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How as a football club do you sell hope to the members and supporters still feeling it from the fresh hit of membership fees they've paid when you've effectively ended the season in the first month and have traded away your future first pick?

There's a lot of football to be played, is this going to be a lost season or do we actually have some kind of hope to salvage something from it?

Competitive for 3 quarters.

But do enough players want to bleed for the Demons jumper?

Our membership department must be a ghost town at the moment. Probably getting more abuse than membership enquiries.

How do we stem the bleeding at the Melbourne Football Club?

What can we do about our impotent forward line?

Why are we playing so poorly? Is it skill? Is it endeavour?

Will Simon Goodwin still be coaching the Demons next year in 2026?

Alot of serious discussions for the entire Melbourne Football Club need to be had.

Things need to change!

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by Supreme_Demon

1 hour ago, layzie said:

How as a football club do you sell hope to the members and supporters still feeling it from the fresh hit of membership fees they've paid when you've effectively ended the season in the first month and have traded away your future first pick?

There's a lot of football to be played, is this going to be a lost season or do we actually have some kind of hope to salvage something from it?

Poor start, yes. But we are going to storm into the finals when we start clicking. We are not done yet.

How many of the thousands of Nibbler critics are wishing he was still a Demon high half-ward? Come on, own up!

Who else can come into our side from the AFL listed Casey players?

Sestan, Adams, Mentha ???

Just bring them in if they are performing at a decent level in the VFL.

Need to find out if they can take the next step.

Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

And I mean that in the short to medium term, obviously if you look far enough into the future I'm sure you could contend good times are coming, but grounding ourselves in this season and next for example, is there something for us to look forward to from a team performance perspective?

I'm not trying to be facetious but I'm wondering where to from here, we gave imo really good effort for three quarters and played some good footy within that and we still never looked like threatening from a scoring perspective.

Maybe the argument is we need to give 'the new gameplan' more time but I'm not convinced on what we have delivered so far that either a) we have a discernible new game plan or b) that even if we do, its an effective one.

It seems like after the first month we should be reassessing expectations compared with pre-season discussions, but what should those new expectations be?

Interested in whatever thoughts the boys have?

They showed a lot more endeavor this week. A lot of players really turned it around, especially May. Winning at Geelong is never easy, and the Cats are a good team.

However, we need to talk about Viney. I love him. He is one of the toughest players I have ever seen; he gets the ball and always makes a contest. But on the run, his foot disposal appears achingly bad now, and we need a different approach. I like us rotating players with better kicks through the midfield (Langford, Windsor, Pickett) and this should continue as speed and precision in 6-6-6 at the bounce is critical for gaining post-clearance possession, but Viney and Oliver should be encouraged to handball more and kick less (if not already) as they appear to be the biggest reason why delivery into the forward line is so bad and we do not retain possession

Side note: When Fritsch was playing up the ground in a half-forward flank/wing position, he showed great promise. He is good in open space and is a great kick, this is a better position for him until we fix our forward delivery.

I have not given up hope; we showed more fight and promise in this game, which was commendable. However, this season is turning out to be a hybrid of 2019/2020, so I'm keeping my expectations low.

Are we in danger to finish the season winless? 0 - 23?