Jaded No More

Jesus Christ what do you call this Melbourne? 2018 called. They want their winning ways back.

Viney sounds like we all feel. He is waiting for the season to finish. Also his shorts obviously shrunk in the wash and lack of finances mean he’s stuck with them until 2020 and he’s very uncomfortable.

Beautiful bullet pass to start the game. Now let’s see how our goal kicking is.

Hamstring 1-2 weeks

Welcome to the season from hell that refuses to die. How many more weeks of this [censored] left?!

This messy trading of picks situation isn’t ideal. If we keep not using first round picks we would end up with a list that will one day drop off the proverbial cliff and never recover. We may not finish this low again for a decade (let’s hope), so if we don’t use pick 2 in the draft we better get an absolute guaranteed star with it.

His resume is impressive and honestly after the run of injury and fitness issues we’ve had, we need someone at the top of their game. He sure has his work cut out for him, as I estimate about 80% of our list is currently injured or unfit.

I know we need the cash, but this deal is an absolute stinker for us and I hope the next deal is negotiated to benefit us, now that we are in a less “got no money will take anything” position. For one it needs to feel like our home game. It also needs to be played prior to a 7 day break or a bye. It needs to come at the expense for other interstate trips and it needs to pay up big. These games are no worse or harder than going to say Perth, but selling 2 of them a year should come with a clause that excludes us from say traveling down to mother effing Geelong on a yearly basis. I hope Pert works this new deal hard to make sure we really benefit out of it.

What’s the go with KK? Has been TBC for ages and haven’t been mentioned recently. Is he done?

I literally said this in my post. Did you stop reading about this sentence? I said they needed time to play together and that Lever and Jetta both are not fit. It was not passing judgement on the backline, it was merely an observation that while our backline is all on the field finally, it isn’t performing to the level we would like due to the above.

Obviously those tweets are revolting and awful. Would be equally as awful if it was said about a male umpire though, and I am sure it has. If people are picking on her for being female they are sexist and are distracted by the real issue at hand, which is her umpiring incompetence.

I thought he was ok. His disposal is terrible which lets him down and we won’t improve until we get some skills on the wings. I don’t know why they refuse to play Salem here. He is the best user of the footy by a mile. I know we use him for kick outs, but surely May and Hibbo have that covered.

Yep. I hope we say Viney is in doubt for this week, make sure Barras cops a suspension then play him. Sick of being the nice guy. To concuss Viney is no mean feat.

Yep he’s a good one too. Has a feel for the game which helps.

We can’t trade our first round pick this year. The only option is if we trade pick 3 for 2 picks, one within the first round, then on trade the other pick. We must use a first round selection this year, unless the rules have changed?

You aren’t wrong and as a fellow female I agree. But truthfully I know the names of very few umpires and she isn’t one that has umpired our games a lot so I just simply have no idea what her name is. I refer to her as the female umpire because it’s an easy identifier. I also refer to Nicholls as that bald pr!ck because that too is an easy identifier. I only know his name because I’ve seen him crucify us numerous times. That Eleni is a female has nothing to do with the fact that she is seriously bad at umpiring and she joins the countless males who too are awful at umpiring and ruined many a game this season due to their incompetence. On a side note Chelsea is by far the best goal umpire in the competition and I know her name because she’s an excellent umpire not because she’s female.

Second and third quarters were as good as we’ve played all year against a top quality opposition. So that’s a positives. Fritsch was great up forward, finally playing where he belongs and Lewis was also very good negative that fat [censored] McGovern. Once again our kicking and decision making cost us the game. Even down to Fritsch in the dying minutes kicking the ball into the center of the ground and missing the target. Yes it’s one play, but it’s the constant poor decisions and missing targets and easy shots on goal that just kill you as a supporter. And robs the team of all momentum. Our backline is fully stocked but they aren’t meshing. They are lost, they spoil each other and are constantly out of position. I’m going to give it time as they need to play together for a while to get in a groove, but my god Jetta and Lever are so rusty. Lever looks really unsure of his knee, Jetta looks exhausted and Frost is I don’t even know. He is a brain fade short of an aneurism. May has been magnificent. Clearly battling fitness still, but he is a presence and did a great job on Kennedy who destroys us on the regular. Despite his poor showing in pre season he has been a great get for us. Overall this game is a perfect summation of this season. A few highs, a lot of lows and plenty of frustration.

True. But we are both a man down this quarter. We are not a 4 quarter team. Haven’t been all year. Just another problem to add to a long list of problems.

This umpire is so so so bad. She needs to just go away. Embarrassing stuff!

Well the Fritsch kick cost us the game. Stay forward!

Jesus Preuss he is a shocker

Why is Gawn not rucking with 10 minutes to go??

Who are you handballing to Trac???

And we won’t ask the AFL to please explain.

This woman is a disgrace. Terrible umpire to add to a long line of terrible umpiring. Good way to cost us a game.