Jaded No More

He also had 2 touches in the first half. Not a good one from the vice captain and an even worse one from the captain

Am I old, or does he look like a literal infant? I’m old aren’t I?

Need something special from GC! Also a Richmond upset and Crom defeating Brisbane at home would be greatly appreciated.

At least a Geelong loss has helped cheer me up.

We need a change to the assistant coaches at the end of the season. Bring in some fresh ideas. The midfield and forwardline especially is not working. Goodwin is a good off field coach. Players love him and culturally he’s done so much for the team. But we need to freshen things up in the box.

They fluked it far more than we did* If Pies don’t go down to Sydney by a point in the prelim, I reckon Cats don’t win it. *there is no such thing as a fluked flag ffs

And we will be saying the same thing about JJ when Viney inevitably breaks down at 30 years of age. But by all means, keep playing Harmes.

Honestly it was so putrid. You’d think he’s some hero of the MFC who captained us for a decade and left to go home because his mother was dying, or worse, got unceremoniously dumped against his will. He’s a kid who got lucky and won a flag with us and then ran home at the first chance he got. Cheering him was ludicrous. Him laughing after smashing Gawn straight in the back tells you everything you need to know about what sort of guy he is. An grateful, graceless clown.

Yeah I don’t care how bad we ever get, nobody will ever take that flag away from us. We won it and we won it so comprehensively, it’s actually disrespectful to suggest we fluked it. We climbed over a lot of hurdles, including massive Covid restrictions, to get that flag. Let’s no rewrite history because we are mad at current events.

Agreed. That was so embarrassing. Don’t boo if you don’t want, but cheering a player who basically checked out mid year is a joke.

Don’t worry, they’ll turn it all around and kick 20.1 next week 😂

About as well as our players defending Gawn when Jackson hit him hard straight in the back.

Exactly. Saints far exceeding expectations Can’t say the same for Melbourne.

This is for me, the biggest issue we currently face. A lot went right in 2021, but the one intangible that got us to the flag was the unwavering buy in and desire to win. That has gone missing since 2021, and it’s frankly a slap in the face to the large majority of our supporters who weren’t there to experience the premiership. If our players are not driven to win a flag in front of their supporters who have eaten a lot of [censored] from this club for many decades, then what exactly are they motivated by?

Will be pretty special to beat one of Pies or Geelong at home when we can’t even beat Freo at home who were a man down in the ruck for a half a game. Also the loading excuse is wearing thin. If everyone does it, why are we the only good team who can’t hack it?

Correct. It was just stock standard poor umpiring. Nothing to see here.

No, but we have to stop using the umpiring as an excuse. Every side cops [censored] umpiring. That’s life. A good side doesn’t make excuses.

If losing to [censored] Freo at home isn’t worthy of a meltdown, what is?

Chandler was better than Spargo today. No idea why they subbed him off and not Spargo, who can’t kick further than 30m. McVee was ok. He isn’t the issue. It’s the midfield and half forward line that is absolutely embarrassing us.

I would like an apology from the poster on here who said I was being dramatic when I said post game last week that our season was tittering on the brink. Oliver is our most important player by a fair margin. Even with him in the side we can barely win the ground ball or get a meaningful clearance anymore. I don’t think we will win a game now until he’s back in the side, unless something very drastic changes. Blues are under the pump, Pies will have an easy kill and Geelong in Geelong will be a one sided affair. Losing him and Petty could not have come at a worse time, but a good team learns to overcome. We are obviously not a good team right now.

Why didn’t we put Kosi into the middle in the last? We were getting mauled in there time and time again. The game was all but lost so try something!

They’ll say we lost because Oliver didn’t play, after they said we are not a one man team.

I’m not sure I can bear to watch us get slaughtered in front of 70,000 Pies fans.

It’s one thing losing a game when you have a rubbish list. It’s another to keep losing games with a list capable of so so much more.

He needs another tall defender so he can play the floating third man up. We [censored] our defense when we took Petty out of there.