For [censored] sake, just when the Cairns PTSD was starting to dissipate. Hobart re-enters the chat. 

1 minute ago, The heart beats true said:

Im very critical of Goodwin but this is purely about our midfielders not working hard enough. Oliver and Brayshaw need to lift a lot.

Playing Melksham in the midfield falls on Goodwin. Playing Baker also. Goodwin cannot go out there and play himself though, so the players largely have to take most the brunt. However, Goodwin hasn’t helped us much today. 

Why would you replace Viney when a soft outside player who can’t kick? Why not keep Gus and Ed on the wings and bring in Sparrow or Hunt as a direct replacement? Utter arrogance. 
Brown will take a while to warm up. He looks totally out of touch and misjudging the ball. 

Did you just see tomilson with his mobile phone in the change room??? Could be issues later in the week

One of the most frustrating things about being a Melbourne supporter is that we give the football watching world legitimate reasons to ridicule us. This is why. It’s not crazy to say we’re the only club who consistently offers up these opportunities. Unless we come out with something perhaps even more extraordinary, we ARE going to lose this game, and it COMPLETELY negates any argument that we are flag contenders. We simply can’t be. 

Arrogance on here and same on field.

Baker is not AFL standard.

Melksham awful.

Gawn has been dominated by Goldstein.

Oliver and Trac need to get a hold of the midfield. 

McDonald missing.

North not missing a kick.

I'm already walking to my car. [censored] frauds.

I feel we lost it as soon as it wasn’t relocating to Marvel. We can’t play on this ground. Full stop.

1 minute ago, KingDingAling said:

Playing Melksham in the midfield falls on Goodwin. Playing Baker also. Goodwin cannot go out there and play himself though, so the players largely have to take most the brunt. However, Goodwin hasn’t helped us much today. 

Baker should never play a game again.

4 minutes ago, ICU2 Jerry Jerry said:

Hibberd to cunnington. Kozzie in the middle, petracca fwd

 

I'd like to at least see that

 

Cunnington getting 400 possessions every time we play them is infuriating

Hibberds getting taught a lesson down back. 

They are out working us, pure and simple. Every time it hits the deck they are outnumbering us. They have been able to get heaps of uncontested possessions, just like teams traditionally have against us. They aren’t going anywhere, and this is going to be a massive scrap to try and get out of here with the points. So filthy.

Maxy just Taps it straight to the opposition , no wonder we are losing clearance 

Just now, Neitas bump said:

Did you just see tomilson with his mobile phone in the change room??? Could be issues later in the week

FFS...should know better. Can understand he was upset but should know better. On the positive even a suspension wouldnt affect him. 

1 minute ago, MurDoc516 said:

Baker is not AFL standard.

Melksham awful.

Gawn has been dominated by Goldstein.

Oliver and Trac need to get a hold of the midfield. 

McDonald missing.

North not missing a kick.

A good summary

Air could easily go out of the entire season if we can’t turn this around...

Just incredible that Melksham was named in the team.

Chandler, Sparrow and Bedford must be shaking their heads.

1 minute ago, Neitas bump said:

Did you just see tomilson with his mobile phone in the change room??? Could be issues later in the week

Could have been the authorised one. 
 

Is this game going to be a bit like Keating’s “recession we had to have”?

Just so soft and untrustworthy. 

I thought at worst North might drag us down to their level before we eventually imposed ourselves, similar to the hwaks game. But the truth is North are playing us off the park. They are ahead on merit and we don;t deserve anything out of this game from here. The only hope we have is if North choke but i can't see it happening. 

Max is having his worst game ever with plenty of others not far behind. Trac the only one who has fronted up. Credit to him. Fritsch and Kozzie have done ok as well. the rest have been deplorable.

Gross. 

Pathetic effort today. [censored] I hate norf so much.

21 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Hahahaha all you fools who thought this was going to be a smashing. Hahahaha you have learnt nothing from this joke of a club. 

Fair call. I'm one of those fools.

Edited May 2, 20213 yr by Better days ahead

9 minutes ago, P-man said:

Never completely place your trust in Melbourne. Not now. Not ever.

I still think we’ll win but Jesus we need about ten players to pull their finger out to pull this off.

It's people like you that are the problem. 'I still think we'll win'. Its a mindset like that that put us in this position to begin with. No idea which game you're watching but we're getting hammered all over the park. 

3 minutes ago, KingDingAling said:

Playing Melksham in the midfield falls on Goodwin. Playing Baker also. Goodwin cannot go out there and play himself though, so the players largely have to take most the brunt. However, Goodwin hasn’t helped us much today. 

Anyone else want to talk up Melksham?? He does not go anywhere near hard enough.Spargo has no tricks as I have said for a long time

 

2 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

I feel we lost it as soon as it wasn’t relocating to Marvel. We can’t play on this ground. Full stop.

No excuse , perfect conditions

Was really looking forward to winning this and bring on top. Now I’ve just accepted that we will lose and I’m just praying that it’s not a smashing