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111 marks to 60, made them look like the West Coast of old. We find ourselves in a position of coming up against teams who seem to want it more, especially where the midfield battle is concerned. I don't know how you fix that but if they don't have the desire to put in the work then the door is over there. These ones certainly sting the next day in the office. Not wanting to show your face, wish I could work from home!

I must be marking McAdam harshly. I just didn't think he offered much apart from the two nice leads where Kozzie hit him lace out. Needs a few games.

6 weeks seems about right

We REALLY could have used him yesterday.

The blowtorch is on the midfield this week. I don't know what they need to do, whether it's rotate Salo/Rivers or even Woey through there for a different look or just put a firecracker under the old firm's backside but we are quite far off it in that area. 36 inside 50s is appalling.

22 tackles I50 for the Eagles too. They wanted it more.

I'd rather be blooding Verall first personally.

The smoke still needs to settle on this one. Everyone is still hurting and I don't blame them. I can't quite buy into the wholesale changes attitude yet though. I'd like to get games into some youth but not at the expense of handing in the season just yet.

I'm done. Try to have a nice week all, pity the weekend had to end this way. GDs

Why send Jefferson to the slaughterhouse?

I really don't know

Play baby and bathwater, also toys out of the cot as sub.

They had the answers though and controlled the game right up until the last 8 minutes. I'm done with arguing about last week's game but the reality is we were no-where near as good in that game as people give us credit for.

Well I can't imagine that's directed at me because I agree. Today was very telling and showed an underbelly that I thought had been dead a long time. I thought the loss to Essendon in Gather Round last year was a critical loss but this one, it won't be forgotten quickly.

We got binfolded

Credit to At The Break Of Gawn in the postgame thread: "Oliver and Petracca have only once finished in the top 5 disposal getters together this season (against the Dogs). Jack Viney has not had more than 25 disposals in a game this season." This was once a midfield trio to be feared and these numbers are a major problem. Is this a blip or has the decline come sooner than we thought?

Listen to the band!

It's not. The kid is not close to ready.

10 goals from turnover for them, 1 for us. In a game style where that stat matters that's game over right there.

I really, really, really want what you're having..

"Midfield malice. How Dees engine room has gone from elite to mince meat"

It would be a great shame if the decline was starting now.

All I can I hope for right now is no bloodshed on DL tonight. Everyone is devastated and we don't need a bar-room brawl.

6. Kozzie 5. Nibbler 4. Petracca 3. Gawn 2. Salem 1. Get stuffed

Wish we had more Kozzies