biggestred

im more reminded of 2007 than being hopeful of making finals. it feels like we have fallen off an absolute cliff. 5 wins out of our last 18 games testifies to this. i honestly dont see where we are getting a win from on current form.

We had 13 premiership players play on Saturday. Only 3 of them are over 30. This means 10 of them should be in or near enough to their prime. And it's not like Max, may and tmac are slouches. Fans only ever want to see effort. Repeat efforts. How many repeat gut busting efforts did you see on Saturday? 1? 2? Maybe?

186 incoming

I could count on the fingers of one hand the amount of times we decided to hit up hard at the ball carrier today

Genuinely don't know how we are only 19 points down

Well on the basis of that first question the players have clearly stopped bothering to put any effort in for him so see ya

simpson? absolultey not. Hird??? that would see me ringing up in protest and melting membership cards. not a chance. buckley no hinkley no longmire i would probably be keen on but tbh id rather a new coach with fresh ideas. maybe a hinkley or longmire understudy

we were not on the cats level. we might have been on the hawks level but they were also gifted a period of draft compromise that definitely helped them.

win or lose i dont care as long as we show a heap of ticker and intent.

except that no one knew anything before it and there was no attention on it—the attention was on Xerri beating him, as well as it should have been. But Goodwin's comments meant that we put the focus on whatever was wrong with Max. Even if he didn't mean it or it was taken out of context, that's what happened. If he had said nothing or just, "He was beaten on the day by a fantastic player," no one would have said boo.

lack of awareness comes down to talk. that tom mcdonald one was simply a lack of talk. no talk is a symptom of a wider problem in that if youre not prepared to talk to the ball carrier youre probably in your shell in survival mode.....ie look after myself and not the team. which i think is pretty obvious given the way we played on sunday. why were we in survival mode and not looking after the ball carrier? nfi.

TBH, it doesn't matter. We won't sack him during the season—the board stated as much when we were sacking coaches midseason because it is too destabilizing. Unfortunately, if we don't win this weekend, we are staring at being 0-4 to start the season, and with games ess and freo to follow, we could very well be 0-6 going into anzac eve. If that becomes 0-7, the vultures will be having a deserved field day.

we are in furious agreement

we are 2 wins from our last 11 games. if you go back to when we beat geelong and then got pumped by freo its 5 wins from 17 games... thats bottom 4 territory and we very clearly should be better than that. however coaches dont make players miss targets from 20m, or throw an arm out instead of actually tackling.

We were bad We are bad Take your pick

We've won 2 of our last 11 games and 5 of our last 17.

How many goals from turnovers have they had? Just from our bad skills??

We are not good

I mean it's a pretty clear conflict of interest if ever there was

In fairness I've seen more effort put in by a teenager doing chores than essendon defending

Bombers still have bad juju for their systematic doping regime and still being in denial

Remember the time we had 1 free kick to 21 at half time v the Eagles in Perth? 😂😂

Tipped the dogs. Am ropeable. Genuinely the fix was in last night. 5-18 free kicks in the 2nd half.

About as wild to make a collingwood premiership player the MRO

https://afltables.com/afl/teams/melbourne/allgames_tm.html#21 And despite the rain, Sunday arvo and the F1, still the 3rd highest attended game between the 2 clubs