Really disappointed. Fumble after fumble. Skills in close were terrible.

REally troubled by selection but doubt that would have made a difference to the end result.

Just fumbly football and poor skills.

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I noticed that - very poor example for the others to follow.

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"our electorate seeks less to be informed and more to be validated." Sad times.

He could always stand down if he's not happy.

Wouldn't worry me if he did.

He's almost at full Hendo.

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The only way for some people to understand is for them to be on the receiving end

Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Murphy is easily the worst captain of ALL time.

The boys in the team tried hard and were out classed, I have hope they will get better.

Casboult and Jones aren't a ruckmans arsehole!

I will not buy another membership while Murphy is captain.

pathetic and weak effort
they fumbled because they shit themselves and were always looking for the body contact to come
stupid decisions when going forward and hardly an attacking handball or even a kick to advantage
our senior members where really uninspiring and made a huge number of stupid decisions and skill errors
we have drafted outcasts from other clubs that offer nothing and have taken us backwards this year
jack deserved his demotion but needs to be followed by weitering and dow just to emphasis that just because you are a high draft pick doesn't give you an automatic selection or sense of entitlement
the biggest gripe of all goes to the selection and coaching panel
whoever has taught these back men to stand 10 meters in front and off their opponent should be horse whipped, they do know that the opposition can kick over 30 meters and can be quite accurate, in two games they have totally destroyed our back line and probably ruined their confidence as a unit
what the f!@#$ are you thinking
and for the last note simpson needs to stop these dinky 10m hba kicks i think he has cost us enough for the year already

Ah ..... good point ..... the "Hendo Scale"

A couple of them today were on Hendo 8.5 of the "Hendo Scale"

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"IF YOU FAIL TO PREPARE, YOU'RE PREPARED TO FAIL" - Mark Spitz

If given the same chances as others will become a good player, would play him ahead of Lamb every single week, 6 tackles...should be kept in the team for that alone. Without him there would have been almost zero forward pressure.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

Smashed most of the day for pressure and intensity. Maybe the start of the second and third quarters we applied adequate pressure and intensity, the rest of the day they outnumbered us at contests, pushed harder forward and harder back. Ins and outs always count for a bit, but gut running, pressure and intensity anyone can choose to do.

Supporters are realistic its about time this team played with some maturity and grit
Today was terrible with list we shouldn't be bottom of ladder and that's where we are heading
Disgraceful to be almost 5 goals down at quarter time
Disgraceful gutless effort
Bolton says his frustrated we have been putting up with this crap for 10 years
Pathetic effort today you can talk about docherty Kreuz and Gibbs and make excuses
Effort last week against Richmond doesn't cut the ice when you lose insipidity to Gold Coast

We were almost bottom of the ladder last year. What makes you think we should be way more advanced from that this year? Take Gibbs, Docherty and Kreuzer out of any team and they’d be significantly worse. Why are we any different?

I think we assumed the guys left behind with another year behind them would be able to step up a level.

Case in point were today’s opposition, who seem to not have not missed a beat without Ablett, O’Meara or Prestia.

Until we can move beyond the whole “we lost because X player was out” we aren’t going anywhere.

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#GUILTY

How many years do we have to put up with this crap

This team is a disgrace pathetic effort most of us predicted this last week we knew it was going to happen -happened last year

Let's not let Bolton off he needs to do better
Pathetic that we are 5 goals behind at quarter time
Stop torturing us
Stop being insipid
Stop it supporters are leaving in droves for god sake do something

I have been supporting this side for 50 years plus and I have to put up with this crap Im getting to the stage I want to jump off
Complete crap

Gold Coast did much the same to us last year as they did this year. Looks like they’re no more advanced come round 2 as they were last year. Have they really stepped up? Ablett was a ball hog who was a cancer on that team. Yet without him they still got the same result.

The last year we went back to Carrara and beat them. So who knows, we might do that again. If we don’t, fair enough. They’re better than us. Big whoop.

Murphy says we got carried away after last weeks game.

Um, WTF?!

Play of the Day

Our captain, under no real pressure, in the BP kicks blindly to the empty wing where two GC players eventually snaffle the pill.

That was great Murph!!!!!

Seriously??

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

I thought that was one of the best games for us so far from daisey. But others weren't happy with him so I might have to watch again to be sure.

Few other ok performances I can't really rate as a pro but not a con either.

Byrne was bad for a second week in a row but I've seen got things in him in the past so I'm not sure how hard to go. I'm more confused than upset at him.

No need to add anything about Murphy. I agree with most here today.

Yar.

Doesn't get any more surreal than that.