No excuses here, players thought they had this game won yesterday & didn't turn up for 2 out of 4 qtrs. The Dons are garbage & today we fell short because of low intensity & Hogan playing crap (although he is a kid & the rest of team should've been able to kick straight & cover him). I reckon a few blokes only woke up in the 4th qtr!!! We found ways to lose this game. Tyson and several others need to lift, too few really working hard both ways in the middle & our youth (apart from Hogan) was solid if not spectacular. Spencer in the team was a mistake today imo, we could've used a Riley type to help win more clearance & take more advantage of Gawn's dominance.

Spencer wasn't in the team today.

Talking dynasties LOL considering i was the one saying after the NAB cup loss against the bummers we would be bottom 4 atleast.

[censored] off parrot

Yeah we'll see

Brett Anderson ‏@BrettAndersonIF 1m1 minute ago

The two most inaccurate key forwards in the comp have kicked 12.0 against Melbourne this year. Sums it up. #AFLDonsDees

Only at [censored] Melbourne!

Yep agree Dazzle man Cloke and Daniher seem to grow in confidence when you play the Dees!

Man I am so [censored] of!

As you suggested only friggen Melbourne FC!

We just kicked ourselves out of it.

Roosy take the whole team for swim in the bay at 6am down at st kilda for some hardness training

6 AM?

Make it 4 AM at Westernport!

Time for a few to grow some friggen gonads and stop being headcases!

Saw Jack Fitzpatrick in the lift at the G immediately after the game. Wanted to grab him by the MFC tie and shout to the world that he could have shut down Danners today. A big, as in 200+ fast defender, would have been useful.

FFS give up watching footy mate. If you couldn't see the problem today was the constant bombing, especially inside 50, just spend the weekends knitting or something.

Yes we just kept kicking long down the line to packs, but surely you could see Hogan getting regularly out bodied. More physicality needed

Sorry team but I am sick of hearing about Viney's intensity and he needs to bring more to the table.

He cannot kick more than 40 metres, first quarter shot did not make the distance and doesn't hit targets. he got moved off Heppel whose 3rd quarter was outstanding. He kicks at 40% efficiency, gave away 3 frees (one resulted in a goal after a crude high tackle on Heppel), ran too far with the ball and blamed the forwards. He is too one sided and predictable as he has no right foot and constantly gets caught turning back into play and keeps making the same errors. Compare the Dons midfielders to ours with Heppel, Stanton and Goddard all showing leadership today.

Yes we just kept kicking long down the line to packs, but surely you could see Hogan getting regularly out bodied. More physicality needed

Football 101: if you kick to advantage physicality is taken out of the equation and a great marker shines.

Yes we just kept kicking long down the line to packs, but surely you could see Hogan getting regularly out bodied. More physicality needed

I've not said Hogan had a good day, but blaming the forwards for today's loss just shows a lack of understanding of footy.

Frost and Hurley have smashed him in the last month by continually outbodying him. He's only played 10 games though he's the least of our problems.

And yet he out muscled Rance who is better than both earlier in the year! He was rubbish, led to the wrong spots, poor pressure, poor second efforts. Yes he's still a kid, but he built his body up for 12 months last year on top of dominating men at VFL the year before. He needs to lift but so do plenty of others on today.

Sorry team but I am sick of hearing about Viney's intensity and he needs to bring more to the table.

He cannot kick more than 40 metres, first quarter shot did not make the distance and doesn't hit targets. he got moved off Heppel whose 3rd quarter was outstanding. He kicks at 40% efficiency, gave away 3 frees (one resulted in a goal after a crude high tackle on Heppel), ran too far with the ball and blamed the forwards. He is too one sided and predictable as he has no right foot and constantly gets caught turning back into play and keeps making the same errors. Compare the Dons midfielders to ours with Heppel, Stanton and Goddard all showing leadership today.

Agree, too many shortcomings but of course he compared favourably to Ollie Who??

It farks me off to lose to the turds. The bloke we're missing is Salem. He's not the cure all but he can [censored] well hit a target for [censored] starters.

Essendon really got away with it due to our incompetence today. They played one good quarter. We let them use that spare man and work it through the middle in space too often, they never had much to kick it too. I could see Watts visibly frustrated at a kick in near the end, I think our chemistry still needs a lot of improvement. Based on what we've seen in the past month this had all the ingredients for an easy win but we really just blew it

NO WE HAVE NOT.....

We have not improved and that's that.....we are still bottom 4 and lose games we should win. Roos is on a million dollars and I am getting impatient.

I can't believe people think Gawn had a good game? What are they seeing that I'm not? Hardly any effective hitouts and too many taps either straight down to his feet or directly to an Essendon player. And this against a second string ruck.

It farks me off to lose to the turds. The bloke we're missing is Salem. He's not the cure all but he can [censored] well hit a target for [censored] starters.

If we are missing one bloke we are further gone than what I thought!??

It farks me off to lose to the turds. The bloke we're missing is Salem. He's not the cure all but he can [censored] well hit a target for [censored] starters.

also I reckon we are missing Kent in our midfield.

6 AM?

Make it 4 AM at Westernport!

Time for a few to grow some friggen gonads and stop being headcases!

And by that I say we are still so terribly terribly mentally weak!

Which game were you watching? Are you a Jamar fan as well? I'd love to know how many of those hit outs were ineffective or directly down the opposition's throat.

Probably the same game as Matthew Lloyd who gave Gawn our best player

Sheedy and Hird will be out tonight toasting and boasting at the expense of our club yet again.....when is this going to stop?

Sorry team but I am sick of hearing about Viney's intensity and he needs to bring more to the table.

He cannot kick more than 40 metres, first quarter shot did not make the distance and doesn't hit targets. he got moved off Heppel whose 3rd quarter was outstanding. He kicks at 40% efficiency, gave away 3 frees (one resulted in a goal after a crude high tackle on Heppel), ran too far with the ball and blamed the forwards. He is too one sided and predictable as he has no right foot and constantly gets caught turning back into play and keeps making the same errors. Compare the Dons midfielders to ours with Heppel, Stanton and Goddard all showing leadership today.

His inability, and more importantly unwillingness, to kick on his left, is telling. Tyson has the same problem - cannot, and will not, kick on his right.

One of Daniher's goals came today from Hibberd kicking on his right, which is his non-preferred.

I can't believe people think Gawn had a good game? What are they seeing that I'm not? Hardly any effective hitouts and too many taps either straight down to his feet or directly to an Essendon player. And this against a second string ruck.

He had 50 or so hit outs. 11-5 from the centre square. A few very hand marks. Didn't butcher the ball when he had it.

In no ways a great game and he wasn't up against much but at least he did his job.

He was good but I wouldn't single him out for it if that makes any sense.

FMD. You can't be this dumb surely? How have you STILL not wrapped your tiny brain around the fact that it was the quality of disposal today? Our 4 most important midfielders wasted half their disposals.

Far out.

The two of you both need to realise that simply quoting the same bloody stuff at each other ad nauseum doesn't actually convince anyone of anything. Just agree to disagree and get over it

I hate how we're still looking for Jones all the time and his kicking was really poor today, as was most of our midfield's

If Salem has another injury riddled season I would consider trading him out.

We have all seen what happens to injury prone players...get what value you can