A near full strength Demons were outplayed all night against a Blues outfit that was under the pump and missing at least 9 or 10 of the best players. Time for some hard decisions to be made across the board.

Completely unacceptable!

Time for some hard decisions!

Time to bring someone in that isn't attached to the players, easier that way.

Steven Smith and Paul Guerra there is alot of work to do, stop the walks with Goody and look at the club for what it is currently.

Memberships will drop under 50k next year no doubts about it.

Edited July 19, 2025Jul 19 by YesitwasaWin4theAges

That's a wrap

Kossie brought some magic and great to see Fritsch back in some form but otherwise not much to cheer about

Lost to a carlton side missing half their first team.

We’re finishing bottom 6 again because we’re not a very good side

Our skills are not good enough. How many times did we kick the ball over the head of the leading forward. 5 times at least

And we’re not well coached either

Big changes need to happen in the off season

Please, no more.

Sad way to celebrate Claz

Poor skills, shoddy umpiring and yet another loss to those grubs.

Thank the footy gods for Kozzie

That was very ordinary.

I don’t know what the club is going to sell us for Season ‘26. It’s not like we’ll get a lot of players back from injury. It’s not a great time to be a Demons supporter.

Sack the coach.

2026 will be a rinse and repeat of 24 and 25.

MFC said at the start of the season would be playing finals.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

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We win that game if that holding the ball is payed.

Change my mind.

It used to be just the forward line was the problem now it’s everywhere. I hate being mediocre it’s just deflating being insignificant again. We deserve better and the club promised we would.

Tell me again how umpires don’t influence outcomes of games.

Nearly 40 years watching multiple games every weekend and I've hit breaking point thanks to umpiring. The rules keep changing and the umpires can't officiate a fair game at this point. It's not just Melbourne games - every game feels confusing and like a narrative is being crafted.

I miss actual football.

We are genuinely a bang average footy club.

Our skills are absolutely deplorable and probably the worse in the AFL competition.

Old players are completely washed up and cooked.

Makes me sick to think we've got another 12 months of Goodwin rubbish.

How can you win nearly every stat and still be behind on the scoreboard.

Goalless 2nd quarter didn’t help. This club is in rabble mode way too often. The coach has lost the players.

The move of putting Bowey to half forward will be talked about for at least 7 minutes on the podcast this week as a reason for Goodwin to get an extension.

Just pffttt!

Punch every afl umpire in the head.

AFL is unwatchable.

[censored] this joke of a competition.

At least 2 goals gifted to them from the umps. There's the game right there.

I said it in the game day thread and I'll say it here - against the big clubs - and ESPECIALLY against Carlton - the umpires NEVER miss one of their free kicks, and they miss plenty of ours.

How are we supposed to win with this list, against the wishes of the corporate beast of the AFL's financial interests?

It's too much of a handicap to bare

Just now, Tom Dyson said:

We win that game if that holding the ball is payed.

Change my mind.

Horrible decision wasn’t it. Do we win with it?Wed have gotten to have a shot at it anyway. Another low moment in a low frikn season.

2 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

Sack the coach.

How anyone can watch that and think it's the responsibility of the coach is beyond me.

What a bog ordinary boring team we have become.

Mostly unwatchable and unacceptable.

The focus on Goodwin is just not the place to be looking. Good players find a way...and all these premiership players come up short in pretty much every tough contested game they are in. They just aren't very good. There's enough evidence now. What happened in 2021 I have no idea...but before and after too many of the highly rated players just can't deliver when the heat comes on. Time to go in a different direction (if we can even offload these crazy contracts)

Two dud teams. We were the bigger duds.

Onward and downward we march to the tune of Goody Goody.

4 minutes ago, Red But Mostly Blue said:

Please, no more.

Sad way to celebrate Claz

Poor skills, shoddy umpiring and yet another loss to those grubs.

Thank the footy gods for Kozzie

Agree. Well said. No one showed any heart for Clarry.