Hopeful Demon

Omg ANB just played the game of his life! 31 disposals and 3 goals. What a man.

It's one thing to support, but it's another thing to be completely delusional. Carlton are a [censored] awful side and we had absolutely zero excuse to lose to them. Even North and Richmond managed to knock them off ffs! If the umpiring stopped us from beating Carlton then how come it didn't stop a bunch of other teams from smacking them in the previous weeks? But then again, you seem to think that there is a secret scheme to get poor old Melbourne.

Imagine if Pickett wasn't in this side? This season would be completely unwatchable and it's painful enough already.

[censored] pathetic. We're playing Carlton ffs

ANB kicked nearly 30 goals in a season as a 22 year old mate. That comparison doesn't work.

Build Melksham a statue

He's so much better than Lever right now

That was just goddamn awful. Same old story as any other game this year. No system, no cohesion and no composure at all. North should really be a couple of goals up. Lever and Salem have become liabilities, Trac's confidence is shot, and Kolt just doesn't look up to it. I'm mesmerised that Tmac was dropped before Lever. He looks so much better than him that it's not funny.

We are just so bad. It's depressing.

"BuT NeW GaME PlaNs TaKE TiMe"

That was the most Melbourne quarter I've ever seen. [censored] kicking inside the f50, boring ball movement, and of course gifting the opposition a goal right before the siren.

Melksham and Pickett are my two favourite players right now

He played like Chris Judd at his peak in that game. He was bursting through stoppages at lightning speed and kicking goals for fun. He was only 23 at the time and I thought we'd be getting performances like that for many years to come.

Despite how grim this season has been I thought I might continue my love fest for Kozzie. How good is this guy? The biggest knock on his game in previous years was his inconsistency but 20+ possessions and 2 goals minimum have almost become a norm for him this season. I will be seething if he doesn't at least make the AA squad of 44.

It's just so depressing that our two best midfielders of this century have regressed so rapidly in such a short amount of time. Even last year I was horrified at the thought of either of them leaving but now it just doesn't phase me. It's a shame because they both looked great in the practice game against Freo.

Honestly I've found this season so draining and deflating to the point where I just don't really care. I know that sounds bad but that's just how it is. My only consolations from this game is that Pickett boosted his AA chances even further and Melksham continued his heart-warming resurgence.

Wrong thread

Melksham and Pickett were really the only two shining lights. Other than that it's hard for me to think of too many positives. A few junk time goals made it look far more respectable than it really was. Gold Coast could easily have been 10 goals up at quarter time. We would have been absolutely [censored] if Melksham wasn't playing. It's really not a good sign that we basically had to rely on an injury prone 33 year old to carry our forwardline. We desperately need a change up fast. Our gameplan just isn't holding up. This club seems to have this delusion that we can keep doing the same thing every week and get a different result.

I really wish we'd stop picking and choosing when to show up. It's infuriating.

What worries me most about this whole thing is that I don't really care

I hope like hell we can belt Carlton like this when we play them. They look so gettable.

Yeah they were always pretty inoffensive to me even when they were decent

I feel happy for north. [censored] Carlton

Jefferson's a good example. He's shown nothing at AFL level yet and you keep telling us that he's got it. He's not and never will be a quarter of the player Gawn is. And I hate to say it... Oliver. I know he's been a brilliant player for us and I've still got a soft spot for him but you never held him accountable for a litany of poor performances that he had last year. If Gawn ever dropped off to the same level that he did you'd be calling for him to go and never come back. You also started a thread on Brodie Grundy and suggested that he was better than Gawn when literally no one else has that opinion.

You seem to have completely different standards for different players. It's weird how little you give Gawn credit considering some of the players you give free passes to.