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23 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Don’t feed the troll.

You can practice and practice and practice, but it matters little on game day, not sure which bit you comedians don't get, it is the onfield leadership,  which is sadly lacking today 

Just now, Jaded said:

Of course players are to blame for their shocking skills. But the fundamental game plan is flawed. It’s a high risk low reward. It doesn’t play to our strengths at all. 
We refuse to play a second target up forward which is forcing the players to bomb long as we have no leading targets. We also don’t pressure the ball carrier at half back which means the ball rebounds straight out and the back line is all at sea and the opposition can pick a whole host of players unmanned. 

Of course they are coached to stop the ball carrier, but they don't do it, solution?

2 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Agree. Our use of the ball is the AFL’s worst. There is no system or game plan.  
That is not emotive rubbish, it is fact.

Not sure which bit people don't get, we get glimpses of the game plan like the Melksham goal, but if players make simple skill errors and wrong decisions, what is the point?

Just now, President Dee Trump said:

Now I understand the game plan! Get the ball, look for an opposition player on his own in the middle of nowhere and kick it directly to him.

That is not the game plan, can't we lay the blame at the players for a change or is that too hard

Just now, Redleg said:

Well the players aren’t responsible for not selecting another key forward, to give us at least a chance of taking a contested mark inside 50. That is a joke. 

It is pointless if we take the wrong option constantly, we have players who can work one on one, if the ball is delivered quickly and properly

It seems to me that players are afraid to take responsibility, it is up to Gawn and Viney to drive this

It beggars belief that players are coached to make fundamental errors

All the emotive rubbish as usual, Richmond are forcing us into fundamental errors, it's the players not the coach

On 7/1/2020 at 8:36 AM, McQueen said:

You’re idea of reason and balance is unique old mate. 
 

I’ll give you that. 

At least they are unique, rather than the small herd mentality that prevails on here, where some posters will offer a statement, not an opinion, without knowing any of the facts, and that statement becomes fact, such as below

On 7/1/2020 at 10:03 AM, TheoX said:

Presumably the ridiculous 3 and 4 year contracts for KK and Preuss were Mahoney's idea too.

8 hours ago, McQueen said:

Goodness me. 
 

The ‘sweet irony’ in almost everything you post is quite amazing. 
 

Good job 

Amazing, why thank you, I try and bring a bit of balance to the perpetually over critical input from some posters

Mahoney is doing his job, he may not get everything right, but hey only the bloke in the ermine robes in Rome is supposed to be infallible and he backed up Pell

1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

That's a skateboard, not a scooter, although I am quite adept on both

A car crash is quite appropriate for some of the posts on here

30 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

A disgrace.

We traded a first round pick for a first round pick.

We cashed in on what we knew was a strong first round. We backed ourselves in to be better in 2020. That's precisely the sort of attitude this club should have. Doing the opposite would just be "accepting mediocrity", wouldn't it?

FFS.

There's plenty to question about Mahony and the decisions our club makes in many areas. I really, really, do not think this is one of them.

Correct in your assertion in the first paragraph unfortunately you are replying to some posters who let emotion get in the way of thought or rationale

Agree with the second, but unfortunately none on here are in the Inner Sanctum of the Club, so have no idea of the background, raison dieter for some of the decisions, we only see, in some cases the outcome

Unless you have been in a managerial position, you don't have the experience or knowledge to know and understand the 'politics' behind some  decisions, and even then a footy club is a completely different beast

If Pert and the Board decide Mahoney has to go, that will happen, if they don't no amount of huffing and puffing on here will change that

1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Like Flies to a pile of poo ? 

Satyr is having a crack at Supporters again. 

Vicious Sniper extraodinaire
 

“We should all be quiet and accept what is thrown our way...”

P.S. We need $5mill, what do you say...?

Vicious? I hope you sleep with the light on

Not having a go at supporters per se  just the small minority of whiners on here, all mouth and trousers or all wind and [censored]

As @Wiseblood has said, let's get the whole list of staff from the Chairman down and start a topic ' are they the right guy'

If success is not forthcoming, change will happen

Just depends on the intestinal fortitude of all concerned to see how long before action is taken

As I have said, there are avenues to air your discontent, unfortunately it takes a person to come out from behind a cloak of anonymity

Or you can continue to whinge and whine on here

Intestinal fortitude

Using that phrase see if @Ethan Tremblay can come up with his usual witheringly funny gif or meme NOT

36 minutes ago, Half forward flank said:

Dead set confirmed. You are a plant and do not like supporters upsetting your cosy complicet apple cart.  Pass the camembert, oh is there a game on as well as all this food, wine and grovelling to the hierachy.

