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Lost 7 of the last 8 games now and seem to be getting worse week on week.

 

Imagine being 7 goals down and laying less tackles....

 
1 minute ago, Clintosaurus said:

Lever and May won't fix much.

It might help a little, but giving teams such easy transition will still result in 4-5 goal losses. We get 3-4 entries in a row, but teams then go coast to coast for easy goals.

Not since 2012-2013 have I seen opposition supporters laugh so much. We are being laughed at. Like I have little kids around me laughing at Melbourne. I haven't seen that since the Neeld years.

4 minutes ago, RedButMostlyBlue said:

I can't wait for the presser...

Goody (with that silly smirk of his):

'We're not happy with the way we're playing'

'We have to get better'

'We're not thinking about finals right now, we're just looking to next week'

THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS CRAP. 

We're slow, lazy, unfit and sloppy. And our coach doesn't realise he's being outcoached most weeks.

Another honest session.

Another presser with Jones telling us how it still burns.

Or the club releasing another video of the players chanting our house.

Time to cut the crap. 

Jones a s Lewis to retire, Hibberd can join them, and trade Petracca.


2 minutes ago, Drunkn167 said:

Garlett in for Spargo

Throw TMac back and put Keilty up forward at least Dec can mark and kick goals 

I was a fan of Spargo but he needs 2 spend serious time at Casey. This is so painful 2 watch.

We can’t even win the demon dash at 3/4 time. We can’t even win something that is rigged for the fans!! (And I know he won but he lost, I was there)

Hard to watch. How can a young team that did so much against the odds late last season regress so badly in 6 games?

We are carrying so many passengers right now and at least 5 vfl standard cloggers are getting easy games.

 
2 minutes ago, Purple77 said:

Ever since the R23 debacle, I made a promise to myself I'll always wait for Melbourne to earn my membership. 

would have been easy to renew over the summer. 

Very glad I waited. I know it isn't much - petty even - but it feels satisfying the Dees finally have to earn my money. 

Sadly I bought in round 1 for the first time since the inexcusable disgraceful capitulation to that EssenDrug composite VFL seconds team.  


Coaches have killed this year. 

Absokutely no structure forward or back.

Actually disgusting.

I reckon the players have given up because they know you can’t win games that way especially on a big ground.

Absolute arrogance or just plain stupidity.

Glad we dropped a bloke with pace for Lewis. Just a joke.

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Just now, titan_uranus said:

That quarter was a genuine embarrassment. 

They were +40 or so in disposals but +8 in tackles and they beat us in CPs. 

That sort of effort is utterly disgraceful. 

Goodwin with zero answers. Our season is done with this loss and they came out after half time limp as impotent [censored] like we could not care less. 

 

This is actually a dog’s breakfast. We can’t score and we can’t defend lol


Coaching/structure issue and we have just re-signed him for 4 years, happy days. Goodwin speaking as I write, and as predicted, he just mentions lifting around the ball. It’s his plan A, B, C, right through to Z.

lol i’m not even surprised by this result. The saints who are in form vs the dees who were lucky to beat an underwhelming sydney the week before. Saints at $3 were an absolute gift!!!! Dees are woeful 

I swear to god if i hear the words 'journey' or 'brand' coming outta goodwins mouth imma do a terry wallace.

 


For the talent on the park that is an absolute embarrassment.  A midfield with Gawn, Oliver, Brayshaw and Viney yet we are producing performances that many Melbourne teams of far less talent were able to better.

For me it's the structures. We are getting absolutely schooled by a far less talented team in terms of structure behind the footy and structure ahead of the footy. We played some decent footy at times in the first half but I reckon the players' confidence and belief gets destroyed by the failure to convert midfield dominance into scores and then the subsequent leaking of easy goals to the opposition.

That quarter looked like a side that had lost belief in its structure. I've rarely seen a side so confused behind the ball - the way we just blindly run off our man no matter what the situation is like under 9 stuff. Attention Melbourne players - there's no need to run off your man when the player coming at you has time and his head up because he will just loop it over the top to the man you have just freed up!

Time to look at the structure, particularly defensively - it's not working

 

 

Spargo will be the first everyone points the finger at, but can anyone tel me what TMac and Weideman have brought to the side this year

4 minutes ago, watchtheeyes said:

So much of this feels like coaching. Serious questions need to be asked.

We all saw the Saints speed from defense as a massive danger... Why didn't they do anything about it!!


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