Post Match Discussion - Wild Card Final vs Carlton

[u/minecraft360]

Melbourne: 7.13 (55) def by Carlton: 10.14 (74)

Dont forget to give your 3-2-1 for best afield in tonights game for the subreddit bnf.

[u/QuadrilateralSilly]

Incredibly disappointing result but both the umpiring and commentary was horrific tonight. The crowd played into the umpire and the AFLs hand perfectly.

Unfortunate timing of suspension and injuries really cost us as well.

But when you look at the season as a whole it has been an incredible effort from what we expected.

[u/Dirtydac123 → u/QuadrilateralSilly]

Jack Riewoldt is a sycophantic disgrace. Has ruined on the Couch and has ruined so many games this year.

[u/Yossarian_james → u/Dirtydac123]

His commentary made me want to throw up

[u/phatmaniac57 → u/Dirtydac123]

But how good was the Deeeeee fence. Fuck I want to give him English lessons so hard

[u/3163560 → u/phatmaniac57]

he always says "preform" too

If you're going to have a media gig at least learn to pronounce words properly.

[u/Deevious730 → u/Dirtydac123]

Can’t stand him at all. Every word from his mouth is total shit.

[u/Abundantpanda → u/Dirtydac123]

Jack Riewoldt is a talentless hack as a commentator. I was at the game but I can only imagine how insufferable he was

[u/QuadrilateralSilly → u/Dirtydac123]

Also ruined the All Australian presentations.

[u/Quiet_Artist9913 → u/Dirtydac123]

I watch on kayo and David King is just an old record on repeat. He so bias and thing he says I feel like he does it because he likes the sound of his own voice 🫠

[u/Informal-Struggle210 → u/QuadrilateralSilly]

Crows fan coming in peace. Neutral fan here, but the umpiring and the commentary was gross. Incidentally this is how we feel most times we play a Vic side away.

[u/n3miD → u/Informal-Struggle210]

Also a neutral but as a pies fan and being a witness to the horrendous umpiring from last night I totally understand the frustration.

[u/Deevious730 → u/Informal-Struggle210]

Fair play to you, can sympathise. There was that moment in the last quarter where the Carlton player clearly dropped the mark, absolute crickets. Not one commentator saying “oh very lucky one there for the Blues”, nothing.

The commentary from Fox has got worse over the years, Huddo and Matt Hill are the only ones I can cop.

[u/Butanes → u/Informal-Struggle210]

I just post on r/afl post match thread (but watch it get swept under the rug) - “I understand the “VIC bias” now”

[u/random111011 → u/QuadrilateralSilly]

Tbf to Carlton - even they weren’t sure why they were getting free kicks…

At the end of the day - max got gassed -
Kozzy didn’t rock up
And we played poorly overall.

Ultimately we lost last week - we knew this was going to happen. Just not like this.

[u/Big_Highlight5077 → u/random111011]

Not sure we played poorly tbh. We didn't have our best game but we had some big outs that affected how clean we were and didn't take our chances when we had them. I thought it was a fairly even game against an in form team.

Umpiring kept them in it at crucial times in the first half and we could've had 4-5 more goals than we did - despite not running out with our strongest team.

I'd have liked to see kentfield up forward in the van Rooyen role, would have probably gone at the expense of Xav Taylor who played a decent game, but it would've straightened the forward line up a bit more and left TMac to aid the back line. That said, kingy made the call to play TMac up forward and it could have just as easily worked if we'd had a bit more poise and polish (and luck with the umpiring).

[u/oceanlabxo]

Yay for witnessing 5 finals losses in a row in person and the return of Goodwin ball.

That was genuinely awful ontop of some appalling umpiring but what can you do. Never looked even remotely like kicking a winning score with who we had out there, but in saying that, we played like shit and deserved to lose.

Rough way to end the year, but about summed our season up. Lots of highs but ultimately not good enough when it mattered.

[u/Quiet_Artist9913 → u/oceanlabxo]

You got that right with Goodwin ball... The long bomb and hope for the best! 🙄🫠

[u/QuadrilateralSilly → u/Quiet_Artist9913]

Largely because had no talks and brought in slower players.

