Another game, ho hum, no confidence it’ll go our way.

The difference between now and then is that in round 3 2006 we went up to Gold Coast to play the eventual minor premiers in Adelaide and put in a very meritorious 5 point loss (Davey hit the post on the death). It turned out to be a season turning performance.

This year’s first 3 rounds have been a pure disgrace. Trying to point to positives in a loss to a 20 goal Essendon is akin to putting lipstick on a bush pig.

 

Buddy to have a quiet night - will kick 11 goals straight!

Delete please, wrong thread!

Edited April 7, 20195 yr by Pates

There’s so much that needs to change and go right for us against Sydney, it starts with winning the clearances and then being able to lock the ball inside our forward 50. 

There have been some surprise results early this year, maybe it’s going to be our turn. 

    Seeing the surface of the Sydney ground on the news makes me fear the only thing Melbourne will gain out of going up there is more injuries. It's a disgrace.

Edited April 7, 20195 yr by Dame Gaga
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Maybe we can rip it up some more and play a game of NRL on thursday night at the ScrumCG

Edited April 7, 20195 yr by John Demonic

On 4/6/2019 at 10:25 AM, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

 

There are already several threads where we are wallowing in self pity so here’s one where perhaps we can look for some optimism and hopefully history repeating itself...

Melbourne started the 2006 season as a finals fancy but sprung from the gates with a horrid loss to wooden-spooners Carlton, followed by a big loss to the Bulldogs and a heart-breaker against Adelaide.

At 0-3 our season was shot, with a trip to the SCG to take on the reigning premiers, who were coming off their first win of the year against Carlton (Sydney play Carlton round 3 this year as well).

A close, low quality match eventually saw The Dees scrape home by 5 points.  

Sydney 13-14: 92

Melbourne 15-7: 97

Melbourne then went on to win 11 of our next 12 games, sitting at 2nd on the ladder before a fade out towards the end of the year.

We are playing very poorly, but no worse than rounds 1-3 2006.  We again face Sydney at the SCG... can history repeat itself?

 

Round 3 2006 we lost to the Crows on the Gold Coast due to the G being used for the Commonwealth Games.

From memory we went down in a close one and showed enough to have turned the corner. We lost Round 1 to Carlton the day before my wife went into labor with our first child.

I can tell you now we were better in Rd 3 2006 against the eventual minor premiers than we were Friday night 

2 hours ago, beelzebub said:

Goals ?

Yep buddy will kick that on his own. This is a grave yard for us like Geelong.

Our high injury list will be added to by the loss of TMac ( not that he has done anything this year ).

our confidence is zero and we are saddled with two who are now past it, six who have lost their way in 2019 and are playing poorly, a significant number who are vfl talents and if that is not enough we are using a game plan that is pre 666. 

 

Edited April 7, 20195 yr by old dee

2 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

The difference between now and then is that in round 3 2006 we went up to Gold Coast to play the eventual minor premiers in Adelaide and put in a very meritorious 5 point loss (Davey hit the post on the death). It turned out to be a season turning performance.

This year’s first 3 rounds have been a pure disgrace. Trying to point to positives in a loss to a 20 goal Essendon is akin to putting lipstick on a bush pig.

If this week isn't a win, it at least needs to be the Round 3 2006 sort of performance.

I want to see a different approach to team defence, I don't want to see the same mistakes being made, I want to see more lowering of the eyes going inside 50, and I want to see us working on our forward press and not being caught too high up the ground (which, tbh, the SCG should help us with).

It's effectively the same ppl on the ground playing to the same instructions from those off the ground. Even when we can see the obvious, the same rubbish prevails.

I don't see any reason to suspect any real difference in results. And that disappoints me. Doesn't surprise me.

I can't stand the AFL's love child, always thinking of different way to prop them up to keep the game relevant in NSW. 

Makes me sick.?

If we come out of this game with a percentage of over 60 and no serious injuries, that would be a reasonable result. 

Worst case scenario is that the ground is in as bad a condition as it looks and we add a few more to the long term injury list, plus get absolutely flogged.

Come on Simon, do something different this week, I dare you.

12 hours ago, old dee said:

Yep buddy will kick that on his own. This is a grave yard for us like Geelong.

Our high injury list will be added to by the loss of TMac ( not that he has done anything this year ).

our confidence is zero and we are saddled with two who are now past it, six who have lost their way in 2019 and are playing poorly, a significant number who are vfl talents and if that is not enough we are using a game plan that is pre 666. 

 

oh... i agree

Could get very ugly quite quickly if they get a hold of us. We seem to be persevering with something that plainly isnt working .Sydney must be drooling...

5 hours ago, Win4theAges said:

I can't stand the AFL's love child, always thinking of different way to prop them up to keep the game relevant in NSW. 

Makes me sick.?

Well, they've been busy with us Demons,  the past few years...  because of our failures to become a strong independent club.  We have failed to prosper this club for the past 50+ Years. 

That is our fault at board levels.

 

And we still do not have our own training base and Social facilities... because we are like an ectopic pregnancy of the Mcc...  who has never looked after Our interests.

Balls on the line. We will beat Sydney.

Be nice to have this game over and done Thursday. After a day of suitable mourning we can have the whole weekend to ourselves.

45 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Be nice to have this game over and done Thursday. After a day of suitable mourning we can have the whole weekend to ourselves.

That was the high spot last week bb. By Saturday morning I was into all things non football.

23 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

Remember that well.

Rubbish call.

Sydney bloke no effort to raise the hand and collect the ball.

That was the second of my 2-0 lifetime record at the MCG. Maybe I should go on Thursday?

8 hours ago, DV8 said:

Well, they've been busy with us Demons,  the past few years...  because of our failures to become a strong independent club.  We have failed to prosper this club for the past 50+ Years. 

That is our fault at board levels.

 

And we still do not have our own training base and Social facilities... because we are like an ectopic pregnancy of the Mcc...  who has never looked after Our interests.

Agree with you about your previous thoughts on our board, they were always thinking of the now and not the future hence the lack of facilities etc.

They have had an unbelievable run of good fortune the swannies, COLA here, first purpose built academy with all the trimmings there. 

Im not to clear on their academy drafting side of things but they would have rorted the system blind hiding players etc.

They have had a golden chair ride all the way through since the AFL have been in the money.

44 minutes ago, Win4theAges said:

Agree with you about your previous thoughts on our board, they were always thinking of the now and not the future hence the lack of facilities etc.

They have had an unbelievable run of good fortune the swannies, COLA here, first purpose built academy with all the trimmings there. 

Im not to clear on their academy drafting side of things but they would have rorted the system blind hiding players etc.

They have had a golden chair ride all the way through since the AFL have been in the money.

They have,  and they needed it...  but its getting slowly to the point of ending IMO,  because they are finding more and more talented kids coming from NSW. I think inside 10 Yrs should see the COLA go from their subsidies.

It seems the game is growing up there.  I hope.

1 hour ago, DV8 said:

They have,  and they needed it...  but its getting slowly to the point of ending IMO,  because they are finding more and more talented kids coming from NSW. I think inside 10 Yrs should see the COLA go from their subsidies.

It seems the game is growing up there.  I hope.

Great for the game yes, but they still give me the runs unfortunately.