MurDoc516

We've had games in which we didn't give up 4+ goal runs. We've also had games in which we did and still won easily. Our best football with the talent on our list means we are a good team in the grand scheme of things. However i doubt we will ever be a great team if we can't stop this habit or atleast match the numbers of the current top teams.

It depends what value you put into the words of media pundits. As i mentioned above Paul Roos and Brown both believe Lever is playing way too high and we aren't setting up behind the ball correctly. Crawford thinks we are a young team who play for themselves instead of doing what good teams do and following the plan given by the coaching staff to the letter for four quarters. Crawford also mentioned that this is normal for a young team that's on the verge of being a good team, but i don't think that patience is going to solve everything. I personally take a lot of stock in what Roosy has to say. The set up behind the ball is wrong, but our defence is lazy and he also showed footage of players not tracking loose runners into defensive 50.

We are a "good team" our best is better than most. Yet we allow teams to give us a game, when we should be burying them like good teams do. Before you bring up Carlton, Brisbane and North as examples to show this isn't a Melbourne problem, please realise we are playing to be the best while they are rebuilding. Compare us to GWS, Hawks, Cats etc. and see this problem of giving up runs of goals in a game is the reason why we are not two steps ahead of our current position. I watched the Couch earlier this week and our former coach showed some damning footage of our set up behind the ball. Lever is playing infront of our key defenders (O. Mac and Frost) instead of behind like traditional sweepers do. Our defensive line is 15 metres too high and is exposing us to a ball over the top and allowing smaller forwards expose our lack of pace in defence.

21 times in 26 game we've conceded 4+ goals on a run.

Everyone here has something against every player in the squad. It's almost pointless asking who should come in and who should go out. All i can say is play Hogan at full [censored] forward so we have an out ball. Bring Hannan IN for Harmes and have him and Jeffy play off Hogan. Hunt in for Frost, we don't need extra talls and i've accepted the fact we can't defend so bring Hunt in for his attacking strength. Also bring Tyson in for any of the crabs we don't need. I'd expect a big response, but if it's another [censored] performance the season isn't dead, but hope is lost of doing anything meaningful in finals. Edit: Also any chance we can pump Viney up on painkillers and get him to go out and there and rip the tigers apart. Can't stand that muppet [censored] Rance. Bernie can get a life time membership if he goes in knocks that [censored] out.

Hawthorn clearly aren't a threat if we are spending the day getting a tan.

two and one

Never thought i'd see the day. Gentleman we are free.

We could lose every game this season and i wouldn't care as long as we beat North. I [censored] hate North, every encounter with a North fan has led me to hating the club more. Not to mention two games i've attended have both been North belting us by 60+ and 90? points. If we win i'll make sure every North fan knows about it. It's all their [censored] club has going for them. I hope they move to Tassy or fold, [censored] north melbourne.

Our whole defence minus Oscar has been average. Lever is def giving more than a Wagner or other fringe players. Sorry for exaggerating his influence, but he is nowhere near as bad as people claim.

That's such nonsense. You can't expect a player to not make mistakes just because they get paid more.

I don't really see the problem with Lever? Geelong targeted him, but as we all could see it was our forward and midfield pressure that allowed Geelong to rip us open. After half time Lever was apart of a defence that gave up 17 points and did his job. Don't think Lever did a thing wrong against Brisbane. He got sold into trouble by Tyson and Wagner a couple of times, but i think people are judging him on the fact Brisbane kicked 7 in a row. Why don't you look at the whole team like you should and not pick out a single player.

Surely we have decent cap space? Vince is on the way out at the end of the season and even then i doubt he is on massive wages. Also Lewis is done within a year or two. Does anyone have any sources as to what our players are on? I feel like if we are close to topping out our cap space with our current squad than that's a massive error. We overpaid for Lever yes, but our only star right now is Hogan and he isn't on a million a year. We should also be saving cap space for new deals for the younger potential players. It's noticable that with the new rise to the cap that Petracca and Oliver got new deals straight away.

1. We won 2. We stopped the rot 3. Our first half was good and all the players know they could've done better.

His effort to stop Cameron was superb

[censored] sake bugg

Good mark Leverrrrrr

we love selling players into trouble ffs

damn what a goal that would've been

Great start. If we don't fade out i can see a big win, Brissy really lacking that ball movement off half back.

I've made the decision to stop complaining about selection.

We aren't in trouble. Round 1 doesn't mean anything. Just last year a team went from 0-6 to playing in finals.

Don't agree. Prime Geelong dominated on handball game. Maybe it's outdated, but we ain't a bad team and during our run last season we could've beaten anyone before the team fell apart because of injuries.

Terrible call to blame Lewis for reacting in the heat of the moment. Ump seemed a bit think skinned but we don't know what he said 100%, but i think it was the classic your [censored] joking. Everyone who blames him for giving away the goal should go after all the players who had a part to play in letting the Cats score 14. Just like how Gawn's miss can happen at anytime, so can a ref overreacting to a players response.

1. Nowhere close to our best and we should've won 2. Tyson, Viney and Brayshaw importance was felt 3. Gawn's back