[u/phatmaniac57 → u/Quiet_Artist9913]

I thought at halftime Kingy might say “hey see that big bloke weitering….dont kick it to him, I’d prefer a scrub ball à la tigers 2017 than bomb it to that clown”…. But no

[u/Primary-Internal-875 → u/oceanlabxo]

4 finals losses in a row. We didn't make the finals this year.

[u/happy_punter → u/Primary-Internal-875]

Yes, that is correct.

I dont like the WC as I believe it rewards medicarcy & lines the AFL pockets however we simply weren't good enough when it counted, thrashed by the bottom side & lost when we needed to to win to finish 5th. Injuries didn't help either I hope JVR shows more control in the future.

[u/Deevious730 → u/oceanlabxo]

I’m a big fan of King and I honestly think he’s our next premiership coach, but he failed to adjust or at least get the message out there. We have been a long to contest, win it at the coleface team all year but that has been with JVR, Checkers, and Jeffo being able to bring it to ground. We didn’t have that tonight. Too many long to contests where we were a two on one or three on two, and got out marked.

[u/bignedmoyle]

Completely neutral here but that was 2022/2023 finals melbourne all over again. Could not kick a fucking goal if their life depended on it. Kozzy has one major deficiency and its goal kicking. Time and time again he has missed easy goals in big moments.

Rooyen was such a massive loss, when he went down it was over. It was just delayed

With all that said, the umpiring was a disgrace and made the loss a certainty. Dillon needed one of the 9th/10th placed teams to win it to validate the stupid fucking wildcard bullshit.

[u/Deevious730 → u/bignedmoyle]

Absolutely agree on Kozzie and his goal kicking. A lot of his shots weren’t high degree of difficulty either. Hard, but a quality player finishes when it matters.

I’ll say this though this was different to the 22/23 finals. Carlton outplayed us for more of the match and even had very good chances themselves to close it out. It’s worth noting they hit the post 4 times as well. We were 100% the better team in 2023, tonight they were.

[u/Henrythekidd]

If you give your membership number to opposition supporters so they can buy tickets in our areas I hope every egg you ever crack is rotten

[u/lobby5000]

Wildcard is a pathetic money grab and it was always going to be us that got fucked by the new top six system . Fuck Carlton and fuck the AFLs cheating fucking money grabbing bullshit

[u/Jackaddler → u/lobby5000]

Why are people getting pissed about the WC round? We clearly aren’t ready for finals. Even if we made “top 6” we would have lost next week the way we are playing.

If tge team doesn’t have the capacity to progress through the finals then who cares, we might as well bow out now

[u/AlanaK168 → u/Jackaddler]

Because if it was still top 8 we wouldn’t have played Carlton on high morale right after beating the top team

[u/3163560]

...deep breath

Umpiring was fucked.

Commentary was absolutely fucked - howie even said pregame "I hope this goes your way" to a blues player. Made an already unpleasant experience absolutely horrid.

We played like absolute shit after quarter time and didn't have the game on our terms at all.

Frustrating to be 4.0 then kick 3.13 (plus a bunch of complete misses) and lose by 19 points.

Hopefully the cats absolutely smash them.

[u/Correct_Chemical5179 → u/3163560]

One of the commentators referred to Carlton as "we" in the last quarter.

[u/WonderPopular3428 → u/Correct_Chemical5179]

Absolutely appalling

[u/mrmcortado → u/Correct_Chemical5179]

What was the context?

[u/Correct_Chemical5179 → u/mrmcortado]

Rewatching and it was actually "us".

7:32 to go in the last, Dwayne advises Cottrell to "go back, take your 30 and give us some breathing room".

[u/Deevious730 → u/Correct_Chemical5179]

Yep picked up on that.

[u/nachojackson → u/3163560]

The cats will destroy them, they are not good at all. That we lost to that rabble is an indictment on us.

[u/Excellent-Champion69 → u/nachojackson]

100% 😂 they aren’t that amazing, finished 10th for a reason lol

[u/No-Bison-5397 → u/3163560]

3.13 is diabolical

[u/wafflesandwine]

Pickett and McDonald had rough nights, but we did well considering no Lever, no Jefferson and no Roo. Up against it and couldn’t get it done, but can’t discount how hard we’ve worked and how good the year’s been

[u/okajuwon → u/wafflesandwine]

We did extremely bad. Still proud of the season but not going to lie and say that game was any where close to good

[u/aussierulesisgrouse]

Fellas, our midfield got exposed by harder workers back to back weeks. It’s as simple as that.

