I've had a day to let the feeling sink in.
First point we were stuffed at the tribunal in contesting King's charge and came up with a lame defence. Missed his tackling and forward line pressure.
That pressure seeped in as King has a good ability to get those around him up. Our tackling yesterday was reminiscent of the Solarium Man's reign.
Turnovers Turnovers Turnovers. Melb's 1st two goals to Green were from Nahas and McGuane errors.
Got them back into the game and we never recovered.
Skills and too many passengers.
It's almost as if everyone wants us to get to these games only for us to fall away and lose and go back to oblivion. Happened three times this season Dogs Port and yesterday. Tony_Montana is spot on the culture is changing but until it fully changes we will stick in mid table mediocrity.
As for our bottom 6-8 plyaers. They have no skills and no impact and are well well short at this level in any AFL side let alone ours. We know who they are.
Even our descent players struggled yesterday. Which means with our lack of depth we have very few capable to step up to help ease pressure and then help those struggling come into the game.
Thing that peees me off is Melbourne who are soft had blokes like Jones and Moloney who are good in and under players who made our blokes look second rate and feel soft. Princesses like Green and Watts were made to look like superstars and we looked just so short of resources.
Jack needs to learn to play with TV and find a way to get his 4 or 5 while Vix gets his 2-3 rather than be petulent and try and fly for the speccy each time and kick impossible goals from half chances when there are options. Get back to basics. A stint in the twos just to show who is boss may be the tonic. Has been terrible four weeks in a row now since Dreamtime.
Carlton and Essendon next couple then GC17 in Cairns. Seaon is over need to develop a few kids.
Miller out and Post in the experiment is over. Let the kid play insurance has served its purpose now its overkill. Play Post regardless. Can't do the kids confidence any good in and out subbed. WTF.
Trade Draft KPP defender and ruckman and take it from there. We are so so so short it aint funny. Port we saw as an aberration Darwin etc etc, Sydney haven't won there since 2004 yada yada yada, yesterday against an inconsistent team who similar to us on the ladder but our form was more steady and they showed us up for the pretenders that we are. Dimma needs to cut another 8-9.
Start playing McDonald and give Derickx a go. Simple we are realistically from finals 2013 at the earliest. The job has begun and we need to follow through. Finals 2011 would have been a seduction of the highest order and we would have been raped on the big stage again. Possibly then we would not have been doing the job we needed to do and then by 2015 we would be talking about another token finals series. Keep doing the job DImma and get rid of another 8-10.
Sadly the sins of the Wallace era will play themselves out for a few more years and rather than blaming Dimma for culture which he and others have been trying to change point the finger at him. If he had any balls just like he likes to take credit for the kids running around when we are winning its his legacy especially and those of his predecessors that keep coming to the forefront in the post moretoms after another big game defeat. No responsibility from those in the go from the past .Life goes on deep breath and wait for 2013.
At least we won't finish 9th with North Melbourne hovering. Essendon v Richmond in two weeks is for 12th and 13th spot.
