leave it to deever

Gives his all every game.

Fair call. If it's a foot injury that's hampering his form let's just put it out there. The issue for me is not what is causing his present performance or lack of thereof but the fact that we play him every single week. It's clearly not helping him or the club.

In theory they both need to be. Just like McAdam and Petty. But I can't see who we have as legitimate replacements. At least call the Petty fwd experience over and put him down back. That's a start.

Well it's on. We have talked a big fightback since the Freo loss. Let's just wait and see if we do.

Spargo out kicks McAdam by a long way. Is it technique with McAdam? Surely it must be as you can't have an Afl player who can't kick 30 m. And I'm sure Adelaide must be now thinking Re Petty, what were we thinking.

Shame on the eagles.

It wouldn't be all that bad. Credit to Goody for the work he's done but some fresh eyes and passion could be just the start we need.

Speaking of mid season, Chandlers form has dropped off exactly like it did this time last year.

Thanks for the positivity WA. I actually thought that maybe the eagles loss was the outlier but now with the Freo loss or rather thumping I think we will be lucky to play finals. We don't have the depth anymore and if we get hit by a few more injuries then we may see some more beltings. Our fwd line has managed 100 points twice this season and now our midfield has imploded. On top of that we are using Tracca up fwd and Kozzie in the middle . Players like McAdam and Petty need to go to Casey and get some form and confidence but we don't have players to replace them with. I guess the KB game will tell what we are made of. It won't be easy to shrug such a big loss though. As much as I want to see us beat the filth, Id be happy to just compete for four quarters. We may be distracted by the Maynard incident too. l

He didn't apply a single tackle. He occasionally plays a solid game but rarely strings a few of them together. We should have focused more on Jordan and pushed Sparrow out. For a team that was famous for it's midfield and made history with it's bang bang bang moments, we have suddenly found this to be one of our biggest weaknesses. Smashed by more than double in the clearances. Combined with a fwd line that could not kick more than fifty points we have become a shadow of last year's form. Oliver and Sparrow are struggling big time this year and JV looks slower and seems to be less involved. And on occasion we have moved Tracca forward. And as good as Tracca is, for some reason he often takes at least two quarters to start impacting games.

Same here. One thing I have admired is our never say die attitude. But we didn't have it here .

Sparrow is not much better. Didn't even lay one tackle against Freo.

22 to 10 centre clearances in favor of Freo. And the same ratio with other clearances. And some posters think the midfield is fine.

Who?

Yep we ain't a top four team for sure.

It's at the point now where players like McAdam are chosen because our fwd line is so suspect. And we have all seen how he has fared. I hope Milk is traveling well.

Probably but he was a different player last year. So much more involved.

Damage control. Can't see us kicking more than ten goals. Unless Tmac is fwd we will struggle to score. And Kozzie in the guts doesn't help.

It seemed that with those many errant disposals, players looked really disinterested and at a loss as to what to do. That was one of the worst efforts I've seen from us for eons.

Watched some of the replay. I know, why would you. I noticed May had a severe case of the fumbles. And I don't get why are handballing was so prolific and often intercepted. It looked at if players were afraid to back themselves. Finally our tackling was as soft as it gets. Looked like bruise free footy. The body language spoke volumes too.

Do other posters feel like the wheels have completely fallen off? I mean to be beaten is one thing but by almost 100 points is just humiliation. It's right off the back of being thumped by a lowly eagles team a fortnight ago. So it's not an aberration. I'm not sure what such a thumping does to a team's confidence but I guess we will find out against the pies. The lack of fight back in the second half was not the way we have played in the last four years. We gave up at halftime and it was Mfc of old unfortunately. Maybe we will scrape into the final eight but it looks like dark years ahead. Again. We will probably be like the Western dogs for a while and hover around eight to tenth spot or a couple of years and then who knows. It's hard to be positive after a belting like that in this day and age Id suggest a change of coach at the end of the year. Not because Goody has failed. He hasn't, he got us a flag. But it's time for some new blood in the role and time to build our list up again. Max is getting on in years and we need to find another ruckman. Asap. JV is looking slow and tired. Sparrow is not really a midfielder. Bbb is past it. We can't have players moved on from other clubs like Schache, Hunter, Billings, Fullerton and McAdam taking up spots. It's time to prune at the end of this busted season and start a fresh.

He has shown some great form in the past as a defender. If the decision was up to me at Mfc , I would have kept him but I guess there is always a risk with interstate players wanting to go home. Can't really blame us for holding on to him. Helped us secure a flag in 21 . But yea his value has certainly diminished this year for sure. A shame.

If I were the person at Adelaide in charge of recruitment , I'd seriously be reconsidering if we want him at all. Based on his form this year and one decent game from 11, I'd be thinking he's not worth giving up much. I hate to say this because I think Petty is a great bloke but his form on the field this year has been abysmal. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt in that he's simply not good at being a forward but yesterday he had times in the backline where he made some horrible choices. I don't know what's happened to the guy. He has the skill and a good record in previous years, but this season has been night and day to previous ones. Needs to go back to Casey and get some confidence for sure.

Probably wouldn't have been pantsed by so much but I fear you are correct. I still think that looking at our fixture we travel more than enough without adding to it. And Alice Springs is a decent hike. So it's not worth the dollars even if we won, IMHO.

Can we begin by stopping selling a home game to play on a ground that is a four hour flight away dominated by supporters from another club. We may not have won at the Mcg but I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have lost by almost 100 points. It's disrespectful to the fans who can't afford to fly interstate and pay for hotel bills. Times are tough Its shortsighted. Yes the money is good but isn't winning more important? Can we also trade Petty asap before we can't get anything for him. Can we say no to players who left other clubs like, Hunter, Schache, McAdam, Fullerton and Billings?