Time to bring back Jeffy.

Pathetic. Failed again and did petracca fly home at 3/4 time? Wasnt sighted. Just dumb errors by players at crucial times.

How can u fail to kick a goal in the final term

The detractors can shove it. 

That was finals football and we kept up the intensity all night. 

Lost out on some equivalent umpiring calls both ways in the final quarter on opposition turf. 

Super proud of the boys tonight. 

Again, I view this as an important match in our development. 

Edit: Cracking footy match btw. I mentioned in the match thread that I would love to see channel seven's viewership numbers after half-time. I doubt many turned off due to the 'boring' low-scoring match.  

 

 

Edited June 22, 20187 yr by Skuit

6 beers deep. Not sure I can add much except I'm shattered

We are still mentally weak. The first 15 mins of the last quarter we looked like scared kids hoping not to stuff up. Aside from a few. 

Port out tackled and went in harder than us in the last. We got the rough end of the stick with umpires but we lost this game. 

Im sick of the excuses. I don’t want to be like a St Kilda fan whinging about umpiring. We lost that game ourselves. 

Hogan and Trac should be ashamed of that effort tonight

3 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Kidding?  Nah.  Haters will see what they want to see.  Gives away a couple of dubious free kicks and he's had a 'woeful' night.  

His job is to shut down key forwards.  He smashed Dixon all night.  Job done.

A "hater" because I called him woeful?!  He was good earlier in the year, he was woeful the past two weeks.  Not alone though, look at the contrast in effort between JV and JH.  Or am I a JH hater too?

1 minute ago, Wiseblood said:

Can't argue that he had a rough night, but he was also played much closer to goal all night and got some of the worst delivery inside 50 I've ever seen.  His contribution wasn't solely on him tonight.  The blokes passing him the ball are just as much to blame.

Hogan barely flew for a single mark tonight. Watch the footage from fox footy.

We all know he is capable, but he was nothing short of a liability tonight.

1 minute ago, Is Dom Is Good said:

How do the match committee think we can play with 1 tall defender?

Which of their tall forwards gave us a bath?  Think carefully here.  Westhoff, who plays all over the ground, is a not a correct answer.

Umpires convince me they cannot umpire fair in front of interstate crowds.  It kills teams.

otherwise we are just pretenders.  Gutful again.

All promise/talk no result.  

Tough game. We didn’t have the smarts or composure when we needed it. 

Trac injured, which affected his performance... but we needed more.

Jessie disappointing. Went missing... was VERY dirty in himself at the end, and rightly so.

Stats suggested we should have won. We pressured the hell out of them all night!! Need the cream to start rising but it doesn’t seem to always come. 

Pressure now on us. I’m interested to see if we can respond

Where to from here? Frost? Spargo? Honestly dont know if we've got it. Cant see us playing top 8, and if we do we will lose first time around. 

Why is Tyson still getting games?

Gutless comentators won't acknowledge or even discuss the roll that a number of shocking free kicks effectively cost us the game tonight:

Non mark to Wingard;

Crazy Melksham free kick against;

Mark to us that was twice the mark of Wingards in the last;

They would have got multiple goals from frees, I don't remember one to us.

 

We didn't play our best game tonight, but in the circumstances, I thought we fought hard:

O Mac against half a dozen other talls;

Jetta - say no more;

Tommy gets absolutely polaxed (Port would have go a free for that);

Viney;

Melk (was absolutely molested after half/ 3/4 time and got got complety shafted)

Harms, Jones, Freitch, Hannan, Lewis

 

Ugly game, we battled hard, so pissssed not to have come away with a win tonight.

Edited June 22, 20187 yr by Rodney (Balls) Grinter

Can't complain about the effort and intensity, but still too many lacking the clinical efficiency and smarts to finish or nail that last kick into the forwards - Harmes, ANB to mention two.

We need to get 50 games into most of these players, it's going to be a couple of seasons before we become really consistent at the pointy end.

3 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Can't argue that he had a rough night, but he was also played much closer to goal all night and got some of the worst delivery inside 50 I've ever seen.  His contribution wasn't solely on him tonight.  The blokes passing him the ball are just as much to blame.

I thought he had psuedo carte blanche ?

He was shite...a dumb thinker tonight. Hope he recovers soon. 

The umpires did not win them the game. Our inability to kick goals with our inside 50 count did. Wrong move  to not play a crumber.  

Edited June 22, 20187 yr by big_red_fire_engine

Just now, Travis16 said:

A "hater" because I called him woeful?!  He was good earlier in the year, he was woeful the past two weeks.  Not alone though, look at the contrast in effort between JV and JH.  Or am I a JH hater too?

No, you just don't understand football.  Congratulations.

When the going gets tough, everyone is looking around for someone to take charge, sadly no one ever does......

1 minute ago, stranga said:

Really soft last qtr from most players. 

It's actually phenomenal that we were still in the game in the last given the absolute insipid and amatuerish performance of a large number of players. Hogan, petracca, Oscar, ANB, Harmes, both Smith's, Tyson Harmes all completely ineffectual. A few others not far behind.

Hogan was deplorable and reverted to his sulkish worst. I'd drop him off that game he was so bad. Same goes for petracca, he's had enough chances he's actually soft.

Oscar was horrible horrible tonight. Those 50s were very clumsy.

Phenomenal we were still in the game? We almost doubled their inside 50s. We should have iced that game before half time, but we gave them a sniff.

Petty for Joel Smith who's not up to it.

Should really have been 10-12 goals up at half time but didn’t execute and let it slip away. Viney and Jetta , fantastic in their roles, Bradshaw costly yet again with seven turnovers and giving away goals, the jump up and down landing on Grays head was simply ridiculous.

Lots of positives but we still need to refine this side heading into the pointy end of the season.

Well, that was tough to swallow..

68 to 39 inside 50s. Failed to capitalise, Port kick goal (usually from a dicey free kick) crowd get behind them, wind in sails, game over.

Dom Tyson is possibly finished with MFC sorry not sorry.

Brayshaw got it a lot but lacked composure. Viney was immense.

Neville Jetta is just a star. A real man.

Lots of questions to be asked.

 

 

Oh and one more thing, the last thing I and probably most other people here need right now is one of you social justice warriors to come on here and spout stuff like “Gee, reading this thread you’d think we lost by 10 goals/be more positive etc” Just shelf it for now please. 

 

1 minute ago, Forest Demon said:

Hogan barely flew for a single mark tonight. Watch the footage from fox footy.

We all know he is capable, but he was nothing short of a liability tonight.

As I said FD, he had a rough night.  I didn't say he was blameless.  Just saying that he was also not helped by the ball coming inside 50.

We just choked bad

9 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

By the way, that was a mark to Brayshaw at the end.

If wingards mark in the 2nd was a mark then brayshaws was 111000% a mark

1 minute ago, Forest Demon said:

Phenomenal we were still in the game? We almost doubled their inside 50s. We should have iced that game before half time, but we gave them a sniff.

You missed my point. My point is with so many players having zero impact it was a credit to the other few who had put us in a winning position to that point of the game. Too few.