Deecisive

Melbourne over the last 7 years has had a pretty amazing player list, that we have supplemented with some good draft picks, or trades. That list is dwindling, the drafting and trading of players has probably not been as effective in the last couple of years and we are loosing key players to retirement, injury, or movement to other clubs. our window of opportunity is sadly diminishing. i truly hope the club can pull together and turn this around.

personally i am not overly confident in goodwin producing another flag, he seems reluctant to make changes even when they are staring directly in the face. so we play players who are not playing well, we play players out of their natural positions, dont use the players we have well, dont adapt our game style when we are obviously getting over run by the opposition. we dont man up, our tackling is [censored] at times, we dont chase, we constantly kick long to contests where our forwards more often than not lose out rather than win. a lot of players especially in the back half can be very slow to move on the ball and when they do they kick in along the boundary where its often picked off by the opposition. some of these are player mistakes and some must be game plan otherwise they would not constantly be doing it. ie. you would have a runner out to the players everytime the dont follow instructions, so that next time they do as they are instructed.

so if they call it off is it a draw?

skills are woeful, we had so many opportunities go begging because of poor disposal. we need a new skills coach (and some better players). i still dont see us manning up, this is where they are killing us and we continue to give them heaps of easy cheap possessions. absolutely destroyed at our lack of effort in chasing, tackling and most things around the ground. i had hoped that after the 2nd quarter we were making bit of a comeback but that was not to be.

slightly better that quarter but still brain dead football letting collingwood players run by themselves with no pressure. they just run the ball down the field pulling players to them and getting the overlap. Dumb, dumb football. the umpiring has been pretty poor quite a few collingwood players have clearly dropped the ball when tackled and nothing. I thought the rule was if a player is sliding in and takes out another player below their legs they are at fault. a lot of poor ball disposal, poor choices, and what happened to that strong tackling we supposed to have shown a few weeks ago. I love fritter but he just runs around and does not seem to be accountable for anyone. all of our players need to put more pressure on the player with the ball. that will result in turnovers, fumbles etc. but at the moment its too easy,

what an abysmal display of something it certainly did not look like football. were we acting like witches hats for them to run around. our stupid zoning is not working. the 60 extra touches they had should have told even the stupidest coach that that is not working. We would be do far better if these were contested possessions, at least we may get a couple of touches.

i cannot understand the stupidity of putting petty in the ruck, sorry he is a liability in the ruck always has been. With minutes to go and we are behind and we dont man up we let them play kick to kick, really how dumb is that. And billings sorry i just dont see him having a future with his kicking especially for goal where it counts. our final chances are well and truly over, l would just like to at least see us beat Collingwood in our last game of the season. hopefully we can get something good in the draft, like a new coach

can we sub off goody and get someone else to finish coaching the game. Why is oliver still on, he is having a horrible game, our forwards need a lift that is exactly what Melksham COULD give us. what is the damn problem with making a call

sub oliver off to give him a rest. they guy needs time to recover. At the moment he is a liability the way he is playing. our forwards need to do better, as does our delivery into the forward line. a lot of good play up fields is totally destroyed by our delivery into the forward line. and the umpiring has been pretty bad our players held, pushed in the back, they drop the ball everything going unnoticed by the umpires. really the AFL needs to do something about that.

i am a little disappointed that we say most if not all of our younger players need more time to develop. Sometime players step up to meet the challenge and playing with supposedly higher quality players may make it easier for them than playing at a lower grade where things are not so organised or structured. though having said that not sure our seniors side is all that organised or structured as yet. and if the cannot step up and show what they have then maybe we should not be investing years of time running them around in our vlf side if they are not going to cut it. other sides are playing younger players, i dont see why we should not especially when we have players who really are not cutting it at the moment. Not playing these guys can result in them getting frustrated and wanting to leave as we have seen happen to a few players on the edge in the last couple of years. We supposedly saw enough of fullerton to pick him now we are saying he is not right, they really why are we picking players that are not right. billings unfortunately is another that i wonder what we saw in him

i doubt we will win another game this year. such a pitiful performance, we allow the opposition to run around all by themselves and at times we dont even chase them.

we are lucky to be as close as we are their kicking has been almost as bad as our team is playing. lack of chasing and tackling is poor. same old same old. not manning up, too many opposition players running free. where is that team that won a grand final, is there any semblance of that team left. very disappointed in the way we have crumbled since winning the flag. our window of opportunity is closing again.

amazingly we still have a chance to win this

given there were poor umpiring decisions, that is not something we can change. what we can change is manning up, and we certainly did not do that. In the last quarter we just did not try to move the ball quick enough at times in the dying minutes of the game we were kicking it from side to side as if we were in the lead and we wanted to waste time. and once GWS got the ball they had kick after kick to each other without a melbourne player being within range to spoil. no manning up, do they need explicit permission or instructions to do something so basic as that when you know the opposition wants to wind down the clock, definitely something wrong with their football thinking. Some players had bad games again missing kicking it straight to the opposition too often. season is probably done now. i would like to see us try a few other players as some of the players we are playing definitely need a rest, at least one probably need a rest.

Billings has often shown poor kicking skills, i am damned if i know why he was even selected.