2 minutes ago, Akum said:

Oh well, so much for the percentage boost.

I was never thinking that today, we just need the win, what comes after that comes. 

Play this way second half and we lose. Tmac keeps doing stupid things and we will lose. Keep the million dinky handballs and kicks and we will lose.

Completely dominated the stats, but we've overused it in the midfield and our forward fifty entries have been poor.

Our half forwards have really let us down too. Hannan, ANB, Brayshaw and Garlett haven't brought the required pressure though.

Jetta is an absolute star. We'd be down at half time if he wasn't in the team. 

We need to clean up our disposals, move the ball quicker and play without fear.

Oliver quieter that quarter, everything Jones has done has been effective. Need a big half from Lewis, Hogan, Gawn and Oliver.

hannan looks lost

players looking at 10 -15 metre kicks. blues now setup to stop this.

handballs to players 40cms away !!! 

kicking backwards

They are flooding back and waiting for our mistakes and we are obliging. Far too cute, can't believe that wasn't mentioned at the quarter time huddle.

However, this game is in our hands. They aren't going to do much else than this so if we can clean up our ball movement we can score more, I think.

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Tyson is not giving first option and Viney's decision making is bog-ordinary. Salem having an absolute blinder. .

Signs of Melbourne millionaires that quarter.

1 minute ago, Demon Disciple said:

We went to sleep after getting up by 24 points. Where's the killer instinct?

And watch out for the umps to bring the Blues back into this one, we've had a very good run from them during the game.

rubbish ,make their own game

4 minutes ago, praha said:

This won't improve for the game. It's going to be a slog. If we win we need to start respecting the Blues more. This has Round 2 vs Essendon written all over it.

Genuine question: is your outlook on life this grim in general?  You post this sort of thing literally every game.  Clint Biz gets a bum rap for being a major pessimist but I don't think I've seen such a defeatist poster.

Midfield is well down on output. Clearances are not of high quality. This was always gonna be won or lost in the middle and so far we are not exactly standing up against Carlton's mids. 

5 minutes ago, Akum said:

Oh well, so much for the percentage boost.

Mate, we haven’t played finals for 10 years. Who gives a fig about percentage boots. Anything other than a loss is gold right now.

Going round in circles , and believing in their own publicity a bit too much.

 

Overusing the ball. Keep it simple and go long. That would beat Carlton.

They run back defensively and we then panic and turn it over, letting them run the ground and score. 

Truly dumb football, from a team that is controlling possession and doing absolutely nothing with it. 

If they were better we would be well down. 

Just now, A F said:

Completely dominated the stats, but we've overused it in the midfield and our forward fifty entries have been poor.

Our half forwards have really let us down too. Hannan, ANB, Brayshaw and Garlett haven't brought the required pressure though.

Jetta is an absolute star. We'd be down at half time if he wasn't in the team. 

We need to clean up our disposals, move the ball quicker and play without fear.

Oliver quieter that quarter, everything Jones has done has been effective. Need a big half from Lewis, Hogan, Gawn and Oliver.

yes agree 100%

Goodwins address should be simple

Clean up disposals

move the ball quickly

look for options 20-40 metres forward

run run run

handball away from a contest

(these 5 things = watch the bulldogs play)

This is what a work in progress looks like. It's still a young team.

The only positives to take out of that first half were that we were bloody ordinary, and when we got our game going for 5 minutes we quickly scored.

Lets get it going again

Hopefully the game opens up in the second half which will give us more opportunities to score

We’re also missing Bernie Vince pretty badly. His drive from the backline gave us so much last week.

Salem 21 touches and a goal. We are stuffing around with the ball too much and giving Carlton too much time to set up defensively. 

242 possessions to half-time. Sums it up perfectly.

Talk about over finessing...

Ball use was atrocious and they will need to improve significantly to be a winner today as they're ripping us to shreds on turnovers, plus their best are yet to fire a shot.

I know it's a regular bugbear of mine, it Brayshaw may be the worst kick for a top three midfielder I've ever seen.

If we happen to come out and smash them then I will say Goodwin is a very good game day coach we are under the pump here, leta see how good he is 

I'd get Jesse up on the ball, we need him to get into the game. 

There were so many cringy post on DL this week.  We habitually get ahead of ourselves and don't offer the opposition the respect they warrant.  We're a good young team, but we were patting ourselves on the back for a match that hadn't even been played yet.