Sydee

Hey BBO fantastic effort to be so optimistic I almost felt a glimmer of hope - then looked at their forward 6 and our back 6 again and felt rather ill

Not comforting that we are bringing in our big guns in the hour of need

Blew the cobwebs off - Should be lightning quick after a 4-day turnaround

Looking at their forward line vs our named back 6 (excluding Salem who can play) this could get incredibly ugly

I hope Sg and the whole team sit down and watch Jimmy Bartels summary of where things are going wrong in Access all Areas. To be honest, never watch them and only did because I was interested in the highlights of McKay - oh how I wish Weideman was showing as much promise Anyway I think these guys nailed it As a collective team we simply allow opposition players too much space and basically hope somehow to win back possession and then get the easy possession on the turnover - teams with half decent skills have worked it out and cut us to ribbons - North play a similar game style and are cr@p too. We need to try manning up a lot closer and stop playing zone defence because it just isn't working The other points highlighted were that we constantly commit too many numbers around a contest and then when the ball gets free the opposition have players free and away they go Our forward fifty entries are abysmal - high kicks sitting on top of our taller forwards heads which make it dead easy to spoil - worse is that fact we don't have crumbers and invariably the opposition do and clear the ball far too easily - this is shown up week after week by our disproportionate inside 50 count but terrible conversion rate Until we start dealing with these issues we are in for some ugly defeats These are the reasons we are dead easy to play against and it needs to stop now !

Lest we forget 2019

Don't hold your breath - according to SG "our brand" is still perfectly fine we are just too easy to play against atm - well that isn't good is it ! I agree we are pedestrian in the speed department, generally have poor skills which get highlighted more in the wet and not a single forward that opposition backs would be concerned about kicking multiple goals

No

He’s gonna love the game this week

You make it sound like we have plummeted from a place we were firmly entrenched in Hah this club has been the laughing stock of the competition for decades - they are back in familiar territory - it’s what they do so well

My main question is how good is our list ? At the start of the year champion data rated it as #1 I think At the time I thought that was a huge stretch of the imagination and really based on what exactly ?? I look through this team and see a few decent players but the vast majority just seem massively overrated

Seriously embarrassing - WTF - an email ! nobody in their right mind wants an email from these plodders I cringe when I recall interviews before the season started they genuinely thought they were a shoe in to make finals and be a serious threat - DEElusional so far off the pace it’s not funny with no real light at the end of the tunnel Business as usual at MFC - brief glimmers of hope always quashed mercilessly - it’s been this way for 50 + years - can’t see it ever changing

We haven’t drafted in anything that noteworthy because we have continued to give away our top picks for players that can’t get out on the park I still think May was a ridiculous trade if they really thought he was adding more than Hogan - as for KK I’ve said from the outset it’s a total mystery why they thought he would add anything , not quick , not hard at it and can’t get himself on the field - List clogger The only thing that surprised me about yesterday’s loss was the fact that most so called experts picked out spuds to win - I had $100 on the saints to win 1-39 of course our spuds screwed that up as well by losing by 40 hopefully this year we don’t throw our top 2 or 3 draft pick at someone for another bench warmer

Have they been rushed ? I don’t think so what are they getting paid for ? When they are fit to play they play FMD they are not going to make any difference anyway - we are so far off the pace it’s not funny

Hapless Water buffalos

I know who are the spuds and it isn’t St Kilda

waste of time is Squiggle - had us beating PA and Ess too - we all know how that played out ! No idea how they come up with this prediction last time I checked we have been crud in three games and won one game while they are 3-1 - go figure - or just Squiggle

Same reason as why Collingwood hasn't played at Geelong for 20 years and we seem to get that honour every season - it isn't a level playing field

NO

Assuming May and Lever can consistently get on the park and play some solid footy I'd sooner target quality skillful outside runners

We need to be in the 8 by the midpoint of the season - therefore need to string some wins together - lose this week and it's a long way back

We are definitely not travelling well enough atm to play anything less than best 22 available each week We are 1-3 and hardly setting the world on fire - this week will be a massive challenge imo - the saints made us look pretty ordinary last year at the G and they will not be easy and should go into this weeks game as clear favourites We need to get cracking and string some wins together otherwise finals will not be happening

I agree they made us look hopelessly slow last year we must go with our fastest possible team and play full four quarters to win Sydney are not really traveling well at all so we can’t get too carried away with that win albeit a positive step I like Petty for OMac but still have nightmares about his debut game last year where he really was found wanting big time largely due to zero pressure up the ground

Personally, don't think he's earned a call-up but good luck to him and hope he goes better than I expect If he can do more than 50% of the ruck duty, earn his fair share of hit-outs, take a few grabs around the ground and allow Max to sit deep in attack it will be a boost to our chances We need something to go right - right now - so fingers crossed

I wasn't declaring his career over simply stating the facts - his playing future must be in doubt given his history of concussions - just like it was for Angus Brayshaw