Literally no one to kick it too. 

 

No run. No effort. Nadda.

Clean Clearances

Melbourne .... 9 (3 centre)

North Melb ... 7 (5 centre)

They are beating us badly with their pressure & their own much better ball movement.

Quarter time. Thank god.

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Cunnington looks done for the day.

Traidbait, Dean Kent. Looks like a footballer, plays like an under 12.

Well, that is our bad quarter out of the way

We are always pathetic in the first. 

Just now, Moneider96 said:

We will come back. But why the hell does this have to happen every week? When will they learn, ffs?

Not the way we're playing at the moment. A shadow of the team that played last week (same players'). Typical rollercoaster effort from MFC.

Fucken typical Melbourne.

We should be 10 goals down.

4 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Lazy and soft at this point. Where is the manic pressure from last week??

In Adelaide

Not sure we can carry both oscar and weid in the side at this stage, neither offers enough and both get outmarked to easily. May both be good players in time but not there yet 

And people here thought we are a chance to win the flag. Lols!

We are lucky not to be 45 points down 

We'll hit the lead at some point today, just you watch

I really wonder why i turn up to these games.

 

Hawks, freo and now norf.

 

 

1 minute ago, Wadda We Sing said:

Cunnington looks done for the day.

We'll see

I am not one for predictions. We've turned this sort of stuff around before. 

But until we bring some real physical pressure, and target them at stoppages, and hurt then, we will not win this.

Jeepers. Our guys (including Jones) are receiving the ball as if they are in Gosch's Paddock on a Tuesday. That's about the level on intensity they have brought. And this from a 'contender'. Only the MFC can struggle to understand what is required to back up week after week.

Bad idea to start T-Mac forward.

A lot of these guys arent up to it.

Our forwards have laid 1 tackle. 1 [censored] tackle. You don't win games of football playing like that.

The sad thing is that there was nothing surer than us playing this way this week. Until we can fix the mental side of our game and bring effort each week we will forever be nothing. 

They are beating us EXACTLY the same way Hawthorn did: fast running, put defense under pressure, exploit lack of height.  We play into it by slowing the game down and forcing a long high kick to a contest. We are far more flat and slow than we were against the Hawks.

Think it's also a matter of not respecting the opponent. That was a shocking lack of effort for a first quarter.

Not so sure we'll come back from this. Happy to be proven wrong. I think Norf play into having the mental edge over us. 

2 minutes ago, Macca said:

Clean Clearances

Melbourne .... 9 (3 centre)

North Melb ... 7 (5 centre)

They are beating us badly with their pressure & their own much better ball movement.

I feel their spread from the clearance is killing us, so there clearances are much more effective whereas is seems ours is a quick kick forward

How Higgins whacking Oliver in the chops off the ball in front of the ump isn't a free is beyond me.