SaberFang

Maggots are deadset cheating pricks.

[censored] off umpires you cheating maggots. And could this commentary be any more biased? Just [censored] retire Bruce. If anyone needs to see exhibit A in blatant umpire cheating, this is as close as you'll see outside of umpiring in WA/SA games. Shameless, gutless pricks.

Oh no! Tigers on a roll. Cue umpires for a [censored] ludicrous free kick directly in front of goal to the Bombers. Could they be any more shameless? [censored] joke.

For [censored] sake, Tigers are going to blow this, aren't they? Bombers were one goal away from capitulating before Parish kicked his. Now the Tigers are barely holding on by 2 goals. Plenty of umpire love to the Bombers of course, all going to plan for AFL House.

[censored] off Parish, Tigers were on a roll.

Regardless of whether or not we miss finals, please for the love of God let these drug cheating assholes lose tonight so we can rest easy knowing they can't take our place.

I'll be sick if Essendon win this. All the stars aligning for them with Richmond basically happy to start tanking. Disgusting.

About time we saw some acid poured on Jones. He needs to stand up and be the leader this team desperately needs. Don't complain that you haven't played finals in 12 years if you're not prepared to stand up and pull the team over the line. His half-assed jogging through the midfield was pathetic on Sunday. Way to set an example for an impressionable young team crying out for strong leadership.

When it comes to defying the odds, Melbourne are elite! "95% chance of making finals?! Hold my beer."

Don't blame them. It's the same regurgitated story every month. We come out and smash a [censored] team, build up everyone's expectations, then blow it spectacularly against a legitimate opponent (usually defying a few records in the process, like most inside 50s in a loss, etc.) Wash, rinse, repeat. Predictable as the sunrise. And the cherry on the cake? The same ending every season (missing finals) but in sadistic new ways, as if they're challenging themselves to be even more cruel than the year before -- blowing a match against wooden spooners Carlton then getting flogged by 100 points in Roosy's farewell match, being the team to miss finals by the smallest % margin in AFL history, being the team with the highest percentage ever to miss finals, etc. Can't wait to see what cruelty they have in store for us next year! Maybe we could pull a North, win our first 12 matches then blow every match thereafter?

Agreed, the gameplan is heavily flawed and Goodwin is too stubborn to admit his plan is easily nullified, doubly so on our own home ground. The good teams (with good players who can follow instructions from competent coaches) have long-since worked out our gameplan and know exactly how to nullify it. So much so, they don't even care about us racking up inside 50s en masse because they know how soft we are under pressure. +30 inside 50s against Port Adelaide and we still lose by 2 goals! You couldn't write this [censored]. I'd be laughing hysterically coaching against Goodwin. He's so predictable and slow to make obvious positional changes. Chris Scott and Hawkins must still be laughing about Goodwin's clueless inaction during the last quarter against Geelong.

Touche. Fortunately I've only been alive to endure such misery for half that time. I would've given up years ago if it was much longer.

Team's achieved nothing for over a decade but remains in a perpetual state of drinking their own bathwater. Loser culture.

Well, it is the MFC. They always defy the odds by finding incomprehensible new ways to break supporters' hearts. It will be a fitting final chapter to our [censored]-weak 2018 campaign; a companion piece to ripping out our hearts last year by missing finals by 0.2%. This year we'll enjoy the indignity of having the highest percentage of any team in AFL history to miss finals.

I'm sure we'll kick something perfectly reasonable, say... 10.35? Which, knowing the MFC's putrid form against half-decent opposition, means a 3 point loss.

Why bother waiting? We all know how this script ends and anyone who thinks otherwise is simply in denial. Accept it now, it'll be a lot less painful in a fortnight when we finish 9th.

Fantastic! A great companion piece to commemorating our 12th successive season of missing finals. Keep up the good work, MFC.

Was Roos at the ground with you? Can't even imagine how frustrated he must be watching this team. A competent coach would've had this team locked into 2nd place on the ladder and already planning for finals. The defensive structures he spent 3 years implementing have been tossed in the bin because Goodwin clearly knows better, despite veering off the cliff at full speed towards his second successive year of failure.

This club does my head in. More inside 50s, more scoring shots, total dominance across the ground, 5th loss under 10 points in the same season. Our gameplan is a joke. Our defensive coach needs to [censored] right off and never coach another AFL club (except Carlton or Essendon, purely for the LOLz) Other clubs must laugh at how easy it is to beat us, with our obsession of running around in circles, racking up cheap possessions which achieve nothing, and all the hilarious blind kicks into the forward line to no advantage.

Yep, we've been in the exact same position the last two years and blew it both times, spectacularly last year. Given we've blown every test against top 8 opponents this year, I have no reason to expect a different outcome this year. Infuriating club. Always 1 step forward and 2 steps back. [censored] headcases, the lot of them. Or am I the headcase for still supporting this soulless rabble?

Being two men up and still blowing it. Inexcusable today. Sorry but that was yet another pressure test and, like every other pressure test this year, we [censored] blew it. We will miss finals. We will set a new record for being the team with the highest percentage to ever miss finals, which seems the cruellest outcome of all after what happened last year. [censored] this club. Perennial losers. Loser culture. Pathetic excuse for leadership. Get stuffed.

Another year of failure. Thanks Dees, the most reliable peehearts in the competition. Get stuffed. Don't know how many times you can get supporters hopes up only to fall over at the line time and time again. Missing finals this year, after last year's capitulation, will be the final insult.

Agreed, pathetic display from a so-called captain. We're going to lose this. GWS were down 2 rotations last night and they still won. Good teams just get the job done. We are flat track bullies and pretenders.

Jones and Garlett, the great disappearing players. Modern day Houdinis, they are. Can't wait for the rain to start bucketing down and make it impossible for us to play our preferred game and score enough to win.

Not currently, we're not. If we blow it today (which we look certain to do, given how predictably we blow these golden opportunities) we won't find ourselves back in the 4 again this year.