layzie
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The keyword for me is 'embarrassing' losses. I'm not heartbroken at all, in fact it's entirely predictable. This is the most embarrassed and on the verge of head explosion I've felt since 186.
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Disgusting.
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Get ready to face the music again MFC!
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The morning after.. In some ways it’s even worse than the day of the event. If you’re a long term footy fan, you might get a handful of these embarrassing days in your lifetime, for us it feels like we’ve had at least 5 times as many as fans of other clubs. New lows, new embarrassing records, you’re never far away from this as a Melbourne fan. I don’t even know what my main thoughts are this morning. Whether it’s about the game itself, where we have found ourselves, long time club mentality, the life of a fan etc. I’ve been lost for words since the siren and am still lost for words. I’ve said this 3 times already and I apologise in advance for saying it again: Yesterday was never ever going to be a game where I stressed, yelled too much, got the heart rate high and so on. We’re in the butt end of the season with no hope for finals, no first round pick to tank for, very few kids to get a good look at. Out of all the teams in our position this year, we have next to no reason as fans to waste our time on these games other than to hopefully win or get some kind of hope. Whether we were going to win comfortably or close or lose comfortably or close, my stress level was not going to get out of first gear… Until there was an embarrassing 30 year old record that nobody wants on the line. I for the life of me cannot believe in a game like this, the thing that got me out of my seat screaming was the possibility of an impossible, ugly, smelly, grotesque record falling and being on the wrong side of it yet again. What football fan is regularly in a position where they have to worry about some bizarre thing like this happening? Not many can manage it as often as us. You can take it as a deranged positive that at least something motivated us fans but I am just so angry right now about that. It really shows the life inside an MFC fan’s head and it is the saddest thing ever. I can’t see any other club’s fans getting as nervous as us when those first 4 goals were kicked. If any of you feel the same way please reach out because I feel like I’m banging my head against a wall here. I don’t know why this had to be the case. Some home truths about the game itself: Loved the way we looked for 3 quarters, ball movement as good as it had been all year. Can we just acknowledge how easy the Saints made this for us though? Their movement was slow to a halt and they tried to play the kick mark game. You couldn’t wish for better conditions to get our style going against. The moment they put speed on the ball we were like frightened little rabbits watching a scary movie, instead of matching the running level we were in the cinema clutching the person next to us and telling them to hold us. It was a real ordeal and maybe some counselling is required. The players get no free pass whatsoever. We have lacked the killer instinct mentality and execution for a long time now, this is not a one-off but more of a culmination. Now that it has ended in ultimate humiliation for the world to see it will be firmly in spotlight. I can point to at least 6 games this year where the chance to wrestle back or gain momentum has been completely fluffed by bad execution in the moment or stupid behaviours leading to free kicks, 50s and more. That Port game to me was just like this last quarter when you had Oliver 30 metres out try to snap and not make the distance and then Viney on the wing with 5 seconds left give away a free and then a 50. The only reason this wasn’t plastered over every single place you can think of is because we lost that game convincingly in average and forgetful fashion. Small details matter, there is never a reason to give away a goal with the ball on the wing with 5 seconds left just like there is never a reason to give up 2 goals in the last minute of a game when the ball was at a stoppage in your forward line with 80 seconds to go. Poor execution, psychology in big moments, ill-discipline and not knowing what the hell we are doing when setting up for big plays is destroying this team. Talent doesn’t even come into it. Everyone deserves blame after yesterday, the players are the top of the list for me but coaching was sub-par at crucial times. Our rotations in that last quarter were nothing short of a joke, taking Kozzie out at 21 minutes into the quarter, even taking Fritsch off in the first quarter when he was shooting the lights out. The rotations guy needs blame and if it is Goodwin he needs blame. Sending Bayley Fritsch down back to defend the single spark of hope they had, playing Petty wherever the hell they were playing him. Actually playing Petty at all in place of Jefferson. Then the tragic 6-6-6 debacle. Of course you can’t do much as coach in that moment… Hello? Do we need reminding that Simon Goodwin coaches from the boundary? Nothing we want to yell out to anyone in that moment? I still haven’t heard a good explanation of why we approached that last bounce how we did. From my understanding we had too few players in the square. Why? Were they back defensive side? What was the reasoning for this? Were our players actually so scared to lose that we wanted to drop guys back? Why was one of our best contested bulls lining up on a wing? Is our team mentality that shot that we didn’t want to back our premiership ball winning machines at a centre bounce? Loser mentality. We’re always bemoaning our poor inaccuracy and then following it up with how there is no time to practice extra goalkicking at training because they have a million meetings during the week. So out of all those meetings there apparently isn’t one where they could a) Go over the 6-6-6 rule and b) Drill it in what we would do in that situation? If we’re going to cop out with the goal kicking excuse and use the excuse that footy clubs spend more time studying now than practicing, then bloody well practice what you preach and learn your jobs. If you claim to be a reasonable side, there is never a reason to go goalless in a quarter of footy. Let alone concede 9 goals and in the last quarter. All teams have blooper days but if you can’t achieve these check boxes then you aren’t even close to a finals team. It’s all mental. You don’t go from 9.4 at half time to 13.12 without it being mental, you don’t concede 23 x I50s for the first 3 quarters then finish with 43 without it being mental, you don’t concede umpteen marks inside 50 in the last quarter without it being mental. The way that game finished was like a video game where the other player dropped the controller and walked off. That last play was the equivalent of a soccer game where a 1 in 100 quick free kick was taken and they scored. That’s pretty much it, it is exhausting doing this. I’m sorry you all had to go through it as well.
