Red But Mostly Blue

Haha I love this answer, thanks mate. Lucky coffee and wine are my jam 🤣🤣

I’m normally very positive but still feeling pretty deflated about Thursday. So I like reading stuff like this, even if my gut is telling me, or maybe just preparing me, for a loss. A lot of the game is in the head, I think 0-3 in recent finals will either inspire or put doubt in our group. Honestly I felt if there was motivation to avenge it should have been on show on Thursday, not via a spirited 4th qtr effort, but fire from the first bounce, which is what the pies did. They started the game like they had a point to prove. Anyway, I hope you’re right. Even with a cobbled together makeshift forward being serviced by dumb repeat bombing into the 50 we are a much better side. But they have their tails up after a first finals win. Let’s see. Our group certainly has a point to prove, let’s hope they make it and we don’t hear about more learnings for next year’s ‘point to prove’.

The Saints have been boring and wont be missed but I won’t trash talk their finals exit until we beat the blues and save ourselves from another straight sets exit 😬

Whatever happens can we just START FAST AND HUNGRY? Show us 0-3 in the last 3 finals burns. Like, actually burns. Enough to come out breathing fire from the FIRST SECOND until the LAST SECOND, and bury these cheating [censored]. We can’t go down 0-4 and 2 straight sets against the blues. We just can’t.

True. But we’ll still bomb the ball in a billion times and score 6.28…🤣😭

Agree with both assessments and you’re not wrong, we need to beat either. We are better and can, but the usual Melbourne conundrum is which one of our teams will turn up?

So who do we want to play here? Mind you it almost doesn’t matter as we’re our own worst enemy and will probably end up beating ourselves next week. But still, who suits us better?

YEP

The blues seem to touch a lot of balls on the line hey?

So I’ve had the benefit of some sleep and this is what I came up with: Firstly I hope Gus is ok. I can only imagine the emotions/pain he’s going through. We were beaten by a better team on the night. We had our chances to take the game. 4+ out of bounds is seriously not good enough. 1-2 goals from those and we win. But bad kicking is bad footy as we know. We might be missing forwards but the guys who missed those should not be missing like that. Bad night for Jack to have a quiet one. We needed someone to tear the game apart. Kept expecting him to do it but he didn’t. Too many guys in this category. The Pies came out hot. That lead won them the game. … so my question is. If we were burning in the guts from last year’s straight sets exit, why wasn’t it US who came out breathing fire. The Pies looked like they had something to prove. Not us. It looks like we wilted under the pressure until, as always, it was too late and we had nothing left to lose. Now we face the prospect of another straight sets exit. I’m not even confident we’ll beat (the Blues?). Might be my deflated self talking. But we go with no Gus, JVR, and a whole bunch of guys who are now 0-3 in recent finals and showed no fire in the belly when they walked out. Nothing to avenge apparently. The blues will smell blood in the water, and why wouldn’t they? Ugh. Our premiership window 😢

We need a Curnow type gun who might be able to mark one or two of those dumb bombs into the 50, since we are intent on dumping the ball forward without bothering to look. Hopefully we think about this when we go shopping for players this year.

How can it burn in the guts? We were apparently out to avenge a straight set finals exit last year and we came out like that? If that didn’t bring us fire in the belly, nothing won’t. We’re a decent chance for another straight sets exit.

3 out of bounds in the last qtr!! Are we now finals chokers? Consecutive losses: 3 with pretty poor performances in each. Also bugger off Richo and Maynard had no care for how Gus was. Just trying to defend his thuggery. So deflated. Blues/swans will know we are gettable. Where did we go tonight???!!

ANOTHER NON SCORE??!!

We need a real quick one here to give us some time to get another.

Not good enough tmac

3 goals with basically the whole quarter is VERY doable. Especially if we keep the pressure manic. Run them off their feet.

What a surprise cox being a dirty dog

There’s TMAC! Welcome to the game. Get involved everyone! It’s only 4 goals. Doable if kick goals, yeh?

We need 26 to win and we have scored 33 in 3 quarters… (That’s without the pies kicking a single point in the last quarter mind you)

GET ANGRY!!!! GET FIRED UP!! 7 minutes, let’s put a few on and flex in the last. I think we’re the fitter team and can run it out we just need a window and to capitalise on possession and forward entries

Wow Unmarked in the 50 Dees v Blues I guess We are the new finals wobble team. Completely wilted under the pressure tonight. Staring down 4 consecutive f finals losses and a a very tricky game against likely the Blues.

We just can’t score. Still nobody standing up. Poor

FFS

Richo is a deadset gronk Hate his voice He was a sook as a player. I’m happy he got no success at the tigers. Now he’s a cretinous, biased dropkick with the mic.