Jaded No More

Improving drastically each passing week. Remarkable what experience can do to a player!

If we lose now I blame Nasher!

I just witnessed Oliver vomiting smack bang in the middle of the ground like 5 times.

You can't take smarts away from a player. He still has a good feel of the game and an ability to find time. Loved his goal. Deserves a good 6-7 game run to get back into it

I am kinda of enjoying how we are always a second away from disaster. We just love nearly [censored] up running into an open goal.

Correct. I doubt Roosy was blowing them kisses at the quarter time huddle. A much better second quarter. I wish Nichols and long and painful bout of gastro. The man is a fool.

Seems ok to me and I sit near the bench. Tyson was doing shuttle runs on the boundary for the last few minutes too.

Had all the momentum as didn't capitalized then they smashed us. Dumb dumb dumb.

We are playing some dumb football. Getting murdered on the counterattack. Forward 50 entries are a joke. Signs are not great. Lucky to only be 2 goals down.

Great weather for the walk to the G and enjoying watching various D grade douchebags diving into icy water. Now to win! Can also confirm J Viney is playing. Glove on. Freak!

I would dearly love to see them win the flag, but doubt it will happen. The rest of the top 4 makes me wanna vomit!

Jack Viney is an animal, or stupid, or both... or he won't actually play.

Look for someone else to kick a bag instead #melbournelyf

Surely if Viney plays he'll wear some sort of protective glove. If he gets up he is a freak. I'd rather not risk him to be honest, even though we have to win this game to keep our season relevant.

Me too, but playing alongside his brother can't hurt his chances of signing.

Ummm no... Frawley was played up forward, TMac is still holding the most important position in our backline every single week. Totally different. If anything, playing OMac is probably a way to keep TMac engaged and wanting to stay.

That umpire is a joke. He is a blight on the game, and his need to get his ugly head on TV constantly is getting boring. [censored] him off.

Nobody knows [censored]

Unbelievable that we didn't get a free kick from the Ceglar hit behind play, but Bernie got reported and gave away a free for that farcical love tap. Pathetic umpiring and proof that Hawthorn are protected. I hope that awful Pannell dude takes his bald spot and [censored] off back to some local league never to be heard from again!

And yet we continue to be their [censored]. I am SO sick of losing to them, about as sick as playing against them at Etihad always and forever, even when it is our home game.

Agreed. We don't need to rush Weideman. Who would he even replace in the side? He isn't a Dawes or Pedersen replacement, and the last thing we need is even more inexperience. As it is our inexperience leads to a lack of composure which has cost us games this season (North, Hawks to name a few). Oscar McDonald is filling a role that we currently don't have a better alternative for. Yes people will scream for Dunn, but Dunn can't zone off, he doesn't understand two-way running and isn't even tall enough to play on many of today's key forwards. We need to keep developing players in every area of the ground. When Garland and Dunn play everybody screams that they are no good and belong to the old culture of losing. So we try to bring in new players, and then everybody screams that they aren't ready. When do people suggest we give these guys experience? When we are trying to make top 4? When we are in contention for a flag? The time is now. We are improving slowly and building, but finals are probably unrealistic. This is the perfect time, with a new coach coming in next season and an adjusted game plan, to develop these players. Funny I don't see many people calling for Hunt and Wagner to go back to the VFL, although they leak probably as many goals every week, playing on lesser opponents. People see what they want to see, and Oscar bashing seems the flavour of the month. He is so raw, yes, but he is no worse than his brother or Frawley was at this stage of their career. We have two choices; play him and see if he cuts it with more experience (if he doesn't we don't need to waste list space on him going forward), or let him go back to the VFL where he dominates and live under an illusion that he will be great one day by some miracle despite getting no AFL exposure.

He looks slow but hard to know if that's the long term effects of the injury or lacking senior match conditioning. But what he has which is priceless, is a footy brain and an ability to work through situations. If he stays fit and healthy and can improve his speed off the mark, I think he will be a wonderful addition to our team, and wouldn't that be great!

First game live for me this year and I have to ask wtf has happened to our backline? For 2 years it was the only passable area of the ground for us, but the whole thing seems to have lost the plot. I guess we only have 2 experienced players in there now. Jetta is a gun who needs to be locked into a long term contract. Tom Mac has surely been kidnapped by aliens who sucked all the defensive skills out of him. He has lost it, his defensive efforts are becoming laughable. The rest of the backline is riddled with inexperienced kids all of whom I rate and think have a long term future, but obviously it's a slow work in progress. Hunt is by far the most impressive. I think he'll be great. Oscar is so inexperienced. How you expect a 6 game player playing one of the hardest positions in the game, not to stuff up, I'm not sure. I just hope he doesn't go the way of his brother with the crazy brain fades. Overall I am more worried about McDonald senior than McDonald junior.

He's been fantastic this year. A different player. All credit to him, nobody has ever been under more pressure to perform than poor Watts. He has been bashed for his entire career and rather than letting it break him, he let it make him. If that doesn't make him a tough bastard, I don't know what does.

They are the reigning premiers. They are a lot more experienced and they just know how to grind you down. I thought we played really well despite a really disappointing last quarter kicking just 1 point. We had a lot go against us today and some players who basically didn't turn up, namely Garlett. We also would have been a lot better off playing Pedersen who can take a mark, than butter hands Dawes, especially in this weather. Not sure if Pedersen is sick, but if he was fit it was a costly mistake to leave him out. A lot of positives today, I thought Frost was very good down back. Vince amazing, Tyson likewise. It was a strong effort and a much improved effort than the slop we've served up against them for 10 years. And lastly, I hope, although I know we are too weak to do so, that we give the AFL a please explain re: the umpires. The most one sided disgusting biased performance I've seen in a long time. What a joke.