drdrake

Culture, it was the day the clubs culture started to change from a club that was feared and expected to win each week, to a club that is happy to survive. Winning is hard, losing is easy unfortunately our club taken the easy path for the large part of 50 years. We almost changed this culture in the Northey/Daniher years, but the clubs culture won in the end. It looked like Roos, Jackson and Goodwin starting making in roads to effect change but again looks like we are heading down the familiar path off easy beats.

Yep, I had 2 dees supporters now 2 West Coast Eagles supporters, heading to Geelong on Sunday. Kids have choices these days, the issue we have as parents to try and keep our kids as dees, we have sucked for so long, one good year and we suck again and boy do we absolutely stink at the moment. You can keep kids interested if you have a couple of goods years, we have had 1 good year in 13 years so any kid that is below 15 years old as a Melbourne supporter you have just copped crap onfield and from your mates at School. Last year you could give a bit back, now you will be copping it even harder. Don't blame anyone for jumping off, the club has serious issues and no matter what we do to turn it around we just can't losing and failure is in the culture of the club.

No idea what happened at qtr time, we went from play on take risk team to slow ball movement down the line. We played the last 3 qtrs trying not to lose by 10 goals, we gave ourselves no chance of winning. Our forwards pushed that high into defense leaving 6 Richmond defenders accross the middle of the ground free picking of any ball we cleared

The issue we face is we drafted players for the now that includes players to fill holes in our list and players that fit our game style. Unfortunately the game style we are playing is outdated and all of the sudden we are left with a number of players especially through the middle that aren't quick, aren't clean by foot and at the moment getting beaten on the inside and outside. I look at our team, if I'm an opposition coach the only player on our list that you don't want delivering the ball inside our 50m arc is Salem, he is the only elite kick on our list, Jetta is a good kick as he knows his limitations and is smart, the rest have no kicking consistency what so even. The 2019 game is about keeping to football and making the ground big for defenders by 35m kick changing direction and running hard to the fat side, we don't have the leg speed or kicking ability to play this way. We will go Ok this weekend on the small SCG the only issues we face is Buddy, no one that will play this week can stop him, we need him to have an extremely bad day

I reckon the 6/6/6 factor has completely stuffed us up. I reckon the game plan was based around Max Gawn domination of the middle and creating the pressure from the centre bounce. It seems we are lost if we don't win the center clearance and out side that small part of the game we are disorganised. It is worrying, we have no chance making the top 8. Lucky we didn't sell our future pick

It isn't rocket science but we didn't see the game change coming which is a concern. We are setting up like we are flying, defenders to high up the ground, issue with that is we aren't keeping the ball inside our 50m arc it is in and out, they have no chance getting back to defend. Need to anchor 2-3 players in defensive 50m arc

ANB has to go, Sparrow needs to play against men at Casey My Team Jetta Frost Hore Hibberd OMac KK Salem Viney Petracca Harmes TMac Fritsch Melksham Weid Pruess Gawn, Oliver, Brayshaw Lockhart, Stretch, Jones(shouldn't be playing but no other options), Hunt

Our game plan is to push players up around the ball, what Port and Geelong have done and Essendon will do it this week is let our half forwards be around the ball, we will sit back inside your forward 50m arc make it a 3 V 6, win the ball here then switch it to fat side of the ground using the spare defenders, the mids run forward our don't run to defend and it ends up being 9 v 6 in our defensive 50m. Our defenders look like garbage but essentially they are are seeing a wave of unmarked opposition players running at them they need to decide who to man up on. Our forward entries are shallow when we do get it deep it is Weid or McDonald V 3 even if they bring it to ground we have no small forwards or mids working hard to get to the contest to even the numbers. Comes to ground fast exit lose players score. Get back to coaching like U10s football, stay in positions back your ability to win the one on one contest work to assist and out work your opponent. The game is evolving back to one on one football, you can't have 2 -3 loose opposition players sitting across half back un manned. Port told us last week what they were doing, how dumb are we not to listen, sit back wait for them to kick it to you then go from half back, one of their assistant coaches said we know they will eventually turn it over going inside we wait for this and attack.

Oliver and Viney well done the rest can get stuffed

Cant blame backline, no forward pressure no mid field pressure our year is done. 10 to 16th we will finish

Petracca check your pants, little bit of poo will be in your undies

1999 all over again

No small forwards the ball gets out our forward 50m way to easy, backline have no chance when your forwards cant apply pressure.

This could be 100 points, top four bottom 4

Frost, Oliver and Viney thats it. Tom McDonald shadow

Mitch Duncan is fast we are lazy

Jones where are you, we are cooked

I reckon it could be a bit like 1999, 98 we had an amazing lead into finals some great finals wins to lose the prelim. 99 wasnt a good year few older players were done. Then 2000

Any club watching that has the blue print to beat Melbourne, change direct, speed and spread. Our small forwards dont apply any consistant pressure and you back yourself to sling shot of half back Some real concerns

Salem, wagner, oliver the rest has been smashed

Our forward pressure is disgusting

Done, cooked, and some worrying signs, new rules you need speed,

Slow

Our small forwards are a real issue

We are playing like a side that doesn't want to be out there, soft dropping marks, its like we just want to get through to round 1