Brownie

Nice summation by Titus Collingwood (89) v Melbourne (51) Against a Collingwood side with more injuries than that time I decided to do some of my own electrical work, Melbourne made everything look hard. There were just so many poor decisions, and not just the players, even the medical team got in on the fun, sending Christian Petracca back out when he was clearly too injured and at risk. To be fair, it turned out he only had four broken ribs, a lacerated spleen and a punctured lung. Much has been made of Melbourne changing their game style. I personally don’t see it. The gameplan for the last three seasons has been to dominate play, but then butcher forward entries with a consistency that must be intentional. When someone occasionally does take a mark in the forward 50, they seem unsure of what to do next, and so usually kick a behind. They then let the opposition waltz up the other end and kick a goal. People keep saying Melbourne have more talent than most other teams, but I’m not sure you can say that based on the evidence. To my eye, Collingwood have more talented players than Melbourne, you saw it every time they hit a target, while Demons players repeatedly clanked it into an opponent. I don’t think you can say you’re a talented footballer if you can’t hit a target, or make the wrong decision 80 per cent of the time. It has been this way since the Premiership, and nothing has changed. All this talk of changing the gameplan over the off season is just nonsense. Collingwood on the other hand play with a ruthless efficiency. They run to support each other. Their skills are good, and they have a clear vision of what they want to do. Each player knows not only their own role, but their teammates, and the seem to also like each other. Add in some outstanding players and it’s not hard to see they are Sydney’s greatest threat this season. As for the Dees, they will talk about ‘working on things’ and ‘wake-up calls’ but all the fans hear is ‘we have no answers.’ Let’s not keep kidding ourselves

There were two kicks where he wheeled from 60m out with two team mates inside the 50 against one pies player. He kicked it to the pies player's advantage both times. There was also the early smother from Howe when we was outside the arc and had loose team mates to choose from He has no defensive pressure and jogs after opponents when the ball is being slingshot back out of our forward line. He really seems to be lacking the grit to dig deep for the team. Schwarta was spot on. I just watched Goody's presser. He's like the Rudi Giuliani of the AFL. A big step forward off a cliff.

What if the grub or one of the other players, deliberate or not gave Tracca a solid bump or collision in that area when he went back on? It could potenitally have been career ending if he'd copped another big hit. He's probably our future captain and close to our MVP at the moment. It just seemed absolutely reckless to put someone back on when he was flat out walking off at half time.

We seem to be determined to play injured plays after getting away with it in the Granny. Such a different context. Yep disgraceful really.

He's been coaching at the club since 2013 and forward coach since nov 2020. One good year in 4. We've been completely disfunctional the other 3. The pies did alright with a depleted forward line yesterday.

Fritsch did it twice in the 3rd when we could have clawed back. It drove me insane! 2 Melbourne forwards on the lead against one pies defender. Guess where he kicked it? Why why, it drives me mad. I know we have talent problems now but this feels like we're back to looking for another Paul Roos to fix our culture and build out confidence again.

He and his mates have to go. Something is rotten. Even Fritsch was turning from 60 out to a forward line with 2 free Dee's and one pies defender and kicking it straight to the pies player. Multiple times. Disco's disposal was putrid. If it isn't for JVR and Koz our forward line is non existent. He's lost the players. I'd love some insight from the poor buggers that went today. What is going on?

Do we go and get that VFL plugger who's just kicked a bag against us?

I'd still argue we're not terrible. We could have won pretty easily but 5 14 with about 4 on the full ain't going to keep you in a game. We played terribly, I don't think we're that poor. Not top 4 but should be in the top 8.

Great goal Laurie

The house? It's dark and I'm drunk.

Hey I just saw Billings!

The sad thing is that if we'd kicked the last three we'd be right back init. Why was that not 50 to Pickett?

He's just jogging again. Atrocious body language by Turner when side bottom took that mark, just turned his back and started walking off.

Good ol days of 3 defenders up in a contest against one opponent. And a goal out the back. On the tequila now

Great work by Koz to get it to him too. Why were they both sitting on the bench last qtr?

Shot at goal accuracy is 20 percent. Yipyah. A goal conceded at the end of each quarter. Pizzzeng our chances away.

He's been injured for weeks I reckon. He's looked proppy since the start of the season. He's cooked. Better off playing Tommo before he walks

Kozzie seems to be sitting on the bench with Roo. [censored]

We're looking really flat now.

We hit the post twice, their kicks bend back in and sneak through. And there's the chant

Even Watson called it

He's a better player with broken ribs than Billings

Petty and Turner, killing us

He's missed some opportunities