Out played whenever the rain stopped. Out marked in our forward half and out run in the finish. Very disappointing. ANB's last quarter fumble crucial.

Agree that Angus' disposal really hurts us. Handpasses only in future?

Edited June 22, 20231 yr by pitmaster

Lost at selection. Jordan should never be selected again – he's not up to it. Petty should have been selected forward. Tomlinson should have stayed in the team.

Imagine being a neutral and tuning into that 🤮

That was pathetic, still tried to handball in the wet.  Again we cannot play wet weather footy.  Smith had a couple of good weeks but that's his time done.

Petracca was well held and hid impact forward of the ball was stopped.  Geel played the conditions way better

I hate kardinia Park.

Sick of always playing there.

Still, twas on us that we lost.

 

Disgraceful loss. Controlled the game for most of the night. Dominated the stats and then soft as butter in the last. The forward pressure was trash, Spargo the sub non existent.

That's four weeks in a row where we've struggled to score more than 8 goals

Edited June 22, 20231 yr by PVardy

3 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

Disgraceful performance after a week off. Geelong even lost their best player a few minutes into the game. Fritsch will be suspended for next week too.

Petracca nailing his hardest shot for the night once the game was killed sums him up.

What did Fritsch do? I didn't think there was a careless or dangerous tackle 

Poor team selection and team effort.

a bunch of millionaires thinking they’re billionaires.

Wonder if Goody will finally concede that we have serious scoring problems.

Edited June 22, 20231 yr by Demon Disciple

Need to spend more time on basic football skills than playing golf. We follow a bunch of elite golfers that get paid to play sub-par football!

Our forward line is as useless as I've seen in the last 15 years. Returning to our favourite tactic of long bombs to 2 on 1 i50 doesn't help. Too many go missing and make appalling decisions

Oh, but I forgot the old chestnut "were the 3rd highest scoring side in the comp, so we must be good at scoring!" 

FMD!

 

1 minute ago, Jaded No More said:

No words for how badly we performed tonight. 
Cats without Dangerfield and Guthrie and lose Cameron in the first few minutes, and we just go on to play some of the dumbest, softest football we’ve dished up all year. 

We absolutely should not have dropped Tomlinson for Petty who was totally underdone. We needed someone to drag Stewart away from the contest, but instead we went too small and nobody was able to stop him intercepting. 

Spargo was a terrible choice of sub, not to mention that subbing him off for Jordon was just idiotic. 

Infuriating garbage. 

Goodwin using the 2018 coaching handbook in 2022.

We can't put good teams away and haven't since the 2021 Grand Final.

Huge offseason coming up.

Suspect we're entering the Grundy era now. Need more pace in the middle and need way more strength and height around the ground. 

We can’t get anywhere near the reward for effort for our F50 stuff with the debacle that it turns into once we look like we’re about to score. 
 

Please Goodwin! Faaarkin sort it out!! I

Once more a game we gave up more than the Cats won it. If we can't fix the forward line and fix it fast we will have blown another season.

We that our worse final quarter for the year.

Chris Scott masterclass -  pulled apart our slow predictable football and Goody had no response.  Surely hard questions need to be asked of the coach who’s been smashed yet again

Kate Roffey and Gary Pert need to tell the AFL never put us in that ground again 

Good old learnings as our coach loves to say. 🥲

3 minutes ago, DemonWA said:

Lost a scrappy dog fight. 

Not usually one to pot ANB but his fumble was a real sliding doors moment. 

Id say the gawn dropped mark was more so

1 minute ago, ElDiablo14 said:

What did Fritsch do? I didn't think there was a careless or dangerous tackle 

critical moment wasn’t it? I thought it was going to HTB. We never got to see that replayed.probable  2 goal turn around. 

What a horror show! I know conditions weren't great, but against a Cats team without Dangerfield and Cameron we produced errors galore, hardly any midfield craft, uncharacteristic defensive muddles and constant unproductive long bombs into an inaccurate forward line. And apart from Oliver and the unlucky Tomlinson, that was virtually the best 22 we can muster. It does not bode well for September unless we can fix some glaring problems.

Edited June 22, 20231 yr by Dee-monic

2 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

We've kicked 14.33 in our last two games.

Since this article https://www.sen.com.au/news/2023/05/03/the-stats-behind-melbournes-freakish-accuracy-in-front-of-goal-in-2023

 

We've kicked 73.93

Thought it was a good contest. We looked cooked in the last and it effected skill. Credit to Geelong for winning, credit to the umpires for their consistency (consistently terrible) and credit to GMHBA (whatever that is) for sticking their/its name on a dung heap. I can't imagine we'll have to play there again next year 😑

Edit: I really hope Jeremy Cameron is alright

Edited June 22, 20231 yr by AmDamDemon

Yuk!

3 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

No words for how badly we performed tonight. 
Cats without Dangerfield and Guthrie and lose Cameron in the first few minutes, and we just go on to play some of the dumbest, softest football we’ve dished up all year. 

We absolutely should not have dropped Tomlinson for Petty who was totally underdone. We needed someone to drag Stewart away from the contest, but instead we went too small and nobody was able to stop him intercepting. 

Spargo was a terrible choice of sub, not to mention that subbing him off for Jordon was just idiotic. 

Infuriating garbage. 

Felt like Stewart had a million intercept possessions.

Now it's all well and good for us to say it, we're just idi0ts from the armchairs but hopefully the coaches see it.

The last month of forward craft is disgusting. 

Chin needs a spell. Can’t expect the world of JVR. Smith quiet after Stewart rolled onto him.

Gawn is a shadow of his former self and we should drop him in the defensive half he has no business in the forward line. When was his last goal / mark ??? It’s a failed experiment. 

This was the game we just had to win for top 2. I expect to lose to GWS next week and slip out of top 4.

Surely, surely they gotta make a play at a big forward during trade week.

Otherwise its more of the same in 2024, a waste of the best midfield and defence we've had in 50 years