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Season over, good old Melbourne always finding new ways to disappoint us, they can stick this year up there [censored] 

 

Sadly, the only thing on the 'G' tonight worse than the umpires, was the Melbourne collective.  Total despair from me.

ANB - momentum killer, time and time again fumbling basic balls and costs us goals. His been given too many chances, Spargo (who I don't rate that highly) would be a better option at this stage, he at least often gets involved in scoring chains.

Frost - needs to go, can do some good things at times but you never know what you will get from him in any individual contest so he is a terrible player to play with.

Oscar - Guess he will need to stay for now.

Umpires - pathetic, the amount of times we got hit high or arms taken inside our 50 and not paid then the softest free kicks to the bombers.

Josh Mahoney and Jason Taylor - Dangerous small forwards. I can't think of a club in the league with worse options.

 
  On 05/04/2019 at 11:41, bing181 said:

Improvements in areas that needed improvement - back to scoring decent amounts again, 18 goals.

But ... back line. Just not happening at the moment. Petty for Frost?

Only getting one game out of the first five for Steven May isn't ideal either.

Yep.  It also comes from the midfield as well.  The ease with which they can run it down there is not good enough.  Did we learn nothing from those first few games?

Neal-Bullen needs some time at Casey to learn how the ball feels in his hands. 


Target 70,000

lols

 

Hang on, our percentage improved. WOO

  On 05/04/2019 at 11:39, Wiseblood said:

Goody had a week to rectify things and he didn't. 

Maybe it's because of the players we have out there?

Just an idea.

  On 05/04/2019 at 11:37, PJ_12345 said:

Im so disappointed.

It seems to me that the game has passed us by.

- too many players going for 1 ball (an issue last year)
- not enough spreading (an issue last year)
- mass inside 50s which clearly is a quality vs. quantity issue
- poor forward pressure
- zone defence when the game's 6v6v6 format advantages 1on1
- poor kicks from defence to 40m when clubs are taking advantage of new rules to 60m

The stock is there, but the strategy isnt. Really poor coaching.

We've lost a prelim, 2 JLTs and 3 2019 games... thats 6 in a row. What have we done to change?

Never thought we'd be 3 rounds in and #18.

Great post.

 
  On 05/04/2019 at 11:41, olisik said:

Jones needs to relinquish captaincy. We aren’t going anywhere with him at the helm.

Will retire at years end (if not sooner). Slowed down big time.

I was of the thought pre-match  that if we lost this, it's not season over,  but on reflection I think we are cooked. 

By the time we get the cattle back on the field and we are playing decent footy the losses will be too much. 

They were a man down all game FFS and were humiliated the past 2 weeks .

Really disappointed. 


  On 05/04/2019 at 11:38, whatwhatsaywhat said:

forget finals, the real battle is going to be not 'winning' the wooden spoon

No we are so good at that

I don’t care who comes in but Frost, Oscar, ANB must go - Z class footballers. How Stretch wasn’t playing God only knows. Josh Wagner also isn’t up to it and Jetta and Hibberd areon a rapid decline.

Stop the turnovers (the perennial MFC issue since Daniher left)

We are way to easy to score against. It looks like we win ball often, then simply turn it over  by poor kick or dropped mark while all our players have sprinted forward of the play , leaving us exposed to pace out the back. Must have happened 20 times tonight.

I am not a huge fan of dropping players because of single poor games, but Hibberd, Frost, ANB and Omac looked poor for most of the game. Kolodjashnij seemed to pep up a bit.

What has happened to Nathan Jones? 

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Bring back Peter Jackson.

And somehow reverse the trade where we coughed up pick 6 for May and KK.

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  On 05/04/2019 at 11:42, Deestroy All said:

Has ANB done anything beneficial for the team in 240 minutes of football?

No.

When he dropped that mark very early in the third term, which was under no pressure, I yelled so loud I woke my 12 week old daughter up.  The wife told me off, but I told her it was ANB's fault.  I've defended him before, but I just can't do it anymore.  The bloke is simply not good enough and his fumbles, dropped marks and lack of contribution can waste away at Casey for the rest of his career.


  On 05/04/2019 at 11:39, Wiseblood said:

Been a while since I felt this flat.  I'm not panicking yet, but I couldn't feel any flatter.  Just an awful feeling.

The bottom line for me is the gameplan, which is what many of us discussed last week.  Yes, ANB should be dropped, Frost and O Mac were putrid pretty much most of the night and we have others like Hibberd and Tom Mac who are horribly out of form.  They are are small pieces of the puzzle right now.

