Chook

He's still best 22 but the problem for him and us is that he can only play one role that we know of, and he is soft as butter. The wing role in our gameplan needs to make contests, and you can pretty much pen him down for losing 75% of his contests. I still have nightmares of his game against Sidebottom in the finals last year. I say this as someone who thought he was our most important player in 2021.

Caleb Windsor is one of the best talents I've seen come through in years. He's going to be an absolute star.

Come on it's Collingwood surely. Even if it wasn't Collingwood before last year it has to be them now.

Probably slipped on the Toyota logo.

Not to make the non-MFC thread about us, but the speed teams are playing at this season is worrying. I don't think we've got the capacity to adapt to this with our list and gameplan. Might be a long one this year.

Welp. Some serious soulsearching required by this club after tonight's performance. Feels like a continuation of the end of last year.

Jack Viney you absolute king of Melbourne.

Unless you want to pay 2 million dollars for 2 ruckman, most clubs just have to deal with a bad 2nd ruck.

Jeez Bowza, that was courageous. Hopefully it's just a bit of nervous damage (otherwise known as a stinger).

There you go Fritta!!! That's how we do it.

Damn that was class from Judd McVee.

Gawn needs to meet him halfway. If Gawn is remaining stationary and Grundy is simply taking the available space then fair play. Gawn needs to be more proactive.

Goody should put him on early in the 3rd for Laurie. Why wouldn't you exchange an ammo's level player for a proven silky mid with great skills?

Disagree. Players are having cracks at goal and missing when they should be handing it off to players in better positions. That's nerves. They all want to be the man to fix our forward line issues, when the way to do it is to hit someone in a good spot with low pressure on them so they can kick it. It's not a hard concept to grasp but in the heat of the moment we all seem to go to pot and spray it.

Thank god for our full forward and centre-half-forward Eddie Langdon and Jack Viney for kicking the goals for us tonight. Honestly lads that was atrocious. Surely this isn't the gameplan? Either the players are absolute morons or the coaching staff are. I don't care which but we need to figure it out pronto.

Where are the deft knock-ons and measured kicks into the 50 we saw plenty of vs Carlton when there was nothing on the line? I think the players freak out under pressure and revert to garbage habits. Strange for a premiership winning team but I guess that's where we're at. Ultimately these bad habits are the fault of the coaches though I suppose.

Cmon Nibbler you ripper!

Wait for him to get Melbourne'd (yes, I'm bringing it back.)

Bailey Laurie, Charlie Spargo, Ed Langdon, please get out of my football side.

Sorry but Bailey Laurie is awful.

Nah we're playing sshhiittee and not taking our ample chances.

Great passage of play, but look where we kick it to - the pocket, which may as well be the 10th row. Looks like it's the exact same Melbourne we saw last year. No difference whatsoever.

Gosh Papley is good. It's not that hard to be accurate now is it Fritta and Spargs?

What is going on with Bailey Fritsch's goal-sense?

I'm really not seeing it with Bailey Laurie. Blake Howes looks unready at the moment too.