A very poor way to end our year, tail tucked between our legs………….well we’re trying to tuck it between our legs, but we keep missing.

Something has to be said about players having career day/ break out games against us.

Georgiades x 2,

Ugle Hagan,

Treacy,

Harley Reid,

Keeler are recent examples in the last two years alone.

To add insult to this, Georgiades when interviewed post game said it was good to have an easier week after playing opposed to Sam Taylor last week. Shows the contempt we are fairly met with and why Hinkley would of said as such as 3QT.

Poor at selection

Keeps rewarding players who haven't earned it or badly out of form

Poor on game day. Persisting with Petty & Rooh forward when they keep failing week after week. Playing both Fritta & Melk in the same role. No smalls or mids capable of kicking goals aside from Kozz.

Same old amature undisciplined trash almost every match now

One of only three teams to lose to Norf and we lost by 10 goals +

There are only four teams with a worse percentage than ours...

The Peptides

Norf

Tigers

Eagles

Membership is down approx 15% & will be worse next season

Likely to finish the season in same spot as last year (or worse!)

We have become so predictably bad. Unwatchable.

Ty for the cup. Forever indebted but time to go Simon (at year's end)

Edited Sunday at 08:113 days by Demon Dynasty

Put a trident in us.

I was quite looking forward to that game. Didn't know if we'd win, but thought we'd go OK.

We did not. In any way. Go OK.

10 wins in the past 29 games. We are the absolute definition of a bottom 4 side.

After the bye we simply have to play the kids. Melksham, Lever, Salem should not be playing senior football. Probably May, Viney and Oliver as well.

Knowing Melbourne we'll probably give Goodwin an extension over the break, when we should be finding his replacement.

Just now, M_9 said:

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?

Absolutely he was targeted that ruckman who he grappled with tried to break his legs. If it Faicos free everywhere. AFL will do nothing.

Just now, PVardy said:

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

This bloke had 8 marks inside 50 today. Yes that's the number 8, we're lucky to get that each game.

Our once 'No Fly Zone' backline is dead.

Season done.

Play the kids

Adams for May/Lever

Jeffo for Petty, keep Roo in, Sesto, Kolt, Laurie, Mentha, Johnson need games

Goodwin getting no favours from the group with days like today. Past the winning stoppages and contests - it’s the same old story.

Goodwin has at least next year - I think it is very clear that we need to surround him with a new slate of voices and if there is no shift then that is that.

Ultimately, the players coach has to get them to adapt, make better decisions, and commit to the way they want to move the ball. Otherwise…

1 minute ago, layzie said:

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.

You're right. As much as I hate Chris Scott he's on record as saying he made scoring accuracy (from i50?) number one priority a couple of years back.

We have so many players who are content to 'just have a ping'.

Trac, Sparrow et al today.

I wonder when the club will start releasing the YouTube videos “All of the Melbourne Points brought to you by Haymes”. Would be a hell of a lot longer than the existing material.

This has gone on for 4 years, i am glad people are starting to realize that we cannot keep going down this road

Goodwin deserves Life Membership, but he has to go

We win all the stats, except the important one

The Learnings are not the right ones

Such a wasteful Forward Line Simon….

Over & Over again….

We are going to finish bottom 6 2 years in a row, so you’d have to think that significant player changes will come at seasons end.

The game has gone by our midfield, and we refuse to let forwards lead up at the ball carrier - instead deciding that kick to one spot and everyone huddle together is our best option to kick a goal. The coach has been too slow to see the shift in the game and far too loyal to his players, and in return the players have let him and the club down on and off the field. In the end I imagine they’ll all go down together.

The AFL doesn’t want teams to win kicking 8 goals, they want 16-18 goals. The game has changed a lot. I fear we are in for a serious rebuild.

Whilst the modern game is made for pianists we have all the piano lifters.

Disgusting, our senior players not only butcher the ball with their garbage disposal, they butcher our chances with their idiotic decision making.

Sparrow, Max, Petty those misses in the 3rd are unforgiveable. You simply CANNOT miss those dead set sitters. Not good enough from our captain and senior players.

Bombing down the line when we needed to switch play to open up the forward line. Horrible.

Disco switched forward, now bloody leave him there!!!

Petty can get stuffed, he was a little better today but still completely ineffective as a key forward. Get rid of him, TMac or Jeffo in next game.

Kozzie did nothing after the HIA, hope he's ok.

Melksham, Rivers, Sparrow, Viney, Chandler all useless today. Roo showed a bit early then fell away once he was forced into the ruck. Leave him up forward FFS and let him develop, we are killing him.

