Hellfire Dub

I sat behind the goals on level 1 until half time and level 4 till 3/4 time. I think that's the lowest Demon contingent I've ever seen at the G and can you blame fans for not showing up when the professionals didn't want to be there. I was surrounded by 5h1t3 hawks everywhere and the sound of their bandwagon rolling along. I normally stay till the bitter ends but today was the first day I left at 3/4 time when we had just 4 goals on the board. Abysmal performance and negligible pride.

Christian Petracca?

If he keeps progressing then Harvey Langford will be a candidate

Although I was annoyed about the result with our midfield playing poorly and Windsor getting injured is a pain, there were definitely positives yesterday. I thought we looked different and better without Goodwin. (Please don't use the Eagles game as a comparison because I was there and they looked like a young VFL level side.) Players yesterday were actually leading and getting rewarded, taking marks or grabbing the crumbs. Goal kicking was sharper. The second half was genuinely exciting, and we actually looked competitive. Changes were being made on the fly. Young lads like Culley and Adams showed they might be decent players. The standout difference was how enjoyable that game was as a spectacle. The fans were getting into it and we came close to winning that game. There were smiles on the players’ faces and they restored a bit of pride in the jumper. It all felt like a step in the right direction and a relief from the constrained, overwrought defence-first mindset of Goodwin. I'm excited again about the prospect of us playing positive football under what I hope will be a competent new coach that rejuvenates the team.

Some of her insights on clubs and the AFL are interesting, but that column was a pathetic attack on our club and a blatant attempt to stop us getting a decent prospective coach. Examples like this go way beyond editorial comment into the realm of bias and vitriol. If tigers were a homeless club she'd be banging on about the injustice of it every week in all her media outlets and forcing the AFL to balance them up. She has a bitter hatred for the Dees and it twists her content into shrill bile like that article. It will be nice to see Dimma do well with GCS as that will stick in her craw. I hope we also get our off field management and training facilities sorted as well as a good coach despite her undermining us at every turn.

I was annoyed about the result; mids didn't do great and it's upsetting to see Windsor injured, but on the positive side... Our players were leading yesterday and being rewarded and taking marks or gathering crumbs. Goal kicking looked better The second half of the game was exciting to watch. We looked competitive. Changes were made. Young lads like Culley and Adams might be alright. Players were smiling and enjoying themselves as were fans. There was pride in the jersey

Well we didn't want Homer Simpson eh, but if he's ruled himself out then Bucks kinda has us by the nuts. I'm worried the MFC will offer him a 7-9 year deal on mad money with no KPIs or protective get-out clauses

Send this to your Collingwood frenemies. Collywobble

@Norm Smith's Curse I've always wanted Longmire. Plenty of times we've seen him change things up mid match to totally turn the game in their favour. Even with their home advantage and all the AFL assistance that is still a mightily impressive record of a Win: Loss ratio

Unfortunately Karma disrupted their game plans but didn't tackle the right defensive offender

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I agree with all your points Redleg. The other critical thing is that the successful candidate has to really want it. They need to be driven to achieve success with us and have the vision and desire to lead us there with them. My preference is Longmire, but I don't want someone doing it half-hearted with their mind/family in Sydney; or just doing it for the money.

He kicks well to other players but scores too infrequently. Although we desperately need better kicks and someone with his vision, I think the latter part is emblematic of our forward woes. He's also small and a bit slower after recent injuries. I know his role was forward pressure as per the coach's defence-first mindset but all of this makes him a very frustrating player in my opinion. I think he's definitely on the list of possible trades and I wouldn't lament him leaving for other opportunities. I hope whoever coaches us next can recruit or else develop some of our better skilled players to play this role and score more than Spargs.

We may as well have waited till the end of the season to minimise compensation. I reckon fans and sponsors forced the issue though. Hopefully we have a decent replacement lined up who knows about football? I also hope that the position doesn't sit vacant for the next 6 to 9 months!

I was there with one of my kids doing halftime Auskick and scoring their first goal in a stadium. Why was the roof closed on such a beautiful day?

Except at Melbourne where we'll double it with no KPIs

There's actually a perverse incentive for Goodwin to lose this game. He'd get sacked and the club would have to pay him in full for the remainder of the year and next year while he sits on a beach. Our club writes even better contracts than the state government of Victoria. No matter what happens we'll pay you ++++++++++

It you don't let in SEVEN unanswered goals in a row, then you're not panicking about drawing the game. If you don't let in the EIGHTH unanswered goal then you're not in a situation where you're panicking and making mistakes like the 6-6-6. (I'll bet those umpires never warned us earlier in the game either). Everything in that last quarter up to those last two goals was disgraceful and unacceptable. The play around the EIGHTH and NINTH goals was shameful and pitiful. The situation was comical to everyone else outside the Demons including Ross Lyon. St Kilda had scored TWO goals per quarter prior to that. Either this capitulation was intentional; and my conspiracies are either: a statement to force the ousting of the coach; or some nefarious betting windfalls; or else it's a genuine failure of leadership. Whatever the cause we shouldn't be in a position with this list where we've fallen so low and we're losing so badly. Therefore it's on the players and the coach @Macca, but the main reason we're in this position is poor coaching at all levels, poor leadership on and off field through the club. I'm waiting for the administration to do the necessary and protect the club's position and secure its future instead of worrying about the feelings of some really highly paid but inadequate staff.

Judging by the unlikely outcome it looks like some Demons players had secured big odds on the Saints too during three quarter time! Am I joking!?

Does anyone else worry about some of our really inexplicable losses? We know some of our players have "personal issues", but is there anyone else who worries that there are players betting on us to lose certain games when the odds are massive? I'd guess that odds on us losing at 3QT were just about maximum ever offered. I wish we could rule that out as a possiblity. I know it's human nature to try and find causes for tragedy so my mind conjures up that or else that players want Goodwin gone as the reason for us to suddenly play so badly after three decent quarters.

So what were the odds on us losing at 3QT? Is that the reason?

I want to talk about leadership: If twenty senior players on really high salaries agreed to forego $50k for one season it would be enough to terminate Simon (Record breakingly) Badloss' contract a year early without the club suffering any more financial loss and embarrassment. Show some leadership Demons

I want to talk about leadership: If twenty senior players on really high salaries agreed to forego $50k for one season it would be enough to terminate Simon (Record breakingly) Badloss' contract a year early without the club suffering any more financial loss and embarrassment. Show some leadership Demons

In the press conference Terrible Loss said it wasn't good enough and he was right. He said they need to ensure it never happens again and he was right. He said the club needs to become a ruthless club and he was right. It wasn't good enough. It should never happen again, (it probably won't as it's a record loss). We should be ruthless and sack him. Shameful woeful pitiful effort Simon

Maxy was on the front bar during the week joking about why he won't take a bounce during a game because he wants to keep that record intact as the only player never to do it. He thinks it's a record that won't be broken for a long time into the future. Well now he's part owner of another record, albeit unwanted where his team have thrown away the largest margin at 3/4 time. That casual discussion about records shows our players are conscious of their actions and there's no way they could be unintentionally that bad. I have to hope that was a statement of protest? Shameful shameful performance by Melbourne and an utterly inept display of mismanagement. I didn't think it was possible to lose from there, but this is Melbourne and the only conclusion I can have is that players want change. Shame on you Melbourne coaches. If it's the same bunch of clowns coaching next year then I can't support this team it is indefensible to lose that game.