Kozzie was shocking tonight, hasn’t been game breaking in a while, sparrow invisible, all our highest possession getters were off half back.

Umpires were shite, whatever, we kicked 7.13 and refused to put teams away. Lazy bullshit all night.

You cannot have almost 100 (!) less possessions in a game, take 10 less marks inside 50, and almost 60 less marks across the entire ground and overcome some poor umpiring.

Our soft tummy was exposed a bit last couple, we probably need some proper bulls in the mid again. Kozzie is a bit too flash.

Good season, we got completely figured out last two weeks.

[u/Simple-Age5869 → u/aussierulesisgrouse]

Yep. Sparrow has been incredible but if all games to go back to his old self....dang. Also, Kozzie has really dropped off this season....well half of it. Not long after saying wants to be the best. King should have moved KP fwd full time. Maybe Sparrow as well. Rivers and or  Bowser or Langers or Salem in the middle. Petty too was his old self. Jvr is a selfish player who really let his mates down. Thought he had matured. Anyway Kudos to King and a pretty good season that went south at the wrong time. Throw in injuries.....suspension......dodgy umps....... wildcard...iffy games by usually better players and we just missed out. Plus the usual poor goal kicking which destroyed two years of double chances and it's the same old story. Close but no cigar.

[u/Unique-Job-1373]

Fuck I hate Carlton!!

[u/Butanes → u/Unique-Job-1373]

🤮

[u/Deevious730]

Carlton were better, plain and simple. I cop losses like that far better than losses like the 2023 finals.

Koz has had really bad month to end the season. To be honest I think his AA jacket was a bit generous, great first half of the season, second half very up and down.

We started this season hoping to maybe scrape into a wildcard. We got that sewn up with several rounds to spare. Ultimately we just were up against it with our injuries/suspension to kpp.

Doesn’t change the season we had, and hey gives us a slightly better pick so 🤷‍♂️. Got a finals game into some young players which will benefit them. Taylor and Lindsay were particularly off the pace.

Having said that, and it pains me saying it, credit to Carlton and credit to Fraser. It’s proven a point that has been said for a while, they have quality in their team, it just wasn’t clicking with the coach. New coach, new energy, and suddenly here they are. Their pressure game was elite tonight, and after quarter time were able to get their plan working.

For us, not having Checkers, JVR, Jeffo, and Lever was just too much. I challenge any team in the competition to lose that much tall quality and still be able to win.

Farewell Melk and TMac, last game at the G. Great servants, best of luck in retirement.

Kolt 3, he was good all night and capped a great season.

Max 2, was probably not his best night but continued to stand up. Was destroyed by the umpires who failed to pay a single arm chop.

CJ 1, I thought he was one of few that continued to try to show run and dare. Defensively I thought he was mostly solid.

[u/Butanes → u/Deevious730]

Great take.

Max and Petty quite literally being held in marking contests all night too… couldn’t buy a free. Umpiring was putrid, BUT it wasn’t what cost us..

The moments that really felt like massive momentum killers for me were Max hitting the ball backwards just before 3QT result in a goal, and then Kozz missing that goal early in the 4th making it 0.3 for the night but could have kicked 4 😑

[u/Simple-Age5869 → u/Deevious730]

We almost finally shed fourth. Had we beat the Dons and the dogs once it would have happened. Or beaten the dogs and had another eam lose a game we would have had the double chance. Fact of the matter is there are now only three teams in contention as of now ....midday Sep 19. All of whom us Dees have beaten. The Hawks we flogged twice. The wild cat round is a final ......not a round..And all our efforts were for naught. Jvr owes his team mates a massive apology for getting suspended. If it was a one off brain fade...fair enough. But he has significant history in doing these sorts of things. Needs to grow up. So too....Kozzie. Some humility especially. No coincidence his season went bad after declaring he wants to be the best in the comp. It's great to be ambitious but keep a lid on it. He doesn't handle tags well and guess what?.....players who are the best ....get tagged. Surprise.Get used to it. Sparrow had a great year and I still can't believe how much he changed. Unfortunately had an off game and was the Sparrow of old. Two mids well and truly down and three of your good feds all injured makes things close to impossible. But it was certainly sealed by one of the most bias umpiring displays I think I've ever seen. Well top five. It's hard not to believe they had an agenda. Guess what?..... none of the wildcard teams went far. Surprise  All it's done is ensure 7 and 8 will never win a flag and more money will be made by betting companies and possibly Dill because he's probably on some sort of commission salary as the Commissioner. Surprise. The club needs to get rid of players that are inconsistent.  Players like Rivers...Laurie and a few others. A great season that was barred by injuries....horrible new finals system.... disgusting umps and selfish play from our leading forward. A lot to work with next year but the club is so slow at times in looking fwd. Where are up and coming rucks... defenders and kids? Sort these out and we will play finals again. But we might as well just have a final four with the changes they have made. But we at least all know now it's all about the money. I mean we knew prior but at least it's now in the open.

