Tom Dyson

I always thought Bowza was a measured composed footballer, but how many times has he thrown it on the boot today with zero regard or spatial awareness??

jack billings i actually think is a decent enough footballer who tries pretty hard, but by gee he has zero goal sense

50 metre penalty against freo cues commentary from biased WA commentators that freo are hard done by, kayo commentary this year for interstate games going to be painful.

Midfield are doing their job, but we can't defend freo on transition and we can't retain the footy when it goes inside our f50. Watch one melb v freo game you've watched them all haha.

Injury in the first minute, can we forfeit the game now??

Also keen to play if any spots are left!

saw the last 10ish mins of that quarter, dont want to jump the gun but clayton is looking good.

But it was a football act riiiigghttt, moore should apologise for making contact with kozzy's elbow. if the roles were reversed moore would receive a medal from the afl exec for hitting kozzy. Sick of the bias and flagrant misuse of power that always goes against us.

I really don’t understand our zone off sometime. I understand that it gives us structure behind the ball but it seems to leave the corridor wide open. i also concede that our zone off is never going to work when we’re turning the ball over this much

Wonder how much money they put in the brown paper bag today for the umpires.

AFL exec to umpires before the game: get Collingwood into finals at all cost, give them as many free kicks as it takes. honestly though this is hard to watch and say that this is a fair game.

Collingwood fans cheering that criminal makes me as angry as I’ve ever been. the world would be a better place without this supporter base.

Commentators not even commentating when Melbourne kicks a goal, this bias is genuinely sickening.

Our disposal is comedically bad.

Just had another very sad realisation while reading through the postgame thread, that as supporters we're back to trying to pull out positives out of what was really a drubbing to make ourselves feel better. Sad that we're back in this position after only being up the top for a short period of time.

The midfield really is the biggest concern. When you give up that much territory off centre bounce it makes sense that the oppo has however many more scoring shots. So the midfield, what is the issue? I don't think its purely a personnel problem, sure the addition of tracc to the midfield would help but before he got injured he was looking like playing a lot more time forward anyway so not sure we can attribute our problems to a lack of tracc. Therefore, imo I think its clearly a system/coaching issue. I don't think its a coincidence that we lose yze and we have our worst midfield year for a very long time. I questioned earlier in the year whether McQualter has had a damaging impact on our mids and i'm posing the question again because i can't see another obvious reason for how our midfield is performing at the moment. Maybe its a lack of effort by the players but I really don't think thats true, they may not have played well tonight but i still thought they tried hard. Interested in what others think has gone wrong with the midfield?? (Also acknowledge that tonight around half of their points were off the back of turnover but I still think it holds true that our midfield has been woeful this year and if we want any chance of being a competitive side again, that is what we need to fix asap.)

Daylight between the post and the goal, but no disallow the goal. The arc is the most corrupt display of bias I’ve ever seen.

After really fighting hard last week, did not expect us to be as soft as we have been today.

these umps are [censored] cheats

Onya melk, others take notice please

how do they have one out the back every time??????

Getting bummed by the umps

Would be lovely if we manned up there best forward.

Freo actually havent kicked a goal from stoppage, its the turnovers we need to tidy up. Nicely done windsor!!

So proud of the group for tonight. Had to beat the umpires, the commentators on Essendon the whole night, the media writing us off the whole week, no max no tracc. (Aside from the last 7 minutes that definitely got the heart rate going) in tough conditions, the will to keep cracking in at the contest made me just so unbelievably proud.