dazzledavey36

My frustration with tmac is purely because he has a history of doing this in games. Its simple, he still doesnt know his limitations. On Tmac as a player, I don't dislike the bloke. A part of me wants the Tmac of 2018/2021 form but reality is deep down I know he's cooked and like you, I know he won't add much to the team.

I think what was more damning was our stoppage work and post clearence stuff. Players like Oliver getting sucked into the contest and then having no accountability and respect for their opponents who simply just ran off them. It's no wonder Rozee kicked that last goal in thr end because our mids in general paid no respect whatsoever. All comes down to attitude and mindset.

This thread reminds me exactly of the loading training thread last year lol. We were all told by the experts on here that we'll hit our sweet spot and to back the coaches. This pattern of concern has been ongoing since teams worked us out last year. I've seen nothing this year to suggest we've made any vast improvement at all in this area. You'd thinking bringing in another A grade ruckman would improve us but it hasn't unfortunately.

Are you serious? He literally just had to give the quick option to a running Viney in front of him who was breaking away easily from Bonnar. Jonas came running in from the side and before the tackle came there was probably 2 seconds that McDonald could have just placed it in front of Viney. Then as @Gorgorothsaid, McDonald needs to learn his limitations. He does this every single game. His attempt at side stepping or baulking a big key defender in this instance is pure stupidity by McDonald. It cost us a direct goal in the end. I disagree with you in that he didn't have enough time. It was there to give off with the quick hands. This is a sign of a cooked footballer who thinks he's playing footy at 24 years of age.

I agree with this. He had a player in the inside ready to give off. We're taught from junior footy to always give the first option. Instead of giving that first option, he tries to take on the tackler as he always tries to do and deservedly got pinged. They then go and score a goal. He does this every single [censored] game and its beyond infuriating.

Taj Woewodin a chance to debut?

He's not wrong.

So no different to how our midfield went on the weekend?

They did it perfectly well last year when Dangerfield missed 6 games with an injury.

Brayshaw got exposed big time for his lack of fitness and poor conditioning trying to play as a midfielder on Friday night. Was embarrassing to watch. An absolute plodder in there. Never again.

You think?

No. I'm not accepting the season is over one bit. Dangerfield missed 6 games last year and that did not stop them going on a full blown winning streak without him. Accept it at your own peril, cool. I won't.

I feel for Dunstan big time.

Feel like this will get swept under the rug during the weeks. This smells of when we sent Joel Smith back out with a strained groin in a nab game back in 2019 and ended up missing the year because of further damage.

Well, all this does is create opportunity for someone like Tom Sparrow. I've been hard on him of recent because I haven't felt he has taken the next step as I thought he would. If there was an opportunity and chance to really take the next step and show everyone what he's got then it's now. There's some big midfield minutes there for the taking and it's up to Sparrow to grab it with both hands now.

It sounds like we've already gotten the scans back.

I'm watching Tom Mitchell for Collingwood being a completely different player. They were bad last year in clearences and went and brought Mitchell in to fix this. Poor Luke Dunstan who's a clearence specialist gets 42 disposal and 2 goals in a VFL game and Goody still refuses to play him because he's happy sticking with the same soliders each week who continue to get beaten around the stoppages.

It become so predictable by the 2nd quarter that now opposition teams just swam in numbers to the contest that'd been kicked to and just put number us. Port did a number on this on our kick outs.

Nah, they're much better drilled then what we were last year. Their forward line absolutely shades above ours last year as a starter.

You can just about hand Collingwood the flag.

How on earth did he play out the last quarter???

Just quoting this because it's real.

Yeah nah this is a cop out and stock standard typical Melbourne supporter excuse ( not actually having a dig at you, just seen this excuse too much of late) footy isn't about playing in pitch perfect weather at the MCG every single week mate. It should be an anywhere, anytime mentality which we had back in 2021.

Sorry am I denying this am I? Did it go completely over your head over my reasons in my explanation of the way our midfield is getting exposed by the better sides. They looking a million dollars beating the Hawthorn's and North's of the world but when it come to the pressure cooker against the top quality sides that we've seen so far this year and even going back to last year they've been found out big out. We brought in a A grade ruckman in the off season and we still can barely get that connection right.