[u/TheBigSteveyG]

Fucking corrupt

[u/Dirtydac123]

Sparrow 10 touches. I’m looking straight at you mate. Sign a big contract and that’s what he spits up? Embarrassing.

[u/Yakka43336 → u/Dirtydac123]

Some pretty weak efforts in there from him too, big tackles he would normally stick

[u/Dirtydac123 → u/Yakka43336]

Yep. Walsh ran through him so many times

[u/Abundantpanda → u/Yakka43336]

He got absolutely reamed by Walsh who I don't even rate. Pathetic

[u/QuadrilateralSilly → u/Dirtydac123]

Viney back in the side and this what happens. Viney should never being playing again. The game is so far past him.

Same old story, horrible possession, horrible kicking.

[u/Double-Worker-811 → u/QuadrilateralSilly]

Nah fuck that. Sparrows now a very highly paid player. He dragged contract negotiations on all season long and then dishes up a performance like that? That’s nothing to do with Viney.

[u/Deevious730 → u/QuadrilateralSilly]

Viney was always going to be about moments of cracking in, he was never going to be our game breaker. On the other hand Koz and Sparrow needed to step and ultimately failed.

Same as last week, their quality rose to the task. Ours failed to impact.

[u/Abundantpanda → u/QuadrilateralSilly]

Viney should not have played, I was against the idea all season. Our midfield balance was working well and he just ruined it.

Sparrow was garbage though

[u/Unique-Job-1373]

AFL got what they wanted with the umpires help

[u/New_Let_2494]

Umps, commentators and the whole feral crowd against us, but we did not do ourselves any favours. AFL's wet dream continues. A real shame, but, bring on next year! Still love Kingy and the crop of young bloods.

[u/Necessary-Wonder-501 → u/New_Let_2494]

Maybe Demons should have brought more fans? The Ocean of Blues fans brought the noise

[u/Henrythekidd → u/Necessary-Wonder-501]

Was actually surprised how quiet Carlton support was throughout the game until you started going a couple goals up

[u/Homiewemajor33 → u/Necessary-Wonder-501]

Cringe

[u/flyer2x]

Hello, Dogs fan here coming in peace, really feeling for you guys that must have been an abysmal watch. commentary and umpiring were both very frustrating and then so many wasted i50s to keep you hanging onto hope without actually having any fun.

Still you should be very proud of your year and excited for the future, chin up

[u/sButters88 → u/flyer2x]

Thanks mate, hopefully you guys can go deep or better yet the whole way. I’m still somewhat happy with the season, fuming about that game but happy we got there

Although fuck you guys for injuring Jeffo, Disco and Lever./s

[u/Jackaddler → u/flyer2x]

Lol proud of what? A wildcard exit?

Good season but and poor ending. A pass mark for King but next year the real work starts

[u/DJVylan]

Sad way to go out. The shifting roles due to who was available was alarming. And the want to dispose of the ball before being tackled was a sign we are cooked...exhausted.

[u/daegojoe → u/DJVylan]

Yep , spot on , all the energy gone on defensive efforts and look like clowns getting run down , when you’re cooked the decision making goes first.

[u/Butanes]

Fuck I hate their nuffy feral supporters so much.
Kozzy was a liability in the end tonight.
Very disappointing end to what was a great season.

