Jaded No More

Wasting so many opportunities ANB has done some good things. I'm so glad that he is in the middle as he should be. Oliver is back on

He is just a good kick and sometimes he has a [censored] day. To say he is awful at kicking like some were saying last week, is not true at all.

Hogan couldn't kick a 20 meter goal last week and nails this one. It's all about confidence!

Been horribly sick this week. Hoping this game will cure me. Nathan Jones is having some sort of game. He is all class. I have to say I love Hunt, he is fantastic and so important to our run out of defence.

Surely one of the McDonald boys is going to help Max in the ruck. We are stuffed if Max has a bad game or worse gets injured.

And more importantly years of life ahead of him. It is still just footy, his health is so much more important!

And she flat out refuses to move interstate... And is also a fertile and gifted athlete.... And a lifelong Melbourne supporter.

Who is playing on that [censored] Stringer? I hate that overrated turd

I'm assuming we've given up? I understand that young teams have ups and downs, but such radical ups and downs are a worry.

I really can't work out why ANB hasn't gotten a game yet but Michie for example has.

Wft can't we defend from our inside 50??? How the hell did we just let a goal through after we missed a behind?! FMD we don't learn do we?!

From what I can tell following the scores, our goal kicking accuracy has turned to [censored] and that's hurting us. They scored 2 goals we scored 3 behinds. What a difference.

I've been in Russia this week. It took me 6 hours to download the second half of the game against the GC. What a win! Putin seems to not care for Jesse Hogan, so can someone summarize for me what all the drama is about? Has he gone to Perth to "look at the facilities"?

No chance 3 changes after a big win. Salem is the only players who is arguably best 22 and didn't play. If he's fit I would say he might come in, but he isn't in hot form so no change would also make sense.

So I'm currently in the middle of the Baltic sea. It took me 45 minutes and $200 to find a viable internet connection, and all I can say is WTF?! 24 goals? Who are we? What has happened to Melbourne? Are GC just crap? Gawn from what I can tell reading the play on the AFL app, seemed to be involved in everything!

Recent comments where and by whom?

No issue playing there. Big issue playing HOME games there. Unacceptable. Just like being one of the only Vic team to play Geelong once a year in Geelong is not acceptable.

Poor ANB deserves a game. Been smashing the door down and I like what he brings. As for Trenners, I don't think they'll bring him back first up for an interstate game with a long flight for recovery purposes.

Amen to that. We have a plethora of players knocking the door down in the VFL, but got too comfortable and didn't make any changes to help us maintain fresh legs, which is what I was banging on about pre game. We are carrying too many kids who aren't fit enough to run out games and we were coming off a short break and playing against a really fast team. My frustration is that I know we are capable of better, but I look at Richmond and I think they are easy beats and maybe this loss takes some gloss off the win.

Who is having a go?? I said his debut was underwhelming. He was poor with his ball use and his fitness was lacking. I expected the later but thought he'd be ok with ball use. As I already said I'm sure he'll be fine but compared to the debut games of Oliver, Brayshaw, Hogan and even Hunt/Wagner, I thought he looked overawed and a little behind pace. I would rather discuss this than for the thousand time discuss how slow and uncompetitive we were How precious are we that we can't discuss a first player's game with honesty?? He is of more interest to me than some NQR team fillers like Frost and Bugg to be honest.

Will Lumumba ever not be an automatic inclusion in this side?

I am not complaining and not writing him off. Just simply saying that it was an underwhelming debut. I'm sure he'll be a good player but I'm not sure that he deserved a game this week.

Side note: Petracca super underwhelming

Like a baby giraffe. And also not in a good way. Pedersen is that much more useful it's a joke. Can't play them both. Also Wagner, Hunt, Harmes, Bugg, Kennedy, Petracca... Way too many too inexperienced and/or NQRs in the one team for me. It's bad enough we need to put up with Roos' favourite Lumumba every week, and the yo-yoing performances of Tyson, McDonald, Salem and Kent.

ANB should come in next week regardless. Kid has been killing it for Casey but can't get a game. Also pleeeeaaaase can we drop Lumumba and bring in an actual defender? Garland, Grimes, it's time to shine!