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it certainly looks like the type of score line you would expect when 8th is playing 16th.

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    The dog [censored] Joel Smith experiment is over. 

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    Just now, Wadda We Sing said:

    Gobsmacked by this.....nothing like the team that played on the weekend? Short break and 7am flight doesnt help. We dont have a coach who can arrest this tho....

    We weren’t good against St Kilda. We broke even at best and had two match winners drag us over the line. Just. 

    Today nobody is playing a team game. Players running into each other, too many contesting for every ball, no support or defensive pressure. 
     

    We are downhill skiers. We are playing one of the best defensive sides in the competition. They are 16th for crying out loud and are playing with more pressure and intent than we have all season. 

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    I can guarantee you that we will not come back and win this game.

    Sydney have kept us to two goals in a half and they are up by 5.

    They would be loving this, as they love nothing more than a low scoring scrap.

    All over.

    Goodbye 2020


    As bad a quarter as we've played all year, unforgivable given the opponent and what's at stake.

    All of the hallmarks of bad Melbourne are on display. Weak tackling efforts. Hollywood handpasses. Turnovers. No plan forward of centre. Outnumbered seemingly everywhere. Slow, being outrun. It's all there, and it's all terrible.

    OMac's made a mistake every time the ball's gone near him. Smith close to likewise. It's bad enough that Jones turned it over on his left once, but to do it again after taking a mark inside 50 is disgraceful. Melksham didn't touch it that quarter, Weideman can't get near it, ANB's struggling.

    We saw Essendon pull back a 36-point deficit after looking equally incompetent last week. Other than that, I can't think of any reason to think we have any chance in this game. 

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    Just now, At the break of Gawn said:

    What a disgraceful first half, let alone 2nd qtr.

    No moves from the coaches box.

    How OMac retained his spot was ridiculous

    Jones is finished 

     

    Omac... Why? All of Demonland knew he wasn't needed. 

    Goodwins bizarre selections continue

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    We were lucky to win last week. Goodwin is clueless on how to get a team “up” for a pressure game

    Absolutely Clueless

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    If we don’t [censored] turn this around after the half ?

    We have talent in the top 10 players then it falls off a cliff. Lots of list cloggers. 


    Shocking lazy performance. Wow.

    Sydney has been good though. Longmire won't let them lose this.

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    I said it earlier, but I don't understand how a side goes from playing some terrific, team first football just four or so days ago, to serving up this absolute slop.

    This is on both coach and the players.  The players are playing arrogant, lazy football, but then why isn't Goody making sure they don't have the loose player behind the ball?  Every time we go forward we are outnumbered.

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    Hard to understand why we brought Harmes in. He's done nadda 

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    Horse giving a masterclass in how to coach

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    I was in a good mood knocked off work early sat down with a beer. Then the have started thanks boys

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    Absolutely shocking, I’m disgusted, basics have gone out the window. Usually a goalless quarter means a loss for us. Better respond in Q3. 

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    Should have switched to man on man and put an extra or two in the backline to stop the onslaught of goals with the wind

    Did we have any plan for and against the wind?? Didn't seem to change. The swans certainly did

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    This club is a [censored] disgrace. How can you put Oscar and Smith in the same team? Oscar is the worst footballer in the league and Smith is not much better. How many games is Jones going to cost us? He is a disgrace. Gawn the only one having a go. The team is a disgrace bye bye Goodwin.

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    4 minutes ago, rolling fog said:

    These over the head handballs are a joke. 

    No other side does it as consistently as us.

    I don't usually take any notice of Derwayne but his comment "too much Hollywood" summed it up perfectly

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    For whatever reason im fairly calm. I almost expected this sort of performance because a) something is on th eline so we are mentally weak in those situations; b) Longmire is a tactical coach so Goody was always gong to get outplayed.

    Oscar Mcdonald is an embarrassment. 

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    1 minute ago, leave it to deever said:

    Not doing much. Hes not alone. Hello  anb...omac...harmes..weid...jones...tomilison.

     

     

    Sounds like all the demonland topic chickens coming home to roost

    Re    Discussion on Jones, ANB, Oscar, Goody, Richardson and the Club itself.

    6 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    There goes our percentage too. 
     

    Sadly I think thats the least of our worries

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    1 minute ago, Moonshadow said:

    Hard to understand why we brought Harmes in. He's done Nadia

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    Horse giving a masterclass in how to coach

    Badly outcoaching Goodwin atm. Knows every move in the book today. A lot of this is on the players too but wow structurally we are awful.

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    It's just so sad to watch Jonesy out there.

    He's just no longer up to it. Give the guy a break and "manage" him out of the side.

    Please.


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