Straight Sets Simon

I'd take Vince out of those three. Lewis is good when he has time and space, under pressure he is dreadful and just falls over.

On top of this, we kicked into the man on the mark twice against Port Adelaide (Brayshaw and Lewis from memory) which is completely unacceptable.

I'm not so sure.

I quite like Smith but I just don't think he has the fitness to play consistently at this level.

By the way, that was a mark to Brayshaw at the end.

Melksham could have been shot out there and they wouldn't have given him a free kick.

Did anyone hear Jimmy Bartel talking about Petracca just stood still after taking a mark tonight? How the hell is this still happening?

It wasn't just the soft ones Port were getting, Tom McDonald would have kicked ten tonight if the umpires dared to look at all the holding he was getting.

Umpiring a disgrace. Harmes killed all our momentum in the third quarter when he decided to go and hit a number of Port Adelaide players on the [censored]. Lewis cooked. Tyson cooked. Fumbles. Umpiring a disgrace. Oscar is nothing with Lever. Melksham and Tom McDonald couldn't buy a free kick. Hogan went missing. Jetta is a star.

No wonder Tom Morris got the flick from the Melbourne Podcast. Normally supporters tend to know a lot about their club.

I'm not Tyson fan but we simply couldn't get our hands on the ball last weekend. Collingwood went lower and harder than us. I'm not sure if Tyson will help with this but we need to try something.

Fix up or clearances and we will make finals. This is the key.

Twice Jones had the ball on the half forward line and handballed to a stationary teammate instead of kicking it himself into the forward line, meaning we went from a guaranteed forward fifty entry to a turnover. At least on one occasion Collingwood kicked a goal from this.

I disagree, I thought we struggled to win the ball in contested situations and that's why we struggled to get the ball on the outside. Also, our inside midfielders are a lot smaller than Collingwood's (at least it felt that way) so they get pushed off the ball too easily.

No good. They tried to even up the numbers when the game was over but Collingwood certainly got the rub of the green early.

It felt a lot like the Richmond game where they were so clean and slick on the inside while we fumbled and overused the ball. I totally agree about the outside players struggling as a result. If we were more even in the centre then it would have been a far closer contest, having said that I don't think the quality of our midfield holds a candle to theirs at the moment.

I think Collingwood have a premiership quality midfield. They can't expect Mason "Kent Kingsley" Cox to kick five every week but that midfield is as good as any I have seen for a long time. We needed to at least break even in the middle, but losing the clearances 26 to 45 was where the game was lost.

We lost the clearances 26 to 45 today.

Lever was the best thing that happened to O. McDonald.

Lost the clearances, the rest flowed on from there.

Called it.

They are going lower and harder. I’ve lost count how many times we’ve run over the ball on the ground.

We can’t pick the ball up off the ground. I can’t stress this enough.

Destroyed in clearances.