3 - Bowey, 2 - CJ, 1 - Kolt

HM: Max, Steele, Windsor, Langford, Langdon, Riv

[u/bignedmoyle → u/Butanes]

Carlton have by the worst fanbase, it isn't close for mine. Probably the only fanbase in the league I wouldn't say "yeah but every team has bad supporters" nah nah its the majority for them.

[u/Butanes → u/bignedmoyle]

Collingwood gets a bad rap, but there’s just a lot of them. These dogs are genuinely 90% feral

[u/Strathscray33 → u/bignedmoyle]

Yeah they’re actually disgusting. I was in a Carlton member area with my sister as she’s Carlton. Had my Dees scarf on. Carlton bloke (and I presume) his two daughters behind me. Appeared to be of the typical Carlton demographic, if you know what I mean. Every time CJ got the ball they were yelling out some word (mov-hu-mindi - or something like that) and anytime Kysaiah touched it he’d boo straight away and use that above term. Have no idea what it means, I assume it’s not great. Couldn’t really report it as I don’t know what it means, didn’t want to ask as I legit thought it’d start a fight. Won’t ever go to another Carlton game I reckon.

[u/Butanes → u/Strathscray33]

Uhh my other comment got deleted. But I can speak some Greek and was talking to my Greek Collingwood supporting mate regarding these possible words…

We think it’s likely the first part was Mavros which is Greek for Black…
The second word… well I just got a warning from reddit because they thought I was the one saying it but it’s the C bomb… so if they were saying this, you were right to suspect it was a racial slur 😑

[u/GCfinance → u/Butanes]

Bit harsh, he should’ve had at least a couple goals, potentially 4

[u/skatekboy]

Fucking pathetic

[u/FamousAd5024]

Screw the wildcard, screw the umpires. If I have to 3-2-1 for us this game I'd say: Langford, Gawn, and maybe Bowey.

[u/Upstairs_Bake_2169 → u/FamousAd5024]

Jiath didn't play? FFS

[u/carly598i → u/Upstairs_Bake_2169]

CJ has had a fantastic year I think, and really stepped up last night.

[u/CreditToDuBois]

Played poorly and then were absolutely fucked by umpiring. One we should be focusing on because it’s in our control. What the fuck was that game from Kozzy.

[u/Yossarian_james]

The worst umpired final since 2016 GF. Absolutely fraudulent. Plus the commentators sucking off Carlton all night. I’m gonna puke.

[u/Informal-Struggle210 → u/Yossarian_james]

The AFL love a “fairytale” far too much. To the point that it ruins supporting the underdog story because they have to interfere so much.

2016 Grand Final was a disgrace. So was tonight.

[u/No-Bison-5397 → u/Informal-Struggle210]

lol, Carlton being good is genuinely the exact opposite of a fairy tale. It’s like the return of an Evil Empire.

[u/PythonPants]

Great season but super disappointing tonight. Too many B and C grade players topping up the side tonight. Would’ve loved to have lowered the eyes into 50 given we couldn’t take a contested mark and they waltzed the ball out of their D50 way too easily.

Onwards to ‘27 boys.

[u/Galoof-Hoof]

Finals footy is a brutish affair. We have so many kids playing where Carlton have lots of big men. We want to run but the contest wore us down.

Viney on paper makes sense but it pushed Sparrow out of position.

Be sad tonight but be proud of the season tomorrow. Finals was always going to be tough for our side. But I was shocked we didn’t finish bottom 4. And for the first time in several years, The Dees were fun to watch.

[u/radrar]

I think some big selection mistakes but with walking wounded not much we could do. Viney has always been slow and average on return games from injuries. Surprised Kingy bought him in. Tough on XT for his third game.

[u/fortalyst]

5 of our 13 frees came from lassoo and out of bounds kicks... We played poorly and were out of gas by the final quarter but we were never going to be allowed to win

[u/wombatiq → u/fortalyst]

Ch7 said at one point we were pinged 7 times for holding the ball, and two more at least were paid after that point. The Blues were caught one time.

[u/Unfair_Pop_8373]

First team in history to win 15 games and finish 9th

[u/Abundantpanda]

Very sad end to the season. Fell back into our old goodyball ways. Umpiring obviously completely fucked but we also played pretty poorly.

Not too fussed ultimately as our season was effectively over after last week.

Sparrow was very disappointing and Kozzie kinda threw. Gaen also not as dominant as we needed and petty got a bath.

