Garry Lyon:

"This is such a Melbourne thing to do."

Yep.

That quarter was one of the worst I’ve ever seen us play. Ever. 

From the first 5 seconds when Salem got caught HTB we have been off. Nothing to do with coaching, the players have [censored] the bed when finals beckon. Weak [censored]

summed up perfected by our ‘leader’ Jones not having the balls to kick a 30m goal we desperately needed

Most good teams would stop the bleeding that quarter and at least nick a goal. We just smash the dreams into a thousand pieces and go into cardiac arrest. 5 goals to none. Again.

Depressingly predictable. 

Hindsight is 20/20 vision but as soon as I heard that we had a strong wind first quarter, immediate thought was that we'd be outsmarted here.

 

This is our worst half for the year. Disgusting play on all aspects, can’t give a pass mark to anyone but Max who was starting to give us first use finally towards the end of the quarter. 

Jones made a big error last week that almost cost us, this week he had three golden chances to make amends and he stuffed them all. What the hell was he thinking playing on from that set shot????

I’ve been a defender of Oscars for a while at times but I can’t defend him now. Spud. He shouldn’t be playing anyway, I didn’t understand the decision to keep him in the team. 

Meanwhile a team that has been crap all year, we are making them look like premiership contenders. 

1 minute ago, Moonshadow said:

Game over

Lost at the selection table. What a bunch of soft unaccountable marshmallows from coach down. Rather have a giraffe running around in defence. Oscar and Co go join the circus.

Selection killed us once again.

Bring in one spud in Joel Smith only to leave the other plonk in Oscar McDonald against a nimble Sydney forward line.

That vision of the last minute showing our players jogging around was damning. They’re pathetic. 

That's about as bad a first half as I've seen. Eerily similar to the Port game.

We're being shown up by the titans of footy in 2020 - the bloody Swans! What the hell!? 

The teams below us must love it. They know they can have a crack at a spot in the 8 while we're in there!

And we wonder why we're not taken seriously as a club? We've got no heart. And the rare times that it does beat, it is short-lived and replaced by dead silence. We're a club that needs to be resuscitated by accumulated disgust from its members and Board. 

Let's see if we grow some balls and a little heart in the second half (we're going to need it given the predicament we've put ourselves in!), but I won't hold my breath.

I've seen this movie before and know how it ends.

Pathetic.

Same same, turnover, kick to out number just crap.

What is the definition of stupidity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  

Losing culture

Edited September 3, 20205 yr by drdrake

And now watch the smarter team flood back in the third quarter.............ffs

 

SUPERGLUE HARMES TO LLOYD

SIMILAR JONES TO KENNEDY

DO IT!!!

OMac Smith Lever Wagner Harmes Jones Fritsch

team of duds who get games on the back of poor games. Not one of these players has played a “good” game all season yet continue to get selected. 

It's heartbreaking going for a team with such universally poor skills.

There's just no way this current crop can ever be consistently good, that's our reality for a long time to come.

...and just shocking vision of lack of pressure and chase today.  

Now cue the morons 'why does Garry Lyon always bag us'?

4 minutes ago, Nelo said:

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

Our top 10 have been pathetic

Just now, stranga said:

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. 

He stands off his man and rarely gets touch unless it's a long bomb near the goal square.  One of the worst defenders outside the hot zone with any half reasonable athletic opponent who has a tad bit of toe/break away burst.  He's awful and i would be going through him on the lead as much as possible if i was the opp.  I would even switch to get it there as it will pay off most of the time as long as that forward has his kicking boots on.

Yet Goody keeps on keeping on.  Amazeballs.

Depression =  deepression 

Disaster = deesaster 

Disappointing = Deesappointing 

Face it people. Nothing has changed in over 50 years, it’s not going to now or anytime soon. 
We are a soft soft soft club. 

How predictable. 

Poor opponent, finals on the line, everything to play for.

No energy, no passion, lifeless, heartless, dumb. 

Even if we win from here, there are alarm bells everywhere.

 

Message to Jones.

We love you're 290+ games, but mate it's over.

Get your bag and the other one  (yes they're the two by the door).

The club (demonland club) has sprung for the uber for you and that gumpie Oscar to get outer here.

Try a new career removing tattoos.

How can you do anything in this game if you aren't willing to run hard? 

I thought we actually adjusted from the long bomb to the lowering of the eyes at the end of the first quarter, but we wasted too many chances in the first.

The second quarter was simply pathetic. We looked tired, lazy and totally lacking structure.

I really thought we'd play Smith forward and Harmes back, but incredibly we're trying Smith back again. He gets completely lost in the zone. You can see him in man's land. And when he's on someone he completely gets sucked to the ball, pushes far too high and gets done at the back.

Oscar and Smith almost handed them two easy goals. Oscar did hand them on easy goal. 

Jones kicking into the man on the mark when we desperately needed a goal to stem the tide. If it's on by all means, but get back over your mark.

Viney playing his rugby league again and being caught out in the zone a few really important times.

The midfield isn't working hard enough. Oliver and Petracca, don't leave it until the fourth again before you turn up, ala Bulldogs. 

This game won't necessarily decide the 8, but our guys are clearly mentally weak as a group.

I don't know how many times Goodwin and co have to hammer home the point of consistency, but they just don't get it.

I thought we'd drop the Freo game, but I was worried about this too. Whenever we look like we're moving in the right direction, this group switch off.

4 minutes ago, reynolds46 said:

What is wrong with this club?

It’s a Long Story

1 minute ago, Moonshadow said:

SUPERGLUE HARMES TO LLOYD

SIMILAR JONES TO KENNEDY

DO IT!!!

i would rather they superglue Jones to the bench