Pipefitter

you have got to persist with him.. Will be interesting the next few weeks with players returning at the selection table

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

Sylvia, McClean, Dunn and Johnson need a run in the VFL 'RESERVES'. They are certainly not good enough to play at VFL level at the moment... the same can be said with Ricky Petterd, however i firmly believe it's more of a positional aspect with Ricky. Aaron Davey clearly the best player for the demons in all three opening games... I'm still bemused as to why he isn't taking the kick ins. He hits his man from 55m right on the chest. And Brad Green STILL isn't playing a full forward position. One of the most accurate kicks in the afl, wouldn't you want the ball in his hands more often?

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?

In: Maric/Aussie/Grimes/Shannon Motlop

Out: Sylvia

/End thread

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.

Did Moloney get injured? They said on the radio he was off and had ice on his calf. Not good news. He was playing well and is aplayer who kicks long and goes hard at the ball. I didn't hear anything on Foxtel.

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.

Wow, we are getting killed by an over the hill Warren Tredrea.

Mind you, it all starts in the midfield

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.

Bell, while not being blessed is a good ordinary player. I remember a game V Crows and he was outstanding as a defender.

Maybe a little positivity might just pump him up on his return.

Seriously, its the freaking preseason, lighten up.

Yeah that was over there about 3-4 years ago. Delivered a lightning boot pass into the forward line. Yes that was amazing. But the only good thing he has done.

No big loss really. How long have we had him now for? Since woey left? If we all havent learnt how limited he is by now we have as slow awareness as he does.

Him lining up josh fraser at the centre bounce queens birthday last year was one of the better things ive seen in my life.