Red But Mostly Blue

What Stack just did to Viney, I wish we would do to someone else. Anyone. What happened to our ferocity, and punishing attitude from 2018?

The tigers have been garbage, but at least they kick goals more than once in a million forward 50 entries. We're lucky that we are not 100 points down, we would be against a side playing well. TMac is so horribly out of form, he can't take a trick anywhere on the ground. That moment where he tried to run off his opponent was hard to watch.

Our forward 50 work was atrocious in that qtr. That said, we're well and truly in it, and that's not something we've been able to say this year. We CAN do this, and it would be sweet to take the Tigers scalp to resurrect some fire in our season.

Love this track, and Gallows at this time were great. Saw them live at Festy Hall, was nuts. Great reference, feels like this a lot of the time.

...What happened to the buy-in?

...Being outplayed by the St Kilda Spuds. Such mixed emotions. If my son hadn't been born on Wednesday, I'd call this a bad week. Instead, it's my best week ever. Maybe when my son starts to follow along we'll be ok?

I can't wait for the presser... Goody (with that silly smirk of his): 'We're not happy with the way we're playing' 'We have to get better' 'We're not thinking about finals right now, we're just looking to next week' THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS CRAP. We're slow, lazy, unfit and sloppy. And our coach doesn't realise he's being outcoached most weeks.

Fancy that, the guy who couldn't get a game in our team (admittedly sometimes through injury) has now kicked one less goal than our entire team...

Great performance from the boys! It wasn't perfect, but you could just tell that the team felt it was coming back to life - and are starting to believe again. Jones has been under the pump, but how good was he!? Petracca was a straight up bull. Maxxy owned everything in the centre, Preuss showed a lot of promise, loved his hunger and the physicality of his game. Hore was tops, as was Oliver. I really liked Hunt's run, Wagner's enthusiasm, and the ferocity shown by the team. It was also great to see Goody down there tonight. You could see how much this game meant to the boys. I hope they take this belief and run with it.

Oh wow, last night would have had plenty of vested interests then haha (especially the sisters v bro). I can relate to the family mix, I defied a family full of Tigers to become a Dee way back when Jimmy and Garry threw me a footy when I was 7 (I'm so cheap haha). Very true, I'm banking on the long-term here. Thanks a lot, appreciate it - I'm looking forward to life being very different ?

Yep! So much unknown, but max excitement for the challenges and joy ahead. It's been a long road. I've had the kid's Dees gear ready for a while haha. I've also had to get in early, as my wife is a Pies supporter (sorry) (although to be fair, she's more of quiet Dee nowadays). You have any little Dees?

Cheers, buddy! Exciting times ?

I've been trying to find an upside to all of this. My wife is due to give birth in 2 weeks, and I knew that I wouldn't be able to get out to many of the games, at least initially, and had become ok with the prospect that I'd miss some of our romping wins. Thanks to the Dees, it looks like I won't miss any of our (romping) wins, and I'll probably be well timed to return to the games when we've turned it around! I look forward to taking our kid to a game, and being able to tell him/her (we don't know yet) about how much we have our sh*t together.

I was flat last night, and I didn't wake up much better, so it was kind of nice to see something positive/real. I think the coaching staff have failed to adapt. We've got a good core, we just need to be honest with ourselves, and start fresh next week with a better gameplan. With some luck and grit, we'll win the games we need in order to stay in the mix, then put it all together when the rest of our boys are back.

This is a great team. Can't wait for 2020!!!

Seriously, how have we allowed ourselves to be overtaken by everyone else, again? We set ourselves up last year. We finally broke the finals shackles, and hoodoos against some teams, like the cats. But here we are, apparently an 80-point worse team against the cats, a loss to the bombers who have thus far been a joke. So much so that there are murmurs of that drug cheat Hird returning to the club? Was it the rule changes? Nope, because we have all had the same time to adapt. Are we tired? What the hell!? It's round 3 and it looks like we're slugging it out after a long season. Where is the heart? Why are the Cats playing out of their skins (weren't they 'done' last year), why are the Bulldogs playing good footy with a mixed list? Why are the Lions firing? Why the hell did Goody's contract get extended without some proof this year? He's been outcoached every game this year! He is always reacting, never ahead of the curve, and his stupid smirk at the presser is driving me nuts. He's being paid a lot of money, tell us how he's going to fix this... not that it will get better over time, or that am 80 point drubbing is a positive sign. What is happening?!!

Great summary. And it's taken a lot for you to still hold faith. I haven't lost it, but I'm so confused by our effort this year, frustrated by the terrible coaching and angered that all the other teams went away and did their homework in the off season, so they didn't have to blame the new rules/adjustment on their performance

It's possible that we're not bad... ... maybe we're just TANKING?!!?

What a weird game. Increased output from many of the guys we expected to lift from last week. But so many are so flat. Our gameplan is (on best view) non existent. It's a long season and there's still time, but we're going to need to fix whatever is going on, very quickly. I'm not up for any of Goody's fluffy garbage at the presser either. I want to hear him say that his gameplan is stuffed and he's going to fix it. Oh and that backs and forwards are going to work out what is going on.

Agree, but I thought Salem was very good, and did about as much as he could. Wagner was decent, but that might just be in comparison.

Above all, I was expecting a return of our agro and pressure, and I saw none of that. Losing is one thing, but looking like losers is another. Bring the passion back in R2 boys, we're going to need it!

I hate getting shown up by Westhoff. He's a spud who kicks his goals against spud teams. And fancy bloody Watts showing us up as well. Classic stuff.

I know some of our boys were underdone, the injuries, lack of game time etc, but geez we were bad, and we got worse as the game went on. Jones was terrible, Maxxy was worked out, some of the boys were not even sighted, and we were outcoached. The icing is NO SCORE in the last qtr which is unforgivable. We're only 1 game in, and it's a long season, but we have some serious questions to answer.

We look absolutely knackered. It's like Port is playing in different conditions. I know some of our boys are a little underdone with game time, but it's not a great look. Gotta suck in the big ones this QTR and do what a top 4 team would do/needs to do - take our 4 points.

I think we've got this, but it's going to be ugly. I reckon we'll kick a few quick ones to start though...