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3 hours ago, Darkhorse72 said:

Just click I saw on Garry Lyon and co. analysing our workmate from the weekend game.  Goodwin also highlighted it so its squarely on the players to work harder for the whole game.

 

https://www.news.com.au/video/id-5348771529001-5804318002001/melbournes-horror-workrate-exposed

"St Kilda gave them a lesson in work rate."

We haven't played finals in 12 seasons.

We couldn't lay a tackle in the first 10 minutes of the club's most important game in a decade.

Record membership. 

Record attendance.

We are being taken for a ride, folks.

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4 hours ago, Darkhorse72 said:

Just click I saw on Garry Lyon and co. analysing our workmate from the weekend game.  Goodwin also highlighted it so its squarely on the players to work harder for the whole game.

 

https://www.news.com.au/video/id-5348771529001-5804318002001/melbournes-horror-workrate-exposed

we have a c.rap defence who are incapable of defending one on one. Same as last year. And when our mids are so lazy and let oppo players run past them at will it makes for a terrible result.

Goodwin says he knows the problem - I am actually starting to doubt it - but it is the same in the Cats, Pies and PA games.

16th this year for scores once oppo are i50. we were 18th last year. What a disgrace. Roos must cringe watching that vision. I do.

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Fifty seconds of selective footage with the title 'Melbourne's horror workrate exposed!!!" 

Goodwin needs to be sacked. But not before a Today Tonight expose can bring to light the true evil of the MFC. 

 

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This AFL caper just seems too hard for this mob. Only comfortable with a JLT length season. Blow the opposition away with 3 goals in ten minutes then  cruise control for the remainder. Where are the leaders? Why I am I seeing carbon copies of our worst games last season reprised? This game was the replica of the GWS game last season. Will be interesting to see what round 23 turns up if we haven’t blown our season already. And if we get done in by Freo next week I will not be surprised. 

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12 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

we have a c.rap defence who are incapable of defending one on one. Same as last year. And when our mids are so lazy and let oppo players run past them at will it makes for a terrible result.

Goodwin says he knows the problem - I am actually starting to doubt it - but it is the same in the Cats, Pies and PA games.

16th this year for scores once oppo are i50. we were 18th last year. What a disgrace. Roos must cringe watching that vision. I do.

You don't rate Jetta or Hibbard?  Say what you will about his lack of pace, but Lewis is pretty decient one on one as well.  Salem is hard as nails an always brings tackle pressure.  Oscar had a brilliant start to the season, but has obviously gone to [censored].

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Yep, nothing that most supporters that understand footy haven't been saying for years.  When the game is on our terms we are great as soon as we can't play the way we want we are disorganized and don't work hard enough to stop the momentum.

You can go back to Paul Roos and the number of press conferences he mentioned that the side couldn't adjust during a quarter it took a qtr time or half time break for the coaches to address. 

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8 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

You don't rate Jetta or Hibbard?  Say what you will about his lack of pace, but Lewis is pretty decient one on one as well.  Salem is hard as nails an always brings tackle pressure.  Oscar had a brilliant start to the season, but has obviously gone to [censored].

You can talk these guys up all you like. The results are there to see. Last season and this. Defenders are there to stop scoring . We simply can't do that at the average rate in the AFL when oppo teams go i50 . We are well below average. In fact this year we are 16th. I'll say it again for you. 16th. Doesnt matter what i think. we are close to the worst. Last year we were the worst.

OMac is hopeless in my view. He played a couple of decent games this year but thats it. Jetta's stats this year are actually pretty bad but I do rate him. Hibberd is not playing like he was last year. Salem is Ok without being great. We were last in stopping oppo marks inside defensive 50 last year. Not sure what the stat is this year but I would hazard a guess and say its close to that. Our talls back there are just no good.

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8 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

You can talk these guys up all you like. The results are there to see. Last season and this. Defenders are there to stop scoring . We simply can't do that at the average rate in the AFL when oppo teams go i50 . We are well below average. In fact this year we are 16th. I'll say it again for you. 16th. Doesnt matter what i think. we are close to the worst. Last year we were the worst.

OMac is hopeless in my view. He played a couple of decent games this year but thats it. Jetta's stats this year are actually pretty bad but I do rate him. Hibberd is not playing like he was last year. Salem is Ok without being great. We were last in stopping oppo marks inside defensive 50 last year. Not sure what the stat is this year but I would hazard a guess and say its close to that. Our talls back there are just no good.

Omac hasn’t been the same since being concussed against the pies. Was always solid up till then.

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It's all on the midfielders and half forwards. The pressure applied once the ball turns over is non-existent. Around stoppages it is fine, but once it clears the contest it is too easy for opposition players to get it inside forward 50. Collingwood game and last Sunday were perfect examples. Not enough pace or gut running in the midfield.

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26 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

You can talk these guys up all you like. The results are there to see. Last season and this. Defenders are there to stop scoring . We simply can't do that at the average rate in the AFL when oppo teams go i50 . We are well below average. In fact this year we are 16th. I'll say it again for you. 16th. Doesnt matter what i think. we are close to the worst. Last year we were the worst.

OMac is hopeless in my view. He played a couple of decent games this year but thats it. Jetta's stats this year are actually pretty bad but I do rate him. Hibberd is not playing like he was last year. Salem is Ok without being great. We were last in stopping oppo marks inside defensive 50 last year. Not sure what the stat is this year but I would hazard a guess and say its close to that. Our talls back there are just no good.

16th yes, 16th I get the point.  We are also 1st in the competition for scoring .  I say that again 1st and have the 2nd best percentage in the competition, so I think some of it comes down to game style and a deliberate decision that we will allow more scoring against us than some teams, to enable a more attacking game style.

Clearly it's all about ballance and the stat I really care about is the wins Vs losses columns, which admittedly has taken a bit of a pounding over the past few weeks.  To suggest that we are no good one on one is flawed thinking though when more than ever, it's a team game.  I actually think the area of our game which has lost us the past two games particularly is the inability to make the most of our scoring opportunities, but that's a whole other discussion.

We are not that far off the pace at the moment, but we do need to get back onto the winners list and start racking up the four points.  Yes tightening up and few things defensively will help that, but it's no where near and dire as is being made out to be there case by some at the moment.

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Brayshaw and Lewis directly contributed to 5 opposition goals on the weekend through poor field kicking and woeful defensive efforts.

I wonder sometimes if this group is really hungry for it, or are they just happy being AFL footballers.

 

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