Though fearing for the safety of the computer, I watched Clarkson's presser

http://www.afl.com.au/video/2017-05-07/full-postmatch-hawks

Interesting.

Toughest loss to take so far this year. 

I just can't believe how many times players bombed inside 50 completely blind. Take a second to compose yourself and look for your forwards - not that fkn hard. So much dumb footy that my brain was close to exploding.

16 minutes ago, america de cali said:

I checked and it was 5-2.

That stat is probably Hawthorn in 2010. 

Started 1-6 but made the finals.

Another gun mid, key fwd and key def and we are away

That and leadership 

But, but........ we were burning up the track this week at training...........

And we prepared for their best.......... didnt we?

I wish the club would learn to shut its collective gob and let results speak for themselves instead of making itself a laughing stock with comments like that.

 

Dont deserve to even dream of finals when we consistently lose to teams in rubbish form. Only when we are good enough to kick clubs when they are down will we ever be more than just a side note to the comp. To think that we were gifted what most believed was a dream fixture as far as probable wins was concerned in the early part of the year. Yet here we are still tracking at a negative win/loss ratio. This season is shaping up to be another in a very, very, very long procession of unfulfilled promise.

I should give myself an uppercut for tipping that we would win.

FU again MFC. At least the MCC area had less Hawks slime than MFC. They are almost all putrid people.

2 hours ago, jumbo returns said:

What's your plan?

Mutiny

1 hour ago, DominatrixTyson said:

Can somebody explain what kind of player JKH is meant to be? Is he even a small forward? He's obviously short in height, but he has no pace and looks built like a nugget that doesn't use any of his body or throw himself into players. Can't leap very high, and not fast enough to break away when crumbiing. We've already got Petracca in there who is of the bullocking style. Why a small version of him? We obviously need to be stacking the forward line with small forward GOAL SNEAKS as well as a third tall

Yeah I'll explain, he is not an AFL standard player! 

The general theme across all games of all clubs for the year is that losses will be based on giving away strings of goals.

It has certainly been the basis of all of our losses.

Anyway, our percentage holds ok. There's nothing wrong that a 7-game late-season winning streak into the finals wouldn't fix.

Tell you what though, being 21 points off equal first on the ladder is a proper s-- sandwich.

That's less than 3 points per ladder position missed.

Nasher woopy do that I got it wrong,regardless we are useless.

Oh. And I nearly forgot. Jeff Garlett - 3 goals.

(For a quick recap - that's five of seven matches he's kicked 3 goals for a current 2017 tally of 18.5)

3 hours ago, olisik said:

Honestly we play JKH over

Trengove, Kennedy, Stretch, Kent

Who anywhere would think he adds more value then these players?

Agree totally. How JKH is playing over Kent is beyond me ... surly that his run of games.

Does Vince's contract expire this year? 

Sorry to say it, but the blokes done.

MyTake 

1 We have no " A" Grade players

2 Many are NQR and will be gone by end of year ................................ Fill in at convenience

3 We have too many that give us a quarter of good to very good footy no more no less (Tyson et al)

4 Tommy Mac, well, he has too many brain fades, which prove costly, in fact Oscar was pretty good today I thought ( Maybe look to trade to get reliable and consistently good decision makers in defence)

5 Frost made some mistakes but loved his Dash, might have turned the corner

6 Hawthorns skills ( for an ageing team) today put us to shame. 

Goodwin rolled the dice with T'mac getter involved in ruck duties at centre bounces in the first half. Cost us dearly Without him in the backline.

2 minutes ago, deestar said:

Agree totally. How JKH is playing over Kent is beyond me ... surly that his run of games.

Easy, Kent is a lazy footballer. If he ever pulls the finger he will be a regular, until then he doesn't deserve a game.

As for JKH, Stretch is a far better bet for mine.

This was a dog vomit result. The players handpassed into trouble too much. The other team had taller, stronger, faster players who could mark the ball overhead. Our players tried hard and played well in the third quarter. But they persisted with the game plan of the first two quarters in the last. Lose at all costs. Pull defeat from the jaws of victory as usual. Hand pass into trouble. The umpires love Roughead. Jones kept kicking it straight to a hawthorn player or hand passing up his own a$$. This was another game that a real team would have won. MFC is a fake team with no heart. They'll try a bit for one or two quarters but at least one quarter will be the losing quarter. They don't really care. Football is not really their heart and soul. It's just a job. Poorly done.

16 minutes ago, frankie_d said:

Though fearing for the safety of the computer, I watched Clarkson's presser

http://www.afl.com.au/video/2017-05-07/full-postmatch-hawks

Interesting.

interesting indeed

Some clean analysis of Melbourne strengths

 

2 hours ago, Watts the matter said:

And then what happened? He played a nothing game and didn't threaten or make our attacks dangerous. To not kick a goal from 30m out summed it up.

A minute or two before that he wasn't happy when Petracca burnt him and kicked the ball over his head going for a low percentage goal. It seemed to me like that was still in his mind when he tried to chip it to the player in the goalsquare instead of slotting the goal.

Just wondering 

Is it time for Trengove.???

30 minutes before the game I playfully checked in here for a weather update before taking a dip in the villa pool. 

By the time I got out of the pool, my wife discovered our 2yo twins were in fact falling ill. Snot, tears and tantrums from as$hole to brick.

By the time I had extracted enough snot to fill the MCG more comfortably than the MFC fan base from two little faces, we were 35 points down. Miraculous fightback or not, you're rarely coming back from that. 

I'm glad we won last week because this is: 

WORST ENDING TO A HOLIDAY EVER! 

I've written this in a sparing 10 minute window before the kids start crying again, it's going to be a loooong night. 

And it's all your fault, Melbourne. 

 

2 minutes ago, dpositive said:

Just wondering 

Is it time for Trengove.???

It's time for some tall strong men.

22 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Yeah I'll explain, he is not an AFL standard player! 

The worst thing Jason Taylor done was recruit him ahead of Ben Brown. I doubt that we would lost a game if we had him in the side.

4 hours ago, Return to Glory said:

Before I gain my composure, Dom Tyson is a plumb average player.

Tyson wasn't the problem today. His kicking was a lot better. Set up a couple of goals in fact...

8 minutes ago, dpositive said:

Just wondering 

Is it time for Trengove.???

Im afraid game has gone past Trengove......Injuries and the crazy decision to make him co-captain with Grimes both only early 20s with the club on its knees destroyed their careers. You can thank Neeld for that!

1 minute ago, Hogan2014 said:

Im afraid game has gone past Trengove......Injuries and the crazy decision to make him co-captain with Grimes both only early 20s with the club on its knees destroyed their careers. You can thank Neeld for that!

Yep But Neeld "Didn't see that Comin!"