At the break of Gawn

I'd prefer just the Alice game and make it against the Gold Coast Suns each year.

A great example of the FD offloading a highly skilled player (what we need right now) and retaining players "with a competitive edge" (like AnB) who actually costs us games of football.

Have to agree with this. Lyon makes his comments purely based off emotional reasoning, e.g. "they showed no fight", and often overlooks the tactical reasons as to why we lost the game.

Roos said his piece at the start. Focused on what Melbourne supporters would like to see in the last 5 rounds. Lyon just wanted to get that off his chest and probably shared the sentiment of a lot of Melbourne supporters. Calling last year an aberration is a big call from Lyon. We have to go out and beat the Saints this Saturday night. If we don’t, there’s no way we’re going into next year with a level of positivity.

He'll be a FT media person next year as well as working on his Wine business.

Making a prelim doesn’t excuse anything. Grant Thomas got sacked after making the finals. Ratten took the Blues to the finals the previous 3 years and got sacked (which in hindsight was bad). Goodwin’s Record will be below 50% after this season ends. If we fail to make finals next year I can’t see him surviving.

Objectively speaking, Dees are the wooden spooners this year. You can’t really count the GC Suns with all their club issues.

It’s well known that the poorer umpires get the least popular time slots (such as Sunday). Get used to it, because we’ll get a heap of Sunday games next year and we’ll be lucky to get one Friday night.

Laughable that some on here questioned the FD’s decision not to pick him earlier this season. The least fittest bloke on our list by a mile. Todd Viney would have beaten him in the 3km time trial.

Hands down our biggest issue.

The Petty experiment is over.

That qtr was a microcosm of our season.

40pt loss I think today. JK to break his form slump and kick 5.

Meh

We have been the unluckiest team all year when it comes to playing teams and their form going into the game. Essendon (turned it around against us and won 3 straight) Saints (world beaters at the time) Richmond (before most of their injuries) Collingwood (before their form drop off) Dogs (turned it around a couple of weeks before us) Even our wins against Freo, Carlton and the Suns we came up against them in good form. The only team I can think of we were lucky with is Sydney.

I lost it when he was running straight at goal 30m out and did a checkside and missed. Seriously, if you can’t hit a 30m drop punt running in, you just can’t be playing AFL (or probably VFL for that matter).

Has a player ever gone from 20 Brownlow votes to 0 the next season and yet still played all 22 games? If not, Brayshaw will be the first.

First game with our best back 6 but still a rubbish loss for a game we probably should have won. Brayshaw needs to be dropped to find form. AnB can’t be in the team. I get that he’s a team player and he’ll run over and help a fellow teammate up off the ground, but he is just a very poor footballer. Hannan’s credit in the bank is now at 0. Back to Casey. Lastly, Goodwin has to raise the Gawn/Umpire issue at his presser. Will be so disappointed if he doesn’t.

Clearly not understanding of Lockhart’s role. Negated JJ all day. Salem was ok, Brayshaw was career worst game almost.

Surely someone has to put the clamp on Dunkley. The Lewis in the middle experiment is done

One of the best set shots Petracca has kicked. Ever.

I actually find it funny that this is on linked-in. I thought these jobs are just filled through connections in the industry.

If there’s someone better, they should apply soon...

I thought Jones was one of our best. His spearing kick to Tmac was a ripper but it bounced off Tmac’s chest it was that good.

Carlton supporters are bloody loud. I reckon it was almost 40k to 15k split to go with it. I honestly don’t know how they’ve managed to hold on to such a supporter base given their last decade. Anyway, I thought it was obvious we had to just “survive” that last qtr. You could tell from the first passage we were trying to conserve energy and just hold on. We were all out on our feet. Having said all that, should have been a 50pt buffer, goal kicking is still a massive issue.