GAMEDAY - Round 17

[Binmans PA 26,479]

This is an utter disgrace. We manufacture ways of turning it over. Easily some of the dumbest footballers in the league. Why the [censored] do the coaching team persist playing over possessive, dry footy in the wet? We do not bring AFL intensity enough. Haven't brought it at all today. Being smashed in the tackle count.

[leucopogon 1,472]

Whoever our stoppage coach is should be sacked, we can't play centre clearances to save our lives.

I just found a copy of the Melbourne coaching manual.

Under the definitions section it says "Handball target: someone who doesn't spread from a contest"

Edited July 26, 2015 by leucopogon

[Pipefitter 2,036]

Last weeks win didn't fool anyone. We were poor last week and even worse today. Bring on Goodwin.

[What 18,810]

I just dont get it. How can st kilda be already so much better than us?!

Strong culture and a playing and coaching group that cares about the supporters

[chook fowler 18,392]

If Roos says we are on track after the game I'll go apoplectic

[Deetective Sgt. Taggert 380]

We will be lucky to pinch a win over carlton, which will take us to 6 wins. Probably the bare minimum for a pass mark for the year. At least brayshaw looks the goods still!

[Seraph 1,714]

I love how Roos has spoken about how we've overused the handball in previous games yet has seemingly done nothing to address it.

[Moonshadow 16,407]

A and I thought we had found all the humanly possible ways to lose a very winnable game. If we have improved over the last two seasons, it must now surely be marginal.

[Ethan Tremblay 28,535]

The Melbourne Butchers

[Qwerty30 196]

When we handball we do so to a player under the hammer.

When we kick we kick high to 1 on 2/3 contest or we send forward on the bounce.

Just dumb.

[dee-tox 4,829]

So many bog ordinary footballers. Confidence is to do the basic things is ruined. They try, but have lost any instincts to play.

[jumbo returns 6,544]

Nick Riewoldt....amazing resilience.

Freak.

[wizardinoz 2,081]

What has Harmes, Stretch or Vandenburg done today? Time to bring back the Toump.

[The heart beats true 16,483]

That Jetta turn over was everything wrong with our footy club. It was high possession, quick hands play from one Melbourne player to another, yet we simply lacked the skills to execute it under absolutely no pressure. They crossed to the box and Roos just looked disinterested. He knows it - every time we try to step up the intensity and take the next step as a team we simply don't have the players to be able to do it.

I hate to say it, but as club be just make up the numbers. Not a lot of point thinking we'll be anything but for the next 3-4 years too with the draft concessions given to the expansion teams. So that'll be 20 years in the wilderness giving us no junior interested and no sponsor interest.

Makes me want to throw up.

[Ethan Tremblay 28,535]

Nick Riewoldt....amazing resilience.

Freak.

We always make him look better than he is

I don't think resilience is something you need much of against us.

[bjDee 1,249]

So Channel 7 fades out to an ad break at 3Q time playing Anchor, the new song from Birds of Tokyo about missing an opportunity to help out a friend in depression. How appropriate for the Dees audience.

They're in on the game rigging thing with the AFL.

As Young Dee said, watch the umpies even up the free kick tally in the last qtr when its all over, so on the stats sheet it doesn't look uneven.

Effin pricks who rule over this game to make as many dollars as possible and screw it up for the genuine fans.

[KingDingAling 3,622]

So many bog ordinary footballers. Confidence is to do the basic things is ruined. They try, but have lost any instincts to play.

We do have a lot of spuds on our list. Just sub par footballers.

[Young Dee 1,303]

that's been payed in the back all day.

Holding the ball rule is a joke - umps wwould be more consistent if they flipped a coin after each tackle

Edited July 26, 2015 by Young Dee

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

How is that not in the back to Jetta?

[olisik 4,060]

Why wasn't Jetta called as push in the back

[Ethan Tremblay 28,535]

Free against Jetta,

The same thing happened 2 seconds before that and Bruce dropped the ball, play on!

These umpires are [censored] criminal.

[Moonshadow 16,407]

These umpires are a joke. How was that prior opportunity and not in the back to jetta?

[olisik 4,060]

Hope we make a forms complaint about these umps. About farken time we kicked up a stink to make the scum think twice about stooging us

[titan_uranus 22,740]

Extremely disappointing performance.

There's no doubt we've risen to levels this year that exceed anything we did last year, but to continue to play games the way we've played this one (and the previous two as well) is an enormous negative for the players and coaches alike.

[wizardinoz 2,081]

Not good enough again, Jetta.