leave it to deever

I wouldn't be that surprised if we gave the hawks a run for their money. We play better with no expectations

Wouldn Fair enough but I'm not convinced you rate the guy more than most.

So in your rating should Grimes play at all? Or do you think hes finished?

Should do. Most of the boys have had a nice little holiday. Good to be back at the MCG and I hope we throw everything at them.

Yes, no one has seen a flag for 50 years but some supporters have been waiting that long and some have been waiting for only 20. The former are probably more frustrated was the point I wanted to make.

So what if people criticise the players and club after a loss. A lot of supporters buy memberships, go to games and club meets etc We are a passionate and very patient bunch. Lets face it 50 years without a flag and the last ten without finals is pretty bloody f.....well you know. Yes we have improved.....we bloody well couldn't have gotton much worse than 2 years ago and I for one appreciate it Yet many of us need to vent about decisions made by the club and players performances and surely thats okay. Thats the nature of passionate supporters.Better on a website than an english soccer game riot. Im sure there would be much less venting if we played a lot better....so its not all about negativity. I for one will never complain again if we win just one flag before I meet my maker

There is no doubt we are improving but some of many of these supporters haven seen a premiership for 20....30....40.. and yes fifty years IMo some of them deserve a medal for supporting the club at times Yes there are a few cheap shots but on the whole we are a bloody loyal bunch who I think deserve better than what the team served up today. Yes I said deserve because it is the supporters who pay the memberships, go to games and pay for cable tv subscriptions Perhaps many supporters have a right to pay out on the club now and then. We are always happy to praise them when the win. Go dees

How good is Max when he moves up forward. A 2nd ruck would let him do it more often and he could add 2 or 3 goals a game

COACH Paul Roos says it wouldn’t have mattered if his team played at Alice Springs or the MCG – Melbourne wouldn’t have beaten Port Adelaide playing the way it did on Saturday. COACH Paul Roos says it wouldn’t have mattered if his team played at Alice Springs or the MCG – “We enjoy coming up here and we’ve played some good football here" The other one plays jingle bells Paul

He was but I dont think he did much that much for a senior player

Roos: We were terrible defensively. Young guys get energised by scoring but top defensive teams win premiership #afldeespower

Apples and Oranges mate For those teams they play there enough to call them second home grounds Alice is a one off event and closer to Adelaide, We lose all the time As for the $ ,,,,winning games drives memberships so call the NT games off for me

Spot on. We are better than we played today and it why it is so annoying. Why were we so slow to get to contests? Why didnt our tackles stick? Melb was like the sound on my foxtel play which arrived 5 seconds after the action Yes the defence was under pressure but it needs to do better. That's their job. Cant give them a pass for being under the pump.

There is no doubt we are improving but some of many of these supporters haven seen a premiership for 20....30....40.. and yes fifty years IMo some of them deserve a medal for supporting the club at times Yes there are a few cheap shots but on the whole we are a bloody loyal bunch who I think deserve better than what the team served up today. Yes I said deserve because it is the supporters who pay the memberships, go to games and pay for cable tv subscriptions Perhaps many supporters have a right to pay out on the club now and then. We are always happy to praise them when the win. Go dees

Well hes owned up to it this time

You will not see Geelong relinquishing games from kardiania or whatever its called or crows or port saying we would like more games away from Adelaide. The logic of being good enough to play anywhere means we should not play at the mcg at all. Hell we need all the help we can get. We need to get used to winning first and then give away advantages.

Jones played well and despite a few clangers early on was probably Melbs BOG. Watts could have stepped up but has trouble plating back to back good games still This is a side coming out of ten years from hell. We are still on track to win 10 games but we are still a long way to trouble the top six. We need 2 polished defenders and another ruck/fwd to get there. Lets remember that this is more like a home game for port given the travel for us Hope we try harder against hawthorn. At least we wont be faves.

you are right we do kid ourselves. what else can we do? follow another club....there are times I wish I could but we all know it doesn't work like that so we live in hope and part of that does involve believing that we are good but I guess its our own fault

I cannot understand why he keeps getting picked over Dunn. It happens every week and yet here we are again

I hope the club comes down hard on few payers this week and drops 3 or 4. Newton typifies the club to me. He is 24 and has played 16 games. Not many other clubs would have someone like that on their list. Another is Garland who is like Miller of old and just keeps getting picked. We seem to lack the real intensity from not just players but all on all levels. Its a credit to us supporters that we keep backing them. Yes we have improved and done some good recruiting but we need to do much much more to not just play finals one day but to be genuine contenders. We wont get there with quite a few of the players on our list as well as moving home games 1000 miles away.Think BiG picture like a premiership. That will boost the coffers. Us supporters deserve it. We pay for it all. I mean we have been patient for fifty years now. Cut us some slack MFC. Please.

Hogan would be an elite if he could kick straight but his kicking is close to atrocious. I felt like half our players didn't even try today. I think us supporters should feel let down. We know we wont make finals now. Well done Max. Watts needs to be more consistent as does garlett. Kennedy and tyson absolute shockers. Not a few young players looked out of place. I hope MFC pack in the NT games....we never win them its almost as bad as ETHIAD Its official ten years without a finals berth

I hope we dont hear the players were tired today.

Hogan would be an elite if he could kick straight but his kicking is close to atrocious. I felt like half our players didn't even try today. I think us supporters should feel let down. We know we wont make finals now. Well done Max. Watts needs to be more consistent as does garlett. Kennedy and tyson absolute shockers. Not a few young players looked out of place. I hope MFC pack in the NT games....we never win them its almost as bad as ETHIAD Its official ten years without a finals berth

ANB has been great in the twos but has let himself down today.

Max has tried hard today