Nah, not a fan of blowhard  couldabeens who do nothing but whinge and whine

We keep having AGM and last year a Members Forum, do the blowhards stand up and air their grievances at a forum they can?

Nah, they prefer to snipe from behind the anonymity of a nickname

I am certainly not happy with some of the decisions made, but given the opportunity I have expressed that face to face, like men do (sorry ladies)

I have no desire to devote my time to being a Board Member at a footy club, it is a particularly thankless task at Melbourne

If you want to create change, get yourself on the Board, it is a right as a fully paid up member, if you are one, to put yourself forward for election

More a tasty cheddar or maasdam man myself

You also seem to be saying that the club is doing something unlawful or morally wrong as that is the meaning of complicit, if that was the word you were reaching for

Of course I keep forgetting that there is an air of infallibility amongst the posters on Demonland, never made a mistake or wrong move, particularly in their work life

54 minutes ago, Vineytime said:

Supporters are sick of the talk, we want results and this current leadership admin and coaches group steering the ship is running out of time, quickly. 

Supporters sick of talk, you wouldn't think so from the pages and pages of waffle from the couch bound Chairmen, CEOs, Football Managers and Coaches on here

4 hours ago, Half forward flank said:

Which is exactly your personality type. Instead of criticizing performance of player, coach or club you specialice in criticising those who have an opinion. 

Nah, chap, I do point out players, like Lockhart cost 2 goals trying to play on, he'll learn from it

Not criticising, just think the bit about emotional involvement is overblown

Specialice   an Italian pasta?

53 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

I'm happy for you that you can detach yourself from any kind of passion or emotional investment in the game mate, but I don't think you speak for the "majority of supporters" if that's your approach.

Eek, it's just a game of footy, emotional investment in my family is much more important

I think you will find, that a lot supporters get [censored] off with a loss, but it is over the next day, most have much more important things to think about

5 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

This is the problem though. This gets said EVERY year. Just reckon the majority of the supporter base have had enough of that mentality.

Make no mistake, if things don't get better this could very well end up being a turbulent year for our club.

Personally I think the majority of supporters just support, yes we would all like a bit of success, but footy is a game, doesn't impact majorly on your life if there is a loss.

If it does you really need to look at your life in general

There is just a small group of miseries on here that will whinge and whine no matter what

3 minutes ago, Redleg said:

That is true. It looks like we don’t know what to do. We don’t man the goal line on a shot and we keep the ball in, when we are standing on the boundary line near their point post. Then we don’t man up in defence allowing short passes to guys on their own.

That is the result of a poorly coached, poorly selected and poorly organised team.

This bomb it in game is a disaster.

Wow, everybody on here was crying to get Lockhart in, he cost 2 goals with crucial errors

He wasn't coached I am sure to take players on inside the 50

Other errors are players not doing what they are coached to do

You can't coach skill errors

34 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Do what you like. We're a crap team with a crap coach

You really do need to get out more, if your footy team is the most important thing in your life

We made a few crucial defensive errors, must say Goodwin MUST HAVE coached them to make those errors

We lost the game through crucial defensive errors, Geelong didn't

1 minute ago, Watts the matter said:

It was clear we sucked when our b team got point aways from beating our a team. 

That has no relevance whatsoever, they swapped the players around in the scratch match

Just now, Redleg said:

He has half a game to keep his place.

On match committee now @Redleg ?

It's a grind, both teams thrive on contested ball

Just now, rolling fog said:

I'm going to struggle to put in votes after this

Then don't bother

Just now, McQueen said:

Thanks for the advice. 
 

You can leave now. 

I am going to, get ready to watch the game at local pub

Nice chicken parma, few schooners of summer able, hopefully watch an entertaining game 

A Melb win, looking forward to seeing AVB and Hannan, black, sad Nev is not out there, form dropped a bit

Nobody will die if we lose, it is only footy

Nice to see all the 'supporters' up nice and early, lovely day to be so [censored] miserable

Just watch the game, then we can have multiple pages of post game angst, no matter the result

6 hours ago, loges said:

One thing that will really annoy today, if Hibberd keeps kicking his long bombs to no one that seem to hang in the air forever, allowing the defenders to zone off.  Has he lowered his eyes ever ?

I dunno, maybe the year he got All Australian?