praha

Get [censored], losers.

I'm not going for the rest of the year.

stretch lol

So we're at 6 goals across 6 quarters, and 2 good quarters of 7. We'll need 6+ goals this quarter to be within a chance of winning.

Game on.

Defensively we are doing okay but structurally everywhere else it's actually worse than last week.

Shhhhhhh. Positive.

Support the boys, don't be so negative, long way to go, it's not the coach, and other Demonland cliches.

we're getting destroyed

Richmond just needs to settle and they'll [censored] this in by 7-8 goals. We're awful.

If we're winning and the game is in the bag, and the crowd flashed on the screen and it's 87k+, I expect all Melbourne supporters to cheer as loud as they can.

Sky is clearing up to the west. It'll clear up.

I hope it keeps raining. We can't just pray it never rains when we play. If we can't win on the MCG on a wet day we don't deserve to play finals.

ARL? What year is it?

Dees by 6 goals.

Gee, Tigers fans aren't confident on Bigfooty. Between calls of "Campaigners" and "Tanking" (Jones being called a "balled campaigner" was my favourite), they're mostly calling a heavy loss. Big change from early in the week. Big test for the Tigers. Prestia also looks to be a late change for them. I suspect we'll shorten in close to $2 ahead of the game tomorrow.

Rubbish. Weeds' first game against Hawthorn was as good as you'd hope from a developing key forward.

I think there is more to it. Obviously we're gonna need fresh legs for Essendon. He'll be a good in on a faster track. Our entire forward line had a poor day.

Our best team for the year imo. Fritsch probably unlucky.

Don't disagree with any of these posts, but it was mainly the way in which they gave up from midway through the 3rd that really worried me.

Completely pointless comparing Hawthorn's or anyone else's performances to ours. Lool at the context. 1. It's not that we lost, but rather how we lost. 2. We've beaten Hawthorn once in a decade. 3. We should be well beyond those sorts of performances. There's nothing wrong with losing. It's how we lost.

Those teams including the Melbourne 2000 team had runs on the board. We knew that those loses would be merely a blimp on the radar for those teams. Carlton lost to St Kilda and Sydney in 1995 -- two perennial loses at the time -- by 10+ goals, their only two loses for the year on the way to the flag. Melbourne has yet to demonstrate that big loses are just that: a bad day at the office. The reality is that these loses have proven to be part of and are arguably the catalyst towards the wheels falling off for an entire year. We have got to stop finding a means to justify these loses until they became just as they are for the aforemention teams: aberrations. There is absolutely nothing to suggest last week's loss was just a bump in the road. Much has been said of this playing group just "expecting" things to happen. If we fall into the trap of saying, "Oh well richmond lost by 80 points last year and won the flag, no stress!" then we're feeding into what is already a soft culture. I fully expect them to bounce back this week if we're any hope of playing finals.

Shhh we're not allowed to admit failure or talk about the past. Too negative. We might trigger the playing group's PTSD.

IN: Weeds, Tyson, Hunt OUT: Lewis, Vince, Bugg

Hawthorn is not great. They are well coached, but they made a point of making a mockery of us last week. Clarkson toyed with us, and our players gave up.