The Demons simply did not take their opportunities when they presented themselves and ultimately when down by 25 points effectively ending their finals chances. Goal kicking practice during the Bye?

Very, very good.

Edited June 15Jun 15 by Return to Glory

Flatline

Rinse repeat. Bombs away. Same old same old.

We are too poorly skilled to compete. Plenty of heart and pressure but decision making and disposal just nowhere near good enough. All our effort is wasted. Its soul destroying to watch.

I would trade Trac. Lots of great attributes (champion, norm smith I’m not being disrespectful for the sake of it) but he’s a ball butcher in a team of ball butchers. We can get something reasonable in return and invest into a youngster with some better skills.

Time to look to the future and make the necessary decisions to have us competing again soon

We’re back in the bottom 4, which after the last three weeks is where we belong.

For all the gains we made during the 5-1 streak, we’ve cooked our season by losing two games to (at the time) bottom 4 sides in the most maddeningly classic Melbourne fashion.

Better analysis will come but for now, the overwhelming feeling is that we’ve taken a promising run of form and absolutely [censored] it up against the wall right when we needed to buckle down and focus before the bye.

As disappointed as I’ve probably been since 2020.

I’m a big Goody supporter, but he won’t survive two bottom 4 finishes. That’s unacceptable by any sort of measure with the list we have.

Wouldn’t blame any supporter for being a little filthy about that performance. Not sure how our forwards are meant to mark skyscrapers.

Whatever the method was today, it wasn’t good. Port weren’t even that good, they were a lot smarter.

I am the most disappointed I have been in a while. That was a genuinely poor performance and we allowed those mongers from Port Adelaide to look like champions.

Poor pressure

No real backman to go with georgiades

Thrashed on turnover

Terrible entries into 50

Goal kicking

Junk time goals

Sheesh! The bye cannot come soon enough.

1 minute ago, BDA said:

Rinse repeat. Bombs away. Same old same old.

We are too poorly skilled to compete. Plenty of heart and pressure but decision making and disposal just nowhere near good enough. All our effort is wasted. Its soul destroying to watch.

I would trade Trac. Lots of great attributes (champion, norm smith I’m not being disrespectful for the sake of it) but he’s a ball butcher in a team of ball butchers. We can get something reasonable in return and invest into a youngster with some better skills.

Time to look to the future and make the necessary decisions to have us competing again soon

I just don't think any club would take him unless we covered a good portion of his salary. There's no way I'd be doing that.

We win that if Jeffo plays.

14.9 to 9.14, couldn’t put a better visual to our ongoing, excruciating woes going forward. Wasn’t just that though, our lazy defence and brain fades all over the place combined to relegate us to 4th last.

RIP 2025, we hardly knew ye.

Let’s be honest righ though and ruthless in the offseason because we have some pieces for a run in 2026.

3 million dollars into Oliver and Petracca every year til 2030, we are stuffed. Viney til 28’. No speed, no skill. In 2025 and beyond that will get you absolutely no where. We are an old fashioned midfield. Not sure what to do from here. No one‘a going to take these contracts or players on.

It just the constant repeat and rinse cycle. Unless there is change where going no where. It just always the same. Ball butchers.

This team is going back to the dark old days.

Let's pray it's not for another fifty.

Bye Simon.

You've done well but someone has to be held accountable.

Your at the top.

The buck stops with you.

Oh yeah we can’t lose next week.

That’s a sweet relief

Take your wins

Edited June 15Jun 15 by Red But Mostly Blue

Absolute garbage. Our best and worst is literally top 4 or bottom 4. Within a kick of GWS and Collingwood, only to also get smashed by Norf whilst also losing to this diabolical Port and St Kilda sides.

This high bombing BS with no forward craft or desire to work inside the 50 is something that’s been happening over the last 4 years without change.

I remember Collingwood from 2020-21 lauded as the kings of “crab football” which automatically incited change by McCrae. They haven’t looked back since.

Goodwin has had 4 years to fix this nonsense and has done NOTHING to fix it and it has cost us an entire season AGAIN!

Edited June 15Jun 15 by VNightCityLegend

Was 62-57 when May got penalised for being too strong. Real momentum killer.

That being said as per usual our kicking into f50 and kicking iffy as usual.

That Petracca to Melksham one in particular; too many floated kicks in; just invites pressure

3 goals after the siren, real broken tv territory

Just now, Deesprate said:

It just the constant repeat and rinse cycle. Unless there is change where going no where. It just always the same. Ball butchers.

Oliver is the biggest culprit. It as if he's just happy to get the ball and then does anything with it.

What can you say, again poor kick for goal. Said it weeks ago and raised it for the podcast.

We had a purple patch that papered over the crack. , The coaching staff have not being able to fix the problems with the list in the fwd Line. I expect big changes at the end of the year in coaching team. The Current team are not up to it.

As for the umpires, again some shockers that cost us. But in the end if we can't kick regulation goals, what would it change.

Add ratugolea to the list of mediocre defenders we’ve made look like an all Australian.

How many players on this list can kick a set shot at least 8 times out of 10 when the game is in the balance?

I reckon we have maybe 3 absolute tops. The bulk of the list are 4 or 5 out of 10 guys. In games where momentum swings, it stings.

8 marks inside fifty and 7.4 goals to Mitch "Kent Kingsley" Georgiadis is an embarrassment to our defensive system

ABC radio reported that Kozi was targeted late in the first quarter (two blows behind play).

A possible reason for his drop off in the second half?

Why can’t our forwards lead to the ball carrier?

#Georgiadis #caseinpoint

Edited June 15Jun 15 by Nietaphart
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What a pathetic performance.