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3 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

How do we get outnumbered in every part of the ground?

And yet another [censored] free goes their way.

Tmac is a shadow 

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    Derpwayne basically having an orgasm right now.

     

    Surely this is a coaching issue it just seems we have no structure defensively I can't understand how we arrived again this year with such a poor understanding of the basics of the game

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    Supporters leaving already....?


    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. 

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    Lever and May won't fix much.

    How is it possible to be, boringly once again, ahead on inside 50s yet be 7goals down. 

    Just has to be poor structure and incompetent coaching, and or lack of heart. 

    ONE BLOODY GOAL SINCE QUARTER TIME!  EXPLAIN  THAT GOODWIN looking more and more like an Essendon implant. 

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    Can’t use May and Lever as an excuse when they’re missing Carlisle and Roberton

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    45 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

    I’m here too Jane.  The bar is the place to be atm

    i beg to differ.. it’s alone about the jolimont platform..and then the train home. first time i’ve left a game early

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    ...Being outplayed by the St Kilda Spuds. 

    Such mixed emotions. If my son hadn't been born on Wednesday, I'd call this a bad week. Instead, it's my best week ever. Maybe when my son starts to follow along we'll be ok?

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    Jones Viney, Lewis neck and neck for the fastest snails.

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    We climbed what felt like Mt Everest with an albatross around our neck, when we finally got there we got a little taste of the chocolate, then fell all the way back down right back to purgatory.

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    An incredibly heartless performance!

    37 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

    We can win this

    Need to brutalise them in the contest! And make it count on the scoreboard,  FFS

    Autocorrect!!

    I meant to say... We can't do this

    It's time for a rebuild!!

    13 minutes ago, DaveyJones'sLocker said:

    7 /14 free kicks for saints have been inside forward 50

    You are diverting. Nothing wrong with the umpiring.

    Miss finals (which now seems a certainty) and i expect a mass exodus of players looking for somewhere with a promising future at years end..

    This club is sick to its bones.


    I have said for two years that Goodwin needs to go. He is the worst coach in the comp. we lose the exact same way every week and are actually getting worse at it as at least we used to be able to score but that is now gone. 

    How we signed him for another 4 years without even giving him half a season to prove last year wasn’t a fluke, I will never know. 

    Another season down the toilet. 

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    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. 

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    8 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

    How do we get outnumbered in every part of the ground?

    And yet another [censored] free goes their way.

    By design ;)

    3 minutes ago, illbarto said:

    Surely this is a coaching issue it just seems we have no structure defensively I can't understand how we arrived again this year with such a poor understanding of the basics of the game

    Welcome to Hell...


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