Pipefitter

Good to see someone get into the players. They have mostly been terrible all year. Can't all be deans fault.

THIS. He is so underrated by posters on here. He is never going to be an elite kick, but in terms of zoning off in the backline he is one of the best in the game. We are a much better side with him in it.

Does this guy have a willingness to compete at all?

Has to play Casey. No player is good enough to come straight in. Frawley was a shadow of himself coming straight in. Same with Morton. Even ablett looked average round 2.

There is more chance that I will offer to work free to my boss for the remainder of my career than Melbourne winning any of these games. It's going to get ugly.

The development of martin has been a positive. When jamar comes in we know jamar can spend more time up forward.

Something was def troubling him today. We were essentially playing one man short the way he went about it today. If he pulled his finger out today we would have won.

He's tackles generally don't stick. He's very lean across the shoulders and it's not really it's strength.

6 - jones 5 - martin 4 - watts 3 - sylvia 2 - evans 1 - green

Jetta needs a good run in the seniors IMO. Hes a tackling machine. He got caught a few times but it was only because he was trying to create with stationary targets everywhere.

For Many years everyone has cried out for green to play forward which we would all agree is his best position. Green is having more a run in the midfield this year to show a bit of leadership but failing. I'd like to see him across half back while we are a bit more undemanned to put his body on the line and inspire the team. Then fingers crossed with a bit of luck he can spend the 2nd half of the season in the forward line where he belongs.

Ease up guys. Today reminded me of some of the shocking injury luck we had the last 18 months of neale danihers reign. Hopelessly undermanned before the bounce then further cruelled throughout the match. We talk about the obvious omissions but i think we missed grimes and rivers the most. Those quick inside 50s that Dunn was forced to zone and become that 3rd man, dismally I may add shows how much we missed them. Moloney will learn from today. When you start getting rated highly then cop the attention you have to work harder. Thought Moloney would have thrived in that circumstance but obviously needed to work harder. Newton is frustrating because I think he has ability but obviously not the fitness to be an afl player. Just look at his body. For someone who has been in the system for as long as he has, he should be a man mountain, but he's not. Shows he doesn't have the hunger to be the best. Go easy on dean. It was really rearranging the chairs on the titanic. Robbing two forwards (Dunn and watts) to play defense showed this. It's gonna be a tough few weeks.

AFL house is on the other side of Etihad stadium now isnt it? Pretty convenient seeing we are playing there this weekend. Free Trengove signs!

Pretty damning stats they showed. This time Last year we were the no1 tackling team in the comp. This year we are the last.

A lot of people have complained about us missing out on Jack Darling but I really love the look of Lucas Cook. Very smart player, looks like he's got all the time in the world.

I think jetta and bate are looking likely to come back in. Has blease got poor skills or is he just running out of puff by the time he makes a disposal?

Looks like Ricky was a false alarm. Phew! Nice shimmy from McDonald to set up Lawrence. Lawrence has a great set shot routine.

Poor Ricky. He shouldn't even be playing at Casey in The first place.

Clubs must really look forward to playing us. We are mentally weak, soft, you name it. And everybody knows it.

Bailey really is gone now. Would take an absolute miracle to save himself and the season from here. We are playing a dated game plan style. Most Observers are likening it to geelong 2007. Dean its 2011 now. We are in the season now. Its too late to change your plans now. As if he had a plan B anyways. Thanks for nothing! NEXT!

Our rate of development is absolutely snail rate. We've been terrible for 4 years now. When hawthorn went through their rebuild they went through a horror 18 months then went straight into finals contention. Is it our coaches have no idea? Or are we drafting the wrong kind of players? I think its a bit of both.

The only positive was that i wasn't there. I would have got arrested.

Do you think opposition coaches chuckle at the prospect of playing us and working out our "game plan"? The amount of times the eagles have found someone 30m in the clear in their f50 shows how fundamentally flawed our plan is. But it's not Just the coaches fault. The players aren't willing to get their hands dirty this year. Maybe it's time Bailey threw em off the pier again.

Good as gone now.

Brad green is playing a terrible game.