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Rubbish skills, rubbish decision making, as slow as my granny. 10 goal loss coming up

 

 

Do something Goody.....

No spread, no two way running. Stupid forward entries. What else is new?

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    Regardless of whether JKH is decent or not, we have one more player that's not used to playing with the rest of the team. Him flying against Salem in the back line was a classic example.

    It's not just Viney out that's the problem, but that these outs upset balance and stability.

    Could see us losing this, but there are just too many players out there who are fringe players. This is NOT a well-oiled machine.


    After enduring a whole night of "yep, whatever pay the Port guy the mark" a couple of weeks ago, that non-mark to Tom McDonald is infuriating.

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    11 minutes ago, DSP said:

    Lazy, lazy, lazy.

    We will lose if we keep this up.

    Where is the intensity?

    The Dogs are bound to be up and about with run early.  We will need to win the center clearances heavily.  At the moment we are getting killed here.

    If they get a run on we need a plan B to counter our horrible zone defense.  Man on man pls

    Edited by Rusty Nails

    We’re pretty putrid at the moment.

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    love the way our forwrades play in the back half

    Predetermined result today by UMPIRES and AFL. Hawthorn and Geelong both on the same points and both beaten. Thanks AFL!!!!!!!


    4 minutes ago, frankie_d said:

    This. 1000 times this. 

    Don't know if it's effort or structure or talent, but they killed us there last time.

    I am done with the dees if they lose this. We have all to play for and this is the type of [censored] they serve up. I am at a point where we should offer Petracca for trade. Lewis is useless. We have no pace skill or heart. I have wasted thousands of dollars on memberships tickets merchandise etc all for nothing. 

     

    We are [censored], plain and simple. 

    Can we stop turning the [censored] ball over. FFS. 

    Frost's a good one. Crunches bodies at pace, and is desperate in defence.

    I feel like Hogan hasn't taken a mark in weeks. Good contest though.

    DO SOMETHING MELBOURNE


    JKH. JONES. GARLETT. 

    Lazy, non contributors 

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    Hannan is a slow thinker.

    Still no mark to Hogan, but he's making a great contest this quarter. 

    2 minutes ago, willmoy said:

    Predetermined result today by UMPIRES and AFL. Hawthorn and Geelong both on the same points and both beaten. Thanks AFL!!!!!!!

    Umpiring not great but no excuse. We play terribly. Need to use hogan in the middle. 

    A team with our 'skill' execution does not deserve to play finals


    Finally Garlett is in the middle.

    Johansson is giving Jones an absolute batch.

    Nate Jones...... WTF

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    Jordan Lewis always composed.

    1 minute ago, Buzzy said:

    A team with our 'skill' execution does not deserve to play finals

    Opp get around us too easy.


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