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2 minutes ago, Buzzy said:

'We'll learn from this'?

Have we not been 'learning' how to deliver inside 50 for about 10 years now?

SOME OF THE THINGS I HATED TODAY :

  • 'Senior' players sh*tting themselves and serving up absolute TRIPE inside 50 all day.
  • Sparrow looking like a scared little kid and not having the guts to go the torp.  Too terrified to fail.  Needs a spell until he can at least pretend to be confident footballer, because he looks incredibly nervous 
  • Lack of pressure in the midfield at every centre clearance 
  • We've gone back to panicked handballs to guys under even more pressure
  • Millionaire football, holding on to the ball and thinking we're going to walk through tackles.  Arrogant as hell.
  • Bayley Fritsch just coasting around all day after losing a contest and not getting involved again.  No 2nd efforts.
  • Weideman. Have backed him from the start but that was just a flaccid soulless effort all day.  And Ben Brown ain't it.

Now every team can be confident they're in with a shot against us.

 

 

At least BBB will lead at the ball carrier. 

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1 minute ago, Axis of Bob said:

Meh, we played badly and lost. It happens in a long season.

The SCG very much didn't help us. 

I believe we chose that ground, as opposed to the AFL forcing it on us.

We will have done so for the money, given there were 20,000+ there and I doubt that many would have gone out to Giants Stadium. And that was the right call given how much money we've lost from these two home games having to be shifted.

But it's arguable that it's cost us the game today.

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3 minutes ago, Soidee said:

Well that was predictable.  A total failure of all involved from coaches to players.  We certainly know how to embarrass ourselves on the big day.  All we will hear for next week is Buckley Buckley Buckley !  

I feel like all I’ve heard the past 30 years is “Buckley Buckley Buckley!”

we lost the game of footy, but today was a win for footy.

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48 minutes ago, Jack7 said:

Still mentally P1ssweak!!!

 

No Flag this year

 

 

11-2 suggests otherwise, coming back against the Lions, beating all top 8 teams thus far...

Understand as MFC supporters  we have history of crumbling, lets hope just bump in the road.

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3 minutes ago, Jjrogan said:

Fun reading the meltdowns on here.  

Two of our greatest strengths have been our structure covering wide open expanses and our running fitness levels in last quarters.  Scg takes both out of the equation.

Play that game again at the mcg and i'd say its not a scrap and clog fest it seemed to be on the telly.  Just an awful ground for AFL. 

 

 

It was our choice to play there

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Not wrist slitting time, but definitely if you’ve got a heavy bag, I’d be giving it a decent workout.

No dare. No spark. And dumb, dumb football.
 

All credit to Collingwood. They played brilliantly and with the intensity you’d expect. Don’t take anything away from them.

However, our blokes (Clarry and Tracc, I’m looking at you) needed to play a meat and potatoes game when we were trying to play a caviar and Veuve Clicquot one. I thought that we’d lost the habit of trying to make every play a show time one? Apparently not.

That lackadaisical rubbish impacted all areas of the game. They could deliver into the forward fifty comfortably while we sent dump kicks forward. 
 

Our work besides Fritta’s assist to Nibbler was lamentable. Where was the talk? I counted three goals that we missed out on through absolutely hideous communication. 
 

I’m not one to rubbish players. I didn’t jump on the Melk hating bandwagon at its height as I know what he can bring (clean field kicking into the 50). However, Weid cannot get another game this year. What does he bring when he’s on? I struggle to identify it.
 

As @george_on_the_outersaid on the podcast, there is a difference between crashing packs and dropping marks. There is no follow up, no intent when the ball hits the ground. On a day when Tomald, Fritta and Kozzy were down, we couldn’t afford passengers. If he’s in after the bye, we aren’t serious.

I feel worse after this than I did after the Crows game. We at least had some contributors in that game. Today, we had too many blokes having the game figured out before they took the field.

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Just now, Demonsone said:

11-2 suggests otherwise, coming back against the Lions, beating all top 8 teams thus far...

