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A 27-28 year old would do the trick. Take the best backman for a couple of years while JVR develops.

Nup. I fear for next year. Brown - knee is cooked TMac - will be 30 Weid - potentially had his last chance JVR - will take a couple of years to develop Jacko - Out the door We are going to have to get creative and pluck a KF from somewhere

I see it the opposite of this. Backline is fine. Need more pressure up the ground, and especially in the fwd line, preventing the opposition from setting up end to end goals.

Spot on. Couldn’t understand why BB didn’t spend more time as the deep target last night. Understand he can be effective leading up the wing when we have another big fwd target deep. But what was the thinking last night?

go and lock yourself down Dan.

Melksham not much pressure either. Obviously a bit different with him playing a def fwd role, but still 4 out of 6 forwards applying minimal forward half pressure, could be where we break down.

Would love to hear what the coaches thought of bombing to the top of the square to Melk + Fritsch against Howe / Moore or similar. Often when BB had been working up the ground to be more of a CHF target outside 50. Is this poor coaching, poor execution by the players or both?

Melksham on Moore looked a big fail to me. Often Melk was where a KF should be positioned. And the players kicking inside 50 looked confused:- do I kick to an undersized forward, on a gun back, in the best position, or do I kick to someone near the boundary?

The question is do great or even good teams, squander the opportunity:- right on the eve of finals, lock in top 4, everything to play for, and we couldn’t handle the moment.

Feel free to take my name. R21, and we lost in a similar manner to other losses. That changes a few assumptions for me.

A big hit to use “loaders” tonight! More than happy to put my hand up and admit when wrong. Absolutely no excuses tonight. And the similarity with other “loading” losses just too uncanny. Sure loading is a big factor, but more than happy to acknowledge I placed too big a weighting on how big a factor it is/was. Well done to others who favoured other factors. That second half, was just really weak in so many different ways. Sorry guys, but I fear this year will go down as a wasted golden opportunity.

Wanted to be like Draper. Really poor Max. Key moment of the game as well

For the first time this year, I agree with this view. really really poor.

A 10 year old sitting next to me, worked out the damage Sidebottom was doing. Why do we have no ability to react / re-jig things during a game?

No excuses tonight. Not acceptable. The better team, and somehow managed to drop it. Could/should have kicked a goal to go ~30 points up at half time. Instead allowed them a cheap one, and a manageable 17 point half time lead. Something missing I fear. Premiership teams don’t drop that kind of game.

Too late to get this on our banner?

Our players have learnt to deal with expectation, and success, but many of our supporters haven’t. Minds still programmed as if Mark Neeld is coach.

Which is what we like. Won 12 on the trot interstate with some hostile crowds. The more hate and booing from the pies, the better we will play.

Round 21, Melbourne vs Collingwood. 1 Vote, Melbourne, J.Viney 2 votes, Melbourne, E. Langdon 3 votes, Melbourne, and taking the lead in the 2022 Brownlow. C…………………..Oliver

How good will it look when we win though.

Love the confidence & self-belief. Statement game coming up.

Definite lack of fitness, hunger and ruthlessness, that he will magically re-discover in the next 2 weeks.

Don’t stress OD. Our game plan doesn’t rely on a gun KPF. Sure they are handy and help, but when our defensive zone, 2 way running, midfield dominance is all in check, then just some kind of “scarecrow” type KF will be more than adequate. Biggest myth in football is the mighty demons “forward 50 woes”

Credit to Caro. She nailed this one.

Just had the unfortunate experience of watching Lloyd and Ross Lyon on FC (2 blokes that hate us, and wrote us off recent weeks) Apparently we beat Freo because Matthew could identify 20 seconds in that our ruthnesness and hunger was much improved. BUT the 2 $&@@$ did tip us to beat the filth. Ross even said “we are the real deal again” How do we get Binman on channel 9 / foxtel next year?