layzie

I watched about 10 minutes of the game and noticed this..

Most likely not gonna get to watch this one to my annoyance. Come on Dees.

It's always nice to get our own back especially if they are the right guys for the job. I was stoked when Viney came back for instance. But its definitely gotta be best man for the job, can't get them all.

I'm personally happy with Oscar. He's had some great games where he's done all you could ask. Yeah he's he bit limited but I'd be in the camp of finding the right guy to play alongside him. I do feel there are many here and at games who feel he simply can't play, which is sad. Having said that I think its a worthwhile question SFebey asks and it gets you thinking. I'm sure there's many ideas on what we can do to improve our backline and at this stage I'm willing to listen to them.

Haha this is exactly what I was doing just now and was scared to throw up some names!

Terrible injury, feel for the guy he deserved to play finals. All the best mate

I'm as guilty as anyone for coming on here to rant after a loss like that. Having said that I do enjoy reading the rational input on here. In the moment its probably not what we want to hear but I'm definitely glad there are people here that can offer that in those moments.

I like it how after all we went through last year we are looking at a best case scenario of limping into the finals. Hardly seemed worth waiting for but it doesn't have to be glamorous this year I guess. Just gotta get in.

I wish it didn't ruin my day/week. If I could be a bit more like that it would certainly be better. Unfortunately not Hopefully this changes one day.

MFC might have whiffed on an early pick? What else is new?

Yeah, I’m in the same boat. I got nothing against the people who say there is more to life and it’s just a game, heck I wish I could walk out of the G after a loss and be laughing and ‘up’ like some Dees fans but I’m not. I’m dead set gutted and yes it ruins my day/start of the week. Dramatic? Maybe, but honestly I look forward to little else on the weekend right now. 80 hours is a rough slog to get through just to see another opportunity, makes me not feel so bad about my 50 hours I guess.

I don’t know if many other people are like this. I am at a point in life where football is pretty much all I care about. I’m single, in my early 30s, social but not quite as social as I used to be. But all I look forward to during a working week is the game that we are playing and hopefully that we’ll win so I can get that temporary happy boost that seems to be lacking so much in my life right now. Today was real hard to deal with, as I’m sure it was for many people here. I feel like most people here have other things to concentrate on but I feel like this is the only thing giving me some kind of buzz. Football is literally everything to me right now. Probably shouldn’t even be saying all this but I have thought about doing it for a while now.

I’m looking forward to Baker coming in, playing a Petty type of game, and everyone here then stating it was a terrible selection! ?

Missed that era but surely Hafey coached angry! Kill or be killed mentality

What the hell does it matter? We can go through possible selections till we are blue in the face it’s either not going to be who we need or it’s not going to make the other 22 players do their job. I’ll revisit this in a few days but right now I’m way too peeved to even think about it.

I also thought the body language said it all for Melbourne today. A lot of slumped shoulders and little passion shown. When we kicked one of those goals to bring it back to 15 in the last they weren’t getting around each other etc. Didn’t show it for mine.

There is enough of a data sample now to suggest that this is a huge problem. We just can’t cover the territory, especially on the rebound. Is it fixable? I don’t know, I’m really not sure if it can be fixed this season. Just too slow

Harsh on Hibbo. Never stopped working. The rest are probably right, maybe Salem and Smith were a little stiff as well.

6 - Gawn 5 - Fritsch 4 - Harmes 3 - Hibberd 2 - Viney 1 - Brayshaw

Just trying to balance out the ledger, even if slightly. Looking for positives feels very pointless right now though. That game was not to be dropped.

Wow, just wow. That is massive. Our season just took a right hook to the jaw from no-where and has us flat out on the canvas with the ref counting. You can look for positives if you want, and I may do some of that but this game was purely a yes/no question: Did you win or did you lose? The result was not good enough, I don’t care they we made a mad flurry. Only a fool would judge a team based on 3 minutes of football. We were not good enough. I question this team’s ability to wrestle back momentum when the game isn’t on our terms, as soon as the other side gets a run on with pace it seems to stay like that all day ala QBH. A lot of people here are saying the Roos effect on this side has passed and there is something to that. We’ve gone from being a difficult side to score against to a side that every time the opposition goes inside 50 scores. Today reminded me so much of those games a few years ago against the Saints when they would just burn us out the back with pace every time. It became so predictable, St Kilda win ball at half back, quick possessions through midfield and then hit up leading target/or open goal over the top to a runner. We never had an answer for it and looked pathetic in even trying to stop it. You just can’t have that happening repeatedly if you’re a finals side, no way. For the second week in a row we botched selection IMO. The forward structure from the get-go NEVER WORKED. At one point I saw Weed and Hogan almost standing next to each other on the 50! Never looked right, had little defensive pressure (once again cried out for Garlett or someone) and had 2 go up and spoil each other often. I looked at our forwards inside 50 at the Punt Rd end in the first quarter and honestly thought to myself that this could be a tough day to score. It was a sickening feeling. Petty had a honker. He is not the first and certainly won’t be the last to have a nightmare first game. ANB lacked urgency early and just didn’t cut it. Hannan was no-where, T-Mac must have been hurt. Hogan I honestly don’t know what the answer is there, I’d say push him up to get some touches but it just seems like his quiet games are real quiet. We want to play a quick play on handball run through the middle style, which I like. But on days like today we can never execute it or don’t have the pace. We also can’t seem to hit basic skills which turn into turnovers that almost always cost us. The setup in the middle just looks like a bunch of bulls at the gate. No composure and just blazing away with kicks. Beat us on constested ball and that’s pretty much it. We’ll never win it back with uncontested ball we just don’t have the speed or the spread. Fristch is one positive. And as good as he’s been around the ground I have wanted to see him up forward a bit more, because this is what he gives us. Hibberd worked hard all day and Viney eventually got busy. Max kept us on the game. The rest just didn’t come to the party. This one hurts. I’m deeply disappointed with his result, as I’m sure everyone else is. The Port game was a terrible result and it hurt but this one just stings like citric acid in the eye. That good old feeling of losing an unloseable game and the butt ugly feeling of not wanting to show your face in public that follows it. Thanks MFC for bringing us back to where we apparently belong. The new Richmond, here to stay.

Totally cooked another season. Well done guys

Who do we even want to win out of the Dubs and the Dorks? Draw please

Eagles have had about 3 touches in the last 5 mins

Bruce still beats BT any day.