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One image sums it all up for me:

Loved the commentators curse effort in the last quarter.

What a victory. Glad the commentators learned our boys' names in the last when we looked like a chance too. Excellent games for pretty much everyone, though Toumpas' decision making still has a way to go and Bail was ineffectual. Hope they enjoy the break, and then Hogan in for Ro. The double ruck ploy worked a treat, and not just because the Cats didn't really have one. Spencer really stepped up, and what more needs to be said about Gawn. I haven't been his biggest fan on account of his tank and consistency, but a few more of those and he'll have me proven wrong.

[censored] ourselves late. The only mental scars that actually have any merit, and can only be fixed by winning games. Or a great psychiatrist...

Maybe at HT the commentators can learn some Melbourne names that aren't Roos and Gawn. Tired of them going on about Geelong stats, like anyone cares.

Good improvement. Happy with that. Nice to see us play our own footy rather than stopping a side from playing theirs at the beginning of a game.

I know its not going so terribly, but I've already walked away. This team reminds me of 2013 so much. Lloyd had it bang on in this article, read it before the game and it sums it up. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/melbourne-demons-coach-paul-roos-out-of-form-and-running-out-of-time-20150620-ghs65j I'm tired of losing. Not in that lets go rant all day on a forum but still love the club way, in the very real my passion is leaving me sense.

Jordie McKenzie... Remarkable. It makes my faith, which I so want to be firm, feel very shaky. So we're just going in with Dawes up forward, or is it Spencer as first ruck and Gawn at FF. I guess I wouldn't mind that, Dawes/Gawn was okay last year as a combo IIRC.

I thought Fitzpatrick would be well-suited to a run this week, though I guess the Cats are as short on talls as we are right now. Terlich probably has to play, though the guy makes me tear my hair out when he isn't playing simple footy like last season, and Dawes is obviously in. Would like to see Michie dropped, and I guess ANB gets another week to get a taste. Can't see a great result on Sunday.

Not surprised. He looked stuffed vs Collingwood, and then cooked in the second half vs St Kilda. I was hopeful he would be given an extended break before his bag, but even now long term its a good call.

Aside from the obvious issue of sidelining all the kids who are unfortunate enough to be Dees fans, I'd like to see Howe go and for us to get something decent in return. I just don't see a spot in the side for him in a good structure, unless Roos will keep him at 3rd tall.

Out: Pedersen, Grimes, ANB, Michie In: Dawes, Fitzpatrick, MJones, Bail (S)

Can't play ANB and Stretch again this week. Ultimately, their selection - especially both at once - led us to being effectively two down. It wasn't their fault, they're just not ready yet. I can probably cop it if one stays in - preferably Bill - but I'd much rather have bigger bodies in there.

This is the first thing that has made me feel better. We have the chance to erase this in a month and a half. They better bloody do it, and win a few on the way.

Lumumba was the only one yesterday who didn't [censored] around with hospital handballs and gave us some ground with his kicks. I thought it was his best game for the club.

Is it bad that I still feel no better and can't bring myself to read the papers? 40 seconds away from breaking two curses. I'm just sick of other teams lapping us.

Thought the same thing..."good Bruce is in the ruck". This was when I thought we would easily hold it, ala. Adelaide last year. That we would come through. Watch Gawn in the ruck: he never jumps. His only trick is to palm it behind him into space - EVERY SINGLE TIME. Simpletons look at it and think how much it looks like Sandilands' deft-tapwork, I look at it and wonder why he's incapable of taking the contact and actually WINNING the tap. To palm it back into space when he had more than a foot on the other ruck is unforgivable, because you have no idea where that ball is going.

I can only live with it if we go down to Kardinia and give the Cats a bloody big shake. I can't stand another month of plugging away, only to build and play a big game and stuff it up.

Yep, just woken up and struggling to look on any footy sites but this one. Still absolutely devastated.

Great, glad we cleared that up

Jamar averages 30 touches a game this year, and here's a list of the ruckmen he has played against. Zac Smith Shane Mumford Sam Jacobs Ivan Maric Aaron Sandilands In almost all of those games, he rucked alone with a very small amount of help from Frost and Dawes. Yet he ran the games out - no labouring to get to the footy, no balls sailing through his hands, no hesitancy to jump because of his messed up knee. It is revisionism at its finest to suggest that Jamar is finished, and reminds me of 2010 when Junior Mac was done and Jordie McKenzie/Jordan Gysberts had to take his spot.

[censored]'s over on BigFooty (geez, am I glad that I gave up posting on there) saying he was at fault for the loss and that he's the worst player they've ever seen.

26 touches, 8 tackles and 2 goals is a bare minimum? For a player who was in his first year' a couple of years ago'? You are a [censored].

It was a short quarter, I believe. Hard on the players to know.

Accepting all apologies here if they come quickly. Gawn is great in theory. In reality, he is a heartless lump who can barely run out a half, never jumps or leads, and only has the one trick which is to palm it behind him and hope we get there. You'd never see Jamar refusing to lead, let alone in the third bloody quarter! Get Mark in, now.