It actually doesn't matter who the [censored] is in our forward line at the moment with the way the ball comes in. 

It's been happening for years and we lose in the same way and have for two years. Even in our flag year, the games we lost were just the same. 

1 minute ago, McQueen said:

F50 connection is woeful. 
Can’t get reward for effort without the ability to give your forwards more opportunity for set shots.
 

It’s just very broken. 

Spot on.
 

This has been a constant criticism (apart from a premiership year) of us since 2018.

3 minutes ago, BW511 said:

I know ANB gives a lot to our game plan with his running but he’s the ultimate ‘almost’ man. 
 

Almost has a decent game, almost kicks a goal, almost picks the ball up, almost gets rid of the ball in a tackle, almost takes a mark. 

 

Sad part is most of his team mates are the same and he wasn’t our worst tonight. Petty, Jordon, Chandler, Gawn and others had absolute shockers and would get dropped if the selection committee selected based on form and output. 

Time to bring back Brown & Melksham. Goodwin has killed our forward line with inconsistent midgets that can't kick straight.

2 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

This loss means nothing in the context of our season. But bloody hell it’s hard to understand what we are doing sometimes. 
Our forwardline is a disaster. We kicked big scores early in the season playing appalling opposition. But the reality is that between our mind boggling ball use, and our lack of marking power up forward, we are going to struggle in September. Why just why didn’t we put Petty forward the minute Cameron was taken off?

Just pray it’s a dry September. 

Every loss and win dictates your ladder position so to say it means nothing in the context of the season actually makes zero sense. 

Of course it means something. But it doesn't mean everything 

16 minutes ago, adonski said:

The biggest challenge of Tim Lamb's list management career coming up - finding a club that will take on Angus Brayshaw's contract

Welcome to the club!!! Wasn’t a hard challenge when he was a free agent last year.

Don’t forget he has value, he can butcher the ball in 3 different positions!

Lamb’s real challenge:

- a key forward
- 2 wings
- a midfielder with pace
- a mid/forward who can kick

Seriously are we the fumbliest team in the AFL?

We waste so much ball it’s not funny

Really good sides have much better touch than that surely?

2 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

This loss means nothing in the context of our season. But bloody hell it’s hard to understand what we are doing sometimes. 
Our forwardline is a disaster. We kicked big scores early in the season playing appalling opposition. But the reality is that between our mind boggling ball use, and our lack of marking power up forward, we are going to struggle in September. Why just why didn’t we put Petty forward the minute Cameron was taken off?

Just pray it’s a dry September. 

I just hope we are there in September!. Need plenty of luck and tough decisions with a few forwards.

Just now, JimmyGadson said:

Every loss and win dictates your ladder position so to say it means nothing in the context of the season actually makes zero sense. 

Of course it means something. But it doesn't mean everything 

I think you understand what I mean. It’s not going to be the reason why we win or lose a flag. 

I assume Jefferson is still a few years off? We desperately need a quality marking forward who hits the scoreboard. It’s a real shame Larkey re-signed at North as he would’ve been perfect. Are there any other realistic options out there? Himmelberg is not worth 900k so he’s out.

1 minute ago, Docs Demons said:

What smalls. Have we any?

How many intercept marks did geel take tonight in the wet?  Bit hard for Smalls to be effective in that display 

Not wanting to shoot Bambi, but Gawn’s effort in the wet has been disappointing this year. We need him to fight harder. 

Just now, Lord Travis said:

I assume Jefferson is still a few years off? We desperately need a quality marking forward who hits the scoreboard. It’s a real shame Larkey re-signed at North as he would’ve been perfect. Are there any other realistic options out there? Himmelberg is not worth 900k so he’s out.

Turn Ben McKay into a forward? Can’t be worse than his brother at kicking goals

Edited June 22, 20231 yr by Jaded No More

They will find a way to ping Hunter for Rowans hit on Cameron. 

Discraceful and again too many passengers.  Goodwin is too arrogant with selection.  Tomlinsons ommission utter [censored]. 

