{"id":30422,"date":"2025-07-29T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30422\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:58:11","slug":"feelings-fitness-and-fadeouts-how-the-dees-blew-the-season-late-in-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30422\/","title":{"rendered":"Feelings, Fitness, and Fadeouts – How the Dees Blew The Season Late In Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was painfully apparent following the 2024 season, and the ensuing kerfuffle of the trade period, that there needed to be a concerted effort to address some healing at the Melbourne Football Club.<\/p>\n

Players were feeling unloved, and with word that several wanted out, the Dees did their best to wrap their arms around their potentially wayward sons.<\/p>\n

However, when the focus shifts from form and fitness to feelings, you start to see another f-word. It wasn\u2019t finals.<\/p>\n

It was The Fall.<\/p>\n

And that fall comes in the form of the ability to\u00a0 play out games.<\/p>\n

After Melbourne basically stood still for 30 minutes and squandered a 46-point lead to an inspired St Kilda team on the weekend, I started to wonder whether they\u2019d made a bit of a habit of not playing out games this season.<\/p>\n

What I found was\u2026 interesting, if nothing else.<\/p>\n

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