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Jones, Vince, Dunn, Garland. These are your leaders. All played like they were scared of making a mistake or didn't want to be there.

A disgraceful, abhorrent effort. There's no pride in the jumper or seemingly even personal pride.

The lack of effort for the majority of the match is unacceptable. Poor old PJ has an up hill battle next year with membership. I've already renewed mine, but I no longer begrudge those who don't.

I'm going a armchair membership next year and investing in Foxtel instead.

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Luckily list management decisions are made at the end of the season and not after insipid performances like today... having said that I think Roosy might need to reevaluate whether 7-8 changes will be enough. So much damaged goods. You can't turn your culture around with players who have split peas for hearts. Cut hard and draft and keep drafting. No point trying to trade for talent, no player with any credibility would want to come to the MFC - we're such a joke.

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The end of this year will see some players leave/get cut/traded.
I will officially fly back to Australia from Japan and picket AAMI Park if it's a group of 10 fringe players again.
We think cutting 10 depth players is some revolutionary statement that we are somehow 'serious'.
If we are legitimately serious, then sadly Jack Grimes is gone as is Jeremy Howe. He has improved this year but I would say Watts too as well as Colin Garland. These are the blokes who should be the core of our team. Sadly, they let us down too often. We don't need the mother of all clean outs. We just have to make the actual moves that we make count.
We also need to stop thinking that the next Sam Mitchell or Josh Kennedy is in the next intake of players. Stretching back to the start of the Neeld era, we seem to think that we would be able to recycle players or find rough gems. Enough of that. Mitchell and Kennedy are the exceptions, not the rules. Vandenberg is the only one of these players I can recall us getting who has paid off.

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If our players cannot be bothered when they play the bottom team imagine the carnage next week when they front up to the No 1 team on their turf...will get very ugly...

The last two weeks have put daggers deep into a demon heart and next week may well be the fatal blow....

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We can obviously play when we feel like it.

Frustrating loss. They are pus and we should have won, but we clearly couldn't be stuffed in the first half.

This wasn't a game of seeing who was the best, which is why I was bored before it began.

i seem to remember some clever clogs calling others who thought those who thought we could could lose to Carlton as negative nancies or some such..as surely we would win THIS one.

Wasnt being negative Nash...just realistic. We're shlt

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No......

Do it in private.......... Don't show your pea heart to the world

So a bloke organizing something on his holiday is the reason for the clubs performance today, is the reason we laid 5 tackles in the first quarter ? For starters he wasn't even out there today and was among the best in the VFL... Think we have far bigger problems then a fringe player booking into an event on his holidays Edited by JV7
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i seem to remember some clever clogs calling others who thought those who thought we could could lose to Carlton as negative nancies or some such..as surely we would win THIS one.

Wasnt being negative Nash...just realistic. We're shlt

If you were called that, it wasn't by me. I've hardly been on this week, didn't have the energy for it after the debacle last week.

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Luckily list management decisions are made at the end of the season and not after insipid performances like today...

Actually they should be made after games like this

If players cant perform against a three win team with an interim coach what hope in hell do they have of taking us into the finals?

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I think the "trade Jones" calls are a bit harsh, but I do think he and Vince should no longer be walk up starters in the center square to start games. We are getting smashed in the middle early in games with them in there and we need to change it up.

He was barely there (if at all) all day. Jones went forward, Vince went back. It was Newton, Viney and (rotating young mid).

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I didn't watch today, but I did flick it on to see the score before half time. ANB had just gotten subbed on. Considering he'd only gotten subbed on before half time, he had reasonable stats the young kid, and scored plus 65 in supercoach. He is going to be a player, I am pretty excited about ANB.

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