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He is clumsy and awkward. A poor mans Darren Gasper

Hes a disgrace, be lucky to fit into Port Melbournes best 5, how the hell did he Jamar and Mckenzie get 3 yr deals, who the hells handing out the contracts down the FMD.

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Hes a disgrace, be lucky to fit into Port Melbournes best 5, how the hell did he Jamar and Mckenzie get 3 yr deals, who the hells handing out the contracts down the FMD.

Woops I accidentally replied to your post

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Is Colin Garland the worst Defender in the AFL?

No. He's low on confidence, in a defence being bombarded by opposition forward thrusts. Garland did some okay things tonight. I don't think many played four quarters tonight (the exception perhaps being Mitch Clark). The clumsiness was present almost universally by players in MFC jumpers. It's more an illustration of being belted week in week out, than it is of an ability to play the game.

Not many people will agree with me, but I still believe we have a core group of players, forwards and backs, that will make a great AFL team. Currently, I would point to a lack of structures, tackle counts and one percenters, along with our rucking capacity that condemn us to the bottom of the AFL table.

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Gilies had an absolute shocker. He needs to watch the ball in the air and not watch his man, he is always out of position when the ball lands...

This is something that was all too clear tonight. He would approach the majority of contests out of position. Surely Geelong would have hammered correct positioning into him?

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Clumsy and uncertain - but tried to take the game on at times. Would probably be the worst defender at most clubs except for ours.

Gillies is just clumsy and uncertain.

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I reckon I built the anti-Garland bandwagon with my own two hands a couple of years ago, but at least he made some run tonight. But you can tell he is just sick to death of losing every week. He just doesn't care anymore, and to be honest I find it hard to muster up the passion to blame him.

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Garland was the least of our problems. He was ok defensively and he tried to provide some run.

Someone needs to physical remove Gillies from this team forever. Worst defender I've seen at Melbourne, and I've sat through a lot of Alistair Nicholson. Totally and utterly hopeless. And lost his cool as well to give away dumb frees. Just epically terrible.

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Garland was the least of our problems. He was ok defensively and he tried to provide some run.

Someone needs to physical remove Gillies from this team forever. Worst defender I've seen at Melbourne, and I've sat through a lot of Alistair Nicholson. Totally and utterly hopeless. And lost his cool as well to give away dumb frees. Just epically terrible.

I agree. None of our defenders covered themselves in glory tonight but Gillies was unbelievably poor. McDonald had a shocker but that was less of a surprise (given his lack of game time)than Gillies' absolute buther's job. Garland did a couple of OK things and may be coming good again....hopefully.

All in all, a really bad night. Please don't put us on TV..it's embarrassing at the moment.

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Garland was the least of our problems. He was ok defensively and he tried to provide some run.

Someone needs to physical remove Gillies from this team forever. Worst defender I've seen at Melbourne, and I've sat through a lot of Alistair Nicholson. Totally and utterly hopeless. And lost his cool as well to give away dumb frees. Just epically terrible.

Agree.

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