Wind or no wind, doesnt excuse the sheer laziness out there. Tyson and Lewis have been the worst.

Lets see how much an advantage that wind actually is in this qtr.

Just now, Watts the matter said:

Played poorly IMO and lucky Gold Coast missed a lot of easy chances. Commentators assuming the wind will do the work for us. Gold Coast will put numbers behind the ball and we are nromally incapable when this occurs. No targets up forward will be a big struggle for us.

Dont  count on the wind doing the job for MFC. Doesnt help when you keep fumbling and turning the ball over

Can see a 10 goal quarter coming up.... not sure what all the posters are complaining about. Pretty hard to get a lead kicking into that tough of a breeze. Reserve your judgements until we switch ends 

Just now, big_red_fire_engine said:

We changed our gamestyle to limit them with the wind. Would like to be one goal closer but hoping we play some smart footy with the breeze. Dom Tyson is a very lazy very dumb mid. I am getting quite over it with him.

most of our kicks were up and unders that fell short in the wind

When we tried to run and carry we stuffed up the handballs

Lucky GC are bad but honestly we thought we were a top 8 team ...

Not too bad but must thrash them this quater. Can anb learn to kick.

Pitiful tackling urgency. 

All the numbers pointing towards a solid win........     IF we can reduce the number of dumb turnovers ?

Every radio station I can find refuses to tell me where the ball is or what's going on. 

First goal of the game sounded like it was kicked by us on MMM and ABC hasn't been any better. 

Barf.

Just now, Cards13 said:

Mate it has to be a strategy, has been happening for a couple of years. Everyone up, no one down.

I know Nev is a good mark for his size, but for gods sake man stay down when there are 4 talls going for a pack mark!

Whoah so negative in here, many of you "seem" to know how this is going to go - why bother watching?

Lot of talk about Tyson and Macca being dumb. 3/4 of our players are not smart players they crack in but not smart

12 minutes ago, stevethemanjordan said:

Tyson is pretty fast...

And has atrocious disposal. 

What a terrible, terrible start. 

Did we lay an effective tackle? 

How was Tom McDonald's handball at Bugg's feet? And ANB's predictable miss from directly in front, 20 metres out? And Tyson's predictable turn over looking into the middle of the ground?

We're being murdered at the stoppages. Our clearances were ordinary as well. 

This is a massive quarter. Start laying some bloody tackles and using the ball better.

From the AFL website:

Aaron Hall was phenomenal for the Suns that quarter, with 10 disposals, five inside 50s, five score involvements and a goal. He also had an incredible 448 metres gained, the most in a quarter of any player this season.

 

Jayden Hunt has been Melbourne's best metres gained player this year, averaging 450m per game. He had a total of negative 11m for the quarter from just three disposals.

We must recruit the worlds dumbest footballers.  When is someone going to sort TMac out with his woeful skills.  We can all see it!!!

Standby for a qtr of 60 metre bombs into contested forward line

Just now, Diamond_Jim said:

From the AFL website:

Aaron Hall was phenomenal for the Suns that quarter, with 10 disposals, five inside 50s, five score involvements and a goal. He also had an incredible 448 metres gained, the most in a quarter of any player this season.

 

Jayden Hunt has been Melbourne's best metres gained player this year, averaging 450m per game. He had a total of negative 11m for the quarter from just three disposals.

Don't worry We are about to pound this mob

Hannan almost missed that. 

From the sounds of it the second quarter will tell the tale for the day. While it sounded like GC were getting well on top by the end, the wind sounds like it's very strong. 

If we take advantage of the breeze and have a dominant quarter we could break this game open. But I'm only going on what I'm hearing, it also sounds like some poor decisions/execution has been costly and we are also lucky not to be down by more. Lack of a proper ruckman is also hurting us. 

Slightly off topic but anyone listening to the triple m commentary? I could not work out what was going on/ where the ball was from what they were saying, at one point a Melbourne player had the ball at the centre of the ground and they went off on a "chemist warehouse" plug and all of a sudden it was in the GC forward line. Pathetic. 

6 minutes ago, M_9 said:

On the basis of ...? 

On the basis that I'm watching the footy. 

5 minutes ago, Mr. White said:

We are pretenders. Book your September holidays. 

Yeah, good on ya! I'm in Europe now rather than September for the first time in 6 years, purely on the basis that I'd be attending at least one final. There's still hope.

2 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

I know Nev is a good mark for his size, but for gods sake man stay down when there are 4 talls going for a pack mark!

Maybe that's a sign of the confidence Nev has in our talls 

Thank Christ for Hibberd. 

Head on a swivel please

We will bomb it in endlessly just watch.