Wells 11

I’d forgotten how bad a loss feels and how many questions it brings! On the positive, while we got killed in the air , there is just no way that happens w a full strength team. On the negative our depth got shown up with all the ripple effects exposed. Who’s to say we will be full strength at finals time? 3 coaching thoughts. How is spargo and Jordan remotely a wing combo? I think it’s time to cut our losses w Weid. He just has zero physical presence and when things are actually turning against us ( as they will) he’s a demoralising sight. Time to blood JVR? And , obvious in hindsight, but why play petracca in a state like that? he should not have been out there.

Bedford and Kozzie is a super exciting combo

I saw him kick 4.3 v the bombers so Im still a little hopeful. But as it stands now he remains one of the very very few errors Taylor has made.

It’s been said multiple times but just how good has our trading been! Lever, May, Langdon and Brown. All of them add so much. When he came bk in last year he gave us the final piece in the puzzle imo. How we got him fr a mid second rounder still surprises me. Great bloke, great footballer. A pillar in our premiership side. congrats on 150.

It’s no wonder teams can’t score against us is it. Wondering where a player of Salem’s ilk fits back in is a ridiculous luxury. Brayshaw, May, Lever, Petty, Bowey, Rivers and Hunt is just an awesome array of back talent. Given Cameron’s role fr the lions and what he did to us in the final last year Hunt imo has to stay. It’s super super tough on either of them but it’s between JJ and Rivers. This is what it’s like when you’re the premiership team and 9-0 the following year! Gotta drink this in while the era lasts. You never know the length of time it will be.

Flatten them yes… and happily so. I hope by over 100. But i can’t bring myself to scorn or deride the club in general.

Agreed. I really feel fr them and see so much of the dees in 2012-13. yes our plan worked but the 10 attempts before didn’t. lol. When i look at the roos I can only see the place we were so recently in.

we’ll get a good look before then. Freo and Brisbane twice before the end of the H&A season.

It’s a big call as schwartz was such a freak. But I’ve had the same thoughts. something in the way he moves brings him to mind.

I don’t reckon the veil will ever be as dark or as impenetrable when it gets pulled out again! so yes, it’s proof re the positive matter has annihilated at least some of the negative.

according to the article he’s having scans today. Let’s pray it’s minor.

Unless his primary motive is to win a flag , and the opportunities that being a premiership player may bring him.

Agreed. Outside of us with the red and blue hearts, articles saying Melbourne were brilliant again just isn’t an interesting story any more. It’s old news. Happy to win another flag with accolades going to teams getting within 6 goals of us.

Good, thoughtful post. I suppose it was traumatic to be a dee in his period. I mean there were plenty of lows before him but that was the lowest era of all of them. But its also good to remember he was a human too. I’ve been considering more recently that he bought in taylor directly and then inadvertently Jackson and Roos. So in fact , without Neeld there’s no flag. So yes… time i put the sword down.

SO glad we don’t do cairns anymore! Players looked knackered. Be intersting to see if both teams fall away next week.

Is this yr opinion or something you know of? I was hoping this might happen to keep these two around.

well, looking for some positives here if it’s a bigger outbreak. Dunstan will get a decent look at things and hopefully feel more at home , and Bedford can get off the pine at last . Other players who maybe thought they may not get a game this year could also be exposed. Good fr the longer term… but not great fr Saturday is it. Crap way fr the winning record to be broken if it is .

In a way it’s not a bad thing for a few players coach etc to be going down through the season. Worst result would be an outbreak pre or during finals . That being said .. get well soon. Good luck to yze.

A good story for me to hear. I was at the 88 GF and for ALL of the last qtr some big loud ugly hawk supporter next to me was spouting hate fr the dees and directing some of it at me. It’s an enduring memory as the game itself was fully crap enough. I thought at the time, and since, why waste the joy of winning a flag by being such a [censored] head? Good to know there are some decent hawks around. But i’ll still extra enjoy thrashing them if we do.

Amazing to think last year when Tomlinson went down ( who was having an almost AA start to the year) we replaced him with Petty who made us better. Then when hunt went down, who was also having a great season, we bring in Bowey who made us virtually bullet proof. A golden era on all counts .

ok.. it’s simple. you’re banned from attending :-)

Tbh I thought they were pretty consistent across the 4 qtrs. Kick even half straight and the game would have felt v diffferent

gonna have to win this ugly. can’t remember a game .. ever…where we’ve blown so many easy chances. start well and we can put it to bed.

some of the misses have been beyond terrible. Nibbler, kozzie, spargo , gawn all super easy shots.

well put. It’s so obvious now it’s genuinely embarrassing for the AFL … or it should be. That the dogs must train for it is clearly obvious now. while I hate it I can’t help but feel if it’s allowed then maybe we should too? they’ve literally hit another player on the ground when yr plus 14 or 15 kicks. But there’s more to it as well isnt there… as you pointed out. It doesn’t explain why so many frees are missed to opposition teams v the dogs. Its like the umps WANT to give the dogs free kicks. 2 blatant mark infringement 50’s against Weightman let go, 2 really iffy “ unrealistic attempts” given to them. It’s spoiling the game.