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Nasher
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Thought it was a gripping and entertaining game of footy. Props to the usual bunch of drawing long bows from short sample sizes - no, we don't yet know if we are "same old Melbourne". Besides, I thoug

Lucifers Hero
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Agreed.  He was very valuable until this happened: This was quite a few seconds after Selwood 'tunnelled' Salem.  What strikes me about this pic is that: Salem is out but is kept on the f

Ethan Tremblay
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? Three out of those four were in everything. 

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We lost it in the 2nd quarter when we let them kick 7.5 to our 2.4.  No second efforts and no work to win the 50/50 ball so they just sailed off with it while we were caught flat footed.  I had hoped that the days of the one quarter fade outs were behind us.  Alas, not so.

Petracca and Oliver had sensational games!  But lots of players were hardly sighted.  I guess that means there is lots of room for improvement. 

We had our chances in the last 5 minutes...how did Gawn miss that goal after Pedersen had set him up so beautifully!!  

Agonising!!

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Straight Sets Simon Legend

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Bad team selections, bad tackling, bad fumbling, bad kicking, bad in close, bad out wide and bad coaching to allow the loose Geelong defender.

They had so many injuries and we got the run of the green from the umpires.

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Shouldn't have come down to the end of the game.

They lost Harry Taylor early and we should have taken advantage, ran them off their feet and buried them.

But we are Melbourne, and we are soft.  Nothing has changed.

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Different season same old [censored]. We played like [censored] for a quarter and lost. Nothing changes with this mentally soft team!

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DemonOX Trident

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Goal kicking practice this week me thinks!

Should have never lost that game in the last but we are Melbourne. 

deeko Mighty Demon

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Frustrating watching us bomb it continually in where we are always outnumbered. 

Its such a simple adjustment, why wasn’t it made earlier in the third/fourth when we were playing catch up?

so upset at that loss!

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The better team on the day won, good to see that we gutted it out and almost pinched it, in the past we could have folded after half time.

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Thats the way it falls sometimes - if we won by 3 points the same issues are there to work on - FWIW I am happy that it wasn't a blow out, and presumably % at the end of the year will be meaningful.

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1 minute ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

? Three out of those four were in everything. 

Missing shots.

 

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We lost it in the second quarter, but bloody hell we had our chances at the end. I really thought Gawn was going to nail that, he should’ve. He’s better than that. 

Geelong were lucky against us last year, and they were lucky against us today. 

I’m shattered. 

frankie_d Redleg

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For how long have opposition's parked one extra back? Started against Collingwood years ago. It still screws us up. 

I think the list is strong enough. 

That leaves selection and coaching. 

Yeah yeah. It's only round one. But nothing's changed

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