Jump to content

Featured Replies

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.

Edited by Redleg

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.

Even our best are struggling. Oliver a shadow. Brayshaw keeps on trying. 

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!!


Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.

Featured Content

  • REPORT: West Coast

    On a night of counting, Melbourne captain Max Gawn made sure that his contribution counted. He was at his best and superb in the the ruck from the very start of the election night game against the West Coast Eagles at Optus Stadium, but after watching his dominance of the first quarter and a half of the clash evaporate into nothing as the Eagles booted four goals in the last ten minutes of the opening half, he turned the game on its head, with a ruckman’s masterclass in the second half.  No superlatives would be sufficient to describe the enormity of the skipper’s performance starting with his 47 hit outs, a career-high 35 possessions (22 of them contested), nine clearances, 12 score involvements and, after messing up an attempt or two, finally capping off one of the greatest rucking performances of all time, with a goal of own in the final quarter not long after he delivered a right angled pass into the arms of Daniel Turner who also goaled from a pocket (will we ever know if the pass is what was intended). That was enough to overturn a 12 point deficit after the Eagles scored the first goal of the second half into a 29 point lead at the last break and a winning final quarter (at last) for the Demons who decided not to rest their champion ruckman at the end this time around. 

    • 0 replies
    Demonland
  • PREGAME: Hawthorn

    The Demons return to the MCG to take on the High Flying Hawks on Saturday Afternoon. Hawthorn will be aiming to consolidate a position in the Top 4 whilst the Dees will be looking to take a scalp and make it four wins in a row. Who comes in and who goes out?

      • Like
    • 50 replies
    Demonland
  • PODCAST: West Coast

    The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 5th May @ 8:00pm. Join Binman, George & I as we analyse the Demons 3rd win row for the season against the Eagles.
    Your questions and comments are a huge part of our podcast so please post anything you want to ask or say below and we'll give you a shout out on the show.
    If you would like to leave us a voicemail please call 03 9016 3666 and don't worry no body answers so you don't have to talk to a human.

    • 13 replies
    Demonland
  • POSTGAME: West Coast

    Following a disastrous 0–5 start to the season, the Demons have now made it three wins in a row, cruising past a lacklustre West Coast side on their own turf. Skipper Max Gawn was once again at his dominant best, delivering another ruck masterclass to lead the way.

      • Haha
      • Love
      • Like
    • 198 replies
    Demonland
  • VOTES: West Coast

    Max Gawn leads the Demonland Player of the Year from Jake Bowey in 2nd place. Christian Petracca, Ed Langdon and Clayton Oliver round out the Top 5. Your votes for the win over the West Coast Eagles in Perth. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1.

    • 33 replies
    Demonland
  • GAMEDAY: West Coast

    It's Game Day and the Demons have a chance to notch up their third consecutive win — something they haven’t done since Round 5, 2024. But to do it, they’ll need to exorcise the Demons of last year’s disastrous trip out West. Can the Dees continue their momentum, right the wrongs of that fateful clash, and take another step up the ladder on the road to redemption?

      • Thanks
      • Like
    • 669 replies
    Demonland