Game Day Round 15, 2022 - Melbourne vs. Brisbane Lions

[dlanod]

Not sure even the most realistic of us saw this belting coming

Call me crazy but I'd rather a belting than an honourable loss. More likely to see change coming from it.

 

[Jivlain]

 

[briztoon]

So we delist a bunch of players that aren't best 22, bring in a bunch of draftees, and ... our team is exactly the same?

Well delisting that many players, you’re hoping we are trading in at least 2 best 22 players.

Drafting is never for the now, it’s for the future.

 

[FLVanLandingham]

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remarkable skill to intercept that!

I want a stat of contested intercept Lever had tonight. Payne probably has him beat.

saltiness incoming

 

[scoman]

A good lesson on the standard required, hopefully we let this loss be our lesson

We have had a few in the last couple years and it hasn't.

The only game we have won that really mattered was against Richmond in that 2020 final.

Every other time we have a legitimate test against a serious side and we roll over.

 

[dlanod]

Well delisting that many players, you’re hoping we are trading in at least 2 best 22 players.

Drafting is never for the now, it’s for the future.

Delisting that many players, we'd be picking in the 60s and 70s.

If you hope we're drafting two best 22 players there, you're crazy.

If you're banking on trading in two best 22 players, then the delisting of particular players is irrelevant.

 

[Helicon1]

If ever you wanted a negative, timid losing vibe from a senior player, Harris Andrews is your man.

And captain

 

[FLVanLandingham]

THERE WE GO HIPPY!

get some confidence in ya my boy

 

[Nathan Barley]

Too late for tinkering. Should’ve happened earlier when it was clear our midfield wasn’t working but we were happy beating lower teams

 

[CarterS]

Best passage for us since the first quarter

 

[Elixuh]

Lethals formula is goals and seconds remaining yeah?

 

[CarterS]

Robertson having a crack

 

[dlanod]

Can't fault our defenders for having a crack when they don't have the ball, only when they do.

 

[mattsmob]

Robertson having a crack

He's a winner, he needs to completely replace Lyons while he's out

 

[CarterS]

We are supposedly just about the best contested football team in the competition and that gets us by most of the time, but if we don't win the ball our defensive pressure can be poor.

 

[lioninthesand]

Thank god for the bye.

 

[MacMum]

Just checked the scores...what an embarrassment!

 

[FLVanLandingham]

it seems the most negative of our posters have vacated the the internet for the night (probably furiously writing their memorandum on how we are the shittest team ever for the review thread).

 

[dlanod]

He's a winner, he needs to completely replace Lyons while he's out

At risk of being harsh you can see why he slipped though. He's solid but not a game changer.

 

[Harris Specter]

I find supporters who feel they're entitled to some special treatment because of their location a bit precious and self-absorbed. I'd rather the team win every game rather than take it personally when they don't in a particular location.

It wasn't more about the location, rather the pain that Victorian supporters feel everytime they shell out lots of money for a disgraceful performance like that each time they are in Victoria. Essendon game excluded. I'm based in WA so have no relevance, but have friends in Victoria who left the game early today.

 

[dlanod]

it seems the most negative of our posters have vacated the the internet for the night (probably furiously writing their memorandum on how we are the shittest team ever for the review thread).

I feel for Liam_The_Latvian to produce a preview following this.

 

[mattsmob]

At risk of being harsh you can see why he slipped though. He's solid but not a game changer.

Doesn't need to be, Neale, McCluggage and Rayner are and Dev will only make them better

 

[Ceebee]

Payne has been good.
I hope Tunstill hasnt been scarred for life poor kid.

 

[CarterS]

Depleted midfield against the best midfield in the competition.

 

[morsie]

Well I said this game was season defining.Unfortunately we are making up the numbers.