17 hours ago, Deestroy All said:

The wind blew Lewis' rug off. And I didn't like what was underneath. 

Scared to pick the ball up below his knees. Was a witches hat spare man in the first quarter. Then in the 3rd if he had have stood where he stood for the whole first quarter he would've stopped a Ben Brown goal. But no went to the square. 

That [censored] idiotic chip up the middle that ended up smashing Hogan may just about have put a fork in us. 

Of course it's not all Lewis' fault, but he's meant to be the supreme leader. 

 

Anyway, predictable loss, easy money. [censored] that ground too by the way. 

Thought from the ground that Lewis was one of the better players.

I predicted Brown would sodomise us - and he did

I thought we played well under tough conditions for three quarters. But that last quarter was a disgrace. Expecting the wind to win it for us. They wanted to win more. 

Only positive yesterday was Oliver. 

Effort was very weak and our bottom 10 players did not contribute. Injuries and umpires did not help our cause. 

I am predicting a win next week

12 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

I predicted Brown would sodomise us - and he did

It's not t just us though chook he is the AFL leading goal kicker. 

Wish we had him in our side. 

Have calmed down but still unhappy.

So much at stake:  A Home Final was up for grabs!!!!

So little given by so many:  they expected the wind to magically bring a win, well it didn't.  Just didn't work hard enough.

Can only count 3 or 4 players that won their position.

Very disappointing

Edited July 29, 20178 yr by Lucifer's Hero

Players shown up

Coach shown up

Ticker DIDN'T show up.

Disgusting effort ( of what there was )

Quite frankly don't deserve a finals spot on the back of that.

Same shlt every year.

Nauseating.

The most disappointing parts for me was:

1. We lost

2. Hogans injury

3. Hibberbs last f50 entry. Why did he just bomb it at the goals? Was there not anything else on in the f50? And if he was taking a shot why didn't he steady himself better. He has been recruited as a leader and unfortunately when it counted yest his leadership was not there. 

Blew a big chance to consolidate a final 8 position but on the positive we live to fight another week. 

MFC, ...... Lowering the bar since 2006 (TM)

Week after week of panicked long bombs into the 50. When the [censored] will it stop! Have to sort out the forward structures/patterns and teach guys upfield to look shorter

2 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Week after week of panicked long bombs into the 50. When the [censored] will it stop! Have to sort out the forward structures/patterns and teach guys upfield to look shorter

Maybe we have to treat them like kids and by that I mean continually telling them the same thing over and over and over again "boys lower ur eyes when going into the f50". 

If u say it enough times it will click (hopefully ). 

Not much to say today except for the boys blew it.

Butchered a lot of opportunities, a couple guys struggled badly in the conditions and it looks like it's one game Norf sets itself for.

Disappointing but the team is still young it's not like we're the Cats or Hawks dropping that game, but none the less disappointing to get so close and not get the chocolates

 

I was also [censored] off with the umpiring - how Tom Mac didn't get a fk for the arms chop in the last qtr was a joke. Considering Big Benny got a kick anytime he got touched - talk about one way umpiring

PS we need to win to make finals now.

That should be at least some good motivation for the final 4 rounds

1 minute ago, Moonshadow said:

Week after week of panicked long bombs into the 50. When the [censored] will it stop! Have to sort out the forward structures/patterns and teach guys upfield to look shorter

So right! 

North deliberately went tall, knowing that is how we play.  We didn't wake up to it nor change our methods. 

Poor coaching and poor play especially in the last quarter when we couldn't get it past our HF line. 

Their last qtr defence was excellent and we had no plan B!

1 minute ago, Unleash Hell said:

PS we need to win to make finals now.

That should be at least some good motivation for the final 4 rounds

Really?  It didn't motivate in the last 2 rounds of 2016. 

Same prize on the line then. 

Gave up the season and finals in a spectacularly inglorious fashion.

The umpire missed that dipstick Scott Thompson clearly incorrectly disposing the ball 20m out yet called it play on. Probably a certain goal to us.

