excuses Dr. Only so you feel better...

No excuses, just over the sommelier club on here extolling the (perceived) virtues of a player not with Melbourne.

No excuses, just over the sommelier club on here extolling the (perceived) virtues of a player not with Melbourne.

The exact player we needed.

I am over it to Dr...

Totally agree with this. We got 24 points up, then our approach completely changed. I don't know if we got tired or lazy or both. We stopped running, we were short passing, were second to the ball, and were trailing our opponents. We were basically inviting Port back into the contest.

At the point the coach and the senior players should have realised the game was turning and should have acted. I wouldn't have minded us playing with 9 defenders for ten minutes, just to get past the inevitable period where Port realised we had stopped and started bombarding the goals.

Instead we waited until Port had kicked five quick goals and completely taken control before we did anything.

Yes agree also and in fact at various different stages we let Gold coast, Richmond and the Bulldogs back into the game on several occasions after periods of domination and leading.....