Pipefitter

This year i saw us having a poor first start of the year and then coming home strong sorta like the saints and bulldogs did when they came off the bottom after all those years. Though im starting to think if we continue to lose we will get worse not better later in the year. Our last few games of last year were insipid. You can only stay up and about for so long after being flogged week in week out for 3 years. God footy sucks at the moment.

You guys are aware Aussie is injured, tho an injured aussie would almost be better than what we got at the moment.

Im really starting to lose faith in DB too. We just arent improving at all. And he doesnt seem to have any tricks up his sleeve except for time, which will quickly run out if this continues.

I think he should be dropped and bring in Maric. Sylvia is offering nothing at the moment. He needs an extended run in the seconds. If he really wants to play senior football he needs to show the club he has the determination.

Sandringham 9.4 12.9 19.13 25.16 (166) Casey Scorpions 2.3 4.5 4.10 8.15 (63) GOALS: Casey Scorpions: Matthews 2 Jurrah 2 Liddle MaCreadie Wall Robertson BEST: Casey Scorpions: Maric Valenti Matthews Wall Matheson MaCreadie IN MARIC OUT SYLVIA

Spot on about Petterd. Hes a ball magnet, why is DB chucking him at opposite ends of the ground. He needs to be on wings or flanks. I think he was on tredrea at one stage in the last quarter?

Hahah BRING BACK MOTLOP!

But every week Bailey is saying "we didn't do this, they were better in XYZ area" which is great to explain why we lost but what is he actually doing to fix it? Blighty made a good call last week saying its all well and good to say yeah we are playing the kids, but what is Bailey doing on game days to stop the rot? Something simple like a surprise position change (eg. goddard up forward yesterday).

What do we do? Im almost sure its that he doesn't care enough. Ive always held high hopes but im belatedly off the band wagon. Recruited as a midfielder, has his best 2 pre-seasons and does nothing in the midfield. Also does nothing up forward. I guess he could have a run as a back pocket. If that fails he can become a full time night club bunny.

Great.

Nah dont think so. Its going to be a very ordinary game of football.

Yep said this last week. Where is the tackling? Where is the pressure? Where is ANYTHING? If this is the game plan im not sure how much i really like Bailey. He's lost 22 of 25 games now. Alarm bells must be ringing by now. This can't continue.

God we get destroyed on the rebound. How many goals came from turnovers in our forward line. Blah. See yas next year.

Johnson is woeful.

I think we can finally give up on sylvia.

I know. To see tredrea killing it makes this even more depressing.

I think its good for miller to have spent some time being the focal point playing on the best defenders. When watts and (lets be realistic) Butcher come along he's going to make a great 3rd lead up forward that could slip under the guard and kick a few.

Yeah really i dont think we have improved at all from last year. In fact we have even fewer options up forward it seems. We shouldnt have gotten rid of white. I would have understood if we had 3 good ruckmen to get more experience but i dont think any of them have the potential to even come close to him. FOOTY SUCKS!

Does anyone think we will win a game this year?

I am so sick of being a melbourne supporter. This is garbage. Our senior players are absolute rubbish. Millers working over time and NO ONE can kick the ball into 50.

Injury free Moloney for me at the moment.

We could really use white right now ha.

I can start to see it, im not sure i like it. Its based very much on uncontested footy. When the teams eventually crack onto it and clamp us down at the stoppages we get slammed. We dont tackle nearly enough for a team that is always chasing a lead, and when we do tackle so many dont hold. Before our horror injury year of 2007 ND was turning us into a harder tackling team and it was working.

I dont know why everyone complains. I love the enthusiasm Y M !

Mistakes all over the joint in the age all the time now it seems. Even the article on McQualter from the saints has a picture of Lenny hayes.