Dr. Gonzo

Yeah but Port really controlled the game and should've been up by far more at halftime. I listed the Pies game as a win so thought it fair to list the Port game as a loss.

Our inaccuracy keeps other teams in the game

He is a superstar, so glad we recruited him to the club. I love Maysie

We changed things up last night, started the game with intent, were physical, playing quick and through the corridor. But we couldn't put goals on the board, shouldve been 4 goals up early but then TDK gets two in a minute and all our hard work was for nought. Other than the Grundy/TMac/Schache debacle I don't think we can point the finger at Goodwin, I think he coached exceptionally well throughout the year. Our gameplay needs tinkering, we need a new forwards coach and perhaps a ball movement coach (Caracalla?) but the structure and gameplay holds up. It's just the execution that's lacking.

It did make sense because more oftent than not it ended up working in our favour

Ok but how many of those games were we comprehensively beaten and how many were 50/50 games that we happened to be on the wrong end of? And how many did we comprehensively win? I count 9 wins, 5 losses, 7 50/50 games. The 5 losses were Lions round 2, Bombers, Port, Freo, Cats. We won or were in every other game, average losing margin of what, 10 points? I think if we go into next year with Petty, JVR, Fritsch, Kozzie, McAdam that's a pretty potent forward line just unfortunate we had so many injuries to our forwards this year. But Petty/JVR/Kozzie will be around for another 8-10 years together, there is reason for optimism despite how disappointed we all are.

Spargo was great. I thought ANB very good too and Chandler was ok. Most played their roles just didn't finish 😢

Because he was such a weapon teams started tagging him and playing the opposite wing. I thought Langdon was pretty good last night barring the two on the fulls.

How was it flukey? Minor premier, dominant all year, dominated the finals series, backed up with 2nd and 4th after H&A next two seasons. Yes we haven't lived up to expectations the last two September's but to say 2021 was a fluke is dumb. I do question how long you can go with the type of coach Goodwin is. I think it's a great culture he's built and the care for the players etc but after 7 or 8 years do the players become too comfortable? I'm not calling for his head, far from it, just wondering aloud whether the message becomes stale.

Naughton would not help out goalkicking woes

I feel exactly the same way as you mate, absolutely gutted. This team is having a laugh losing 4 finals in a row at the G, biggest case of team yios since North in the 98 GF but at least that was only one game.

It probably would've been touched by the Blues player but he should've shepherded it through.

May and Lever were huge (Lever especially early) and McVee was solid. Not blaming them for the loss just pointing out those that had zero tackles.

They clearly had him as sub as insurance in case Max went down because they needed another ruck option but didn't want to name Grundy in the 22. Just dumbfounding decision making by the match committee, they should have brought in Grundy, dropped TMac and put Hibberd or another runner as sub.

Yep that was all us 😂

TMac had 4 kicks, 2 handballs, 0 scores and 2 tackles. I mean, if Schache can't get subbed in for TMac at 3/4 time with those numbers what is the [censored] point of him?

Which one? All the reviews seemed correct tonight

Best side in it, can't win a final in two years 🤣🤣 Delusional

That's part of it! We broke the drought interstate while we couldn't leave Melbourne in front of a rentacrowd. It's all part of the curse.

Same old story isn't it?

For those playing at home Rivers, Langdon, May, Lever, Fritsch, Gawn, McVee

We tried early, didn't put enough goals on then it turned into a scrap. We just don't have any forward targets to bail us out and when we do we miss relatively regulation style set shots way too frequently.

100% TMac was useless last week and worse this week, Grundy could've surely offered something more. You then have the benefit of not being stuck with Schache (Schache!) as sub. Club wide choke from match committee to the captain to the bootstudder (yep even the bootstudder isn't escaping the vitriol tonight)

If Viney's kick goes over Weiterings head we win. He had an absolute nightmare of a finals series after the best year of his career 😞

@Super Sub Schache love the name change 🤣🤣 You gotta laugh or you'll cry We shot ourselves in the foot but [censored] hell that non decision to pay deliberate against Walsh then deliberate against Petracca a second later which they goal from, then a minute later the exact same thing happens where they toe it out of bounds on our forward 50 and it's a throw in I mean what the [censored]? That's the AFL in a nutshell, the rules are so subjective they can choose which ones to pay and which ones not to and they can always claim to be technically correct. I'm sick of it, watch Kozzie get suspended as well even though Cripps played out the game meanwhile Maynard is free to play and Gus misses 2 games the competition is completely [censored]. Wouldn't surprise me to see several others get cited too, Sparrow for slinging Walsh into the fence, Viney taking someone high, Smith for elbowing Weitering accidentally, May because he didn't roll out the red carpet for Curnow....