But the ease with which opposition teams are scoring against us right now is alarming.  In that third term the Bombers kicked 7 straight from roughly 12 inside 50s at one stage.  This is horribly similar to what the Cats did in the third term last week.  Every time they ran forward they looked like scoring and we did absolutely nothing about it.  When you have McKernan and Tippa kicking 4, you know you're in deep trouble.

We simply made the same mistakes last week and we paid dearly for it.  How often did we turn it over at half forward and they hit a couple of over the top handballs and ran off with the ball?  How can we let that happen?  Are the instructions wrong, or do we have players at the moment who simply aren't putting them into practice?

The pressure is on, now.  Goody had a week to rectify things and he didn't.  Thankfully the Bombers are rubbish as a half decent side would have probably beaten us by more.  

If there are any positives, it's that we seemed to lower our eyes a little better this week, but we still allowed the ball to get out too easily.  Gawny wasn't bad, Gus tried hard and I thought some of the lesser lights like Lockhart and Corey Wagner did some good things.

But we have nowhere to hide now.  The season is slipping out of our grasp and we have very little time to get back into it.  It seems hollow for me to say, but don't lose the faith.

Great summary. And it's taken a lot for you to still hold faith. I haven't lost it, but I'm so confused by our effort this year, frustrated by the terrible coaching and angered that all the other teams went away and did their homework in the off season, so they didn't have to blame the new rules/adjustment on their performance

  On 05/04/2019 at 11:40, Petraccattack said:

How will our team of snowflakes handle all the mean tweets this week?  

Weak as [censored].

Yep, that banner combined with tonight's result will make us look like more of a laughing stock. The MFC needs to get off the soy and concentrate 100% on football.

  On 05/04/2019 at 11:37, PJ_12345 said:

Im so disappointed.

It seems to me that the game has passed us by.

- too many players going for 1 ball (an issue last year)
- not enough spreading (an issue last year)
- mass inside 50s which clearly is a quality vs. quantity issue
- poor forward pressure
- zone defence when the game's 6v6v6 format advantages 1on1
- poor kicks from defence to 40m when clubs are taking advantage of new rules to 60m

The stock is there, but the strategy isnt. Really poor coaching.

We've lost a prelim, 2 JLTs and 3 2019 games... thats 6 in a row. What have we done to change?

Never thought we'd be 3 rounds in and #18.

And that about sums it up PJ.  The buck stops with Goody.

Failed to take the Prelim debacle seriously and it is now coming back to bite this club and him on the rear end big time.

Also seems to have ignored the 6/6/6 which favours a 1 on 1 more than zone and we are paying the price (outside of the limited times we've manned up for short periods).

We have not reflected, reviewed or adjusted and have come into the season in a terrible state mentally and in general match fitness wise.

No.9 for the Umps was in their top 10 also!

We're bottom 4, forward structures were better, but still so, so [censored]. we slowed some of their rebounds, but our structures are too easy to chip around and run through. Even numbers and we all run to the one spot and watch them spread away.

We only have one player that leads hard out of the square and thats melksham, who was battli g agaisnt Hurley. 

I've been saying it since last year, we need better assistants around goodwin and we need to poach the best.

Getting a few players back wont make any difference to how easily we get scored against.

Umpiring needs to be investigated, that was match fixing. 


I think the issues here aren't so much about ability.

I saw some slivers of light tonight. We can at least identify the issues we have. 

Positives:

Our top line players are getting back in form. Maxy, Gus and Clarry are earning their pay.

Lockhart looks the goods. 

We fought it out. 

Negatives:

Our tall forwards are abysmal. I get the feeling Tommy Mc was getting off the chain last year was mostly because he was getting the 2nd defender. We miss Jesse though a lot on here wouldn't want to admit it.

Frost is an athlete, not a footballer. He has speed, strength and quick reflexes. His decision making is a long way off.

We get a week of Hun headlines about how the Dons are back and tanking. Wretch.

 

 

If Melbourne don’t drop Neal Bullen and Frost will be super xxxxed. I don’t care who come in but just cannot watch these two clowns. I thought the wagners weren’t to bad.

  On 05/04/2019 at 11:43, bing181 said:

Maybe it's because of the players we have out there?

Just an idea.

That's a small part of it, but I'm not sure it's as large of a factor as we think.  May and Lever would have made a difference, but even the best defenders would cough up a few goals with the ease that the ball went into our defence.

 

 

Time to send players for surgeries, play some youth and TANK like [censored] for #1 pick since we traded out our last 3 first rounders for defenders who don’t play.

Can’t win when it’s too hot, too cold and wet. Been like this since the WC debacle. Gee some of our players must have thought they win the flag when they beat the Hawks. We’ve nosed dived like a 737 MAX.


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