Understand as MFC supporters  we have history of crumbling, lets hope just bump in the road.

Yeah I agree, good start, but you cannot ignore those performances. Reeks of the West Coast final loss in 2018 where we threw the towel in before the game 

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All things considered, we’ve had a pretty bloody good start to the year. Let’s just chill out a bit, forget about today, enjoy the week off and then go out and win a flag. Woo go dees.

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19 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

My 2 observations:

1. If I was Buckley, I’d be furious. Where has that level of intensity been for them all year? I’ve seen a fair bit of their footy and their tackling intensity and ball use was horrific. They choose when to go, and it was us unfortunately. 

2. We looked very flat all game. Not clean, constantly fumbling, and not bringing our team mates into the game with first options. I don’t mind if the press come for us now. We need a rocket, and 2 weeks to reset and focus on what we want to be.

Great post THBT.

My takeout was the disgrace that the Pies team is , basically getting the coached sacked and turning up for his last game. Terrible and they should be embarrassed.

We'll go on and re-set to lock in a Top 4 after the bye, but some have been found out and there are some quality inclusions to come back, Viney, Ben or Mitch Brown, Jones - and sore layers get a rest - Salem , Oliver( clearly targetted today), Gawn, 

The system is proven in a scary way against absolute quality in Dogs and Lions.  But a good time now to be exposed in some areas now for second half season re-set.

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14 minutes ago, Bates Mate said:

Who'd you have in?

Ben Brown for weed and Melksham for sparrow...  I know Melksham gives people the [censored] but he can lower the eyes and hit a forward target

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27 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

Glad to have $ on the Pies

Same. I put $50 on them. But I’d gladly forego the money for a win today. ?

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Horrible. Outmarked, outkicked, outmatched. They went through us like we weren’t even there. Too many players holding the ball too long, weren’t doing our handballing game. And to lose to the filth. Just gutted.

One thing we can take from this is at least we won’t play Collingwood in the finals. I just hope each loss bring us closer to a win

 

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Next 2 games are critical. We need to win both, as Cats play Bulldogs, and Lions play Cats. Win those 2 and top 4 would appear a lock. I’ll forgive this one. Pies were always going to fire up, and we were awful. Not to be unexpected, given the great wins of the past 2 weeks. I’m not going to slash my wrists about today, we have the bye to regroup and reset. Which hopefully is what the team is thinking. We know they hate losing but today was collateral damage. And I will say it again, Sam Weideman needs to find another career.

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1 minute ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

Not wrist slitting time, but definitely if you’ve got a heavy bag, I’d be giving it a decent workout.

Ooh I’ve already given my heavy bag a pretty good workout so far this season!

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22 minutes ago, DubDee said:

We were off all game. Keen to get these ones out of system mid season and learn from it. 

second to ball, outnumbered at contests, making silly errors. 

anyone blaming individuals has no idea, the whole team blew this game

Couldn't agree more. A team effort wins and a team effort losses.

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3 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

It was our choice to play there

For sure. Not against the decision as revenue is important. And you learn from losses so maybe Goodwin and the coaching staff come away and think about how Collingwood was able to play the ground with a better system. A lot more scoring shots with similar ball numbers.  Admittedly a lot of players had off days too. 

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5 minutes ago, Juicebox said:

All things considered, we’ve had a pretty bloody good start to the year. Let’s just chill out a bit, forget about today, enjoy the week off and then go out and win a flag. Woo go dees.

This, times a bazillion 

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No reason for the ritual wrist-slashing as we lose to a lowly rival AGAIN, but when we play with so little intensity and energy I feel like throwing something at the TV.

But when we did get it, the dumb, dumb, dumb decisions in close gave the ball to the Pes midfield with annoying regularity.

And I can't stand Petracca's 2 step kicks that always miss their target - be it wide, long or short. Frustrate the c**p out of me.

And how many times in the last half did the Pies have a free player at half-forward, on his own, with no-one within 30 metres?

 

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