1 minute ago, Win4theAges said:

You watch every single team we play this season play this way against us because we are so thick. It took Brayshaw to work it out and apply hard pressure with 2 minutes to go and what do you know we force a turn over and kick a goal.

You reckon Goody will work it out?

Rhetorical right?

After they got on top in the third quarter, I wondered if we could get ourselves back into the game. I have hundreds of memories of us not getting back into the game in the past. I'm attributing the getting back into the game to the players and the coach. We almost stole it! What are the Trolls attributing our 4th qtr. comeback to?

I just want to know why after fighting to get back in the game in q2 and shutting down cats chip and mark game we backed off in q3 and let them play that style again, only to shut to them down again in q4 and almost pinch it. If we just stuck to the way we played in q2 the game was ours. 
 

I can only think we wanted to win it our way rather than just win. We had the talent on the park to win today, I guess this evens out the blues win which we didn’t deserve 

Just now, Grr-owl said:

The word for that is "incompetent." And the club has the gumption to ask to donate. I mean, FFS, shouldn't that mean the players put in desperate, gut-busting efforts all over the ground from siren to siren?

Yet again, effort wasn’t in question for me. It comes down to system or lack thereof, particularly going forward.

3 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

Every game this weekend has been terrible. Such poor skills.

Nah, had the misfortune of watching the saints beat the tiges. They were fantastic.

Hard at it all game and really skillful by foot.

Theyve zoomed past us.

Better than losing by 80 points like last year!

1 minute ago, waynewussell said:

After they got on top in the third quarter, I wondered if we could get ourselves back into the game. I have hundreds of memories of us not getting back into the game in the past. I'm attributing the getting back into the game to the players and the coach. We almost stole it! What are the Trolls attributing our 4th qtr. comeback to?

are you being serious? even when geelong was trying to gift us the game we never looked like winning. A comeback is unsurprising and perhaps was to be expected given Geelong were a player down all game and we were off a 15 game break. Geelong looked stuffed and we still gave them paddocks even in the dying seconds.

That comeback is hardly symbolic of anything positive.

6 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Goodwin can't coach.

Our fwd 50 entries have been atrocious for 5 years. We got lucky in 2018 because we converted the "chaos ball". Still couldn't hit a target.

Our midfield is lazy.  Oliver and Viney hopeless today. Oliver refuses to man up when we don't have the ball and jogs when geelong are transitioning.

Dumb mistakes like manning a goal line, not moving the ball fast enough and 50m penalties for goals when goals were scarce.

Goodwin repeatedly makes the same mistakes and has no answers.

Geeling are a crap side but they had more poise than us at critical times. FFS they didn't even have a proper ruckman and were 1 key defender down all day.

The pre-game discussions were totally derisive about the Demons and laid out exactly how we would get beaten. Lo and behold that's how we got beaten.

You can cuddle your teddy bear and cry yourslef to sleep thinking  it will all magically fix itself but the club will disappear because no one cares other than people on here and a few others.

Give it a rest! You are no better than the leader of a lynch mob! Get some help on analysis! Stop potting the coach! You are not contributing to the club in any way! Trolling is a sub-standard existence. I'm calling you out!

 

Ugh those last 2 plays were shocking. Tomlinson was never going to kick that goal. At best he should have centered. Yes it may not have resulted in a goal but Gawn was down there pickett was circling. At least give thema  chance. 

Salem then chose to go wide when 3 cats players were there. Again just get it to the square. 

In the 3rd quarter we went back to handballing and instead of someone owning it to kick at the goals they kept handballing it around. Viney and Oliver both had chances to kick but chose to handpass. 

Inaccurate kicking again. 

2 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

After they got on top in the third quarter, I wondered if we could get ourselves back into the game. I have hundreds of memories of us not getting back into the game in the past. I'm attributing the getting back into the game to the players and the coach. We almost stole it! What are the Trolls attributing our 4th qtr. comeback to?

Well for one they were a man down and Danger was on the bench for quite a bit of time in that quarter. So that helped.

We were 3 goals down. Hardly a come from behind triumph. We evened it up but we never should have been in that position. Geelong are bog ordinary. We had the ruck advantage and did nothing with it again. We let them chip it around and not once manned up or put pressure on the ball carrier. The one time this happened was in the last and Brayshaw got a goal from it. 

4 minutes ago, Brownie said:

Yep. This is not and never has been about a 2nd tall forward.

This is all about structure and delivery into the forward line.