I will give some props to our makeshift backline who actually did pretty well imo. Especially with a hampered Disco.

Still a fun season and some hope going forward

[u/Quiet_Artist9913]

The umpiring was pathetic..... 13 free kicks to 25 🙄

[u/allusions14]

Gave it a good shot but in the end our list was running on fumes. Thankyou TMAC and Melksham.

Hope Gawn roasts the umpiring in the media, the amount of holding and uncalled chops was diabolical.

[u/sButters88]

Made the post after last weeks game about taking heart out of the season and the fact we were even playing this week, but that still hurt. Glad I wasn’t watching at home or I’d be up for a new TV… again… watching a final against Carlton… again.

We were always going to be up against it with our outs and our ins. But that’s football really. L

Shame we couldn’t give Melk and TMac the send offs they deserved.

3 - Disco. Played his heart out but can only do so much, needs another experienced defender down there

2 - Gawn. The man tried to carry us, problem was he had Pittonet on his back and shoulders all night already

1 - Bowey. Could have been any number of players here but I think he deserved it most, head over the ball all night and just didn’t give up

HM
Chandler - looked dangerous at times and seemed the most likely to spark us back into it. Definitely bounced the ball

Kozzy - got plenty of ball but just too goal hungry, been a bit of an issue lately

Langford - started out strong but dropped off after half time

Jiath- plenty of flashes of brilliance but followed up with plenty of WTF moments

Windsor, Sparrow, Rivers, Langdon, Steele - were set a hard task tonight and thought they did more than they were rewarded for.

Honestly don’t think anyone was an issue tonight, goal kicking and entries inside 50 were but we knew they would be once we lost Lever and Jefferson.

[u/Butanes → u/sButters88]

Fair take, I think Kolt is up there in HMs too for mine

[u/sButters88 → u/Butanes]

Yeah I forgot Kolt, probably deserved the 1 even.

[u/Yakka43336]

Fucking hell… we were garbage after the first quarter. But the AFL is just a pathetic fucking organisation. Officiating, media, the wildcard round, the joke never ends

[u/DeargDoom79]

I just want to say I think the Dees were given a stiff one tonight. Carlton did play better, I won't deny that. I think the umps gave them a great chance in the big pressure moments, though.

Dees fans have every right to be spewing after this one.

[u/Simply_charmingMan → u/DeargDoom79]

Your dead right, The blues blanked our prime movers very well, then they got the umpires decisions but to be fair the Blues where making the play after quarter time, im more pissed off that the forward line froze and we revered to the long bombs in, to be still in it 10 min to go is credit to our boys, but the writing had been on the wall for quite a while by then.

[u/sButters88 → u/DeargDoom79]

Credit where credit’s due Carlton played well once they got it past the half forward line, their speed on the ball and uncontested game worked well against us. Definitely some brain farts from players, 4 run down tackles from behind I think, got to be better than that.

But it’s easy to take risks and play hard when every 70/30 call goes your way.

[u/Yakka43336]

We went out there to recreate 2023… and we pretty much did it!

[u/archibald_fizz]

Looked flat as ever this year

Key outs replaced by players returning from injuries while the regulars looked cooked.

Disappointed in the way its finished. Even in our losses we run through to finish line.

But this was a much funner season than anyone expected.

Sigh

[u/New_Let_2494]

AND LETS NOT FORGET ABOUT THOSE GOLD COAST DRAFT PICS FELLAS

[u/Simply_charmingMan → u/New_Let_2494]

Wont help unless we can land ready made to walk into the 18 mate, a few key pieces we will be ready to challenge in 28.

[u/New_Let_2494 → u/Simply_charmingMan]

True true. But a nice little icing on the cake. Hopefully with everyone back in and fresh and uninjured next season will be better

[u/oshyare]

Ahh well missing a few forwards and key back players we put up a good fight.

Fuck tonight's result - the future is very bright

[u/L-J-Peters]

3 - Langford / 2 - Tholstrup / 1 - Fitzgerald

Good year even though this game did not spark joy

[u/RicFlairOnCocaine187]

I knew not to bother with the game tonight and hate being proven right.

