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Melbourne Demons club hole threatens China

Melbourne fans jeer as the team leaves the field after the 2013 AFL round 02 match between the Essendon Bombers and the Melbourne Demons at the MCG, Melbourne on April 06, 2013. (Photo: Michael Willson/AFL Media)
Roar Guru
26th May, 2013
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You have to really applaud Melbourne. It takes a special type of ineptitude to make sure that a team so so rubbish can fill more column space than teams at the top of the ladder.

It was no surprise that Melbourne would lose to Fremantle. Statistics, logic, instinct and your gut just knew it would happen.

Heck, the above criteria can easily be applied when you were trying to pick the margin (I was wrong by 10 points. I picked them to lose by 100). But, I don’t think you could use the same criteria to argue that Melbourne would look so insipid. Again.

In the earlier rounds of the season, many writers and Roarers were ‘wondering just how bad it could get?’ Well, I say congrats to Melbourne. We wonder no more. We now know. It can. It did. It was worse.

Melbourne are in a hole so deep, that if they dig just a little further, they might find themselves rudely intruding on a nice Chinese family sitting down for dinner.

It beggars belief that the top cream of players in the Melbourne squad are on similar paygrades to some of the top cream in Geelong, Essendon, Sydney and Collingwood.

It is embarrassing that players like Nathan Jones and Jeremy Howe (who admittedly are of a shrinking group of players that genuinely try each match) are being paid the same, if not more than their superior peers at superior teams?

The demons play Hawthorn this week. Collingwood the next. The misery will continue, unless the club can perform a monster turn-around. No one expects them to win, but to be competitive.

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As yet, there is no guarantee that they will beat the bye.

I wish I could speculate why Melbourne is so bad. I wish I could speculate a way for Melbourne to dig themselves out of this hole. I can’t seem to do either.

Can the Roarers?

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