beelzebub

It's surprising considering the rules have changed...that others have found us out and short on smarts. It's surprising as the game does change yet we're stuck in the mud (mire) and yet...not so surprising. We're wasting some talented players by telling them to play dumb football.

Here in lays a problem of understanding. ( Not you...just overall ) Outside players DON'T need to be actually contesting the hard ball. They do need to apply pressure. We are far too one dimensional. Our Achilles heel.

Fixed

That's it OD.. All we need are some decent draft picks.... Those kids will save us.... They'll be our way back to glory.... .... ?Oh wait !!! ?

So as I read it...the forward line is dysfunctional. The backline undermanned and either ill directed...or clueless. Then there's the midfield...just the one side of a coin there . And the fabric that binds it all together...a distinctly one dimension black and white instructional sheet. Yippee Ki yay fellow Demons... happy days are here again, the skies above are bleak again, let's drown ourselves in beer again, happy days...are.....here again. Normal services have resumed.

9-11 Another disastrous season the ?

I must be watching a different team. Our coaches have built a team which is all and only about about the inside contest. It's all gladiatorial stuff. We haven't an outside game. We don't really have the players for that "style's. So I'm not as convinced as your good self that this FD are particularly open-minded. In fact I'm inclined to think they're the absolute opposite and only budge from their road of thought begrudgingly.. Time will tell. We might have a bit if talent but I don't see a game plan that's going to win a GF...not now. We're one way flat track bullies in a way. We've lost the ability to cover our backsides...and we can't kick a sausage to save ourselves. Quite frankly we're an embarassing mess at the moment.....and cherry ripe for picking over by any team with aspirations and better coherency. I concede I often have a very different view from many here.I don't shy from it I'm so reminded of Icarus.

Why will it change...if our style doesn't. We will only be competitive against teams with poor defence. Any team with a good one will create the same headache we've started the year with. Our current plan A not only won't win finals now...it won't get us near them And remember...we have NO B !!

Those who are entrusted to oversee ...need to investigate change. Not necessarily wholesale ...but certainly incremental. What we're doing together with whom we're doing it with ... well....it just ain't working.

You can't anymore

Well...that might have killed off any momentum in this regard.

The population of Melbourne is irrelevant. These are all AFL affecianados ?? Get real. You need to look at those who are reasonably described as potential MFC members. No success..then even current 45k unsustainable. Win a flag 75-80 K...all those in the woodwork or on the fence.

Might add a bit of that missing dash ?

It's not THAT we lost. It's that we effectively lost it before it started.

Hey diddle diddle that Jack in the middle the bull can't jump, just fall The others just laugh to play this sport and just run away with the ball

Nothing works....on something that doesn't exist

An instant fix for sports induced depression

Seriously...I'm a fossil but understand it. I'll translate for you. Even if things go adversely, if they go counter to hopeful expectations then that good chap Mr Lyon will stand by his fine recruit...irregardless

@Smokey Some might say the apologists are in overdrive

Lurch would be impressed

We'd cruise past 70 I'm not against the notion 58 I just have my understanding of what it would require. We have a little momentum at present. If that falters 70...60...hell 50... becomes a pipe dream. Make at least the prelims this year. 50-55 possible in 2020 Money is hard come by . Too many pressing requirements grabbing it. The diehards are already members. It's the fence sitters who'll be the increase. They have real life demands.

70000 is exactly that, a dream. It would be fantastic. It would put us right up there but unlike the power clubs that practically start the year with enormous numbers and then build, we have had what is now an institutionalised smallish membership. To dramatically change that, to break the crippling chains and create inertia there is only one, I repeat ONE recipe. Sustained success. This needs a very steady climb with no faltering. Irrespective of what many here feel is deserved , in terms of numbers growth, it isn't. We don't deserve increases as such, you earn it. We haven't really earned anything yet.

Not so much wrist slashing...just dismay. A bit like burgers...what you're promised...what you get

And it was worth 4pts They ALL are