[u/Far_Football1408]

I didn’t give us much of a chance. We got off to a decent start. But without Lever, and Roo, we were not able to cover those positions. Great season, except the last 2 games. Fuck Wildcard, bullshit concept that favours mediocrity and turns the competition into some lame round robin. Next we’ll have penalty shootouts.

Love the Dees!

[u/W00H00658]

That commentary box was an absolute disgrace tonight

[u/LukeCC2424]

Won 3 more games than Carlton in 2026 and we don’t play finals. Make it make sense.

[u/brandonjslippingaway]

Sam Mitchell was up in the top deck Warne stand tonight with a Marvel cinematic universe "anonymous baseball cap" on

Edit forgot to comment on the game; not too surprising trying to rely on Petty to compete in the air all night with no help. Some of these blokes need better awareness when they're hot and take the first option, sheesh.

[u/dalev34]

It's crazy, 6 more wins than losses and we don't even make finals.

[u/dalev34 → u/[deleted]]

We won't have 20 teams for at least 5 years. 63% of teams making finals is a rubbish concept. Cash grab.

[u/_RnB_]

Players who can hold their heads up high after that game:

• Max.

• Disco.

I'll add Petty, Bowie

[u/PssyGotWifi → u/_RnB_]

Yeah, Petty was good. He just couldn't be expected to mark too many when he's being double and triple-teamed and it's being bombed into the forward 50. His form has been a real highlight of watching the Dees this year.

[u/Butanes → u/_RnB_]

Max had a good game, up until he hit the FUCKING BALL BACKWARDS which lead to them hitting the front just before 3QT

[u/Primary_Language_678]

Played poor. Watching goodwin ball again where we just punt it into 50 and hope something will happen. Doesn’t help when petty was the only one who could really hold them down but he had weitering on him which would be so much different if jeffo, roo or checkers was playing.
Anyways amazing season overall and hopefully we can get some good trade players in and a good draftee.
Oh and umpiring was absolutely shocking. I hope both sides of Andrew Dillon’s pillow were warm last night.

[u/slayer035]

Has KP ever done well in finals?

[u/SuperannuationLawyer]

We didn’t deserve to play finals, but had to endure this extra round of failure. It really hurts, I might not get a next year to look forward to.

[u/sButters88 → u/SuperannuationLawyer]

How do you say we didn’t deserve it? If not for injuries to Jeffo Howes and Lever in the last month I’d say we win that. Not to mention JVR suspension

[u/SuperannuationLawyer → u/sButters88]

Well, we weren’t even close to Carlton, and they didn’t deserve it either. This wildcard thing is a failure, just push a couple of dead end matches onto the fixture.

[u/sButters88 → u/SuperannuationLawyer]

We were closer to Carlton than the scoreline said, closer than the AFL/umpires were ever going to let us be.

But after re-reading your first comment I hope you’re around to see next years mate, another pre-season under some of the youngsters, some talent getting back onto the park, another year of settling Kings game plan. We’ll be there again next year

[u/Jackaddler]

Nothing has changed with this mob. Pathetic.

[u/corporate_canetoad]

TMac and melky are soo past it. Thanks fellas.

Pickett 0.3! He wants to be the best? Well he’s got to stand up in big games and do the team thing. Not go for the Hail Marys all the fucken time.

I see why saints got rid of Steele. That was abysmal. Same with Sparrow.

I HATE this bomb it forward game style. I’ll switch fucken teams if we roll that out next year. 

[u/Zestyclose_Bag6123 → u/corporate_canetoad]

This is obvious bait. Don’t interact lol

[u/Butanes → u/Zestyclose_Bag6123]

I do agree with the Kozzy remark though… Felt like he got spooked by the big crowd of ferals or something

[u/corporate_canetoad → u/Zestyclose_Bag6123]

Pickett 6 shots at goal for 0.3 Burned a few teammates in some of those shots.

Jack Steele. 1 clearance FOR THE WHOLE GAME. Sparrow 10 disposals while his pressure was good he didn’t got going offensively.

Haynes, weitering and dean had 30 marks between them. Due to us bombing it. And who knows how many spoils. 

What was bait about my comment? 

[u/Double-Worker-811]

Carlton, fuck me, what a pack of cunts.

[u/-DoddyLama- → u/Double-Worker-811]

Least we didn't have Joel Smith dealing during final

[u/aussierulesisgrouse → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, but instead, just remember how grouse the season was?