Forwards stop trying to cheat out the back, lead up to the [censored] kicker.

I am ropeable with that performance, back to the same old [censored], we need to turnover a few senior players the game has gone past them. We cannot keep all of Viney, Oliver and Petracca they are all butchers of the footy. We need to trade Petty while someone may still be dumb enough to give us a half decent pick for him.

Kozzie sniped out of it changed the game

Much like what they've done to Max years gone by

Looked to be lying out cold about a minute before the Butters snipe. Obviously no replays or mentions on comms.

7 minutes ago, Greg Schneider said:

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.

Time to be ruthless and overhaul the midfield.

We clearly don't/can't have 3 of Viney, Petraca and Oliver moving forward.

We just simply can't water the young and talented core we have. Who btw are much more skilled than those 3 already mentioned.

10 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

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.

Yep. We [censored] so hard today, we blasted a hole in the bricks.

2 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Disgusting, our senior players not only butcher the ball with their garbage disposal, they butcher our chances with their idiotic decision making.

Sparrow, Max, Petty those misses in the 3rd are unforgiveable. You simply CANNOT miss those dead set sitters. Not good enough from our captain and senior players.

Bombing down the line when we needed to switch play to open up the forward line. Horrible.

Disco switched forward, now bloody leave him there!!!

Petty can get stuffed, he was a little better today but still completely ineffective as a key forward. Get rid of him, TMac or Jeffo in next game.

Kozzie did nothing after the HIA, hope he's ok.

Melksham, Rivers, Sparrow, Viney, Chandler all useless today. Roo showed a bit early then fell away once he was forced into the ruck. Leave him up forward FFS and let him develop, we are killing him.

Forwards stop trying to cheat out the back, lead up to the [censored] kicker.

I am ropeable with that performance, back to the same old [censored], we need to turnover a few senior players the game has gone past them. We cannot keep all of Viney, Oliver and Petracca they are all butchers of the footy. We need to trade Petty while someone may still be dumb enough to give us a half decent pick for him.

Don't forget Oliver's kick, can't even travel 15 m.

7 minutes ago, layzie said:

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.

Also, the psychology of it seems to be that because we have so many players who can’t kick set shots, in each game, early on, 3 or 4 easier shots are missed which brings in the trigger for the whole team re: ‘here we go again’, and the pressure builds on each set shot.

2 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Disgusting, our senior players not only butcher the ball with their garbage disposal, they butcher our chances with their idiotic decision making.

Sparrow, Max, Petty those misses in the 3rd are unforgiveable. You simply CANNOT miss those dead set sitters. Not good enough from our captain and senior players.

Bombing down the line when we needed to switch play to open up the forward line. Horrible.

Disco switched forward, now bloody leave him there!!!

Petty can get stuffed, he was a little better today but still completely ineffective as a key forward. Get rid of him, TMac or Jeffo in next game.

Kozzie did nothing after the HIA, hope he's ok.

Melksham, Rivers, Sparrow, Viney, Chandler all useless today. Roo showed a bit early then fell away once he was forced into the ruck. Leave him up forward FFS and let him develop, we are killing him.

Forwards stop trying to cheat out the back, lead up to the [censored] kicker.

I am ropeable with that performance, back to the same old [censored], we need to turnover a few senior players the game has gone past them. We cannot keep all of Viney, Oliver and Petracca they are all butchers of the footy. We need to trade Petty while someone may still be dumb enough to give us a half decent pick for him.

Don't forget Oliver's kick, can't even travel 15 m.

6 minutes ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Poor at selection

Keeps rewarding players who haven't earned it or badly out of form

Poor on game day. Persisting with Petty & Rooh forward when they keep failing week after week. Playing both Fritta & Melk in the same role. No smalls or mids capable of kicking goals aside from Kozz.

Same old amature undisciplined trash almost every match now

One of only three teams to lose to Norf and we lost by 10 goals +

There are only four teams with a worse percentage than ours...

The Peptides

Norf

Tigers

Eagles

Membership is down approx 15% & will be worse next season

Likely to finish the season in same spot as last year (or worse!)

Ty for the cup. Forever indebted but time to go Simon (at year's end)

Can't be gone soon enough for me.

3 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

Whilst the modern game is made for pianists we have all the piano lifters.

No, we're playing the bugle wearing a blazer

It is totally unacceptable to only have 5 wins at this stage of the season with the list that we have got. It must get down to coaching so big changes are needed.

I love Milkshake but he's chance of a contract extension is slipping away on the back of today's performance.

The gap between his best and worst is huge.