58 minutes ago, Red But Mostly Blue said:

Lindsay (a rare shining light) injured, and humiliated by a mid-tier team on our home deck in our ‘response’ game.

We’re an unskilled, uninspired rabble playing boring, lifeless footy.

Anyone have any positives to share ??

Please?🙏

Wish I could help. It's hard to swallow this type of performance. Last week was clearly no abberation

My tax return was a lot better than anticipated.

I’ll try keep it positive great game by Langford, despite everything else going on today he never gave up and cracked in all day. If all our senior players could say the same we might not be in this predicament

Aside from the first 15 or so minutes where we looked to control the ball across half back and generated multiple slingshot opportunities on turnover that were ruined by poor entries from the likes of Viney again, it was a listless and aimless performance. I could wear a loss if we played with dare and to a plan, but we deviated from it pretty much immediately.

After the first quarter it became a long down the line game, and players fumbled, dropped chest marks, missed easy targets by hand and foot, and generally looked totally bereft of confidence. It was bizarre how quickly we lost confidence, I can only assume all is not well behind closed doors, because it was our leaders leading from the front with all these basic errors.

We're in trouble. Next week could be 186 ugly. We've already dropped our heads once this year.

57 minutes ago, Hopeful Demon said:

JVR has completely forgotten how to lead.

I had so much hope for this bloke. Revelled in the collective cry of roooo.

No feel like it should be boooo.

He's young but is this season four?

Went backwards last year but gave him the benefit of doubt.

Worse this year. Poor chap. He's no Curnow that's for sure.

8 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

2022 was retirement gift for Selwood and 2023 was $$$$$$$ for the AFL. We weren't winning either of them.

2023 was lost on injuries to forwards and poor set shot kicking. There was no conspiracy, we just had bad luck and kicked ourselves out of two finals.

Melksham plays against Collingwood and we win, then I'm confident we would've handled GWS.

Any word from Goodwin's presser?

It's been a long time since I knew from the first five minutes or so we had close to zero chance of winning.

The midfield has gone from brilliant to a concerning to catastrophically bad in the space of four years. Everything else is a mess - but it all starts with the midfield.

37 minutes ago, Beetle said:

I’m 10 pints deep, my phone is blowing up and preparing to walk home from the G topless to avoid the embarrassment and ridicule

How good’s being a Melbourne supporter.

Keep drinking, not nearly enough to numb the pain.

We should get BWS or Dan M as our sponsors.

Simon Goodwin is fighting for his coaching career now.

That was a pathetic performance against the Suns!

26 minutes ago, 3183 Dee said:

Just got back - that was absolute garbage from start to finish. I would say only Bowey, Chin and maybe Henderson and Langford got pass marks.

Skills are atrocious, really really bad. We played like The Dog and Duck today and made a not very good Gold Coast look brilliant.

I have a hunch that something is not right within the four walls - I have nothing to base this on, other than watching a team that looks completely disconnected from each other. And this is supposed to be a group that has ‘healed’ and ‘full of love for one another’? Give me a spell.

Also - this new system we’re trying? I can’t even tell what it is, unless it’s to lull the opposition into a false sense of security about how bad we are, and hope to jag a few goals when their guard is down.

Can’t wait for the press conference: “there are certainly areas we need to get better at.”, “not up to the level”, “well done to Gold Coast”, “beaten in all phases”. Tick them off the list.

The buck has to stop with Goody now - granted, he’s not out on the field, but he is in charge of this rabble.

That's what I believe. In fact that's what I hope is the explanation. We have to hope some of the players want to lose to force the club's hand. We really have to hope we'll never be they bad again

Well what a sobering experience. I thought we’d be top 8 and push for top 4 this year. Pre season seemed to be going well yet we hit round 1 with some key players missing.

We need elite talent; not having Windsor and Kolt hurts - with XL and Harvey they are the future.

I’d expected much more from Clarry and Trac - though after Rd 1 I was pretty upbeat - that was a quality game.

Then these last 2 weeks happened. Simply slaughtered around the ball and centre bounce - from there we ain’t good enough to sling shot 50 times a game to score.

Where to now? No idea - but I’ll be there supporting. About to buy tickets to the Cats game with my boys - Kozzie is back, go Demons!

