Red But Mostly Blue

100% I quite like the team. Lots of future guns. And they played with fire and heart today. Good on them.

I don’t get the Max narrative. He didn’t have a great day but a) I don’t believe that alone (obviously) cost us the game. He’s done so much for the club. Carried us on many an occasion. My question is: so what? If he has a personal family issue, firstly that should remain personal, and secondly what about everyone else? Did they all have personal family issues? Because the team pretty much as a whole and almost without exception, were shocking. In round 2, the ‘newly reborn’ team collectively capitulated to a bottom 4 team. That’s the story, not Max.

I’m so sad. All that hope, the talk, and while it isn’t over, it’s only round 2, we just suffered our WORST loss in Vic in SIX years at the hands of a likely bottom 4 team (by no means a bad team and certainly on the rise, but still), and yet none of this is new, the signs have been there for a long while, and nobody has done a thing about it. This loss reminds me of the loss to the Eagles last year. They looked like world beaters after us and were then pantsed by pretty much everyone after that game. Same will happen here. We continue our downward slide. We deserve better.

Lessons incoming… I can excuse almost everything. All teams can have an off day. But we 100% yielded to a bottom 4 team. We are not defined by one match, but today we were pea hearts and I don’t know what we can say about that at the beginning of the season. Round 2. After all the pow wows and culture and what not. All talk. I just bought a membership for my little one. So good.

No need to be alarmed, we’re 3.3% above the bombers on the ladder.

This is the truth

I don’t mind losing but we have been soft all day and completely given up.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR TACKLING? NONE OF OURS STICK AND ALL OF THEIRS, AND OTHERS DO? That was gross. rabble

We just got bang bang banged

Not all is lost, friends. Learnings incoming…

Larkey is a gun and we are soft as pi**

Reckon we can play one good quarter?

Terrible pass into 50. Who to???

Wow so lame

My kid is starting to get into footy. He’s watching this game and asking what is happening? He’s 5 and full of wonder and hope and innocence.

Embarrassing Do we take any contested marks on the wings???

Need to put that half behind us. We will have to, because playing like that, we’re a bottom 4 team. Reset. Come out, with our fingers out, playing gutsy, accountable, smart CONSISTENT good footy.

Making things very hard for ourselves. They moved that way too quickly. Embarrassing.

Geez we’re sloppy and inconsistent

WHAT WAS TMAC DOING??? WHY HAVE WE COME OUT SLEEPING.. AGAIN!!??

Just in case anyone forgot why Spargo is in the team and why we’ve missed him and someone like him, that pass into 50 to Langdon (?) is perfect evidence. Lowers the eyes, skilled, smart. Nice pass by Salo at the end, too. Better end to the game hopefully we run off from that. Nice to see Fritter on the board, too. Let’s go!!! 🔥

Yuck. They’re waltzing the ball everywhere. Lucky we’re not 4-5 down.

Nice, Hendo 🔥

Have we turned up yet? (Fair play to the Roos, they have come out with the fire I wanted us to come out with).

Nobody seemed to make much noise about this during the game!? And they do love to drag us during commentary, so pretty rough outcome. Wonder if there’s a stat for a goal and suspension on debut.