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Doesn't matter. An inside 50 is tracked as such because team structure is centred around maintaining pressure and possession in this field. It is statistically where a vast, VAST majority of all scoring takes place. We got the ball into the most heavily scored in area on the field, 25 more times than the opposition. And lost by 80 points. That is a major indictment on both the coaching and leadership, and quality of the list. We had this exact same discussion vs Hawthorn last year, against West Coast, last week, and today. Over the past 12 quarters, including last year's Prelim, we've had 4 goalless quarters. We have gone an entire match equivalent without scoring a goal. Think about that. And people had us touted for the flag? Right now, we are comfortably bottom 4 esque. I wasn't prepared to jump off after last week, but now I see the trend. I'm sorry if I doubted anyone last week.

If only the conditions were nicer and the match was at the MCG...

He's a perennial loser. He's done it his whole career. Check out the picture from last week. The whole team is walking off the ground after the match. One player has his head down. Guess who?

We've kicked 27 points across the last 4 quarters. If you include the PF, we're looking at 4 full goalless quarters. In our past 3 matches, we've gone the equivalent of an entire match without a goal. And that's with 1 quarter left to play.

Worst club in the league atm.

Frost is an utter moron.

4 inside 50s. 4 goals.

Melbourne: 15 inside 50s. 0.4 Geelong: 3 insides 50s. 3.0

13 inside 50s. 0.3. Geelong: 3 inside 50s. 3 goals. Utterly pathetic.

12 inside 50s

2 inside 50s. 2 goals. Pathetic.

Petracca and ANB fumble more than a married man at a brothel.

It's very hard to put a finger on it. We are uninspiring. Not terrible but closer to it than we are to looking "okay". It's like we're right near the corner to playing good football but are just as close to the corner of awful football. We're neither coming nor going at this point. We're stuck in neutral.

You're doubling down. If that's the case there's no reason why any one team should be definitively better than the other in these conditions. Our entire gameplan is built around contested ball. We should thrive in the wet, not struggle.

If only it was perfect 32-degree weather and the game was at the MCG...oh wait

We managed to cut the contested possession differential from 35 to 25 in only 10 minutes. We got on top but didn't capitalise.

Good end to the half. Got on top. Oliver amazing. KK, Frost, May, Brayshaw all solid. Viney in and out. Petracca just terrible. Gawn uninspiring and seemingly not 100%. Zero forward coherency. ANB useless. Weeds not ideal for the weather. Jones is absolutely cooked.

Petracca. The momentum killer.

lol and who do you replace him with?

They have 30 more contested possessions.

We'll lose by 100+. Bookmark it. When you give Geelong this much control in Geelong, they punish you.

FYI, we've scored 15 points since the 25th minute mark of the 3rd quarter last week.

Uninspiring trash.

We tackle alright but Port and now Geelong's absolute demolition of the contested ball is a major indictment on our development at this point. That to me is the major key. Yeah we have good handles in close and can contest to bring the ball down, but Port and Geelong seem to get a clear kick or run out from a contest almost every time.

We won't win this. Three times we have gone for the ball, and a teammate peels off instead of shepparding. All three times we've lost possession. We're playing decidingly poor team football. They have numbers around the stoppages. It is a carbon copy of Ports domination around the ball last week. We are in a bad slump right now.