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We have always relied on our star players, but when we have Oliver who is a shadow of himself , then lose Pettacca to injury who do we have?

Viney is also not playing with his usual mongrel either.

Lack of pressure just proves we also don’t want it bad enough or there is something wrong behind the scenes.

Not a happy team at Melbourne.

7 minutes ago, loges said:

Had no trouble hearing the boos for Maynard at all, came across loud and clear.

Collingwood cheers for him were much louder than our boos

I thought Windsor was good today.

Rivers and Salem tried pretty hard too.

I thought it was a game we should have won against a severely undermanned Collingwood.

Our endeavour and contest work was good and we seemed like we came to play but our method let us down badly again , being unable to kick a decent score and letting too many out the back.

There just doesn’t seem to be a fix to this and my question is how did we lose our ability seemingly overnight and do you think we will ever get back to the team we were ?

Although we scored ok last year , this year we have had less inside 50s than St Kilda.

When we lost Gus we lost the soul of the club. 
We still have the heart in Maxy but it’s not enough unfortunately.

God I hate the Collingwood chant.

Sad days 

Collingwood were cheering Maynard loudly all day drowning out the meekly attended Melbourne supporters boos.

The guy is a hero for giving someone brain damage. What a crazy F…d up world we live in.

I thought we played ok just didn’t convert as usual.

If they don’t drop Petty next week I’m not going .

6. Max 

5. TMac

4. JVR

3. Kozzie

2. Windsor

1. ANB

The thing about Petty is that his best is very very good.

He was amazing in our win over Geelong.

He was a terrific defender in our premiership year.

But I think he needs to be the third tall in either the forward line or backline.

It can’t be just he and Turner, he has to have Van Rooyen or Brownplaying to be effective up forward ir May and Lever down back to give him freedom to fly side on and take his marks

Huge game on Monday.

line in the sand for us.

Unless something is really going on behind the scenes and they don’t turn up again.

Clarry or Petty I’d say but Petty isnt a star

A  big part of the problem is also team selection .

We are playing guys that have shown no form whatsoever in the twos.

Petty, McAdam, Hunter etc..

it’s like we are living on hope

Ditch the new game plan right now.

Go back to putting all our efforts into winning the contest, ball ups and centre bounce and pump it forward.

Van Rooyen , Fritsch,  Kozzy, etc may benefit with the ball coming in fast .

I know we missed finals because of this approach but it was mainly inaccuracy.

Get back to our DNA!

I really had my heart set on this group winning one more flag on the G so we could see it live , but alas it looks like I’ve got to resign myself to the fact it’s not going to happen.

Other midfields are going past us 

Oliver is not the same player he was

Lost 3 of our last four and we look a listless bunch.

Cant see any miracles from here, they just don’t have that desire and manic attack on the ball anymore.

We bowed out of finals in straight sets the last two seasons and this year we may not even make the 8!

7 minutes ago, Tolstoys Nudge said:

Have you ever played footy at an elite lvl and had an opponent steamroll you? It’s no fun & putting pressure on isn’t the issue that got us to this point, least of our worries in this game!

Absolutely wrong.

They are doing as they please under no pressure at all.

The year we won the flag our pressure was manic.

That was my point.

whether I personally have played footy at an elite level or not is completely irrelevant 

Any chance we could turn up to a game with the mindset of putting immense pressure on the opponent?

North will have their first win against us.

Mark it down.

We have definitely lost that hunger and mongrel we had in 21.

This uninterested mob will struggle to even make finals this year.

Midfield and wings non existent today

Midfield and wings non existent today

Midfield and wings non existent today

Midfield and wings non existent today

I think we can safely book a September holiday now