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Just now, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Roos spoke about the players getting ahead of themselves, maybe the coaches are guilty of this. 

Why?  The coaches certainly wouldn't be telling them it will be an easy afternoon.  The coaches can only do so much,

They will take the blame for selection though, no doubt about that.

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18 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Oliver got the rising star nomination last week and now expert posters saying we should have taken Parish because of today's game.

Classic.

What's worse than picking Oliver over Parish is that with Freo now on the slide at 0-2, it looks like we're going to be stuck with our whinging dud of a full forward. 

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1 hour ago, bluey said:

Wouldn't take the average dill 5 seconds to realise that we have passed over another quick player in Parish  who is deadly with either foot, and plays with some pride in himself and his club.

 

 

Please do not start saying we should have taken Parish. Just leave 

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36 minutes ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

I'll put it out there..we lack any genuine pace outside mid..as good as oliver will be..we have many like him..Parish wod have been the silky speedy outsider we needed but we went with Oliver..i feel that until we address the outside run we wont go anywjere..maybe Milkshake..maybe stretch..not sure where it will come from

Not fast enough. Not big enough.

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Hogan needs a rocket, but some of the chat in here is pretty ordinary. Only worth a second rounder? Haha. 

He just needs to get back to working up the ground getting his hands on the footy, rather than setting up camp in the goal square, and he will be fine.

And I think he is still intending to stay.

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In the 40+ years of being a Melbourne supporter I have never, never been so disappointed. We lost to a rabble, a joke team.

All of the team need to watch every minute of that game once every day this week, look at it and study it. That is not the way you play football.

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45 minutes ago, Seinfeld said:

Essendon beat the eventual premiers in round 2 last year. ....so the signs are ominous

Good one, Jerry. I liked it.

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Just now, Nasher said:

Yes. Every year the pre-season is 4-5 months, and every year some clubs come out firing and some clubs come out flat. I'm not sure what your point is.

Let's use Richmond as an example. They have made the last 3 finals series and have been bundled straight out. They have been smashed in the media/social media and by their own supporters. Depending on who you listen to and who you believe they are in their premiership window, "top 4 certainties". If you supported them you'd like to think they would use the pre season to not only work on fitness/skills/game plan but to address the issues that have stood in their way. In Richmonds case it's arrogance and choking. Last year they beat Hawks/Freo/Sydney yet lost to lesser opponents come finals. Round 1 they fell over the line against Carlton, they walked of the ground high fiveing and back slapping each other like they'd won a final. Cotchin/Hardwick should of stopped them singing the song. The players should have been told they were lucky to win and considering the last 3 seasons that performance was not even close to an acceptable standard. But no, they sung the song with all the gusto, again thinking they're part of something special. I texted my mate straight after that game and said "I bet they lose next week because they have t learnt". If Hardwick was foolish enough to put it down to round 1 cobwebs then he only has/had himself fooled.

 

Freo : have some very skilful players, but more importantly are a very well drilled side. Continually get top 4 finishes on the back of building a fortress at home and getting enough away wins against weaker sides. Yet come finals get found out through lack of scoring. You'd think they would be smart enough to address this over the pre season after years of being so close and....no, it's the same old crap again and again. 

 

Teams might tire in the second half until rotations are fully adapted to but by then the damage is already done in some cases. 

 

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I had a bit of a laugh to myself today and also last week when on a couple of occasions our kick into the forward 50 was punched back out so far that it almost got to the centre circle. Surely someone would think, "Hang on, I'm not sure this is working".

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26 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Why?  The coaches certainly wouldn't be telling them it will be an easy afternoon.  The coaches can only do so much,

They will take the blame for selection though, no doubt about that.

With their selections. 

Having said that everything's great in hindsight.

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40 minutes ago, DemonLad5 said:

Not to mention Roos not mentioning anything about the turnovers and lack of effort and desire. Blaming it on being "tired". How can you be tired, we in round [censored] 2!!! Must change things. Please play Petracca and Trengove next week. Drop Harmes, Tyson, Garland. Even Hoges, although they wouldn't drop the genius, once in a lifetime, wonderboy, great white hope forward

Does he need to say this in public? Maybe. But you can bet he's saying it behind closed doors...

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4 hours ago, McQueen said:

Terrific post.

Roos effort was the poorest of the day in my opinion. 

Its not just Roos, its the whole lot of them. Couldn't they see the two loose men on the wings the whole game? What were they bloody looking at?

We all saw it in the first few minutes.

Even the way the players came out onto the ground looked flat. No enthusiasm at all.

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Got a big test next week, and i fully expect a much improved performance, if we play like we did today, we will get smashed by 100 plus

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37 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Demonland at it's finest.

I think it was dazzle who made the comment that Gawn was now 'lazy' after signing a juicy contract, or something like that.  Supporters on here go loopy after a loss.

And you were telling all us throughout the game to stop whinging because eventually we will win. You look just as silly as do most of us so don't try and act as if your the perfect supporter yourself.

Some of us vent through sheer frustration because of the same [censored] dished up for the last 10. We should be in a position now to comfortably knock sides like Essendon off but no its still typical Melbourne same old. 

Sick of idiots on here calling other supporters out here for being purely frustrated for what we dished up today.

 

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18 minutes ago, DemonLad5 said:

Yeah. Ok then..

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I think that's fair. Jeffy a little unlucky as well.

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Really disappointing today, the bombers really came to play and we didn't, which is really surprising considering how much we had to play for.

They did their home work on us and played us one on one with ferocious tackling and then spread on the outside and beat us with their pace.

I don't understand the coach saying we are tired , its their job to manage the teams preparation and training them to optimum fitness and readiness to play AFL.

I think we thought it was just going to happen , but it never did.

Big test next week....we better be ready to play.

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