5 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

Aside from the first 15 or so minutes where we looked to control the ball across half back and generated multiple slingshot opportunities on turnover that were ruined by poor entries from the likes of Viney again, it was a listless and aimless performance. I could wear a loss if we played with dare and to a plan, but we deviated from it pretty much immediately.

After the first quarter it became a long down the line game, and players fumbled, dropped chest marks, missed easy targets by hand and foot, and generally looked totally bereft of confidence. It was bizarre how quickly we lost confidence, I can only assume all is not well behind closed doors, because it was our leaders leading from the front with all these basic errors.

We're in trouble. Next week could be 186 ugly. We've already dropped our heads once this year.

I also could have worn a loss Adam if we showed some development in the way we moved the ball and showed some kind of progress. The fact that we basically continued the skill level of last week into this week means that the problem is bigger than any one offs.

I'm gonna say this and if I get scolded than so be it.

Are there too many off field issues? I know there have been personal problems and I sympathize. But are some players just spoilt? Or perhaps too far removed from most peoples reality?

Sure it's a pressure industry but the perks are pretty damn good. Cars, glamour million dollar salaries, free all expense paid oseas trips, sponsorships up the wazoo, models and fancy clothes and restaurants.

How about living in the real world wondering as an 58 year old man when you can replace the baby bum tyres on your wives car or pay the premium on the fire insurance. Or even the repayment on the mortgage or the weekly rent for the caravan you live in. Or if you have a job tomorrow?

Deal with those for a couple of weeks. Live in the real world for a month and see if your footy gets better.

I've had my rant. Thank you. Perhaps it's time I give footy a rest for the sake of my sanity and that I don't hurt anyone's ears here.

Edited March 29Mar 29 by leave it to deever

I’ve been a Goodwin supporter and no doubt the issues aren’t all to do with him, but I think this side needs a new voice.

Very happy I’m on a golf trip in Swan Hill so missed the game today….

Very flat. Has there been any word on Lindsay? I love that guy already so flat he will miss potentially the season.

Goodwin used to say contest & defence is our DNA & we won a flag , what’s our DNA now?? Do the players know? You reap what you sow, Schache, Hunter, Fullerton, Billing’s, Grundy, Mccadam, vs what we left, Bedford, Jordan, Harmes Jackson , hunt , weiderman, how have we improved our list???

Edited March 29Mar 29 by Demonsone

Wow that was our response after getting belted last week. Imagine if we lost last week by 100points!!

Great team effort. Score speaks volumes for the team and coach.

Onevfinal thing.

I believe Gws are a very good side. Based on last year's metrics.

Where do Nth M. and Gcs for in the scheme of things?

What happens when we play like this v a powerhouse.?

Felt we were underprepared for the season right from the outset.

No CEO.

Silence on Caulfield flattening.

Injuries and unavailability

Just an unprofessional mess.

Think we might be about to eat into our Bentleigh Club capital.

https://youtu.be/kyxKSEOg2iQ?si=sVc3hA-rpaNRykAi

Bailey Smith will run rings around us next week

49 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

We do have to acknowledge that Pickett, McVee, Windsor and Lindsay being out all at once is a disaster. We are so devoid of pace and skill and almost all of it on our list sits with these four.

But again, that says as much about our list management as anything. With them out, we’re running with Howes and Billings (neither are good enough), AJ and Sharp (really honest goers but not really at the level, at least not yet), and are carrying players horrendously out of form/confidence in Fritsch, JVR, Rivers and Viney. And calling on Spargo, Woewodin and Laurie isn’t going to help.

But with Trac, Oliver, Gawn, May, Melksham in the side, you shouldn't have to rely on those blokes.

We can say Goody, Gameplan and all that. But where is the leadership from our senior players? The talk about Bright, Love and Connection is all totally BS and is now embarrassingly so, going to come back and bite us hard. The Culture statements last year, is now the Love and Connection this year.

We are club without leaders on every single level. From the boardroom down to the playing list.

Oh boy

Our so called super stars have no effort anymore time to start dropping them and just play some kids that actually want to be there and will try half our team does not deserve to be out there at least just do something so [censored] over this [censored]