Too many living off past glory and Brayshaw is a liability by foot.  He will never be captain.  His disposal is D grade. 

4 minutes ago, Bates Mate said:

100% can't win in September with those two as your main talks. Get BBB in for starters

bbb is done. people need to move on.

The team selections was the start of a bizarre domino effect.

Selecting a completely underdone Petty who's missed 6 weeks of footy and not made to go through the VFL over an in form player in Adam Tomlinson is an absolute disgrace. This selection completely stifled our defence which has looked it's best the last few weeks. 

Not only that, we keep a very vanilla player in James Jordon who btw has hopefully played his last game for the dees (needs to look elsewhere) in the team over Jake Bowey who would have added speed, kicking skills and metre gain in the wet.

To make matters worse, he selects Charlie [censored] Spargo as a sub who was absolutely ineffective. The role of the sub is to use your players that come in and make a significant impact, not select slow midget small forwards. 

Why does Goodwin feel he needs to play the same players every single week when they're either badly out of form or not made to earn their spot? This is deja vu from last year. Playing the same boring soliders once again and not rewarding form.

Onto the game:

The forward set up tonight was an absolute mess. We reverted back to our old ways of just bombing it onto the heads of Pickett, Chandler and ANB who were playing on much taller defenders.  We had no tall forward as last get out kick. I'm done with Stafford, he needs to go.

We tried to play too cute in the wet. I was tearing my hair put that we were trying all these Hollywood handballs whilst Geelong played the percentages and just got the ball forward as quick as possible. Our ball movement was incredibly slow in wet conditions. 

I love Hibberd, but lets be realistic, he got taught a lesson by Gary [censored] Rohan.. thanks Hibbo, but retirement is coming your way at the end of the year.

Brayshaw is a turnover slob

ANB is a 🥔 in the wet and high pressured games. Just handed all the momentum to them on a platter.

Very disappointing performance. They were missing Dangerfield, Cameron and Guthrie and we still could beat them.

2 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

This loss means nothing in the context of our season. But bloody hell it’s hard to understand what we are doing sometimes. 
Our forwardline is a disaster. We kicked big scores early in the season playing appalling opposition. But the reality is that between our mind boggling ball use, and our lack of marking power up forward, we are going to struggle in September. Why just why didn’t we put Petty forward the minute Cameron was taken off?

Just pray it’s a dry September. 

Whoa whoa hang on uno momento por favour.. Seriously why didn't we do that? He was more likely to get shown up for being underdone down back, all he really had to do up front was make a contest.

 

What's with the blind overhead handballs? Fumble, fumble, fumble!! Turnovers galore, inside 50 kicks to no one in position. No small fwds anywhere near the drop. Out-positioned time and time again. Slack, almost token tackles, loose and lost opponents. 

So not Demons, but so Melbourne!

Edited June 22, 20231 yr by DemonicFinalFantasy

11 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

Gawn 1 mark for the game in the last minute of play. Worst game from him in a long time. 

Been lamenting on his  performance in 21 to this year. A few others too just so much different this season.

I hate our weekly nonsense with forward setup. It's a failure. 

3 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Welcome to the club!!! Wasn’t a hard challenge when he was a free agent last year.

Don’t forget he has value, he can butcher the ball in 3 different positions!

Lamb’s real challenge:

- a key forward
- 2 wings
- a midfielder with pace
- a mid/forward who can kick

I've never understood your wing obsession...but agree with the rest 

Gawn is getting around like a big sook…Goodwin is playing his favourites and nothing will change..And he’ll say in the presser we will go back and have a look and we will learn from this..F$$& pathetic..

 

16 minutes ago, Stiff Arm said:

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!

 

Where are they now? A few were happy to shut us down when this was raised as a significant concern after the Carlton game.

Gone MIA it seems.

What’s the point of 2 gun rucks …zero goals between them ..  fwd line expecting Jvr & smith to kick a winning score???