The Demons have slumped to 0 and 2 for the first time in 6 years after a lackluster and error riddled loss to the Kangaroos by 59 points at Marvel Stadium.

Goody said we might experience some ‘teething’ problems early in the season. 
Reckon we might be looking for our dentures.

We looked so slow

I don't read replies or reactions 

 

Thanks for coming.

So how did we go guys. Big win I guess. 

This will be pleasant 😂

Didn’t make the game as I’m sick. If I was healthy the game would have made me sick.

 

Good effort from Chandler and clarry.

 

not many positives to get out of this game, GC now a huge game. Get on down and support the lads 

I just don't see Goodwin taking us forward, we've slowly but steadily regressed year on year since the premiership.  I don't see him adapting, and I think he's too close to the players to make the hard choices that need to be made.  And there are definitely hard choices ahead based on this game. 

I'm officially moving to the Goodwin has to go camp as of this, admittedly helped along by how much I absolutely hate Norf.

Quick thoughts:
- Nobody played well (No Chandler PR please)
- Count the broken tackles and fine them a $1000 for each one. 
- Count every turnover that led to a scoring shot and fine them a $1000 for each one ($2000 if Comben was the one who intercepted it)
- Count every attempted fend off or shrug off that didn't break the tackle and fine them a $1000 for each one.
- Gawn can't 1 man ruck anymore
- 4 seasons with no key forward trades
- I'm so glad we traded our first round pick for no reason
- Why Langford is omitted for Spargo/Woewodin I'll never know

All money accumulated from fines can go to Jim Stynes foundation. Season's over and it's round 2 but what did anyone expect. Our premiership hopes relied on a forward line of Daniel Turner and Jacob Van Rooyen.

Whale oil beef hooked. Soccer training doesn't win AFL games. Who knew?!?

This time last week I was proud.  This week I’m embarrassed to the core!

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1 minute ago, greenwaves said:

I don't read replies or reactions 

Neither does our midfield 

Nothing has changed from last season 

only Rd 2 so we can regroup but I’m not confident we can turn this around. We’re just too old slow and poorly skilled 

shout out to chin who was excellent and the only positive from the day 

 

I wouldn't be too worried. We looked flat today and put it down to block periodisation and loading for our run into September.

You'll never have a hope in hell playing that game style and executing skills at sub-par levels. 

Call it for what it is, that was a dog's breakfast. 

A truly dire performance from start to finish. Our coach is clueless, our list is threadbare and our players are lacking in skills, game sense and heart.

We've won 5 of our last 17 games and look every bit a bottom 3 side. 

Lessons incoming…

I can excuse almost everything. All teams can have an off day. But we 100% yielded to a bottom 4 team.

We are not defined by one match, but today we were pea hearts and I don’t know what we can say about that at the beginning of the season. Round 2. After all the pow wows and culture and what not. All talk. 

I just bought a membership for my little one. So good. 

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Midfield way more of an issue than forwards 

Smashed at stoppages, murdered on transition

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Lindsay was good

Oliver can hold his head up

Chandler's best game for a long time

Struggling after that!

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5 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Goody said we might experience some ‘teething’ problems early in the season. 
Reckon we might be looking for our dentures.

We have a bad case of trench mouth

10 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

I will kick us off.

What a surprise our forward line is a problem AGAIN. 

YOU DONT HAVE TO BE EINSTEIN TO SEE THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM AGAIN THIS SEASON. 

For the love of god get Tom Hawkins down there even on a part time basis as a forwards coach to help our forwards learn wtf to do. His commentary was good to listen to. 

Gawn needs help, flogging him in every game is going to kill him. 

WAKE UP MELBOURNE AND FFS WAKE UP GOODY. 

0 - 2 to start the season 🤮 and we just got beat by Norf!!!!

Pressure is mounting. 

BTW Chandler was excellent today.

Don’t think it was just the forward line today, yep they were poor but the bombing into F50 where they had the extra number was dumb, Gawn and the midfield overall got absolutely pantsed

Losing happens. You can’t win every game in a competitive competition.

However, we have lost the same way for 3 years… we have no forward half structure or connection, there is zero cohesion it really is a rabble. 

I could take us losing if we lost trying to play a different style but it’s literally been the same [censored] for 3 straight years.. it’s really the square block in a round hole kind of approach and that solely falls onto the footy department and coaching staff, led by Goodwin. He simply cannot front another media conference and spin his [censored]. We have had enough learnings, we are simply just too far behind the 8 ball in game plan. We have wasted the prime of the careers of some very very good players, lucky we fluked a flag I guess along the way. A flag might I add that no one could go to.

 

That was arguably our single worst performance since Paul Roos' last game as coach.

The scary thing is that I don't even think North were that good. We were just absolutely atrocious on every front. We constantly fumbled, turned it over and failed to stick simple tackles. Our inability to hit a target in the f50 was comical.

I really don't know what year we are in for. All the confidence I gained after the GWS game is gone.