Very Jaded

Yze can teach him how to nail a goal at the G hopefully. His marking in the last quarter was very promising. Will benefit from Brown being in the side.

This confuses me. Langdon played well. Ran hard all day. Is a lone wingman out there but provided good linkage and tackled well. Not the most dazzling performance of his career, but certainly a good game.

Great debut. James McDonald presented him his jumper. So lovely to have him back at the club. A real Melbourne champion.

Harmes was woeful. Disposal appalling. Sparrow didn’t do enough. Depending on fitness Viney, Melksham and Hibbo will all push their claim.

6- Lever 5- May 4- Oliver 3- Langdon 2- Spargo 1- McDonald

Terribly uninspiring game. Good win. You take what you can get at this point. I can’t deny that our backline saved our bacon. Lever and May sensational. Jetta more than held his own. For me the midfield was disappointing. Gawn “dominated” on paper but it certainly didn’t translate into any sort of meaningful ball movement or clearance work until the last few minutes of the game. I’ll put this down to being rusty and out of touch. But gees we would want to improve our clearance work fast, or it’s going to be another long season. I thought our ball use going inside 50 was actually much improved. But our goal kicking, oh boy. Overall a lot of “learnings” ??

Clearance work is disappointing to the extreme. One of the most one sided performance I’ve seen in a while against us. Very concerning when the only mid missing is Viney.

It is extremely hot.

Defensively we are playing very well. Backline superb. I know they are missing a lot of their forwards, but so are we.

Doubtful they’d debut a kid like that. They make a big fuss about this sort of thing normally and announce a debut a few days prior to a game. My bet is Baker.

It’s an ok team until you hit the forwardline. I worry about the non-Langdon wing too. Thank god May is playing. At least our backline and on ball brigade look very strong.

Yep. Until Tmac as our only KPF kicks less goals

To all the Oscar haters

He’s been excellent. Good for him. Wish him nothing but the best.

Jesus that sounds horrible. Wishing him a quick recovery. Injuries are starting to mount. If May is not right for round 1 I can’t see us winning. Especially with no fire power up front and probably no Viney or Gus.

Completely agree. Hard to judge with such poor centre clearance set ups due to missing players. It was a shambles. We couldn’t get near it and the Dogs are an exceptionally good team at getting and using the ball, especially on the smaller faster ground of Marvel. What disappointed me most was the poor showing of TMac even when he played on a kid, and the overall poor showing of most of the younger players except Jackson and Bowie. Rivers was ok too.

It was nice to do something normal, like going to the footy, getting mad at the umpires and watching us lose.

Surely May will be ok for round 1. He walked off. Didn’t seem like he was out cold. Should be fine.

It’s 97-61 No real positives. Jackson looks ok. ANB been excellent. Not sure if you think that’s a positive tho. Jones looks good.

Oh ffs May down. Can this train wreck of a game end already?

Remember when we traded him for SFA.

The cream is very clearly rising to the top. They are destroying us in every aspect of the game. We look lost. Our skills are woeful. Mark Williams has a lot of work.

Look at Josh Bruce on his “destroy Melbourne” yearly tour. Our midfield is trash today. Cant touch it and can’t use it.

We look like trash now. McDonald is woeful. For such an experienced player he commands zero respect.

We’ve started with all the tenacity of a wet blanket. Midfield is absolutely getting destroyed and nice to see Bontempelli alone again.