When do the insipid performances stop

[Goffer 256]

Enough is enough, we're playing a team who were universally considered  to be behind us and we are getting well beaten on our 'home' patch. When does this end and when will we win a game we're favourites in?

Edited May 21, 2017 by Goffer

[What 18,810]

To answer your thread title  -  never.

We are Melbourne, simple as that.  

[dimmy 1,146]

When look at it :

• No tall ruckman against best in AFL ( at the moment) has a massive impact on structure as you are playing catchup.
• Above had impact on our defence who were outmuscled except when Tmac went back there. Waite and Brown plus Mason Wood are pretty big people. I think alot of Omac "mistakes"belong to a few other people. He was not the scapegoat last week !!
• Key forward missing
• Umpiring bloody disgraceful
• .
• North won it by removing Higgins (and Bernie ) out of the Centre Square . Luckily Higgins did not have his kicking boots on.

[ding 5,126]

1 minute ago, dimmy said:

When look at it :

• No tall ruckman against best in AFL ( at the moment) has a massive impact on structure as you are playing catchup.
• Above had impact on our defence who were outmuscled except when Tmac went back there. Waite and Brown plus Mason Wood are pretty big people. I think alot of Omac "mistakes"belong to a few other people. He was not the scapegoat last week !!
• Key forward missing
• Umpiring bloody disgraceful
• .
• North won it by removing Higgins (and Bernie ) out of the Centre Square . Luckily Higgins did not have his kicking boots on.

. Excuse

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.Correct but still an excuse

. Irrelevant

 

 

[Forest Demon 4,681]

When we realise that intense pressure is not conditional and needs to be applied week in, week out, no matter the opposition.....so never is the answer

[Ethan Tremblay 28,547]

I thought this thread was going to be about the umpires. 

[John Crow Batty 8,316]

1 minute ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I thought this thread was going to be about the umpires. 

The umpires and us make a set of insipid bookends.

Edited May 21, 2017 by america de cali

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 6,013]

Should be beating these hack sides regardless but the ruck situation is taking its toll especially when it's 30-40% of your game.

[Goffer 256]

33 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I thought this thread was going to be about the umpires. 

I live in WA and am a member of the Perth footy club in the WAFL - our record in the WAFL is worse than that it of the MFC, no finals since 1998 and no flag since 1977- club slogan this year is 'no xcuses' even when getting belted, MFC could take a leaf from the book of the PFC 

Edited May 21, 2017 by Goffer

[DSP 1,488]

Starts at the top, but never does.

What are the repercussions of todays performance? Little to none. A few will get dropped, goody will half arse a presser and chunk/viney will open the mfc playbook of disappointment and spew off the same tired crap.

 

Actions, not words. We rarely ever see any of it.

[Little Goffy 12,784]

Waaaah waaaaah waaaaah.

I love these threads. The quick reminder to myself to harden up and move on.

[leave it to deever 16,204]

13 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

Waaaah waaaaah waaaaah.

I love these threads. The quick reminder to myself to harden up and move on.

Your so tough

[Soidee 1,496]

We are a club that promises so much but cannot deliver.  MCG our home ground is no longer a place our club thrives.  In fact I find going to the MCG to watch our club is rarely enjoyable.  Our chance today to lift ourselves into top 8, yet again we are garbage every other week.

predictably we cannot backup, and fail against teams in poor form.  

Its simply a same old story...different coach, different players, same garbage.

[Pipefitter 2,042]

When the bald unpire with number 15 retires. He didn't give us 1 all day.

[Goffer 256]

4 minutes ago, Pipefitter said:

When the bald unpire with number 15 retires. He didn't give us 1 all day.

Who cares about the umpires if we were a serious club we'd win without them

[Scipio 5,868]

I expected that we'd struggle to win today.

They had a reason to fire up last week against Adelaide (Hoges), and still can't find the fire within themselves without an external influence like that. Until they can grow mentally, we'll continue to see saw.

[Cheap Seats 3,303]

And the rollercoaster continues.....

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[drdrake 3,057]

1 hour ago, Goffer said:

I live in WA and am a member of the Perth footy club in the WAFL - our record in the WAFL is worse than that it of the MFC, no finals since 1998 and no flag since 1977- club slogan this year is 'no xcuses' even when getting belted, MFC could take a leaf from the book of the PFC 

The reason I support the Melbourne Demons is I supportered and fortunate enough to spend a number of years playin at the Perth Demons prior to the West Coast entering the Vfl.  Almost the same story lines for both clubs.

You look at Essendon they expect to win, the club has been smashed but has a winning culture we have a flakey culture and that is what we get on field 

[Wiseblood 24,636]

We're never going to be a consistent side without a ruckman and our best forward.  We'll win some, we'll lose some and we'll be wildy inconsistent.

We are a totally different side now, though.  We are tough around the contest, never out of the game and when we learn how to win the games we should then everything will click nicely.

If we had of lost today with a full strength side THEN I'd be far more disappointed.  In this case, I'm not.

[monoccular 16,414]

2 hours ago, Forest Demon said:

When we realise that intense pressure is not conditional and needs to be applied week in, week out, no matter the opposition.....so never is the answer

........and every minute of every quarter of every game.  

[Scipio 5,868]

Anyone have examples in recent memory of sides who got agonisingly close in plenty of games but just fell short, and then went onto 'click' the next season and win a flag? I need some reassurance.

[Sir Why You Little 34,950]

1 hour ago, Luther said:

I expected that we'd struggle to win today.

They had a reason to fire up last week against Adelaide (Hoges), and still can't find the fire within themselves without an external influence like that. Until they can grow mentally, we'll continue to see saw.

expectation through the whole club. 

We have a lot of talent, but i still don't think the players understand how much sacrifice is needed to actually be the best. 

Goodwin as a back to back Premiership player, must know this. 

 

[Diablo Deemon 220]

I'd like to think it's never as good as you'd think or as bad as it's seems 

But even though I try to be philosophical I'm so tired of losing and to north for god sake 16 times I mean holy [censored]. Barracking for this club is like a [censored] punishment. 

I wish I bloody knew when the insipid performances were over It would save me a lot of anguish

Edited May 21, 2017 by Diablo Deemon

[Lord Travis 10,278]

No excuses for the losses. All teams suffer injuries. The Bulldogs managed to win a flag with bad injuries last year. Until the players are able to put in the required effort without an external motivating factor then we will foreve live in the bottom half of the ladder. It astounds me to these professional footballers can't motivate themselves to put in the effort for two hours a week. We've lost to two bottom 4 sides in 3 weeks now. No team who does that deserves to play finals. The players need to grow up, give a damn, and have some self respect. If I reckoned up to work and didn't do my job half the time, not only would I get sacked, but I'd feel like a guilty money stealing loser.

[Demonsone 1,667]

Not Insipid performances as we are getting back into games and just losing...

Very frustrating as they can't put 4 qtrs together and their starts have been poor in most games...

Their ability to turn up at games is at question and on wanders were they still in Adelaide in the 1st qtr?

Is this due to a lack of leadership or younger players who can't play at the intensity required each week?