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Baker did his hamstring around August 4 2018. Hardly 'pre-season'. Should be primed by now.

Geelong in this game also had 20 shots on goal (80pts) from 24 entries into their fwd 50. We don't seem to have learnt a lot since then. or at least our defence hasn't

We have always leaked like a sieve. Nothing new there.

None of this should be news to Goodwin and Co. It is also well telegraphed that our strategy has been to get the ball in side 50 quickly. We saw this last year. The news rules however make it easier for teams to clear the ball from defence. Geelong's defence was very well organised. Ours is frankly a rabble. 1.Too many players going for a contest with the number of times the ball fell to the back where Geelong had two or three players to run into easy goals 2. Starting Ablett at FF knowing that May would be the deepest defender was obvious and worked to unsettle our defence. May ended up further up the ground 3. Last year Scott dragged Lever back to defence one on one where he is weakest. That worked as well. 4. We had 3 or 4 players commit to many contests. 2 or 3 Geeling players sat on the outside meaning if we won the contest they could tackle. If they won the contest they could run and spread. 5. Fumbling was almost our worst enemy. They handled the ball cleanly and with intent. We were like 12 yo's with a bar of wet soap. 6. Our defenders are among the worst in the comp at defending one on one. Yes the structure of our defence with injuries has made it difficult but we have major issues with OMac and Frost. May like Lever will take a while to settle in but he can't do it on his own. I would start trialling Kielty and Petty. 7. As for ANB and our mid tier players. There are a swag of them that just need to do more. They are possibly worse than ineffective. They are becoming a liability. Why do teams like Geelong have new players that come in and look like they have been playing for 5 years? We need major gameplan surgery. And perhaps it wasn't such a wise idea not to review the Perth loss....

Probs why we are bottom of the ladder...

They don't even review all games....

Petracca has a long way to go before he makes the "Hall of Fame". What an ego.

Dismissive comment. Not sure if you realised how sure-handed Geelong were and how clean their ball skills were.

Petracca's head runs at 100kmh and his body runs at 25kmh. Needs to: 1. stop thinking 3 steps ahead. 2. Stop thinking about how to pull off the 1% dink to an opponent under pressure 3. just get the ball and burst into space and kick the ball to a target 4. Stop worying about his opponent when a ball is there to be won. Just get the flippin thing.

Good summary You missed the bit where we must had had a world record number of kicks smothered.

At one point in the 3rd qtr we had something like 14 i50s for 2 pts and they had 4 entries for 4 goals. There rebound was exceptional. Our defence of it was abysmal. The 'gameplan' a=of getting it the fwd 50 raidly and holding it in there is so 2018. Can't be done with the kick in rules and players that refuse to play a zone like they are supposed to. Doesn't help when you have defenders that can't defend one on one. What has happened to Hibberd? I don't think players have drunk their own bathwater because there wouldn't have been any left after Trac and TMac have drunk it the lot. as someone quoted earlier "so many passengers and no one to replace them with" WTF have we been doing all pre-season?

Man you are now inventing stuff. Mine was a simple comment. It wasn't our worst game since rd 23 2017 Are you eating mushrooms of some kind?

It's all fugazi...

Who is Melchum and Louis?

Wow you're arguing with yourself. You said it was the worst we had played since rd 23 2017 and I happened to mention the prelim....now you say "comparing two games, 6 months apart, in two different seasons is just silly" but you want to compare two games 19mths apart? OK I give in.

Did you miss the prelim,?

Most sayings have some origin in a historical context. We'll "stick fat" with player X is out and out nonsence with no relevance to anything

Your defence of OMac is truly pathetic. He is a terrible footballer with no attributes other than being tall.

Halleluha. Finally people are waking up....

Its not necessarily that. It's that our experienced players were terrible. Their young players were the cream unlike us where we were relying on young players to do the job. Jones, Viney, Gawn, Hibberd, Jetta et al were well down on form. Frost & OMac were disgraceful

This 100%. They made this blue a few times last year. They need to review their selection policies.

This is the dumbest saying ever. What does it even mean?

Well we aren't alone... I recall I read somewhere that we got a better deal under Steven Smith but can't find it anywhere..... Also its part of why the AFL has an equalisation fund. Other teams scream about 'poorer' teams receiving money but in reality this is part of the reason it is there.

Yep. We barely make a dollar on a 25,000 crowd at the G. Geelong get all of the corporate box revenue, advertising, a big chink of food and bev etc. Teams that have 'clean' stadiums cream it in terms of revenue. Adelaide, West Coast etc. It means a West Coast can spend in the order of $300,000 a week (!) more than melbourne. Thats one reason the soft spending cap was brought in Two of the biggest problems in the AFL. Stadium deals and the fixture.

I agree with you that it is different but we were way off in skills, desire and execution. The uncontested stats tell a big story as do the contested stats that we lost only twice I think last year.