Melbourne Demons Captain Max Gawn talks about dark scenes after a shock loss at the Gold Coast Suns; Simon Goodwin; Clayton Oliver; Christian Petracca; Damien Hardwick

“We haven’t been close to it where we wanted to be for a couple of weeks, he is disappointing,” said Gawn.

“(It is a long season in front, (probably) have broken a little spirit today, so ensuring that they do not travel that path and finish the games (it is the goal). Slightly disappointing, which in the last 10 minutes.

“(Probably we) We had some leaders looking for punishment kicks in different points. You are what your leaders are. If you are doing it, it can be a slippery slope.”

Gawn was not excluded from criticism.

“(I) I gave some, I thought they could be mine, but my arms were in the air, so it seemed badly,” said Gawn, who admitted three kicks of punishment.

“I went out and I said exactly what we were told in there (in the post-game match). There are still many technical things. We were beaten parked, (we have) we had the stop.

Gawn said the Suns worked in advance of Melbourne in advance. The Suns scored four goals from the rebound center and were +33 for the interruption scores.

“We had our plan, they knew what our plan was quite quickly: they perforated us,” said Gawn. “We are doing a lot of midweek job to make sure you find good things, but (we’re not doing).”

Goodwin did not exclude changes to midfield, but said that priority was priority. That the coach evaluated the choice n. 6 of Harvey Langford, playing his first full game, since the best Demons midfielder was an accusation act on the rest of the on-Ball brigade.

“Too often they came out easily from there,” said Goodwin. “We filed and confused the ball – we must solve it.”

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Trent Rivers was destined to play in the middle, but was requested in defense after Lindsay’s injury. Lindsay completed a change of direction in execution on the sidelines before the decision was made by submission. Jake Lever, Kysaiah Pickt and Caleb Windsor are lined up to return to the next round.

Melbourne’s drought flag in 2021 should have announced the beginning of a golden race, but, at four years, the demons have not won an final since then and are facing the uncomfortable perspective of a premiership window closed without having won another ending.

Gawn said that he still believed that demons could challenge the flag this year, indicating the Hawthorn award and in office the Premiers Brisbane, which both were slow outside the blocks last year before falling to the final as the form of the competition.

“The Premiership window is never closed,” said Gawn. “You are ridiculous in this competition if you are not ready to win the flag. I am very far from that thought.”

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