Tom Dyson

Also the debate is over, Max Gawn is the greatest ruckman to ever play the game.

Gee our last quarters leave a lot to be desired, would love to see us just smash a team in the last quarter for once. Don't think i'm off the reservation in saying that questions have to be asked about our fitness team. nonetheless, 4 points is 4 points.

Well that end soured an enjoyable night.

Put max back on now!!

great forward pressure from chin!!

Not sure harry sharp will be able to compete better than fullerton so lets not trigger the sub just yet. He just needs to get himself to the front of the contest which is what he did last week, not sure why he is playing behind his direct opponent.

Seriously, did a bunch of melbourne supporters bully umpire 22 growing up, that guy hates us like we've run over his dog??

Maggots wearing Richmond jumpers

Over officiated game, doesn’t bode well.

Taranto should be fined for that, absolute BS

I think Jonesy and the midfield crew need some praise, 20 - 11 in centre clearances today and 18-22 in the stoppage clearances. Last year and for the first couple of rounds it felt like we couldnt buy a centre clearance so today's performance from a clearance perspective was great to see.

J Bowey - 3 votes

I know much has been made of our impotent forward half, but can we take a second to acknowledge how leaky and broken our defence has become, so far this season our opponent has an average final score of 100.3 Let that sink in, so far this season on average, we concede 100 points a game, that is mindboggling from a team that use to barely allow the opponent to get past 65. It doesn't matter if we fix everything up in the forward half if our defence continues to perform to such a poor standard.

Hard to see us winning a game this year playing like this.

what is with our players having zero awareness of where the man on the mark is???

Melky made that Harry sharp kick look a lot better than it was, fantastic mark from the milkman.

Gee scott has clearly instructed them to whack us after the mark.

theres our 1 goal for the third quarter!!

Given our fourth quarter drop offs, we could be looking at a very ugly margin. Can't even begin to comprehend how badly we are going to get smashed by freo next week.

Gonna enjoy our 2 goals in the second half.

Nic Martin absolute dog act

Garry, i get it, we can't score, we can't deliver the ball inside 50, but we don't need to hear it every 2 minutes.

As a denver fan myself, this was a ridiculous move considering the playoff's are 3 games away. IMO a move like this has to destabilise the team and jeopardise their chances at a successful playoff run (even though the ownership has cited the sacking as a catalyst to hopefully winning another championship). But more to the point of this thread, Denver shows us the completely opposite end of the spectrum to the place we find ourselves in. We've got one head office that really hasn't shown as much respect as it should for a head coach that coached the team to their first ever nba title, but is managing their franchise in an aggressive way in hopes of securing the best outcome. And on the other hand, we've got Melbourne who seem to be hanging on to Goody from a deep position of respect, but are ignoring the downwards trend our team has displayed for the last 18 or so months. Surely there's a middleground between these two points we can strive for. I don't think managing your coaching staff from an ultra-aggressive standpoint is constructive, but surely there has to be an acceptance that we can, and always will respect goody for what he did for us, but acknowledge that it's time for someone new to take us into the future.

Is there light at the end of the tunnel? And I mean that in the short to medium term, obviously if you look far enough into the future I'm sure you could contend good times are coming, but grounding ourselves in this season and next for example, is there something for us to look forward to from a team performance perspective? I'm not trying to be facetious but I'm wondering where to from here, we gave imo really good effort for three quarters and played some good footy within that and we still never looked like threatening from a scoring perspective. Maybe the argument is we need to give 'the new gameplan' more time but I'm not convinced on what we have delivered so far that either a) we have a discernible new game plan or b) that even if we do, its an effective one. It seems like after the first month we should be reassessing expectations compared with pre-season discussions, but what should those new expectations be? Interested in whatever thoughts the boys have?

Out: Petty, Sharp, Spargo, Fritsch Ins: Lever, Laurie, Billings, Fullarton I know the mere suggestion of Billings will be rebuffed. Maybe you look at Sestan or Mentha as well. Kynan Brown maybe gets another chance.