The loss we had to have ...

Premiership contenders don't lose to teams like Adelaide.    We might make a prelim but we wont win the flag.

The  Dogs and Lions will beat us the next two weeks.

 

A fabulous win for Adelaide and their umpires

so Melbourne to have that loss against a bottom team

next two weeks will be interesting

 

Was a great game pity we had to lose ?

Great game 

[censored] up in the end by disgraceful umpiring!

That loss has been a few weeks in the making IMHO. Its almost a relief to get it out of the way. I will be happy to split the next 2 games 50/50 and reset at the bye.

Not the end of the world.

Just get rid of deliberate and make it last touch all over the ground

Robbed!!!

 

Deliberate out of bounds,10 seconds to go

 

Umpire [censored] Himself!!!

3 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

Premiership contenders don't lose to teams like Adelaide.    We might make a prelim but we wont win the flag.

The  Dogs and Lions will beat us the next two weeks.

 

? lol calm down

1 minute ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Great game 

[censored] up in the end by disgraceful umpiring!

Umpiring was appalling 

Blatant HtB

Blatant deliberate 

Neither paid due to noise of affirmation 

Weid touch free last quarter. Mistake in hindsight dropping BBB.

Umpires would be proud getting their team over the line. 

That missed holding the ball call and missed deliberate were disgraceful. 

That was deliberate, not that it matters. We played like trash and deserved to lose that. We would have lost by more if not for Clarry.

Fancy losing to those posers. 1v 16. And with Tex kicking the winning goal.

I feel sick.

No more 'we get the job done despite being sloppy', we need to fix things for next week as the Doggies, and then Lions will not be as forgiving.

Maybe it's the loss we needed to have but gee we need to be a lot better.

3 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

Premiership contenders don't lose to teams like Adelaide.    We might make a prelim but we wont win the flag.

The  Dogs and Lions will beat us the next two weeks.

 

Tigers lost to Adelaide in 2017 and 2019.

Umpire calls aside we played very poorly from the first bounce. Goodness Steven May got absoluted bathed and it stuck out in that final term.

Edited May 22, 20214 yr by david_neitz_is_my_dad

Just now, John Crow Batty said:

Weid touch free last quarter. Mistake in hindsight dropping BBB.

Neither suited to hsitty entry like tonight 

Of course the AFL will say it was a wrong decision. 

Nothing that a steak and few beers won’t fix. 

Petracca needs to have a good hard look at himself

Bring your mouthguards.

We had a lot of chances going forward and didn't take them, so we shouldn't have given the opportunity for those late decisions to matter.

We played badly and they played well. Sometimes that happens. We missed Salem's presence behind the ball quite a lot.

To blame anyone but ourselves for that loss is to wallpaper over the obvious cracks that have been there since we beat Richmond. 
I hope this is the loss we had to have because boy did we play poorly for large chunks of that game. Oliver kept us in it,  but beyond that we had a really embarrassing amount of players who played like selfish millionaires. 
In footy you get out what you put in. We put in no effort for an hour. We’ve been getting away with it, but eventually your luck runs out. 
Salem is also basically our most important player. Our backline was exceptionally poor without him. He covers for the mediocrity of Hunt and Hibberd. 

Obviously, you don't want to be relying on those free kicks to win a game, but the holding the ball before Walker's goal and the deliberate out of bounds at the end were very poor.

Really missed Salem....our disposal from the back was poor