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Don't forget Watts missing the sitter from 20 m out on the 45 degree angle, best kick in the team pahh!

Players who better straighten their heads out: Garland, Jamar (not a tap ruckman's a***hole), Dawes (just cannot hold marks)....oh, bugger I can't be bothered listing the rest there're too many, oh Bail, sorry Rohan I like you but enough is enough already. Watts as well, the mind boggles about this guy (note to the boot studder, change his studs to screw-ins, the guy loses his feet when someone breathes on him). Some will probably howl me down on this one but Dom Tyson...he tries but like many on our list is always good for at least one or two momentum shifting howlers e.g. when we had the ball at half forward and he dummied one then got tackled holding the ball from behind. The whole midfield unit today was just so ordinary, and I think a lot of that was Jamars poor tap work Players that can hold their head semi high: Jetta Gawn Howe Grimes (but only just still had his usual nightmare moments) Players that can just go jump: Frawley (if we seriously get a first round pick for this guy I'd be surprised, nay shocked)

What did Chip do, miss tackles, make stupid decisions that turned opportunities into pressure situations and ultimately turnovers, missed targets by hand and foot, hardly ever taking the first option and then ultimately halting any momentum we had, anything else I missed?

Can't believe Frawley and Garland (and Dunn for that matter) in this game. Good riddance Chip, don't let the door hit you on the way out you useless CUTN

i can't believe the lack of skill and the laziness on offer in that quarter. No Cross no demons by the look of it.

I reckon you should have no marks from backwards kicks, although that would screw up our possession game wouldn't it?

North worked way harder than us and deserved to win by more. We were very poor I thought, so many skill errors and poor decisions.

Sure hope so, minus the Eagles bit (can't stand that team)

what a win! So happy for my 6 year old son who currently supports 3 teams (Hawks because they win, Eagles because that's Grandpa's team, and Melbourne because that's Daddy's team). He kept saying "This is a bad game" after every Essendon goal in that woeful first half and I had to agree with him. But as I got progressively more fired up with our 6 goal unanswered run, culminating in Kent's awesome running goal, my son got right into it as well. When Watts kicked that goal to put us 10 points up I was screaming the house down and my 3 year old daughter had joined in the celebrations as well. Then Zaharakis scored his two goals and the mood was lost. When they were chipping it round before "that play" I was resigned to the fact we'd lost but then the miracle happened and the celebrations in the house when Salem calmly slotted it....memorable...all three of us jumping up and down high fiving each other. Then the heart in mouth moments as we saw off those last 19 seconds in our backline, one of the longest 19 seconds in my life I reckon, then the sweet siren and my kids jumping all over me, climbing all over my back to celebrate the win. And to top it off they marched around the house singing "Grand Old Flag" even though they don't really know the words properly....Priceless! Thank you so much Dees, reminded me of the Daniher years that win, especially stringing together those quickfire goals to Frawley, Kent and Watts. Momentum footy like that is what I love about the sport. Long may it continue.

Bit harsh on Frost, thought he was BOG today for them. If only McDonald was as disciplined as he is. Agree with the chest mark thing though, it was very frustrating.

fair enough, at least get him to punch to the bloody boundary then if he chooses not to mark.

Yeah but he didn't have any big bodies to support him though. We have Dawes and Frawley to take the two best defenders now. I don't think Roos is playing him to his strengths. His one trick (i.e. the speccie) is too dangerous for the backline.

Oh, and Roosy would you tell matt jones to practice his running shots on goal all week please. Shattered by his miss at the end there. Really like M. Jones's effort but what good is a line breaker that can't kick?

Byrnes out, someone younger in please Roosy. Am I the only one here that thinks the Jeremy Howe in the backline thing is not working. We need him to be the target for the half back flankers to be kicking out to the wing towards. If he's going to play back, take the effing mark FCS, sick of the two handed punch that goes straight down the throat of the waiting bulldog crumbers.

glad this one isn't on tv here in perth, sounds like another frustrating game by the Dees. Toumpas must come back, we need players who can hit targets.

Thought Cross was BOG, never wasted it, has unbelievable hands in close and his awareness in tight is just something so many of our home grown players simply don't have (yet). What an absolute recruiting master stroke it was signing Crossy.

How many of these woe is me threads are we gonna have on here about how hard it is to convince the next generation of supporters to follow the dees? Same sentiments come up after every game. I've even participated in them as well, being the father of an almost 6 year old who is taking a shine to the Hawks instead of the Dees. Enough is enough though, kids will support who they support, that's the way i look at it. If they want to be a glory hunting sheep, let them I say. The damage is already done by the last 7 years of dross, given at least another 3 years of the same, that's a whole generation of supporters effectively lost, the only way this club will survive is from the charity of the AFL. It makes me a little bit disheartened that a club not too disimilar to ours (i..e Richmond) have such a strong membership and they were in the doldrums for what seemed like an eternity, their supporters stuck fat, but ours don't seem to be made of the same stuff. I wonder why this is.

Spots on lists are at stake for these guys, many on our list probably aren't trusting their own skills for fear of being shown up as the hacks they are, and losing their contracts accordingly. Better to chip sideways or backwards and maintain your disposal efficiency stats. Like one of the other posters was saying though, our coaching panel are obviously astute enough to see through it and identify the duds on the list. Absolute joke that after 7 years of rebuilding, we still have to cull a significant portion of the list.

Looks like 2-3 weeks until the return of Dawes with Hogan looking indefinite and Clark....who knows. Long season ahead.

When are any of the talls supposed to be back fit? Please let me know when I can turn on another game where at least we'll field a competitive side. Not blaming Misson for the injuries, just bad luck. Was ironic that they were blasting Daft Punk "Get lucky" at the 1/4 time break. Exactly what we haven't gotten this year so far.

Might sound a bit harsh, but Trengove and Watts can now finally be added to the drafting/development failure list at MFC, not looking very good for Toumpas either (how slow is he?).

Is that fair on the rest of the competition though? Like Bruce and Denis were saying during the call, our bottoming out couldn't have happened at a worse time in the history of the competition as the talent pool to replenish us was diluted by the entrance of the two expansion clubs. But we still made an absolute hash of things in the drafting and development department so in essence dug our grave. The fact that our most experienced players have never seen any success at the Dees just seems to be resulting in a viscious downward spiral of confidence and results, and all the new players are just continuing the de-evolution process as they are mentored by a bunch of serial failures (not slagging Roos, I'm talking about the other players here). Do we deserve PP's because of the club's adiministration failures? I think 17 other clubs would strongly (and rightly) argue no way.

We'll be bottom this year, of that I have no doubt at all.

The way I see it is we're looking at a generation of failure at this club (i.e. 10+ years in the bottom half) and if this doesn't see the club fold or merge I'll be very surprised. I'm not advocating tearing up memberships or not renewing if you haven't already as that will simply accelerate what is seemingly inevitable. Two games in and the season is shot for what is it now, the 8th year in a row!? I can't watch them play any more (living in Perth by the way), because I become angry, despondant, and finally depressed. My 6 year old son was barracking for the Dees at the start of the game but after the end of the first half had simply gone off to play in the other room as he wasn't at all interested in hanging around to see a team get blown apart. I don't blame him. I think we're looking at the end of the Demons supporter base with my generation X, maybe some in the 90s who witnessed the yo-yo Daniher years (sadly years and memories that I crave so badly now), but surely our support base from those born in the late 90s onwards must be close to nil. How is that sustainable? We're royally screwed.

I'm not so sure, I reckon he'd be wasted after the first 2 or 3 cones of the first session haha