Red But Mostly Blue

Great way of looking at it. At 7 days old he doesn't have tear ducts yet, so it's about as effective as our gameplan right now haha Same here mate

The great thing about this club is that I'm so broken by it that nothing else can hurt me. Need to look at positives. I'm indestructible.

In the rooms after the game, Maxxy said we played for 90 minutes? What game was he at? He said our defensive contests held up, as well. Yeah, we didn't get blown off the park (thanks, Tigers), but we lost by 43 points!

Absolutely! Poor kid...

Ugh. We're terrible. I got my 7-day-old son to watch this game. I told him when he was born that he's going to be a Dee. No joke, he started crying after the siren. What have I done?

This is the only viable explanation for the complete lack of run, fight and execution of basic skills. We're the worst team in the league. I am dreading playing the roos.

Where do we get our own Stack? I wish our boys would play like their jobs depended on it. If I was this garbage at my job, there is no way I'd keep my job. Goody can talk about connection all he wants, but we don't even have the basic skills in check.

Weid has copped a lot. I don't know why, that was a great point! Only 36 to go...

It's a pretty sad state of affairs that we're only 3 goals down, but I can't see how we could possibly kick 'that many' goals...

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?!!