praha

It has been 10 years, and we are still performing like this. Not even Paul Roos could fix this club. Unfixable.

Pavlich blatantly hands-in-the-back. No call.

Oh my God...who missed that punch?

That means 19 have touched the ball! POSITIVITY!

No heart, no urgency, no interest. Will there be a soul at next week's game?

That was shocking, Jones.

Most of the free kicks are a product of 3 things: 1. Dumb footballers playing like idiots 2. Zero talk and players getting caught 3. Players fumbling and giving away a freek kick as a means of making up for their ineptness. Most of the free kicks have been there.

Gee whiz, that was a lesson in team football.

Once again, this is merely losing margin minimisation. No dare, no urgency, just a bunch of blokes racking up possession. We're still the worst "team" in the league, by far.

Horrid, Melbourne. We will be lucky to kick 4 goals today.

Dunn and Garland with your stupid, immature, amateurish free kicks. Just leave the club already!

God almighty, our forward structure is absolutely horrid. 6-7 one-on-one contests, zero space. Just congestion. Pav with two gimmies, 7 minutes in. fmd.

lol, free kick in front of goal for big nose Pav, after Hogan has been held by 3 guys at every entry. Already getting gangbanged by the umpires.

LOL, Freo player took 3 Melbourne players on, incorrect disposal, had about 3 seconds to dispose, "Play on". Awful umpiring after the holding the ball on Stretch.

Garland and Dunn are awful. EDIT: Argh, that replay. Garland body contact and positioning is truly awful sometimes. We're gonna be lucky to kick 4 goals today.

Why am I watching this?

8.

There's zero chance we'll be within 10 goals. I just hope Hogan kicks a bag.

lol West Coast thinks it's Melbourne. How cute.

So you'd sell the house for a midfielder, of which there are many in the league and are far easier to develop and mould into stars, but you wouldn't for a once-in-a-generation forward that already has the awareness and competitiveness of a 10-year player?

How positive of you.

Freo will play in second gear and win hy 80-90 points.

You mean a style that dictates defensive accountability and two-way running? If it's "unsuited to his list", then the list is the problem, not Roos.

We'll win.

The response was that Roos brought it players and attracted people to the club. Granted the club wouldn't have been able to land the same sort of deals that Roos has in his time, but Neeld still brought in Clark and Dawes, for better or worse. He also landed Hogan. He saw a hole up forward and tried to plug it. He drafted midfielders (again, for better or worse). He tried to bring in experience for the lack that we had. That was my point in saying that what Neeld was trying to do is not all that different from what Roos is trying to do. Actually, they were/are trying to fix the exact some deficiencies in the squad.