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GWS and Freo beat us playing catenaccio football, soaking in all our attacks and letting us miss before breaking away on the counter attack. If we aren't comfortable capitalising on early opportunities we create then either fix the skills or change the gameplan entirely. I am not impressed with 70+ inside 50s. All that says to me is that when the opposition sees that and then realises they are still in the game it's advantage to them. Like Homer Simpson being beaten for 10 rounds until they get tired. How do you fix it?

I'm good with that

Wish we had Flower today.

Fatigue plays a part but we should still execute enough skill to win this game today. This isn't 2019 and we can't look to the contested ball and I50 count as signs of progress. We're the big boys now, we should be getting it done with those numbers every day of the week.

It's hard, damn hard to watch your team lose a game that way. I'm thinking the same thing, there's a little too much working against us and I think the Fritsch injury is the straw that breaks it. Not all our fault or our doing, I don't believe the club owes me a flag or anything but you really do need those planets to align and I just don't see it.

I'm coming around to this. Could do without the stress.

This isn't going to please anyone but we just lost to a team COMING OFF THE BYE.

Saints get it done. See you next week, hopefully we can get a win and go from there.

Does Harmes in the side give us the best chance to win?

You're right they didn't, it was a great win but even then we nearly found a way to lose it with poor skill in front of goal. They should never have been in it. I hope we can turn it around, I don't know how they are going to do it but they really have a serious case of the yips. One good game in that area can change that.

I almost wish our effort was the problem, easier to fix than skill and the mental side.

Is the second ruck a wasted sacrifice?

Was wondering what that was, sort of like a Sunday joke or something. What a minute...

At least St Kilda are gonna be in front by 3QT.

Collingwood find ways to win, unfortunately we find ways to lose. Simplistic view but that's the reality and reality wins premierships.

6. Viney 5. McVee 4. Hunter 3. Petracca 2. Bowey 1. May

He really did, it would be nice if we won some of these games for those kinds of efforts.

Season over? No, but I think our chances of winning it are fading. We are simply not playing as well as the two best teams in the comp and we're not close to it either. Personel issues underlined by losing our best forward today for God knows how long. We follow up a month of inaccuracy by the mother of all inaccurate games. To hear we have gone 29.88 or whatever in the last month is officially now not a one off, that is what is called critical mass of data. 73 to 46 inside 50s, 36% i50 to shot ratio, 25 free kicks to 10 our way, 47 to 28 clearances, 188 to 146 contested possessions and you fail to win the game? How do you come back from that? I feel like I'm in a time warp watching 2019 Melbourne, it sucked then and it sucks now. After Lingers' amazing goal if you told me we wouldnt kick one again even in the wet I'd have laughed, our momentum was up. It was the one and I mean one kind of performance we did not need right now, for our ladder position and for our confidence. We've lost the plot and it can be really hard to get it back, sometimes you just don't within a season. So yeah, still time to get it together but I don't see this side threatening the teams above us. They are simply better and showing exactly why they are the best sides. Someone wanna chime in King's birthday? Sure. Just know that it sounds very similar to the days when that was our 'Grand Final' if we're going to keep pointing to that. Win ball, get it in, miss chance after chance and let it come out and get burned on transition. If we're going to lose to good forward play fine, but we should lose any game to the above. We miss so much early that tje other team gets a head of steam up and we essentially play them into form. Toby's first goal should have been with them 20 points down. Doing everything right but not scoring, it doesnt win you football games and I don't know how to fix it, clearly they dont either. If you needed a rubber stamp for the problems at this club, this game was it.

Big time.

One HELL of a lot of damage.

Didn't get the win

Ffs

Cooked it

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A turnover could win it