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Can you link to? If this is true and there is a massive murmurings of an exodus of players...perhaps they are part of the problem? I get they can be frustrated i.e. Rivers having to play HB but was promised midfield minutes, I mean come on. Look at what Gus did - he sacrificed his midfield for the sake of the team. Trac is playing more forward for the team. Riv will get his shot, but right now McVee, AMW is out - Howes form is terrible and we dont have any other mid sized defenders. There are too many individuals now that are being selfish and not thinking about the greater good. This is a lack of leadership and cohesion/unity of the club. It is dire, because it will take the whole club to work together in moving forward in the same direction. There is no other way out. Its where you get to learn about the grit and commitment of your playing list. The review clearly didnt cut deep enough last year, but i can understand you cannot do a full leadership reset in one hit (new pres, ceo, gm of footy, coach and captain) - but we need them all done. So pres & ceo come in this year. Smith and ??? Next will be a clean up of the footy dept, which will mean Richo and Goody gone - most likely at year end by the look of things. Hopefully Gawn relinquishes his captaincy and can focus on his footy. I'm not terribly enthused with Lever as his replacement but there really isn't anybody else that i think can do the job.

Gawn was epic last night. Why would you drop him? Also have to take my hat off to Bowey, he really made me eat my words frim a few weeks ago - glad he responded to my criticism;) To me players like Salem, JVR, Sparrow, Viney, Rivers are the ones that are really underperforming. Trac and Oliver are playing as average midfielders but not in deopable territory. Fritta had a better game.

Yep this high scoring [censored] is so boring to watch. I like the contested battle much more. I think it’ll revert back soon enough … just when we overhaul our list to suit the current style you’ll know it’ll be defunct.

It’ll take a very strong club to get the best out him. i don’t think he’ll make it tbh.

150 pressure points for three quarters is diabolical. Effort is not there. They say they are trying but are they really trying? 180-190 is average and we played average for 1 quarter and that was good enough. Think about that - we just have to apply average pressure and we would have likely beaten. Teams are playing 2-3 quarters at 210+ what does that even look like for Melbourne? Maybe we are just not fit enough. Explains the poor execution and defensive failures.

Did honestly say that on air? What platform was it on?

That is ridiculous. To me its either Clarry or Trac that need to go, not both. I have seen enough of Clarry and I'm pretty adamant he has fallen out-of-love with Footy. He has lost the ruthless edge which carried us to the flag. It doesn't have to be off by much but id look to move him on. Maybe Saints would be desperate enough to off us 2 picks this year and next. I'm indifferent bout Trac, but we cannot offload both. Trac will at least give us some solid performances and set standards with the youth. He'll also play to his mid 30's i reckon. We have to keep Koz to contract and only release him if the offer from Freo is over-the-top good. Has to be a top 5 pick or a F1 and this years first.

i dreaded those days where id be stoked for a win..it was like a PF victory for us. I also dread that we are fast approaching a similar crisis, despite being assured that we wouldnt let it happen. Still what i cannot fathom is bar a few players we are in prime age and having 15 premiership players in the 22. How on earth is this happening right now. it is beyond believable.

The team lacked fight. Everything you need to know. We put in the effort in Q3 and we outplayed them. It can be that simple. Hard-Work-Beat-Talent and the team is not working hard enough. The big question is WHY?

My son came past and said dont worry dad, we'll be rebound in 2026. I didn't have the heart to tell him...

We are going to bottom out exactly how we did when GWS and Giants come in. What a train wreck.

Norf are a nowhere team too.

Langford is a terrible handball

Good night. This will blow out to 50

My advice. Don’t look at emoji responses. Some ppl get frills for baiting you. Frankly don’t invest to your posts on game day threads - ppl are emotion wrecks … like me..

Let’s see how bad they want this win. The first 30 seconds and you’ll know.

Too little too late. What does it take to play like this? You can’t tell me that Petty has straightened them up

No 22

Is f50 still around ? We could have struck up a sponsorship and put them on the gurnesy so we at least have some connection

I don’t know what game you are watching. They are playing for themselves. Players burning each other , no one is chasing. Disp efficient is not that bad .

I have serious doubt we’d be able to beat them either. In fact I’d say we are dead set favourites not to win a game this year. The players the coaches should be all hauled in front of the members for a please explain. This is diabolical l. We were promised this type of nose dive wouldn’t happen again let alone with 15 premierships players on our list. This is shaping up to be another forgotten era. 10 years before we become competitive again.

I would say the opposite. Our skills are not that poor. Decision making or great. But we are not working hard enough at all

Trac just burned Viney and Oliver

What’s a bet we don’t kick our next goal until red time in 4th quarter

Oliver - [censored] him off