P-man

God so true. Every time. Doesn’t matter how much time and space. Harmes, Oliver, Brayshaw. All of them do it. To basically the same spot. In all the years watching Sam Mitchell, I could count on one hand the number of times I saw him blindly hack it forward out of the middle. He would settle and weigh up his options. Every time.

As much as I’d like to drop Oliver, we can’t afford to lose his ability in the contest. Brayshaw however would not be missed one iota.

“Was 2018 the outlier?“ Right now that looks like a resounding, emphatic, unequivocal, yes.

Once again we are kicking to a forward line of small and medium forwards and surprise surprise we are getting routinely beaten in the air. This is fundamental stuff. We are doing ourselves a disservice at selection and during the game. How many times was Gawn thrown forward? Especially with Nankervis off the damn ground. Maddening. Even with the personnel we have, we can’t seem to find space in F50 like other sides. Our forwards don’t work for each other to provide space to lead into. The talent is lacking but the understanding also seems to be lacking. Unable or unwilling to find the release kick or handball. Hand balling in circles and turning it over. Truly atrocious skills all day. Feel sorry for Smith but if he is ever seen in defence again I’m going to throw up. Oliver should hang his head after that. That kick at the end sums up his [censored] attitude. Someone, anyone, needs to pull him aside and give him a few home truths. He is a lazy footballer whose damage factor right now is zero. Gus. I just don’t know any more Viney will always be a B grader. He’s reached his ceiling and that’s what he is. May was decent. He and Trac can hold their heads up. Hannan did his job. Overall, a really disheartening performance. Will be interesting to see what Goodwin says about it. Actually, no it won’t.

Deadset anyone who names him in the best is a [censored] idiot.

I would drop Oliver for this game. Not even joking. He’d be out next week.

I actually feel sorry for Smith.

Smith can never play in defence again surely. Surely.

Oliver is pissing me off now. Wtf was that tackle attempt.

We are barely capable of moving the ball now. Let alone scoring. Petracca is the only player trending in the right direction. This is a side going backwards in every sense.

Wow. Oliver’s kicking. Wow.

Our kicking is really offensively bad today.

God this is just farcical. Clearly the umps have been told to pay more HTBs and stupidly overcorrected by applying inane incidences of “no genuine attempt”. What a [censored] monkey show.

Wait what? No prior but no genuine attempt? He was trying to handball it when it was locked in.

Air Kossy.

How the do we continually manage to stuff up absolute gimme opportunities to score??

Good to see Sookwoldt has returned to what he does best. Absolute flogbucket.

Hogan isn’t even a shadow of the player he was. Sad to see.

Could be a winner. I have a feeling it’s going to be a narrow field.

I mean, yeah. Clearly the most frustrating. Carlton fans would disagree but they can stay in their lane. No club excels at breaking hearts and removing hair like the MFC.

I absolutely understand the frustration and impatience. I’m guilty of it too. That said, I agree with the OP in that the weekend’s game wasn’t as bad as has been made out. If Tommo had kicked a little longer and straighter towards the end, the discussion would be a slightly different one. It wasn’t a pretty spectacle for the neutral but I saw some signs of getting back on track. We met and bettered Geelong in the contested battle, and some of the passages of play this year have been better than anything we saw in 2019. We allowed them to take too many uncontested marks and surely that is something the coaches will look at. The forward line remains a concern but it is not too late to shake it up and try to find a working combination. It is retrievable. A Clarkson said he views us a finals quality side. For now, I’ll stick with his assessment.

I really wish it didn’t seem inevitable that we will play them back into form and lose by 5 goals. I really do.

Not sure mate. Time to fire off an email. [email protected]

Look closer Ronald. It’s a half half guernsey. Your Bernie love is still safe.

Lack of a second tall target in the forward line killed us.