7 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Any demonlanders going for a froff?

Im keen...

Enjoy the drink and your weekend McQ. Hope you get some takers. Have one for us. 

Jones looked absolutely cooked today. 

ANB was pathetic. 

Omac and Frost are terrible defenders

Pies, Tiger's and Geelong played some poor rusty football this weekend. At least those clubs had a crack at the ball, unlike Melbourne. 

 

 

Back to the cellar

Might warrant Preuss getting a game now. But on the contrary I thought Port ran us off our legs and including Pruess won't help with that

Perhaps we should’ve reviewed the West Coast prelim after all...

I think teams have worked us out already and West Coast showed them the way.

Just get it on the outside as quick as possible as we have no run.

Game over everytime 

Just now, —coach— said:

Perhaps we should’ve reviewed the West Coast prelim after all...

We didn't? ?

Too many players undone. Preuss and May our supposedly top signings not playing. Management of Joel Smith against Lions was terrible. Was only a practice  match but when we played Pies both Preuss and Gawn  we looked a much better team especially up forward. Max needs help. Petracca needs to get a kick. Hannan, Kent and Garlett not around as small forwards hurt and AVB is a big loss. We lack pace  and outside run. The new rules don’t help us. 

Stuck in a corporate box with a Port Adelaide couple. 

Ugh.

No run, disorganised defensively, and really missing a 50 goal a year forward 

Still, it’s a marathon not a sprint 

It'll be interesting to see how we recover next week. Dreading the trip down to General Admin at the Cattery. I reckon it might just be a maulling.

With our pre season, we were always in a bit of trouble. The JLT was enlightening and anyone who wasn't disturbed by how easily we conceded inside50s and scores doesn't understand football. That trend continued today with a clearly underdone Jack Viney (a real lack of leadership to declare himself fit when he so clearly isn't - I saw him limping around during the warm up on Instagram - the guy can hardly move) and Melksham seemed to be sore too, hence many miskicks and not wanting to take basic shots on goal.

Our midfield is such a one way running midfield. I thought we'd got past this, but it seems to be a combination of fitness and desire. The heat today didn't help either, but Port seemed fine.

The other aspect that was unacceptable was that Tom McDonald (who did the same thing during the JLT) and Gawn, each went for multiple marks one-handed. Gawn seemed to be in self-preservation mode for much of the game. He refused to go back with the flight at one point too. Not to mention, he was thoroughly outplayed by Ryder and Lycett. 

The positives were few and far between, but Corey Wagner and Tom Sparrow did nothing to harm their selection for Round 2. Brayshaw was good in the clinches but was run off his feet on the rebound, as were Clarry and Harmes. Salem was probably our best, but not much to take away from today other than that we are so overhyped it's ridiculous. List wise we don't have many holes, but there has to be a question mark over our tall forwards and whether they can deliver and our lack of pressure forwards is notable when you look at Collingwood and Richmond. We're not even close to their pressure.

We had absolutely no system today and the way to beat us in 2018 is still how to beat us in 2019. Get it on the outside and you run us off our feet. We have no answer and can't generate anything without Max dominating in the ruck.

How we bounce back next week will tell us everything about whether or not we're a premiership threat. I have a feeling we're nowhere near it.

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17 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

One needs to question our fitness people & coach wtf are we playing players that are clearly underdone? Let’s hope this isn’t another season of failure! As a long mfc member could be history repeating its self!

They had a 4 week head start -  how can you put the blame at our fittess staff.  It's the penalty we paid for making finals last year. 

I'm happy to leave my assessment on that until the end of the 2019 season.

3 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

We didn't? ?

Correct. Goodwin made a point of telling us they didn’t review it

8 minutes ago, GCDee said:

ANB was pathetic. 

Something, something, same as JLT, something.

As Maxwell Smart would have said about not playing Preuss ( in light of Lycett's form against Gawn, plus Ryder) : Very interesting, but STUPID.

2 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

They had a 4 week head start -  how can you put the blame at our fittess staff.  It's the penalty we paid for making finals last year. 

I'm happy to leave my assessment on that until the end of the 2019 season.

Very poor excuse.

4 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

They had a 4 week head start -  how can you put the blame at our fittess staff.  It's the penalty we paid for making finals last year. 

I'm happy to leave my assessment on that until the end of the 2019 season.

Cop out

1 minute ago, —coach— said:

Correct. Goodwin made a point of telling us they didn’t review it

Well that was our biggest game of the year against the premiers and we were embarrassing.

To not review that match and see where the holes are/were is suicide.

If that is truly the case then i don't hold out much hope for 2019.  Hope you are wrong on this.

Melbourne once again dining out on its own bath water. So much press about being a premiership contender,   everyone basking in mediterranean sunshine, meanwhile port shows what  no BS  football can achieve.

Jones' dropped mark reeked of prelim. hangover. 

We were slow last season and you would have thought we would have addressed it in the offseason but obviously it wasn’t a priority, maybe it should have been. 

Its easy to beat us if you have players that can run and spread. 

We would be better off at Marvelarse stadium with our present list

VERY impressed with that recruit they had paying HB.  Great kicking on both sides, set up some goals with his precision, stopped a lot of our forward moves with his reading of the play and to to pit off he took on our three best forwards 1 v 3 and pantsed them.  Watts his name again?  ?

IMO Preus would have been good not just as backup/support for Gawn but he would have brought a lot of mongrel which is clearly what we lacked. 

4 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Well that was our biggest game of the year against the premiers and we were embarrassing.

To not review that match and see where the holes are/were is suicide.

If that is truly the case then i don't hold out much hope for 2019.  Hope you are wrong on this.

It doesn't mean the coaching staff didn't review it and take lessons from that game to incorporate into our system going forward.