Every game we have a quarter that really, really stinks. 

The players are weak mentally

The coach needs to find answers

id be amazed if we win this game now. I genuinely expected us to blitz them that quarter. Abysmal

Please don't let Dom Tyson speak. Number 1 in the league for trailing his player to the ball.

This performance is a true embarrassment after the intensity we proved we could play with against the Crow for 4 quarters 2 weeks ago.

Lewis is playing like the shadow of what he was. I would prefer him to play on the line and get outed 3 times a year than the rubbish he is displaying currently.

How Bugg got a game again is beyond me.

Not many can hold their head high so far but as we are now half decent we are still a sniff. Doubt any of them can bother to pull their finger out to actually win it. 

Edited May 27, 20178 yr by big_red_fire_engine

6 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

  Worst half of  footy for some time.   better  pull the   finger  out in the next  half dees   

 

That is our forte, chasing and then losing. No one is better. 

2 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

All of that possession for a 4 goal half.

A team of [censored].

I'd love to know the possession to scoring ratio. We would have to be the worst offenders in the league. So much midfield domination which achieves absolutely nothing without score conversion.

Edited May 27, 20178 yr by SaberFang

Why has Goodwin and now Tyson said we're playing well and it's evenly poised? They look very dangerous off half back and given our insipid performance into the wind in the first quarter, I'm not sure there's much upside. 

Whats wrong with Watts? Has done nothing...... like last week He is our second biggest and fifth experienced. He plays the occasional blinder but they seem far and few between. I thought he would keep getting better. 

 

Has taken ONE mark.

1 minute ago, Dannyz said:

Jordan Lewis' skill execution this year has been nothing short of absolutely atrocious.

I watched against the Saints at Etihad and thought his kicking was almost sublime. It's hard to believe that skill has completely disappeared.

3 minutes ago, DSP said:

Shut up Tyson. You've been shocking.

Trade bait, if anyone wants him.

That Tyson and Salem for Kelly swap is getting worse by the week.

Need to stop this extra players at the bounce bs. Can't get genuine one on ones in the forwards. No skill in the forward line apart from Watts who looks fatigued as hell. Just an ordinary team with an ordinary coach.

1 minute ago, Watts Jurrah Dunn? said:

What is Wagner doing on an AFL List? NEAFL player at best!

Agreed

as is bugg

12 minutes ago, Daily Dose of Demons said:

Am I allowed to make my judgment now?

Judge away. That was a shocking quarter.

3 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Very ordinary game but one win can still win. Lets get the points and regroup over the bye. 

We are better than this.

No. We are not better than this. This is melbourne, this is as well as we can play 

Tom McDonald unbelievably bad. 3 marks with in 55m for a return of a handball to someones foot, a lob to Hannan vs May when within range and just a pathetic shot at goal.  All while the superstar Leslie takes 5 intercept marks in a half.

Jordan Lewis, refuses to chase, maybe it would be acceptable if he could actually hit a target.

Forward line is a joke, bunch of plodders who you have no confidence with when kicking for goal (ANB, Bugg, Harmes).

Watts leading well in the first quarter and dropping everything. 

Frost is always pathetic in the first 10 minutes of games, needs a new routine. 

This club is just disgusting.  Year after year they talk a lot and then expect their supporters to suck it up!  Essendons young kids developing quicker than ours, Gold Coast are 16th and yet we serve up this garbage!  This is crunch time for this club.  Bye next week then the pies!  Crowd will be lousy if we lose this one.

1 minute ago, leave it to deever said:

Whats wrong with Watts? Has done nothing...... like last week He is our second biggest and fifth experienced. He plays the occasional blinder but they seem far and few between. I thought he would keep getting better. 

 

Like the rest of the team, drinks his own bathwater

16 minutes ago, Bates Mate said:

Female umpire been good decent bounces too

Stuff umpiring put her in the team!!

7 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

We have gone backwards from last year. Roos should've stayed on.

Would've needed a 10 year extension

This is like watching the old Dandenong Redlegs in the VFA

This Alice springs thing is ridiculous. Pre-season sure, but playing an interstate side away from the G as a home game is just amateur stuff. We are nomads and nomads without a connection to home. Are we Casey? Or Melbourne or Junction oval St kilda? 

We play like a team without a soul. Because we're a club without a soul. Our soul and identity should be the MCG and only the MCG 

What an absolute disgrace. We have the dumbest players in the league. Bugg is a waste and oscar stands outside the boundry line thinking he is in play. The whole side make me sick at the momment.

5 minutes ago, Demon77 said:

Anyone else notice Tyson in the halftime interview, not even sweating!!!! What's the temp up there?

According to someone on another thread, he's almost an A-Grader. He's lucky to be in the side still.

I don't think laziness is the issue in regards to cracking in and getting the ball.

It's just dumb football that is our undoing as well as laziness in regards to disposal (personified by Tom McDonald and that woeful handball in the first quarter).

To say we needed that goal from Garlett is an understatement, it keeps the margin manageable but it sounds like GC are playing footy while our players are going through a training run. Not interested was the comment from one of the ABC commentators. 

I think they set themselves to be down by a bit at quarter time and assumed the second quarter would be all Melbourne with the breeze, someone forgot to tell them you still have to work for it!

i laughed at everybody heralding TMac as a forward after Adelaide, he can swing there every now and then but he is a defender. There have been a lot of poor turnovers from senior players, Lewis sounds as though he's been the worst offender. He needs to stand up. The talls from GC are really top but it comes from midfield dominance, we had plenty of uncontested possession in the first quarter but did nothing with it. That has to change. 

17 points can be realed in but it starts with commitment and ends with execution. Doesn't sound like we have either. 

Edited May 27, 20178 yr by Pates

9 minutes ago, Mr. White said:

Who's dumber Oscar calling for the ball when out of bounds or Melksham passing to him. 

Both....the MFC is the best at procuring dumb footballers who continually [censored] up and turn the ball over to the opponent on a platter

Players out there that are VFL level: OMac, Wagner, Bugg, Harmes, Neal-Bullen, Hannan

That's almost the entire forward line!!! 

If we lose this game finals are done and rightly so. A team of plodders at the moment. Our forward lines has had about 10 uncontested marks against!!!