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In Roos' defense, the team was flat today. Anyone sitting with 10 rows of the pitch on the wing would have seen that within the first 5 minutes. Major communication issues on the bench with rotations because players were coming off on their own accords because they were spent. I saw it. I saw maybe 10, 11 times when players were screaming out to the bench to come off for a spell. When you're flat, you play lazy football. You give hospital handpasses. You give away dumb free kicks. You give your opponents space. You run off your opponent to chase another opponent to make up space that you've *already* lost. I know it's a shithouse excuse, but a 5.5-day break, at Etihad, against St.Kilda...well, it was the worst possible match to play after a quick turnaround. Roos was outcoached in the Essendon match. Not today. The Saints played Etihad to perfection. Melbourne was flat, and combined with how [censored] we play that ground, nothing the coaches could have done would have won that game. We also played with an attack flair that has Goodwin all over it. I think Goodwin was heavily influential today. I think the frustration you saw today was him not having any answers, not him not being able to do anything.

Petracca was good relative to his experience. First game in 1.5 years. Zero AFL experience. Not even a full VFL game experience. Came in and did some nice things, won some hard ball, and delivered some good passes. He was far more involved and had more score involvements than Harmes, Kent and Garlett combined.

That was a 100+-point loss without Hogan. Kent, Harmes, Frost, Watts and Garlett were all annihilated. No one else would have kicked goals.

Would not drop Hunt. Really like him. Wagner and Harmes. Out: Wagner, Harmes, Frost In: Oliver, ANB, Brayshaw Swap Dunn and Pederson. Dunn is less of a liability up forward.

Hogan - Only Consistent Performer Viney - Best and Fairest Gawn - Serviceable yet Flat Jones - Standard Jones Game Vince - Not Bernie's Best Kennedy - Far From Influential Bugg - Never Got Involved Petracca - Signs Of Promise Tyson - In and Out Watts - Lacked real involvement TMAC - Shocking peripheral vision Wagner - beaten all over Lumumba - Dear Oh Dear Dunn - Slow and Dumb Harmes - Did he play? Garlett - Missed his influence Salem - VFL quality performance Kent - Must Offer More Frost - Paul Johnson 2.0 Hunt - Confident Yet Outclassed Jetta - Among Our Best

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Our backline has been pathetic.

We should have bogged it down that quarter. Quite clear that Goodwin is coaching this game.

Give me a break. Saints are average. If we want finals, we should be beating them.

Coaching is awful. Sitting behind the interchange, I reckon maybe 10 times Melbourne players have been vocally yelling because they're confused about whether or not they're supposed to rotate.

This could very well blow out to 100 points. That's 14 goals in 2 quarters.

Our defense has lost us this. Dysfunctional. Dunn, McDonald, Salem all shockingly outplayed. Salem has been very average.

Watch Dunn on that replay. Pitiful. That is shocking defense.

Roos getting outcoached again. Roo getting the ball on the flank, kick across the ground to an unmarked teammate. 6th from that exact play.

Dunn is awful. He peels off Roo at every chance.

True. Just think we're flat and they play the ground too well.

We're not really. They dominated that quarter. Shouald be 5-6 goals down.

I just think we're flat. They have all the run. Worst possible time to play the Saints at Etihad for a home game, with 5.5 days rest. You could tell from half-way through the first they were tired.

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Whole team is very flat. Saints play this ground like they train on it every day. Might be time to tighten up, play on on one. Making a team with shocking disposal look very good.

It's because every Melbourne teams needs to play one home game there a season. Bit stupid. That said, better to play it against a Melbourne club than a team like GWS. That said again, better to play it against a fellow MCG tenant than a team whose home ground is Etihad. But either way, against any Melbourne team it's a disadvantage for us. We play there less than any other Melbourne team.

You'd think his management would be screaming out at him to stay in Melbourne. Over the last few years most if not all of the young guns who have "gone home" to Perth have come from QLD, NSW etc. And then you have those coming back to Melbourne. Scully is the exception but we know why he left. Hogan isn't going anywhere.

Who comes out for him?

And they have the cattle and experience to do it.