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100% agree with this. But thinking back to August 2024, we've come a ways to resurrecting this club. Clear out the board which by all accounts was toxic- ✅ Not ideal to have none of them with feet under the desk as yet Get rid of Goody ✅ I couldn't see him leading us to another flag Sign up Kozzie for a long term deal ✅ Keep key players that if they all left I believe would have totally derailed the club this season (Trac, Viney, Oliver)✅

All in all a disappointing day. Yes some late goals helped the scoreline but unfortunately we were never in it. Ive been to 12 games live this year and that was the first one I feel we didn't give a whimper. Even the 10 goal flogging from Gold Coast earlier in the year we were around the mark for half the game. This game, we didn't show anything until late in the last. The distinct chasm is skills was clear throughout the day. We just kept dropping marks all day, kicks and handballs missed targets (which unfortunately is nothing new) Was also probably the quietest ive heard the Dees faithful at the G. Hard to tell when we kicked a goal as it was silent out there. I cannot fathom how poor our skills continue to be, opposition teams make the forward lead to the space or hit them on the chest at full tilt on the wing, but when I see a Melbourne player leading to a position, the kick comes in, they have to stop for slow and the defender spoils or marks over the top of them. It infuriates me that this has not been rectified or seemingly worked on. I found the idea to have Milky as the sub very strange. He's been the only forward providing some potency this year. I understand the need to manage minutes as I heard was the reason for the sub, but surely do that in game or sub him off. But he needed to start, he's so creative and has good skills. Also it's a very one dimensional player to have as Sub. If he needs a rest, or is really sore, manage him out and let's look at Kentfield, but geez he'll have 7 months starting from Saturday. Seemed crazy to me. If they dont sign him on again for next year, id be very disappointed. Im very curious about some of your thoughts for movements over this post season. Here's some to get the pot cooking May looked slow and was soundly beaten by a good opponent. May is still very good 1v1 but cant keep up with a leading forward. Would be good for a Nth Melb or the like for a year or so to help they're defence. Petracca seems very frustrated and his skills are horrendous. He went at 38% kicking efficiency this week. I for one, hope he stays but needs to work on his craft as a teammate. He's playing selfish footy, only worrying about getting the kick but not who or where the kick is going, maybe he's trying too hard. Sharp was a step behind all day and looked out of his league on Saturday. Judd McVee-unfortunately I think he'll leave. Have loved his rise last year, but has stagnated this year and is a shadow of his form last season. Tom Sparrow - Love Sparrow, but has not kept his early trajectory. Looked like a gun big bodied mid, but not sure he's got that in him. Let's hope a new coach can solidify his role and get him back to some good footy. Salem - Has his best gone past him, or is he not getting enough help from up the field Im still hopelessly optimistic for next year, Lever to have a good pre season and return to his best and be the general for the youth in the back 6, with Howes, Disco, Bowie, Riv and throw Petty back there again with Salem Like the look of Culley on the wing with Langers. Gawn in the middle with Windsor, Oliver, Langford(maybe the year after) Forward line of Milky, Fritch, Roo, Viney(defensive pressure forward) Chandler, Kozzie. Id love to get someone in to help her like a Mitch Lewis or the like, but unfortunately we hardly have anything worth coming to for a prospective player. Not a massive fan of Eddie McGuire as a Collingwood person, but as a football brain he's a very smart man. He's said multiple times we should be taking over Waverley from the Hawks when they move into their new premises for the medium term until Caulfield is up and running. Its AFL standard, closer than Casey and ready built to go, his other thoughts is to cut ties with Casey and align with Port Melbourne VFL. They have a brand new training facility.

Great Summation. Our inability to slow down the game and continually lose our head was a stark indicator of how far off we are as a team and nowhere near where we need to be as a playing group to contend for finals again. Playing kick to kick with uncontested marks for 60 seconds throughout that quarter would have given us the win.

Understandable Andy, Binman & George. But if you can drag yourselves up for a pod, christ knows we all need something

Im not 100% sure what happened last night. So many mistakes, a lack of composure and control. With 5 mins to go, we had to slow the game down, uncontested possession chains and take the heat out of the game, but our skills (or lack thereof) meant we couldn't hit easy targets. The inability too once again miss crucial last term goals. WE ONLY NEEDED ONE GOAL in the last quarter and missed gettable chances time and again. Through the game I was content with the effort and was thinking to myself, im happy with this fight and intent and was hopeful we could be on the rise into 2026. I was even working out the percentage needed to leapfrog Carlton on the ladder which was about a 75 point win at that stage. Then a couple of goals in I thought we just need one here to kill this game, but we just couldn't handle the pressure from St Kilda. Im still struggling to comprehend how that happened. I sat there for 5-10 mins at the Demon Army end just staring into oblivion until my daughter said " So are we going to go now or what?" I couldn't look any Saints supporters in the eye on the walk out as they all had a smug grin on their stupid faces. So what's the plan now, I didn't want Goody's head but there needs to be change. Gutted.......just gutted. Such a Melbourne thing to do. @Demonland Please do a pod, I know it's hard but we all need it.