[censored] and moan all you like about 10m kicks. Geelong just delivered it into their forward line with direct accurate chip kicks. 

Wont make a difference who comes in next week when we just keep bombing it in. Even with 60 seconds to go.

I am glad you saw it too. it was a pivotal moment and really a set play. Streaming out of the centre and kick to advantage. Viney is a/the prime cause of our delivery as he is given a green light in the midfield. A position every small mid in the AFl would give their right arm for with Gawn tapping down. Kozzi is a natural born rover.

41 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Reckon Salem could show some urgency? Sprint the 50 and kick the [censored] ball early!!

not wait for 30 seconds and kick to a 3-1

Shocking piece of play from Salem! I actually couldn't believe how slow he played that out! & after all that he goes & does what you just said... terrible!

I think a lot of the teams are working out Melbourne is a soft target.

Just apply some pressure 

Edited June 28, 20205 yr by DeeZee

10 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Goodwin can't coach.

Our fwd 50 entries have been atrocious for 5 years. We got lucky in 2018 because we converted the "chaos ball". Still couldn't hit a target.

Our midfield is lazy.  Oliver and Viney hopeless today. Oliver refuses to man up when we don't have the ball and jogs when geelong are transitioning.

Dumb mistakes like manning a goal line, not moving the ball fast enough and 50m penalties for goals when goals were scarce.

Goodwin repeatedly makes the same mistakes and has no answers.

Geeling are a crap side but they had more poise than us at critical times. FFS they didn't even have a proper ruckman and were 1 key defender down all day.

The pre-game discussions were totally derisive about the Demons and laid out exactly how we would get beaten. Lo and behold that's how we got beaten.

You can cuddle your teddy bear and cry yourslef to sleep thinking  it will all magically fix itself but the club will disappear because no one cares other than people on here and a few others.

Viney was not hopeless. Showed plenty of leadership in the last when needed as well.

1 minute ago, dee-tox said:

Viney was not hopeless. Showed plenty of leadership in the last when needed as well.

One of our best today.

Norf are loving this

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Quite a few 'experts' here tipped an easy Cats victory. It went down to the line. WE were close to winning. Are those experts prepared to acknowledge that they underestimated our team?

Why don’t we play man on man cause what we are doing is NOT WORKING  

What is it too hard on the players. 

FFS something needs to change goody. 

That was an awful game to watch with Geelongs game plan to hold onto the ball and playing keepings off. It worked and not sure our brain trust worked it out. Scott happy to murder the game to slow the game down and stop our run

Oh to have a leading marking forward like Hawkins. Fritch is wasted in a key post and too slight. It is frustrating that for all the effort and ball winning ability we just don't capitalise on the good work. 

I love watching Picket he will be the drawcard that puts bums on seats. 

Frustrating to lose but we are still sorting out our structure and best 22. Rivers and Pickett game 2. Lockhart a few more. Landon and Tomlinson still the gel and VDB & Smith still a bit rusty after no footy in the last 12 months. I see improvement and it is still early on. The next 3 weeks will see where we are at.

37 minutes ago, goodwindees said:

Well played Joel Smith. Stuck it right up the no nothings on Demonland. No idea, NoSoupForMe. 

Is this tongue in cheek? 

3 minutes ago, DeeZee said:

I think a lot of the teams are working out Melbourne is a soft target.

Just apply some pressure 

Thanks for that impressive bit of game analysis DEEZEE

I hate the cats. But you play whats in front of you, we were poor in the first quarter especially, but to get within a kick, after 1 game in 3 months. I thought there was a bit to take out of it, yeah the season is shorter, but there is still a long way to go.. 

2 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

Quite a few 'experts' here tipped an easy Cats victory. It went down to the line. WE were close to winning. Are those experts prepared to acknowledge that they underestimated our team?

I’ll acknowledge that I overestimated Geelong, they were almost as putrid as us. 

1 minute ago, DeeZee said:

I think a lot if the teams are working out Melbourne is a soft target.

Just apply some pressure 

Agree.

The coaching staff and players should be embarrassed by the game plan Scott employed. Which was predicated on the knowledge:

we have players who don't work hard enough with their defensive running. 

We will make errors under pressure

We wanted to play fast and by playing slow we wouldn't know how to respond

Salem looks like a player that's been overloaded with instructions. Playing on instinct he goes quick and 9 out of 10 finds a good target. Lately he's taking far longer to make a decision, ignoring easy options, and doing the old long down the line trick