Jaded No More

It was so frustrating and lucky Gawn was having a good marking day. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that perhaps Tmac going down meant Gawn was our only marking option down the line as clearly they were playing Weid deep to isolate his opponent. My issue is that for 10 years we have had the same simplistic repetitive kick out strategy. Surely someone can come up with some different options to move the ball out of full back.

The only change for me is out Melksham and in Hunt or Jones. Of course if Tmac is still blind then Brown in to replace him.

Gus is a much better user of the footy going forward than the rest of our inside mids. At our best in 2018 he was winning clearances and the delivering the ball forward. He’s creative and he good at spreading to receive the ball wide which makes him a lot less predictable than Oliver and Viney. The issue is he isn’t getting enough inside mid minutes at the moment. I would like to see him played at half back instead of on the wing.

He played on the wing a lot tonight. I would want to know what role he was doing before we jump the gun. To me he is an inside mid and playing him anywhere else is robbing him of his real talent. It’s like playing Oliver on a wing and wondering why his effectiveness is down.

Hannan and Viney were superb today. Vanders excellent in the last quarter. There is no doubt we are a lot better set up with Oscar down back and it even allowed us to throw May forward when he was stinking it up. Extremely disappointing to see our ball use was again horrific. Petracca and May nowhere near good enough. Weideman did ok. He needs a bit more time. Also a real shame we lost TMac because it looked good to have two talls in the first quarter. Our wastefulness with the ball is so frustrating and against a better more mature side we would have lost. It was nice to have less chaos ball and playing on at all costs. Our decision making was better but our execution is still just rubbish at times.

The umpiring ??

Get [censored]. He can’t kick a simple 20m pass but he kicks this goal ?‍♀️?

Our entire back 50 exist strategy is kick to Gawn ?

Our ball use is PATHETIC.

[censored] off Petracca

Hannan again. Well done!

Look at us panic and lose the plot

Wtf is this [censored] free for? Disgusting.

Is May concussed? Wtf?

Come on! He has kicked 2 fluke goals nobody could defend

Well we are gonna lose this game to a debutant ?‍♀️

This is why they want Hannan in the side. Great work.

Melksham is taking the [censored] with his lack of forward pressure. Our ball use is just so bad. It’s really hard to watch.

FML watching this team is exhausting

[censored] rubbish. Get [censored] umpires.

[censored] me Petracca!

Trust Melbourne to have the biggest [censored] goals kicked against them

Lockhart is fast losing his position for next week

Poor Tom Viney has been amazing with his pressure

Someone lowered their [censored] eyes inside 50