Red But Mostly Blue

THAT’S HOLDING THE BALL!!

GRUNDDDYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! Love to see it!!

So unlucky, Kozzie

Goals fell great, right!!?? Let’s get some more of them!!

My takeaway from the first half is that we’re in this thanks to some solid effort around the ground, our goal kicking has gone to hell, and we CAN win this. But will we? hint: it’ll take more than points to do it.

Bobby Hill free? I’d take him. Knows where the goals are!!

Yep millions of learnings. Players (in a premiership team) are still learning. Can’t wait to see what we learn 😊

Light years between these teams.

Goes without saying that the we can’t give the pies those sorts of chances.

I don’t think we’ve handled being the hunted team very well, as demonstrated by our sorry record against the pies, even in our premiership year. We went into the last few contests as favourites and today we don’t which makes sense. By rights they win today, they’re playing better, are in better form and we have not found our groove yet. BUT Our best can beat them, so am obviously hoping to see that today. Honestly I’ll be ok with a loss and I’ll feel better about the second half of the year as long as the loss is narrow and the boys dig in for FOUR QUARTERS! Would LOVE a win though. Go Dees!!

Now that the dust has settled a bit, it was a very ugly game, but what I loved was McVee, JVR (best game?), Kozzie’s goal, some of our good defensive work and Maxy’s goal at the end.

I’ll start with the 4 points. Great. But was that the worst game that has ever been played?? We need to do something pretty drastic very quickly. Very worried for next week. How far are we from 2021??

AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH

Missed Salo’s run

Not high on Rivers!!!!??

Pretty sure Weitering ran off

Summary so far: both teams bad but we’re lucky they’ve been worse. What is up with our kicking? How many times have we kicked it straight to them? That’s not even counting the kicks to dodgy contests. So bad. Win or lose we need to be A LOT better against the Pies.

Still crazy sloppy movements going forward but that’s a nice goal from JVR.

Geez we always look so mental going forward. Lucky Kozzie is the only guy who could have kicked that. Good goal.

Needless to say we need to win tonight to start the course correction for the year, and we should, but I won’t lie I’m worried given how wobbly we’ve been and we’re the world champions at playing bad/underperforming teams into form. Knowing our luck, McKay will kick 5.0 tonight. Doubt and fear aside haha we should be ok. Hopefully. Go Dees! I’ve tipped us by 20.

On the upside for the blues we will probably play them into form next week and knowing our luck they’ll be dead eyes all day!! McKay and Curnow will kick 5 each. Leading us straight to the Pies who are travelling nicely and yet to play 16, 17th or 18th. Now, where’s my drink?

On another note, good to see Jackson trying again. Hadn’t seen that for a while.

Now that we've just lost to freo on our home deck maybe some of the apologists here might stop making excuses for how poorly we are travelling? Are we still learning?? Maybe it's ok to follow a team who is not as terrible as we were for so many years? It's ok as long as we can beat up on 16th-18th team. We’re wasting our generational talent. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm certainly angry. That was [censored]. Ah well we will always have 2021.

Thanks mate, just noticed all the typos haha sorry just really frustrated.

We can revel in a time where Melbourne is OK to good vs what we have been in recent memory, but if we do we ignore the fact that we just aren’t doing very well (beating up on easy beats) and we could do so much better. We’re out coached and wasting generational talent and it’s frustrating. I’m not a sad sack I just know the better teams in recent history have not frustrated their fan bases as much as ours does. What are we doing!!!???