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Bailey wouldn't want this team back, that's how bad its gotten. When does a rebuild ever end. If the next coach comes in and makes Neeld like changes do we all just sit back and wait another 6 years. That last quarter was despicable. They had all given up and just wanted it to end.

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I will be filled with joy when this season is over. I thought last year was hell. This year has tortured me.

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Players lack every basic skills. Can't mark, can't kick, can't hand ball. Decision making is pathetic. Kicking backwards and sideways should be stopped. I wonder whether the coaches don't tell them not to hand ball to someone who is a metre away surrounded by six opponents. Lazy to chase the ball or tackle. For foot balls sake kick it long through thee middle.

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I will be filled with joy when this season is over. I thought last year was hell. This year has tortured me.

It's like a bad nightmare, I can't wake up and when I do it's cricket season, no joy there either...

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Hard to see us beating GWS or GC at this rate. Never seen a midfield so bad before. Painful.

I don't think many people saw us beating Gold Coast even before today.

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The players don't want to get better. Why do they have to...They get paid regardless.

This team has been training together for 3-4 years with negative improvement.

The Tanking strategy is imo the main offender. It still exists, you can see and feel it.

No one Really cares when the heat is applied.

PJ has to clean the whole joint out. There is no other way.

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5 minutes into the second quarter of the Pies and GWS game, Jeremy Cameron has scored more than us today.

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When missed tackles, skill errors and unforced turnovers start to win win you games, watch the mighty demons roar up the ladder!

That was disgraceful and they should be in the bay at 5am tomorrow running relays with tractor tyres. Bunch of spoilt brats and sulks. When will they ever get some pride? Do they not know that individually they are embarrassing themselves, and also destroying a once proud club?

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Whoever the new coach is, the majority of training in summer should be decision making and skill execution drills. While it wouldn't solve everything it would help a shitload!

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Might Darwin have been a big factor in that shameful display?

Oh please!

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Whoever the new coach is, the majority of training in summer should be decision making and skill execution drills. While it wouldn't solve everything it would help a shitload!

You can add sprinting too, the lack of acceleration is so bad it is not funny.

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Today, my son took his 6 year old son to the match (if you could call it that).

It was his first live game of AFL.


Having recently joined Auskick, my grandson is beginning to take an interest in footy, but is yet to really settle on who to barrack for.

Of course, I thought and hoped he would follow the Dees, until today.

However, from the Skype call I received from them during the early part of the 4th quarter, I doubt very much that will happen.

All I can say is, "I do understand".


Who would want to put someone so young through an unnecessary lifetime of pain, with such little pleasure ?


I live in Thailand and had to suffer the match on TV. Perhaps just as well I was not there.


Today I felt ashamed and foolish for having followed Melbourne for more than 50 years.

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I'm starting to look forward next week to watching this young, improving side that are exciting, talented and committed......

GWS

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There is no doubt that today was unacceptable. We made poor decisions and our offensive movement of the ball was close to non-existent. However anyone that thinks playing Etihad off the back of Darwin and the wet of Geelong wasn't a massive factor in the second half has NFI.

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There is no doubt that today was unacceptable. We made poor decisions and our offensive movement of the ball was close to non-existent. However anyone that thinks playing Etihad off the back of Darwin and the wet of Geelong wasn't a massive factor in the second half has NFI.

Cop out! We had 22 they had 22. End of story.

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Cop out! We had 22 they had 22. End of story.

Not a cop out at all. It's simply a fact.

We're abysmal, and even if we hadn't gone to Darwin and Geelong in the rain the last fortnight, we'd have lost by a heap today. But the argument that our fitness fell apart based in part on our last fortnight is completely fair, and discounting it is simplistic.

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It's not common sense to lose by 120 points. End of story.

Not saying I enjoyed it or we should not have performed better but sitting close to the fence it was pretty obvious we were done 5 minutes to go in the 2nd quarter.

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Not a cop out at all. It's simply a fact.

We're abysmal, and even if we hadn't gone to Darwin and Geelong in the rain the last fortnight, we'd have lost by a heap today. But the argument that our fitness fell apart based in part on our last fortnight is completely fair, and discounting it is simplistic.

No its trying to find an excuse for a woeful performance and IMO it doesn't stack up. if you are saying that they should have perhaps considered some young fresh legs from Casey, might be prepared to consider that.

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