Jaded No More

This! You think Collingwood hasn’t thrown everything at trying to get a key forward as well? Coleman medalists don’t grow on trees. To suggest we have failed to get one is to suggest there are dozens of quality key forwards just waiting to come to Melbourne. Look at the ludicrous contracts offered to absolute potatoes like Lobb because he’s over 6 foot 5 for crying out loud.

Who? Because both Hore and Disco are injured. So in fact we have 0 intercept defenders right now who are fit.

Great. The one [censored] game I wanted to win this year.

Is his knee concussed? wtf happened? Great time for Hore and Disco to also be injured because #ofcourse

If an opposition player did that to one of our young guys at Casey, everyone would be RIGHTLY screaming for a lengthy ban. A totally unnecessary and dangerous cheap shot from an experienced AFL player who knows very well where his duty of care is.

Absolutely not. ANB, Chin and Kosi were OK, as was Salem in his first game back post hammy. The rest had games they would want to erase from memory. If Steven May has not punched a large hole in a wall post game I'd be surprised.

Nothing quite like losing to a bottom 4 team to get the Demonland traffic up and welcome a whole bunch of new posters

Ok let’s say we drop Clarry. Who at Casey would come in and give you as good, let alone better service?

Tmac has gone on record to say he can't play forward anymore, as he can no longer jump at the ball after his foot injury. Our midfield is our number one failure right now. We have to fix that part of our ground as a priority.

The game being at Marvel versus Optus makes a BIG difference. I bet my bottom dollar we don't lose to them at the G later in the year. Edit: to be clear, our performance yesterday was terrible, and inexcusable.

It's very hard to trade in top quality players when you are consistently finishing in the top 4, and have no trade currency. We paid a lot for May, Lever and Langdon, who basically secured us a flag. We could have traded pick 7 last year, and we would have if something good was available. We went hard for Lynch and Hawkins, but would you rather one of them or Windsor? When you are consistently in the top 4, you have to go after free agents. Quality free agents recently have been few and far between, unless you think McKay on $800k would have made us a premiership threat. To get quality in our position, we have to trade quality. Would you want to trade Oliver for JUH for example? JJ and Harmes are not winning their sides flags. They are good solid foot soldiers, but JJ is surrounded by enormous quality at Sydney, as he was at Melbourne in 2021. The players you speak of like Hunter, Schache and Billings cost us absolutely nothing in terms of picks and salary space. They are not the reason we are where we are. Grundy was a great get, that unfortunately was handled very poorly.

This. Show me a more dominant finals performance this decade from any other team! 2021 was a brilliant, well deserved flag in a FULL SEASON, played under duress away from home. There is no goddamn * against that flag! And we’ve backed it up with 2 top 4 finishes since.

Shades of Jack Watts debuting against the Pies. Let’s not kill this poor kid because we are in panic mode.

A game we lost because our opponent was simply better. I don’t think this new game plan is going to work. We simply don’t have enough elite ball users to create attack off half back. Nor do we have the forwardline. Time to reassess what we do for the remainder of the year, because if we are willing to go back in order to go forward in 2025, then we need to invest heavily in better ball users in the trade period.

Credit to West Coast, they were very good and far superior to us. Unfortunately I don’t think we have the list to play this new game plan we are trying to execute, and when you combine that with a midfield that has not fired a shot all year, something has to really change for us to contend.

I mean we lost 4 finals in a row. I feel like that was far worse personally.

Tell me again how Fritsch is soft and kicks nothing goals 🙄

Well Reid winning them the game is gonna be really something. He is amazing

McAdam seems to have no confidence in his ability to kick beyond 20m which is a real issue

I don’t know but it’s certainly a possibility

If we lose this, and we likely will, it will be solely on our midfield. Getting absolutely pantsed.

We finished top 4 every year since 2021. I’m confused how you came to this conclusion

This thread has once again turned into a “woe is me, we have the worst team and our coach is awful” joke. Why can’t we comment about issues without resorting to degrading our best forward or getting stuck into our premiership winning coach? Not everything is perfect, but [censored] you’d think we are North Melbourne.

If he played for Geelong, Carlton, Essendon etc he’d win a Coleman