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Saints by 8 goals over the Suns. Melbourne's worst is still the worst in the AFL it seems.

If we were half as good as we were 10 years ago (2005), we'd be a finals team.

McDonald, Jetta, Salem our best Tyson, Hogan, Watts good in the 1st half. Unseen in the 2nd. Jones, Tyson, Vince, Dunn, Howe, Lumumba, Jamar all very disappointing. We are a long way off. Still.

I guess you could say the match has been "Melbourne'd".

Dawes is awful. Hogan just cracked it at Jamar for the delivery.

It was actually 14 from the end of the 2nd to the start of the 4th. If the game had started then we'd be 84 points down. Without a goal.

Jones' body language reminds me of Frawley's.

This is a lesson. A lesson in football.

Dare I say this could be a 100 point loss now. No leadership. Jones Vince Lumumba Tyson Watts Garlett Dunn Garland Jamar Shocking.

Words. I have none.

This will actually be a 10 goal loss. Shocked.

I am absolutely shocked. This is actually one of the worst quarters i have ever seen. Geelong 186-esque.

Awful. How can you be stuffed in the 2nd quarter? That's when this started. 50 point turn around with 1 quarter to go. This will get ugly, guys.

Yikes. This Could be a 8-10 goal loss. They are smashing us.

Irrespective of his mental health, he royally screwed the club over, and I think fans from other clubs recognise this and call him out for it. Being depressed doesn't give him a free pass from being held to account for putting in a bad position the people that helped him through it. Granted we should move on but I actually have no sympathy for anything he'll go through as a result of his timing of the move. I think it's all far too coincidental that he did what he did. I don't think it delegitimises his health problems or anything, but it's hard to ignore that potential of using it to get out of a contract at a bad club. I think Melbourne were used as saps and kicked around like a hackey sack by Clark, and I think the broader AFL community acknowledges that. There's no justification for attacking his mental health directly, but I think it's fair game to let him hear about screwing Melbourne over. It was a dog act. I feel sorry that he mental health problems, but that isn't reason enough to walk out. It's hard to buy the, "I need a different environment" argument when you decide to go to a top club that is under far more scrutiny. The attention he got on the weekend is exactly what he wanted to get away from at Melbourne (apparently). You reap what you sow. It was a [censored] excuse. If you want out of the limelight, you don't go to a top club in the league's biggest media market.

It's awful. It's so obvious that they've just taken screencaps while the video's running on their desktop.

This doesn't sound suss at all

No I don't think it's bleak at all. I'm just saying that right now we're 2-3 injuries away from having to play potatoes lol

The comments on the AFL Facebook page are unbearable...

Was saying this to a mate the other day, who was over the moon that we had "selection issues". We only have those issues because our injury list is so small, and we have only maybe 2-3 players (if you include Grimes alongside Dawes and Vince) that would be in the top 22 nine times out of ten that weren't already playing. Our "depth" players with experience are: McKenzie Pederson Michie Spencer Terlich Jones Fitzy That doesn't include the likes of Stretch and Hunt who are clearly still a ways off. Now, any team, even a top team like Hawthorn, that has seven top-22 players out and needs to top up with 7 VFL (at best) players is going to struggle, but our problem is that these 7 players are decent (at best) players in a *bad* side, as we've seen the last 2-3 years. We lack depth primarily in the ruck, because Gawn and Spencer are simply not reliable enough. Terlich and Jones are massive liabilities down back, and McKenzie doesn't win the ball in a tagging role like Viney can, and even when he does win the ball, he hacks it. Put simply, we lack depth because none of our depth players would fit into the top 22 of any other team. Compare this to depth players at top teams. Ben Newton for example was a depth player that couldn't get a game, and he's now clearly in our top 22. Let's pray we don't get the injury bug because we will struggle. We need another 2-3 good years of drafting and sighing to get this team even close to a top 5 finish, irrespective of how much improvement we see in younger players like Salem, Viney, Brayshaw etc

Yeah was epic. The chant itself, I hate when Collingwood does it but it's an awesome war cry of sorts to claim victory. Sounded great on Saturday.

Mid-2011, a few weeks before *that* game. Heck we might even have been in the 8 at that point.

On a scale of 1 to Leigh Matthews, with Leigh Matthews being the dumbest sort of comment you can make, that statement is a Leigh Matthews out of Leigh Matthews. Leigh Matthews.

He looks a little slow but give the bloke a break. He's gone now and we've got a true clubman in Lumumba now. Time to move on.