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Fair dinkum! Improvement? We're kidding ourselves!! EVERY team that plays against us goes in second gear. North will smash us, GWS will set themselves and Scully will get 40 possies and Ablett will sew up the Brownlow. Whoever coaches this club MUST be given carte blanche to continue the rebuild and we must recruit MIDS MIDS MIDS!!! I don't give a rats if the NBT in the draft is a 100kg, seven footer - he aint no good to us!!! This team is full of flashy non-runners that never chase. Just watching Swans v Eagles and we are daylight away from competing against these two teams. I want mean, nasty, types that have attitude and grunt. Mitch Clark, where art thou???? 50/50 Gold Coast? Fmd..

MFC supporters are so damaged that the thought of having stuffed up another draft pick could send some spiralling into madness! Hence, the constant denial that keeps that sanity intact.

Are you seriously alluding we'll get our pick wrong? Outrageous, Sir! Or Madam!

He ran down Handley pretty well.

Oh well. Hopefully there'll be a midfielder that sticks out like the proverbial dog's anatomy as 'ready to play' in this year's draft.

We can't tackle. Davey goal, then goal to Lions. 40-41

All good apparently.

Handley carving us up. Who to put on him? Garland? Green goal. 34-35

34-29

Jimmy T still no touches. Bewick misses. 33-29

Green too quick for Terlich. 33-28

Mine too.

Sylvia ankle.

Watts to Byrnes....30 metres out. Misses 33-22

Really? Man, I'm not seeing it.....

Aaron Davey hasn't touched it and Jimmy T can't get into it at all. Blease great goal. 25-21

What midfield??

Can't win a clearance, Lions are all over us. We're as passive as hell. Byrnes marks...and goals!!

Not to mention the classic, Chopper.

You're probably right. I just got really [censored] off at Johnson's knee into Nate's jaw and none of the players remonstrated. Kelly playing up to the crowd, trying the impossible snap. Bartel doing whatever he liked. Half arsed attempts at tackles. Geelong didn't even pretend to show any respect to their opponent. Oh, well - maybe because they don't have to.

If we are as passive tonight (this arvo) as last week, we'll get murdered. Meek, mild mannered, temperate Melbourne. I mucked up my alliteration.

Yep, noticed that too.. Is he on the outer? He would be an amazing addition. Also, heard from a mate who's a mad Swannies man that GWS may throw up #1 for Kennedy??

Good post. Gutsy effort by your good self in those conditions. I watched the replay and I believe it was a terrible result! We were never, ever, competitive. We were squashed, squished, trodden on, brushed aside, spat out and humiliated. Terrible selections, too many unskilled players and not enough grunt. I hope that we draft players with the biggest effin mongrel in them this year. I don't give a flying you know what if they've been thrown out of a night club or they've punched on at the Beef n Bourbon bar - if they can play footy, get the pill and they love a contest, make them ours!!

I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but IF Mitch Clark were playing and saw Johnson knee Jones in the face, there would have been melee fines and a real shift in the psyche of some of our players. On a happier note, watching the Swan v GWS game (1st quarter only) I noticed Scully running hard and making space and no-one passed it to him!!! Not great sharers are the boys from GWS.

I don't know if it's unchangeable, but there is a perfect word in the English language that captures the tone, mindset and culture of this club......MEEK. Yesterday, the players were meek against the Cats. I normally like watching Geelong, but Kelly and Johnson had no respect for their opponents yesterday. That, I found, was disappointing.