The Fu$@&ing loopy handballs. Drove me insane.

It was an agonizing watch at times. You are 100% right he did so much good work then couldn’t complete the play. Whether that was take the easy chest mark, kick the goal. The mark he did take on the lead he was close to dropping. I think we had to persist with Jeffo, Roo and Fritta up forward but need the to get the ball into the good users entering onto 50. It was funny to see as there was a few times Kozzie was looking to crumb front and Centre but no one flew for the mark and was intercepted. Not sure how that happens.

That was a hard watch. One huge difference over the last year has been the gulf between our best and worst performances. Over 2021-23 we generally were consistent in our performance. On Saturday night we looked gassed very early and could never quite arrest the momentum for long enough to put a gap on Carlton. Is that a combination of the youth in the side and the building of the new game plan? Maybe, but it’s so frustrating as I was confident heading in to this game, just as I was confident before the Saints and Port games, teams around us that I felt we had the edge over. In these 3 games we played poorly but ultimately had our chances to win. This game was similar, with misses to Roo, Fritta and Jeffo late which if we were polished enough would have made the difference. Geez even the late Holding the ball free not paid to Clarry could have changed the games result. Great teams take their chances when the pressure is on, saying that at the moment we are not a great team. I’m hopelessly optimistic for a win the next 2 weeks and will be there again to support and urge others to do the same. It’s a game of moments and we are unfortunately failing a lot of those moments but I feel we can make it click next year. The call for Goodys head is warranted but I don’t see who we replace him with or how that doesn’t send us further into the doldrums for the next year or two. A crystal ball would be nice and all decisions are easy in hindsight but I don’t think the club is flush with enough cash to take the $1 million plus financial hit to sack him now. I don’t think the standards are getting driven hard enough at training and there’s some acceptance of mediocrity, otherwise surely players skills would be improving. 5 games left of 2025, we need to see who we have for next season. Keep Jeffo in although wow he had some poor moments, Roo and Fritta looks more enthused and showed good signs. Love Kolts energy and I say keep him in, but he’s gotta show something better. Who comes in for May as he’ll be out this week with Concussion whether he gets rubbed out or not. Maybe Howes? Saints has always been a bogey team for us so would love a win over them and we have to beat these teams close to us. look forward to another great Pod guys. Love all you do

6: Milkshake 5: Kozzie 4: Trac 3: Gawn 2: Rivers 1: Bowie

Well another week goes by and another tough watch. Just an impotent first quarter which cost us, we can say we could have got closer if we took our chances, or even pinched it but that is not the Melbourne DNA this season. We always seem to miss the set shot to gain the momentum and get back in the game and unfortunately it seems too easy for us to give our opposition the chance to take the momentum off us. I just cant see how we change the script with the same ball butchers in the middle. Rivers is wasted if not in the guts, he did not attend 1 Centre Bounce this week. He has been attending 50-60% of Centre Bounces in the previous weeks. DO you know why they would do this? Did Rivers perform another role for the side? We seem more dynamic with him in the Centre Bounce and obviously have more polish. Once again I really liked Tholstrups Energy, the essence of youth. Although JVR hasn't shown much this season, he has shown us he is a much better backup Ruck than Jeffo. What's the plan from here, everyone always says blood the kids, but we already have been. With Petty and Howes Out this week, here's what id like to see. Lever back in to take Howes spot and JVR back in for Pettys spot. Would be good to see JVR and Jeffo together for a few weeks and see how that goes. Look Forward to another Carthartic Poddy. Thanks guys

How disappointing was that game. Seemingly no interest in manning up the short hitup kick we just let them have it all day. Teams have done that to us before and just waltz their way from back half to forward 50 with little or no pressure. I thought we’d changed that after seeing the intense pressure we would put on the ball carrier and the next possession getter in the previous weeks. I’m not sure where we go from here now. If the boys all lose faith and the hunger for the win we could fall off a cliff in 2025 which was pretty much over before it started. I was so bullish about our finals chances but that took a hit when we lost to the saints, then the 1 point loss to Collingwood I managed to wrestle with that internally and say we probably weren’t going to win that anyway, but I saw a way in which we get on a run now, go into the bye on the back of a good win and build some momentum in the back half of the season, but now that opportunity is gone. We will be a bottom 6 team again by the looks this year which just breaks my heart. This list is so much better than that and that is what’s hurts the most. Same old issues, same personnel making the same mistakes, it’s so hard to fathom how this is not getting looked at inside the club and getting worked on. Where to from here. Well at least we won’t lose this week.

@Random Task Love this. Give the kids a good rest.

Port played their good game for the month last week so we should be able to get over the top of them.

As you’ve said time and time again. It’s needs to be a profession. These guys need the umpiring and improvement of it to be their full time job. Not a part time one. Adding the fourth umpire unfortunately means your just adding substandard umpires into the mix.

I’m a massive fan of Kolt. Really brings energy to the side. Can’t all be superstars you need some guys who bust a gut to apply pressure and do the 1 percenters.