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Right now I couldn't give a stuff. If people want to go, that's great, if people dont want to go that's also fine. Injury permitting I'll be there but that's only because I'm a rusted on silly person. Weekends are short, there is time that could be spent elsewhere. I'm not going to put anyone down.
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Real eyes realise real lies.
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The question around the club was that we needed to make more of these records.
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I'm just waiting for some nub to say that they are going to put on the 2021 Grand Final replay.
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This pre game thread sucks
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It feels similar in that emotions are fever pitched after abnormal results like this and panic buttons get pushed. I call it abnormal because that's exactly what it is. I'm just disgusted right now. I'm also Trident and they cost a lot of money, money that this club doesn't deserve right now yet we won't stop doing it. The lead has been completely buried on why we even gave up that 6-6-6 free to begin with. I cant think of another game that was handed to the opposition so easily. Hang your heads
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Fire the mental coach
I said it after losing 5 to start the season, I'll say it again: How do you sell hope to a fan base after something like that? MFC fans have had to tolerate a lot and this just feels loke the dark days are back.
If the clubs were invited to a wedding, some would be distinguished guests, some would be getting a bit tipsy and looking a little silly, but then there's Melbourne who gets blind drunk and faceplants into the wedding cake.
No heartbreak, just fear of the impending embarrassment and the not wanting to show your face in public feeling. I said it before, I cannot believe the one thing that got me caring about this game and out of my seat was the possibility of an embarrassing record falling and the do or die mission to avoid it. That is the life of following this club, you're never ahead by enough, you're never a sure thing to beat a rabble team, and you're never far away from being the butt of people's jokes. MFC fans have done it tough, sure we've had good times too but my word do they come at a cost!
Half watching First Crack and the last quarter highlights. Some of these goals are absolutely pathetic. Does anyone know how many marks they took I50 that quarter? When our defence was at its nest, that was the one thing I'd never expect to lose to. It really stinks.
Good sides do not lose that way. No-one loses un-losable games like this club.
As @Supermercado would say.. Fisted for life
We have seen this story before. We have seen what abnormal results can do to emotions and push people into action. I would have done anything to beaten soundly today. There is absolutely nothing to come out of the first 3 quarters after that and if one person wants to say otherwise then just do yourself a favour and [censored] off. The season has been garbage - check, we aren't playing for anything - check, we dont have that many kids worth playing to get a good look at - check, yet we still front up and want to see our club win. I cannot believe that the one thing that got me animated and up and about in this game was desperately not wanting to break one of the most embarrassing records you could have. Seriously? Is this for real? Bottom 4? Sure no problem, do we constantly ask fans have to front up to work with a new reason to not want to show our faces? Im just so bloody sick of this club and the 'phenomenon' that seems to strike us at the worst possible moment. Honestly, Clayton kicking out on the full, Petty dropping the mark but not even having the foresight to bring it to ground, I would have loved him to just rush that through. And the 6-6-6 what the hell? How on Earth does this happen after a tying goal after 46 points down? I see people not wanting to blame the coach, well what the hell is that business? 10 years almost to the month when we didn't have the audacity to flood guys back before 6-6-6 and Joey broke our hearts at the death. This club does not [censored] learn. No I will not turf my membership but dont be surprised if you just lost 10,000 members after that. You suck.
As close to a coach killer as 186
We have thrown a 46 point lead away
For [censored] sake