Well, what a debacle.  I had a pretty good arvo/evening  in a fashion.  Caught up with mates d for a frothy ( or quite possibly a few too many so I'm told  )  at the pub, a game of ten of pool and the footy on right next to me.  My cue talents failed me just as dismally as my beloved Dees. 

It doesn't shock me any more. it ought to. Why is it when we can start playing good footy we can always rely on the good ol' MFC to turn it up like a dead chook !!

There were moments when we just stopped massacring the green baize to just marvel at how inept a bunch of blokes can be.

Quite honestly the only thing missing was the Benny Hill soundtrack !!

Not our finest hour ( or two ) by a long shot.

Back to looking at Sep Hols me thinks !! 

17 hours ago, A F said:

What a waste of time and money. 2 goals in the second half, against the second bottom placed team.

Might come back fishing one day, but the ground is a disgrace. Queues and viewing conditions atrocious. Reckon it's a worse viewing ground than Simmonds, so hats off Tassie.

I heard someone say we didn't want it. Spot on.

It was my first time to the ground in over a decade. Truly terrible. I thought I would be getting good seats for the price I paid. I couldn't see [censored] when the play wasn't in front of me. usually this is ok as you can watch a big screen, but they were so far away and the image wasn't zoomed in so it was basically the same view as the one from my seat.

Food was terrible and stone cold. I have had much better food at local footy.

Only having cubicles for toilets made the lines huge. Bizare choice not to have some urinals.

Great to see staff checking bags when walking into the ground. But only if you walk near the tables where they are checking. Heaps of people walking straight through the middle without getting checked.

20 buses ready to go when the game was over. They decided to load them up one bus at a time in single file. 

Garry Lyon (whom I dislike) said we could now "trust" our team. One thing is clear. We can't.

Yeah pretty disappointed still. So much at stake, that lost cost us big time. Came at a massive cost losing Hogan as well. It's was so clear we wear the playing well enough to win. In simple terms it looked like we were just riding our luck a bit and hoping we would limp over the line. I hate expectation, especially with this club. I honestly expected us to run over the top of them by 3 goals plus but the longer that clock ran down the worse the feeling in my stomach got. We have not changed, yet. Psychological issues like this can't change overnight.

This 'streak' has become an absolute joke. I don't know if any other team in the comp can boast a losing streak against someone like this. It's becoming a circus and I don't expect anyone else to take us seriously when we still have rubbish like this in our bio. On top of that, we just lost to a bottom 4 team not once but twice. Laughable for a top 8 side. Carlton in 06 rings a bell and it cost us top 4 that year, will this cost us the 8? Hope like hell not.

3 minutes ago, bingers said:

Garry Lyon (whom I dislike) said we could now "trust" our team. One thing is clear. We can't.

what ever he says...just think the opposite 

Easily the worst performance of the year.

We'll bounce back and win next week, but we'll rue that loss.

The day after and I am still [censored] off.  Never happened before.

What a despicable 'effort'.  Shameful.

17 hours ago, america de cali said:

So north were tanking? What perfect propaganda to rope a dope us in again for the 17th time.

You are spot on, ADC.

Brad Scott would have loved all of the tanking talk during the week.  He and everyone else know Melbourne are mentally weak and that if we thought the Kangas werent going to go full tilt, we could just rock up and win.

And look what happened.    How unprofessional can this club be.

17 hours ago, Deestroy All said:

 

Troy Chaplin should resign immediately. How can you not have a stay at home forward with that wind in the last quarter. Looking up and no one to kick too. We seriously play some very dumb footy at times. 

Beaten by Cunnington, Zeibell and Higgins in the last quarter simply they would not be denied. Outcoached and outplayed by a team that knows we are Mentally Weak as [censored], and would have pencilled this win in when the fixture came out.

Still lacking leadership, footy smarts and polish when it matters. ( i.e Robbie Gray).

Disgusted

1 hour ago, demondame said: