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This seasons gone. Sorry but too many passengers.

At least seven players to drop but nobody to replace them.

We know who they are.

Why Jvr was dropped I guess I'll never know.

Why did Goody play Petty fwd and then just chuck in?

Time for the cricket at least.

 

How the [censored] is Harmes, Chandler, and ANB getting games... Don't remember the last goal either 3 kicked.

It wouldn't be an unpopular position to put pressure on the coaching staff to fix this [censored] absurd field and goal-kicking or get sacked. 

I ask anyone who thinks that's an overreaction to actually think about what's happening. A team with a core group between 25-27 won a flag two years and now it's going to be 2 years of wasted potential because there is no pressure to fix such obvious floors.

Never met a team built more for contested footy suck so bad at wet weather footy.

It’s almost like we keep losing the same way?? Like it could have been foreseen by somebody who is paid to learn such things? Or are we still learning them?

And fancy losing to GWS! A serious threat this year.

Ah well we’ll always have 2021. 

 

I love all the Instagram posts team snapping bananas from boundary - clearly not what training should be focused on - but fun for players.

Looks like the sexyland blow up statues at training have gone down, now everyone runs in an arc again, come on folks blow them back up so to speak......


Love them all but … If there were alternatives Pickett should be dropped. Harmes gone. Chandler also. Thought ANB put in actually. Forget BBB and TMac saving the forward line. At least Goody will identify that we are working hard on our forward line connection.

I’m so [censored] off right now. Goodwin is the absolutely the worst coach to win a premiership. With this list we should be gunning for multiple cups.  When the [censored] will he learn how to coach to the conditions and pick players that suit the conditions 

 
2 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

Newsflash - we won the Premiership in 2021

Derrrrrr I mean after that. Wasted 2 years since the premiership lost in its prime. Going in the wrong direction 

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It’s a very rare day I stop watching a game part way through but the writing was on the wall at the start of the third. Said to my family this is the same script I’ve seen before, and went off for a walk.

I’m actually embarrassed by our team at the moment and how we manage to loose the same way over and over again. It’s not like teams are doing different things to beat us each time, it’s the same thing!


Sorry WCW but we were awful today, and not a performance that can be justified for any reason. (Don’t even try Binny, haha). Evidence also suggests that our goal kicking coach needs some skills’ updating.  

Ladies and Gentleman.

It was a good “era” while it lasted. But even with Oliver back. We aren’t doing any damage in September.

Too many passengers. The wet just makes it more obvious who they are.

 

ANB (I can’t defend this guy anymore)

Chandler should hav been dropped 2-3 weeks ago.

Smith- Isn’t the answer.

Melksham being picked as the sub shows how good our “depth” is. I couldn’t think of a worse player to have as the sub in these conditions.

Langdon- Having no impact.

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Supporting the club feels really futile when we produce the spectacular own goal of selling that game to the NT government, making it a 50/50 contest, and then losing it.


1 minute ago, Floody100 said:

I said it at the start of the year & I’ll say it again. I don’t ever want to see Ben Brown in a Demons outfit ever again.

Wasn't the reason we lost, competed well in the conditions and actually lead to the ball and bought it to ground. Need him in with jvr. Max and Grundy resting forward is a big issue. Don't lead and we just bomb it to them

3 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

What did Joel Smith do today?

Think he was supposed to be on haynes !!!

Didn't do very good job, everytime ball come in, haynes was on his own with smith out back 

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Same selection mistakes. Same disposal errors. Same bombing into the F50 with no structure. Are we the only team that doesn’t even try to create/find a leading target inside the forward line?

We need 2 genuine tall forwards, not one plus an ineffective ruck/forward and an ineffective Joel Smith. He needs to go back to Casey so we can at least try a half conventional forward setup. And Max/Grundy needs a rethink.


2 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

I don’t like watching Melbourne anymore. This past month has been excruciating. 

Was a time I’d watch the replay of every one of our games  2/3 times. 
Hasn’t been many I’ve rewatched this year. 
Maybe it’s expectation, but what we dish up week after week is [censored]

5.15 is a bad score but a good song by The Who.

 

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1 minute ago, Bates Mate said:

Haven't been Melbourned yet. Get them in. bowey , Salem anyone with skill forward please.

 

BBB did ok considering the conditions want to see him with jvr and gawn Grundy leading to positions our main forwards are not. It's basic forward play. 

 

You are kidding BBB was woeful apart from maybe 2 slick handballs early. I don't totally blame him as he should not have played in the conditions.

 

If anyone thinks Smith is AFL standard they don't know anything about football. Complete waste of space & let Haines run off him all game. Why Goodwin played him ahead of JVR is a disgrace. We will not make top 4 & will struggle to stay in the 8 at this rate.

ANB misses target by 15m in the last 2 min -  great effort as always but he contributes to our poor fwd line connectivity


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