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Any NIN fans? "Try to save myself but myself keeps slipping away"

I hope for as long as I live that this is the final straw that broke the camel's back. This club must change

The dream is dying

Well I dunno but these results are turning out pretty cap right now. It annoys me that Richmond will get top 4 and we might miss

Barrack in for the Dockers is like leading a horse to water and trying to make it drink.

I'd say somewhere between Mayweather in 8 rounds to distance

Bam. Nailed it

Needs a good period of time up forward.

Yeah. It is important to note that this has been an underlying issues for a long time. Yeah there's other clubs also in this category, but it's time to shed the soft tag once and for all. We need to be playing like absolute animals, players who want to die for the cause. You have to want it

A performance like that will see us get played off the park by 10 goals if we were lucky enough to make it. Freo, Hawthorn, North, to a lesser extent GWS and now today. These games all had a pattern about them. The other side gets the jump on us 4 or 5 goals up at qtr time, we end up having to kick, punch, scrap, scrounge and claw to get back into it. We end up chasing the game, make a little in-roads and lose by somewhere between 1 to 3 kicks essentially flattering ourselves against some bottom 8 quality opposition. Yes teams drop games, I get that. But when the pattern emerges this many times?

Yeah pretty much spot on. Honeymoon is over now

There's an old saying "Act like you've been there before". Well..

You're right Nasher but it affects the way you think about it. When too many people start talking like that it permeates through your skull and you start to 'taste the chocolate" and it makes this situation much harder to deal with when you crash back down to earth than if you'd just tempered your expectations.

Exactly. That thinking just never helps matters, it certainly doesn't put me at ease. We just need to be focusing on what we can do and make sure we front up and do our job. As for the percentage boosters, before the Hobart North game I had a mate text me saying "We're gonna smash North by 100 points, I can feel it" ha.

Going into this game, I heard all the lines. "Collingwood have nothing to play for it's ok" "No Pendles, De Goey, Reid etc". I will say this and only this. In my time of supporting this club none repeat NONE of that stuff means precisely jack. Absolutely none at all. As long as a team from wherever fronts up with 22 players we are always a chance to fluff a game we are supposed to win. Until we ever break through this psychological minefield I will never pay attention to players out or what the other side has to play for or ANYTHING TO DO with the other side for that matter! It's all elevator music to me. Focus on what we do.

Very disappointing. Fell to bits really, even when coming back there wasn't really a moment where I thought we'd win. The burden of expectation weighs on this club like an anvil. I hope the results go our way so we can at least break that drought and move on but there's a lot of questions to be asked. Our issues are psychological. It might be harsh be we are still soft when it counts. I don't agree that we haven't improved, we have come a long way but the psychological issues will be the hardest to overcome going forward.

Come on Dees! Pull hard

I'll say this one more time. If we go down we go down fighting. Come on Dees!

Free kick much?

If we go down, let's go down fighting. I've clearly run out of things to say

What the actual.. This has to be a dream nothing this bad could happen in reality

Wish there were more of him running around.

I'm with you. The guy hasn't played 50 games yet but these types of players don't grow on trees.

Personally I don't love the idea even though in many people's eyes it made the finals last year more exciting. I do agree we probably need a few years of it to make a proper judgement.

Jones done for steroids. Does it ever end?