ETIHAD INVADED BY SPECTATORS! ... CALL SECURITY by George on The Outer

Yes the Demons have done it again! Played one hundred minutes of football and managed a lousy four goals for a whole game. At least at Geelong a couple of weeks ago there was the reasonable excuse of a river running through the ground.

We are truly setting the record books alight this year as this was our ninth game where we have kicked less than ten goals. And since this was round 18, thats ½ of the games played!

How we dream of the old days. Saturday afternoon at the footy. Playing against another Melbourne based side. The memories ... and if it were the old days, the season would be over by now. Although our season has in truth long been over.

Could it be that Mark Neeld really wasnt the problem? Darwin aftermath perhaps? Or is the truth much simpler:

We just have a team full of absolute lazy spuds!

The coach doesnt stop a player chasing, or contesting. Tropical heat doesnt mean you cant stand alongside your opponent, even more so if you didnt actually play in Darwin.

The sheer number of spectators on the ground should have been brought to the attention of security.

Sadly, even removing them wouldnt have made any difference to the score or the result. Fining them the $7K that was flashed up so often on the screen would have been a good starting point. Taking them to the Metropolitan Assessment Prison next door would have been an even better option.

Nine Melbourne players had 10 possessions or less. What hope do we have when half the team is simply bludgeing? And bludgeing off the backs of Nathan Jones and Max Gawn who once again showed what is required at AFL level football. Or a young Jack Viney who is prepared to put in 110% even in his first year of football.

Things were certainly not helped by our own ineptitude, with the grand total of 41 clangers for the team. No wonder North won by over twenty goals; they simply had a couple of extra players on the ground. Except they were wearing Red and Blue jumpers.

Seven years of this we have been watching now. Any more of this and there will be more spectators on the ground than in the seats in the stands.

Melbourne 1.0.6 3.2.14 4.4.28 4.4.28

North Melbourne 3.5.23 6.9.41 14.12.9622.18.150

Goals

Melbourne Byrnes Dawes Fitzpatrick Tapscott

North Melbourne Bastinac Black 4 Adams Cunnington Goldstein Mullett Petrie Wells 2 Harvey Ziebell

Best

Melbourne Sylvia N Jones Frawley N Jones McDonald Dunn

North Melbourne Cunnington Harvey Hansen Bastinac Goldstein Gibson

Injuries

Melbourne James Frawley (hamstring strain)

North Melbourne Swallow (achilles)

Changes

Melbourne Dean Terlich replaced by Luke Tapscott

North Melbourne Nil

Reports

MelbourneNil

North Melbourne Nil

Umpires Findlay Bannister Burgess

Official Attendance 16,959, at Etihad Stadium

all i can do is LOL

An absolute disgrace. This one stings a bit more because I was believing that these gutless, below VFL standard performances were in the past.

And the fact it's North.

And the fact that North didn't even play their best footy. Far from it.

I thought I'd felt the last of those knives in the stomach.

Does Trengove have OP?

Our decision making and lack of work ethic is mind boggling

16.9.105 to 1.2.8 after half time, says it all really!

Lol why get a job when u could become a mfc player and get paid to stand and watch opposition training sessions

The MFC jumper continues to be soaked in a bucket of poo. Our club does not know how to field a competitive list of AFL players.

This was Mark Neeld bad.

Who ever don't want to play for the jumper should be traded or removed from the club!!! [censored] poor effort by a bunch of bloody girls!

Does Trengove have OP?

He definitely does. It's not possible that he's just very, very ordinary and we've stuffed up yet another pick. Not possible.

Trengove should be removed for the remainder of 2013

Had Norf kicked with greater accuracy it would have been our worst loss for the season. Many easy shots missed or fumbled running into open goals by them.

Trengove should be removed for the remainder of 2013

and then traded

Despite the pain, there is hope.

I hope that people are ready for things to become worse.

Until we have a midfield we will continue to lose. Next year we will be last because every other team will walk past us with their mids. The year after will be the same. And again and again until we get a midfield.

I'd consider us 4 years off recovering at best. We are not developing any mids at Casey. We are utterly rooted until we get mids.

I'm open for suggestions as to how we get them...but maybe frawley must be a trade consideration?

Where was Howe, Trengove, Byrnes, Blease, Grimes, Kent, M Jones, Tapscott? Now for the excuse... Heavy v Cats at Kardinia, Humid v Lions in Darwin... etc... etc... We all know there is no excuse!

If we're 4 years off recovering, I'm going to start padding the walls in my house.

Agreed Tim. Find a way to magic in some quality, experienced, match ready mids or we're stuck this way for the next few seasons at least.

If anyone says Melbourne doesn't have a case for draft assistance after that atrocity, they should have their head read.

Where was Howe, Trengove, Byrnes, Blease, Grimes, Kent, M Jones, Tapscott? Now for the excuse... Heavy v Cats at Kardinia, Humid v Lions in Darwin... etc... etc... We all know there is no excuse!

5 of those players were in the forward line.

and then traded

For what? A donut and a big M?

In all serious I think he needs to shed a couple of kilos and work the fast twitch fibers. He tries but the body just isn't doing it for him right now.

Anyone really wondering why Roos is not interested.

What a crock of shite

The footy in Dean Bailey's final two years was pretty good compared to this rubbish.