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Posted
Just now, Wiseblood said:

Is he a worse defender than what Oscar or Frost are currently bringing to the table?  May is still a few weeks away, Lever even longer.  We need to try something.

The scary thing is mate, I actually think he is, it’s hardbto forgot his kicking out of the back line

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Either T Mac is a very selfish footballer or the coaches didn’t have the gonads to bench him in the last quarter. He could hardly run in front of us and was limping at stages chasing defenders out. Once he went forward again the long bombs began.

Lockhart, Trac amd Hunt looked dangerous in the second when they had room to move.

Posted
2 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Once again 10 more inside 50s but

- 1. Nobody to convert

- 2. Shambolic bombing to contests.

Seriously, is there nobody in our bloated coaching panel who can see this and address it?

All year, and most of last year we dominated inside 50 

Is it really that hard?

?? 3 up in a contest.

?? Defenders occasionally leaving their man to go to help out when we are already 2 to 1 up???  Surprise their loose man is then hit up for a goal!!

?? Defenders ball watching playing in front instead of finding touch on their opponent...that opponent then gets out the back for an easy Joe the goose or mark a d shot at goal.

?? Too many attacking the pill.  You only need one or Max 2 ...certainly not 3 leaving us outnumbered when the ball escapes the contest.

?? We are really really dumb with ball in hand and have only one method of play (all ahead break neck) and no patience or poise.

??  We cant control a contest or ice a game at any stage of any match.  All other AFL clubs are able to do this, even if it's only for 3 to 4 minutes prior to a clanger turnover!

?? Goody has had 3 weeks plus a decent pre season to get them up mentally but fails again (another poor start after a shithouse performance the week before...WHY???) and we can't even beat a horribly out of form Essendrug.

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2 minutes ago, loges said:

Seems to me TMac is a big part of the problem, all those forward entries and he just doesn't get near it.

There aren't many players in the AFL that love the media attention more than Tom McDonald.  Its all gone to his head.  

People used to whine about Hogans attitude and body language, T Mac is even worse.

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Didn’t watch a second of it. 

Thankfully I was packing my boat with 300 cans of beer for a six day trip to the Abrolhos islands leaving tomorrow morning. 

Good times. ?

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Posted
11 minutes ago, Drunkn167 said:

Give Keilty another 2 weeks to prove form before coming in

 

 

But mostly because I don’t wanna fly up to Sydney for his debut hahahah

I you don’t want to fly then fill the tank and check the Tyre pressure.

Posted
2 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Didn’t watch a second of it. 

Thankfully I was packing my boat with 300 cans of beer for a six day trip to the Abrolhos islands leaving tomorrow morning. 

Good times. ?

Nowhere near enough beer!

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Posted
28 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

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

Weak as [censored].

it's pretty embarrassing. only melbourne could run through a banner with mean tweets, and then lose. like, it's the perform storm of stupid.

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1 minute ago, Petraccattack said:

There aren't many players in the AFL that love the media attention more than TomMcDonad.  Its all gone to his head.  

People used to whine about Hogans attitude and body language, T Mac is even worse.

1. TMac doesn't love media attention

2. No player's body language is worse than Hogan's

3. The problem with Tom MacDonald is form, injury issues, football IQ and talent (or the lack thereof) 

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7 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

Look!!!! Anyone who thinks the criticism of the umpires is just scapegoat searching needs to do some simple, and documented research. The free kicks that were dubious (even to Wanka Carey!!!!) came whenever we looked like mounting a challenge... The umpires had an agenda!!! It is so @@####ing obvious!!! Do the re-watch folks... Stop searching for the players to blame and jot down the umpire number who made the decision! We have suffered from this for a long long time... and we will continue to suffer until the corruption (ok, if yo want to be kind... ineptitude, is exposed by data)

Wayne that is a poor excuse. Frees were fairly even. We were just pathetic. Look at our players like Frost, OMac, Jones, Viney, Hibberd, Trac, TMac, ANB and worst of all, Weed who just didn't put a effort in all night. Some of his hanging arms out as a tackle disgusted me   That is 8 players who I think gave us NOTHING. Hard to win with 14 players. Also they were short a player from early in 1st quarter

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1 minute ago, Roger Mellie said:

1. TMac doesn't love media attention

2. No player's body language is worse than Hogan's

3. The problem with Tom MacDonald is form, injury issues, football IQ and talent (or the lack thereof) 

No idea

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i cannot believe these how poorly we played.

When I look at the stats I see our best players were average in the 60-70% range for disposal efficiency the bombers were much higher. our skills and disposal were crap.  Our players left essendon players all alone in the forward line time after time.

Port, Geelong and now essendon have shown how to beat melbourne. Switch across the backline a couple of time to get the overlap and then waltz into goal.

yes the umpiring was woeful, but if we cannot beat essendon with even poor umpiring then we are going nowhere. 

I dont understand how in the last quarter our players had no urgency to kick it in, move it on, you would think they had a 5th quarter to make up the score.  No attempt to try going down the middle from a kick -in. no manning up. 

ANB may be fastest on the training oval it certainly does not translate to any real value on the field. Oscar and Frost both look all a sea. Tackling was poor, too many essendon players danced around our players like they were witches hats. certainly a great opportunity for those playing in Casey to find a place in next weeks team.  

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The season may be finished... but if I was an AFL coach I wouldn't mind going into a season with May, Jones, Salem, Harmes, Petracca, Viney, Lever, Brayshaw, Gawn, Oliver, Hibberd, Melksham, Hannon, Jetta, Fritsch, Garlett, Hunt, Lockhart on the list... Just have to add to it


Posted
8 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

I hate to say it but we need Frost on Franklin next week, he’s our only option.

I would rather point out that Frost wont be able to stop him either. May is the only one on our list who can go with him to a decent standard.

Therefore I would rather get games of experience into Petty.

 

Posted
4 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Didn’t watch a second of it. 

Thankfully I was packing my boat with 300 cans of beer for a six day trip to the Abrolhos islands leaving tomorrow morning. 

Good times. ?

Impeccable timing. I'm jealous

Posted
8 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

?? 3 up in a contest.

?? Defenders occasionally leaving their man to go to help out when we are already 2 to 1 up???  Surprise their loose man is then hit up for a goal!!

?? Defenders ball watching playing in front instead of finding touch on their opponent...that opponent then gets out the back for an easy Joe the goose or mark a d shot at goal.

?? Too many attacking the pill.  You only need one or Max 2 ...certainly not 3 leaving us outnumbered when the ball escapes the contest.

?? We are really really dumb with ball in hand and have only one method of play (all ahead break neck) and no patience or poise.

??  We cant control a contest or ice a game at any stage of any match.  All other AFL clubs are able to do this, even if it's only for 3 to 4 minutes prior to a clanger turnover!

?? Goody has had 3 weeks plus a decent pre season to get them up mentally but fails again (another poor start after a shithouse performance the week before...WHY???) and we can't even beat a horribly out of form Essendrug.

Can't agree more with this summary. Spot on.

6 minutes ago, olisik said:

N Jones - 1 tackle.

Weak as P

Posted
31 minutes ago, RedButMostlyBlue said:

It's possible that we're not bad...

... maybe we're just TANKING?!!?

We even tank at tanking though......last year was the ‘super’ draft!!!!

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People being way too harsh on TMac. He hasn't had a proper preseason and is clearly not fully fit, then he injured himself more at the start of the match. Also it's not like we have anyone in the reserves that can be a better key forward right now. Weid struggled too, Keilty is still young and learning to be a forward, and Preuss is not fit enough right now.

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