we are.

Someone has to accept responsibility for this, the club can't just say they didn't expect it they have to lay the blame on either the players the coach or themselves.

Frawley reminds me of Michael Byrne who was with us many years ago but didn't want to be there, he just performed appalingly until we gave him a clearance to Hawthorn

I'm just tired of being a melbourne supporter I will never change but geez it's tiring

Weed them all out.

These big headed pri*ks with their blazers and glorified status.

Half these blokes are in love with being AFL footballers, as opposed to playing like AFL footballers.

No pride, no guts, no determination.

Do they think their problems will be solved if they go to a different club? Their ineptitude would be magnified x1000, as top clubs wouldn't put with shite like that from their personnel.

[censored] off now. Play for Casey, you narcissistic, spineless, clowns.

Rarely I agree with you WYL but spot on here Bud!

Thanks PSD.

We have to be united now. All of us. Personal opinions theories and heated arguements mean nothing.

The last 7 years have been a total disaster.

Last sunday was the absolute proof.

The MFC deserves all the abuse thrown at it right now.

Some people spent $1,000's getting to that game on sunday from overseas and interstate and the MFC cannot even prepare a side to play when it actually counts.

It really is a fcuking disgrace.

I am furious at McLardy's comment in the paper "I don't know whether they thought it was still the NAB CUP"....

He can shove that comment straight up the clacker.

It's all a bit of fun to Don..

^{I have to admit that watching replays of that game that there is a clear problem at the MFC. Be it players, coaches or officials, in reality it's probably all three? I fear we are about to see a further implosion of historic proportions. Could be the mother of all purges, the one we should have had post 186?}

Thanks PSD.

We have to be united now. All of us. Personal opinions theories and heated arguements mean nothing.

The last 7 years have been a total disaster.

Last sunday was the absolute proof.

The MFC deserves all the abuse thrown at it right now.

Some people spent $1,000's getting to that game on sunday from overseas and interstate and the MFC cannot even prepare a side to play when it actually counts.

It really is a fcuking disgrace.

I am furious at McLardy's comment in the paper "I don't know whether they thought it was still the NAB CUP"....

He can shove that comment straight up the clacker.

It's all a bit of fun to Don..

Have not heard from Hardtack wyl

He came down from Sydney with his son, how much would that have cost.

I would not blame him for moving to the Swans.

You have my sympathy Hardtack not that it helps much

It was last year when OTC did such a dissection was the last minute of Richmond's capitulation against Gold Coast. There was no sacking of coaches of the board. The team was given the opportunity to regroup and the Tigers are now serious challengers. I'm not suggesting we were any good on Sunday (we were horrible) or that we'll go the same way as they did but their supporters have grown up from the rabble they once were, baying for blood at any and every poor performance. We have now become the Richmond of the competition.

Edited April 2, 201312 yr by The Oracle

By the time we weed out all the so called recalcitrant players we will not have club left. We will only have rudderless draftees and rejects. No decent coach or player will touch us. When armies revolt, the leaders get the chop. The quicker the better.

We have now become the Richmond of the competition.

Says it all.

It was last year when OTC did such a dissection was the last minute of Richmond's capitulation against Gold Coast. There was no sacking of coaches of the board. The team was given the opportunity to regroup and the Tigers are now serious challengers. I'm not suggesting we were any good on Sunday (we were horrible) or that we'll go the same way as they did but their supporters have grown up from the rabble they once were, baying for blood at any and every poor performance. We have now become the Richmond of the competition.

That Richmond loss was an aberattion and recognised as so. Our pathetic performance was not an aberattion. Same dross dished up since 186.

Edited April 2, 201312 yr by Muvver Jones

Senior players are allowed to put in mediocre performances because they know they will still get picked, Frawleys example was only one of several type episodes where he really did not look interested, or his man was miles away from him taking marks and kicking goals. Senior players must be held accountable for their actions.

Senior players are allowed to put in mediocre performances because they know they will still get picked, Frawleys example was only one of several type episodes where he really did not look interested, or his man was miles away from him taking marks and kicking goals. Senior players must be held accountable for their actions.

Senior players & Senior executives.

Both need to be very accountable.

Yes - I am sure all agree....it is bad!

What we all are looking for of course is a solution, which is not so simple. Certainly not as simple as mass sackings of coaches, administrators and players.

Just on frawley I lost count on how many times he got free at kickout was in pocket all on his own only for dunne to go long to jamar who had multiple opponents frustrated the crap out of me

Just on frawley I lost count on how many times he got free at kickout was in pocket all on his own only for dunne to go long to jamar who had multiple opponents frustrated the crap out of me

I had this incredible deja-vu experience - "kick it long down the line to Jamar and watch it sail back over your head for a goal"... where have we seen that before?

On the one hand, I think it's a bit mean for them to single out Pedersen, Frawley and Nicholson for each of their pathetic attempts, when I'm sure all bar about 2 players did something similar.

However. Frawley's 'chase' symbolises all that is wrong with our 'leaders'. I can only presume he thought the ball was going to go out of bounds, but even then, for him to see it didn't, and not put his head down and sprint, but just continue to amble, is absolutely, utterly, totally disgraceful. I'd drop him to Casey for that and that alone. It's far worse than Nicholson going the double fist (don't get me wrong, that effort was also terrible). If he doesn't want to try, he shouldn't play.

Pedersen's squib was just sad, really. But you'd hope that he watches that back, and vows internally to never do it again. Might change him.

On the one hand, I think it's a bit mean for them to single out Pedersen, Frawley and Nicholson for each of their pathetic attempts, when I'm sure all bar about 2 players did something similar.

However. Frawley's 'chase' symbolises all that is wrong with our 'leaders'. I can only presume he thought the ball was going to go out of bounds, but even then, for him to see it didn't, and not put his head down and sprint, but just continue to amble, is absolutely, utterly, totally disgraceful. I'd drop him to Casey for that and that alone. It's far worse than Nicholson going the double fist (don't get me wrong, that effort was also terrible). If he doesn't want to try, he shouldn't play.

Pedersen's squib was just sad, really. But you'd hope that he watches that back, and vows internally to never do it again. Might change him.

I was thinking this about Frawley today. I'd love to see our entire leadership group (with the exception of Jack Grimes and Mitch Clark) dropped to the VFL. Just let them know that the entire team depends on them to show the way, and that they bear the responsibility when standards of effort become so despicably lax as they were on Sunday.

Watch that video and then compare it to the early days of Trengove under Bailey. I hope there is method in this madness but the videos suggest we have gone WAY backwards.