Jaded No More

He isn’t the sort of speedy player I’m after. He is fast like Hibbo is fast. In that he runs fast and turns it over. No thanks.

Christ on a stick another slow ball butcher? I want players who can kick and run.

Yep. The seagulls spent more time in our forwardline than our actual forwards. Our press is ridiculous and doesn’t work. Especially on the MCG.

Thought Stretch was OK. His kicking was better than most.

Illegal gambling and supplement sagas.

Agreed. Shame we couldn’t hit a target beyond the kick out.

Yep we are a very boring team to watch at the moment.

The soft underbelly of this club will never be gone. We are a weak club and our list is full of over inflated egos and lazy underachievers. We look flat footed, unfit, slow and lacking in any skills. Nice to see Goodwin trying to mix things up, but his game plan stinks and we will never win games of footy by having a completely empty forwardline. I lost count of the times we had not a single option to kick to going inside 50. Tony Lockett couldn’t kick a goal playing for this sad excuse of a team. We are in a world of trouble as realistically our list has no depth and we have no foreseeable improvement to come. Our skills are deplorable, but worst still is our inability to do basic defensive things. 17-3 tackles inside 50 is disgusting. 76-57 tackles another damning stat. We are lazy, we don’t spread hard enough, we don’t tackle well and we continuously lose our opponents in transition. Far be it from me to pick on a single player, but why did we bring in ANB? Houli tore him a new one and he laid one tackle inside 50. One. So many players are out of form or in decline and we just aren’t getting near it. Even our best asset, our midfield, is really down on form. All in all this season is a massive bust, and sadly we have 4 more years of Goodwin and his silly media smile and his [censored] political talk and very little tactical nous.

We will win max 4 games for the rest of the year. We are a disgraceful football team.

We are shambles. Completely dropped off in the clearances and our backline went to water under the relentless pressure. We are in real trouble. We have not kicked a decent score once this year and we don’t look like coming close to it. We are lucky they missed a few shots. But regardless this game looks over unless we start finding some avenues to goal.

Any chance Trac will ever stand up in a critical time? He has done SFA

Credit to Goodwin for trying some kooky [censored] [censored]. I am here for it! Would love anyone in this team to hit a target this year.

Our skills are [censored]!

Really concerning for both AVB and KK. Will either play again this year? Ever?

I’m just sad that we’ve had such a good run of prime time games and free to air exposure and we have totally stunk it up!

Oh and Goodwin will never have the guts to drop Lewis just like he will never drop Hibbo or TMac who are both barely going. I suppose when the cupboard is bare you gotta make do with what you have.

Going tomorrow feels like an actual chore. I’ve lost all interest. Neal Bullen and Tim Smith in for us. Jack Reiwoldt in for Tigers. Life is so great when you’re a Melbourne supporter!

To think I paid for a friggin seat upgrade (because I don’t pay enough for my premium membership!) for this rubbish I am about to witness. First game of the season I am dragging my fiancé to. We always win when he comes to games, but not even his lucky voodoo can help this train wreck of a club at the moment. Add the pain of no trains and it’s going to be one long night

God I wish Roos still wanted to be a senior coach. This club is a shambles that has been held together by the glue that was Jackson and Roos. Both are gone now and it feels like we are slowly slipping back to our old pathetic ways.

Pretty typical Melbourne really. Make a prelim and think “flag is in the bag I’ll go get wasted and fat in the pre season”. Our players are a pack of lazy amateurs if this is true. Jesus this club will never be successful will it? It’s just an endless cycle of misery and failure.

Yep this season is over already. We can shuffle things around, but our game plan and form, combined with our injuries to key backline players means we can’t make finals, let alone win finals. As by the time we resolve these problems the seasons will be too far gone.

Completely agreed. A 27 year old going to a new club turning up unfit to pre season is [censored] inexcusable

Hard to put any faith in a coach who plays his two slowest and oldest players on the wings of the MCG against any team, let alone and quick one. What possible logic is behind this coaching move?

Shocked Salem isn’t leading the charts. He has been our only consistent performer this year and is the only real improver this season. Plus he hits a goddamn target every time.

Also can we talk about why Hibbo was kept on Membery for the entire game when he was tearing him a new one? No issues dropping OMac but Hibbo is so out of form and was getting dismantled by an average forward. Seems Goodwin won’t drop his bestie from Essendon no matter how badly he is playing. Meantime Stretch can’t get more than one game, because we had to rush an underdone Lewis back to stink it up on the wing.