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I don’t know if I can bring myself to watch the second half. 
I am beyond exhausted 

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    Embarrassed 3 games in a row. Pitiful. Maybe the things the media has been saying and we’ve been denying are all correct. 

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    May and Tmac need to start digging the knee into the back of a few Pies. Both teams can be snipers. Let's stop playing nice, chasing football

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    1 minute ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    What's the opinion of those that felt it was unwarranted to criticise Goodwin? Premiership coach or not he is very accountable for all the bad this year and even 2023.

    Surely If they want to give him credit for 21 he deserves all the criticism for this to, has to go both ways. I’ve never personally liked him as a coach and think we could have done better but I’ll still be grateful for 21 the question is how much credit should he have in the bank 

    7 minutes ago, BDA said:

    Max and Tmac our best

    JVR our only forward

    Is Steven May drunk?

    I don't know WTF has happened to Clayton Oliver

    We look rotten

    Oliver is one player who is having a red hot go and winning plenty of the ball! Playing his best game for weeks! What game are u watching??

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    The Rev......  DO

    MFC.....   didn't , doesn't ....   we're DONE

    Sorry Neale :(

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    We are a bottom 4 side.

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    Melbourne deserve to lose by every point the final margin is today. 
     

    2014 Melb had more ticker tag these wet blankets. 
     

    must be loading eh @binman

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    We have one quarter to get back in this game. I’ve written us off many times and while we don’t look it from the first half - stranger things have happened. 

    It’s not down to personnel - it’s down to execution. We have too many players with too few skills by hand and foot. Happy to admit season is cooked if we lose this game. 

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    I can only assume our game plan is to build the stats with short kicks backwards and sideways, followed by the inevitable error that results in chain of useless handpasses and finally a blind handpass on to the chest of an opponent. By this time our defenders are 50 metres off their opponents and completely out of position. 

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    1 minute ago, 1858 said:

    11sec, couldn't hold on.

    With 45sec to go, twice kicking out of defence couldn't get either a mark or stoppage.

    I don't mind Goodwin as a person, I think he has a high EQ and don't buy any of the culture stuff but he has to go. He's derelict in his coaching duties.

    Diabolical gameplan and bog average list which has become way out of balance. Totally inept forward of centre.

    Contested ball and territory is all he has. Nothing about transition, conection, team rules, forward system.

    When our players get the footy they have to think about what they're going to do with it. When the Pies players get it they already know and are gone.

    Couldn't agree more. The culture from a player-focussed POV is there. The guys are happy and well-supported. From a competitive, elite sporting POV it is non-existent. Relying on a few guys who learned under Roos to drag us on their shoulders.

    Not at all surprised, some of you must have already forgot it was just 3 weeks ago we lost to west coast.

    What I cant believe Gawn doesn’t get a free in our forward line yet you touch curnows jumper umpire pays a free

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    2 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

    Apparently he’s a good bloke who the players love or some such garbage. 
     

    Ever since I read his text messages to Stephen Dank I’ve had him figured out. Takes a lot of other people considerable time to figure it out apparently. 

    What's the nature of those texts?

    4 minutes ago, Winners at last said:

    I feel sorry for those at the match, surrounded by filth people.

    Is my bet on the filth safe?

    It's not easy.

    Our midfield is second rate at the moment. Oliver has fallen off a cliff, Viney is a shell of what he was last year, and Sparrow is just BOG ordinary.

    And don't get me started on our forwardline.

    It's all looking really grim right now.


    8 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

    It's actually been a lot longer than that DD. We won the Premiership because (not only) we played with a great deal of dare. Each season since has seen less and less dare and wanting to adhere to a strict game plan. Consequently, we're always, always, always reactive rather than pro-active.

    I think you're right RTG

    Goodwin has coached every last drop of run, dare, creativity and skills out of this group.

    The game plan is SO strict and boring that as you say, they are now (mostly) just purely reactive robots and sit back hoping not to make mistakes or look bad.

    Either that or something's gone down off the field that we are yet to hear about.

    They over handball far too often and have no method in transition.

    It's just a conplete horror show, even against shizen oppo like the Eagles.

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    Just now, Demonsone said:

    Goodwin & the coaches have managed to destroy this midfield and the rest of the team , his pig headed approach of trying to turn defenders into fwds , had a midfield once feared to zero, how dobu attract to talent to this rabble 

    Rubbish the game changed all it did was show up a one paced midfield players with poor skill and execution, as for people blaming Petty and co watch the game, the pies always have at least one to two players around the fifty metre in there forward line we have every down the ground and that is why there is no flow into the forward line, it's gameplan pure and simple back to just bombing it in.

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    2 minutes ago, Garbo said:

    Surely If they want to give him credit for 21 he deserves all the criticism for this to, has to go both ways. I’ve never personally liked him as a coach and think we could have done better but I’ll still be grateful for 21 the question is how much credit should he have in the bank 

    To me his credit was spent after straight sets last year, again.

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    1 minute ago, KingDingAling said:

    Lost to West Coast, smashed by Freo, losing soundly to Collingwoods twos. Fans actually think we are a finals side. Not even close. Finals list, but coach has lost the players. Anyone who knows the game saw it weeks ago. I’d be interested to see what this list could do even this year, with a new coach. 

    I don't blame Goody for ten players not laying a single tackle for a half.

    Just weak and heartless.

     

    3 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    I don’t know if I can bring myself to watch the second half. 
    I am beyond exhausted 

    I am also sick and tired of being sick and tired

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    3 minutes ago, Pirlo said:

    It's over. We look like sisyphus. Rolling the stone up the hill. This club is uncompetitive at the moment. Its time for big change. The collective effort is there but pathetic efforts from guys like Bowey at the end there and McVee on Schultz epitomise that the standards being set are non-existent and it is killing the young players.

    When looking at uncompetitive players this year tbh Bowey and McVee are two of the last I'd pick. 

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    1 minute ago, picket fence said:

    Oliver is one player who is having a red hot go and winning plenty of the ball! Playing his best game for weeks! What game are u watching??

    Picket, surely even you can see Oliver is sloppy and spraying his handballs and kicks more often than not? He's fast turning into a B or C grade mid

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    Hard to pin point one individual but from a midfield perspective, McQualter has come in and confused the Fugg out of everything and everyone.

    We can't find simple avenues to goal, the amount of times we find ourselves in good positions on the field and can't connect a passage of play in our forward 50. It's actually laughable at this level.

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