—coach—

Well that was some pox work inside defensive 50 by us 🤦‍♂️

Umm, why was Dusty standing all by himself in the goal square? Did he just teleport from elsewhere?

Pretty good crowd I reckon. Bit quiet atm but a few snags will solve that!

2 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

It doesn’t matter if he’s a star or bog ordinary, nobody, and I mean nobody, deserves to be personally abused. 

It was awful when Melbourne supporters did it, and nothing has changed now that Essendon supporters are doing it.

People need to take a good hard look at themselves. If that was your kid copping this garbage, you’d be disgusted and heartbroken. Sam has always done his best. Football is a damn hard industry and not everyone succeeds. But most people don’t have the talent or the guts to even try. Those that do deserve the basic level of respect from the fat losers in the stands. 

Quite right Jaded and well said.

I actually know his Dad and I can tell you they are a super giving family (still help out the younger teams down at Vermont Eagles) and all round nice people. Sam is a very well mannered and humble young man and any of us would be proud of the person he is if he was our son.

Would be nice to loose a different way on occasion rather than EXACTLY THE SAME WAY AS THE LAST LOSS, and the one before that, and the one before that!

This is just getting embarrassing now

And one more time we kick it to the trailing Brisbane player. For Christ sake Melbourne fix that [censored] up

Again we kick straight to the trailing Brisbane defender.

1 minute ago, Jibroni said:

Sorry but we cannot win with this forward line. 

Kicking it straight to the oppo player trailing our forward isn’t helping you must admit

Just now, demon3165 said:

Jesus can people stop blaming umpires. 

Just as soon as they stop paying frees one way and not the other 

Another [censored] kick straight to the oppo inside our forward 50!!!!

Jeesus ump open your [censored] eyes

Too many players got across for the switch there and left all the Brisbane guys free on the other wing.

Get tired of us kicking it with pinpont accuracy to the loan oppo player inside our forward 50

Why do players run to the side when taking set shots on goal, it’s such a low percentage option. If you are unsure of the distance pass it off.

Wow the lions are bloody awesome at hitting up a leading forward

3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Sub Melksham off.. 

that would be unwise I reckon 

Jeezus umpire your allowed to use your body like that!

Somebody’s abducted the 2023 Demons and replaced them with the 2021 version!!!!

5 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

Worth noting that we kicked 5 straight in the first Qrt. And after an initial 10 minutes period of high-pressure football from Saints we looked quite dominant

Unsure of any correlation to handballs, but we played some really good football in Q1

Quite true and good point. On reflection, I wonder if our handballs in the first were generally to targets a little further away from the immediate contest? It seemed as the game went on, our handballs were often to a player in or very close to the immediate contest which meant they were under pressure as soon as they received the ball.

Something that flew under the radar a little was handballs v kicks.

First quarter we had more handballs than kicks.

Next three quarters we had more kicks than handballs.

Our overuse by hand has been an issue for the past month or so in my opinion, so to see a shift in game like that is a real positive for mine and a trend I hope to see continue.

Very happy to get the win, but will need to be improving steadily from here to have a chance of doing something in September. Hopefully the start of our run!!! 👌💙❤️

Can one of our rucks just belt it to center half forward occasionally to get it away from their mids

Duck we look lazy tonight

Smith only has 4 less disposals that Kozzie and he’s been off all game!