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Game Day Thread

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Seriously need to clean out our football department! 3 years on and we still are [censored].

The marketing dept has done well selling us the dream of a premiership...

Edited by Sturmmann

 

As pathetic as he might be, he needs to stay in the team for the rest of the year. Sure, on most performances he deserves to be dropped, but we really need another tall forward and the sooner he comes on (touch wood) the better. He isn't going to develop anywhere near as fast playing at Casey as he would playing in the AFL.

What he needs is a massive boot up the arse.

He needs to be dropped. You can't even call what he gives an effort.

There is not an experience known to mankind that matches the pain generated by watching Melbourne play interstate on TV.

 

There is not an experience known to mankind that matches the pain generated by watching Melbourne play interstate on TV.

dont just stop at interstate. MFC are dropping to where they belong, bottom 4. Premiership for 2013??? I think not.


We are the softest side in the competition and by a fair margin. The Coach needs to instill some heart in to the side some of the (lack of) efforts were embarrassing.

 

We are the softest side in the competition and by a fair margin. The Coach needs to instill some heart in to the side some of the (lack of) efforts were embarrassing.

Doesn't have any himself. That is obvious


Thank God for Bate.

Did anyone else notice that it took Warnock about a minute to turn around then.

We are the softest side in the competition and by a fair margin. The Coach needs to instill some heart in to the side some of the (lack of) efforts were embarrassing.

We are soft because we are small. Put our players up against any other good side in the comp and you will see they are much bigger than us. Until we get some beef onto the field we are kidding ourselves. League footy is a weight game. We need bigger blokes. Simple as that.

Depends whether you like watching spirited, inspiring comebacks.

If you do, stick to Mighty Ducks, Fox Sports is showing a team show up for 15 minutes of a contest and get flogged by 8 goals.

Yup.

agree. Will do him no good dropping him back to Casey. Its not as if we're playing off for finals. Its still a development year (isnt every year!) for us, so may as well give these kids as much senior game time as possible.

You have got to be kidding why is Watts the only player that cannot be dropped?

Why don't you say "Don't drop Jetta he won't learn anything at Casey"

The greatest load of rubbish I have heard.

He does not deserve his spot and should be dropped to Casey next week.

He is playing terrible and should not be in the senior team.

He has a lot of mates I might add.

There should be 5 changes next week, don't ask me which 5 because there at least 10 candidates.

Warnock simply not up to it. Always behind and makes terrible decisions when he does have it. Pathetic today and hasnt been great all year.


To be fair on Warnock the amount of inside 50s they had he was always up against it.

No one has mentioned Miller. How was his one kick?

Matty Bate should celebrate,he is the only one that should 4 goals he did his job.Jack Watts is the one of the biggest worries,I have never seen a footballer so soft and lost.He needs to go back to Casey for as long as it takes to get some toughness.I think at some stage soon the recruiting department have to realise they got it wrong,I would say they are lucky to have got Scully and Trengrove to take the heat of the decision of taking JW.I have stuck up for him to everyone I know but after today I am struggling to be able to come up with any excuses for him.

I didn't think Watts was that bad... only so much you can do when ball is inside oppositions 50 for most of the game and we cant hit a target past halfback. That said he really needs to get over slipping over all the time.

Edited by volders

What an embarrassing performance.

It was the North Melbourne game all over again. The crows zoned the corridor and had the game won in the first.


Watts was alright. What do you expect him to do when we rarel get the ball forward, and when we do it is haphazard?

As pathetic as he might be, he needs to stay in the team for the rest of the year. Sure, on most performances he deserves to be dropped, but we really need another tall forward and the sooner he comes on (touch wood) the better. He isn't going to develop anywhere near as fast playing at Casey as he would playing in the AFL.

What he needs is a massive boot up the arse.

What he needs is to go back to Casey and learn how to play hard competitive football, this is not schoolboy football and that's the way he is playing, he is getting a game and he is just not up to standard. Why should he play every week when he is clearly just not good enough.

The first thing I would do if I was the coach is ask him if he really wants to play at this level and if he does is he prepared to put his body on the line and give his all for the team because if he isn't he may as well p/off. I am sick to death watching him take himself out of the contest by falling over.

The players need a massive rev from the coach this was simply not good enough today and some of the players we have in the side are simply not up to it and never will be.

Morton was a joke today, I've stood up for him many times before but he will not get my support again until he gets a set of cohunas(SP?)

There should be 5 changes next week, don't ask me which 5 because there at least 10 candidates.

5 players in from a Casey team that was slaughtered?

 

That's a little redundant, eh?

We were absolutely pathetic today, but people who are either:

- Saying we can't win a premiership with this list

- Calling for Bailey to be sacked/the entire football department to be cleaned out or

- Saying that Richmond will overtake us

are ridiculously short-sighted and totally absorbed in the "now". We are at least as good as, say, Hawthorne three years before they won their flag. The team our present FD have built would beat the team that ND left us with 9 times out of ten, and is infinitely better placed for the future than that list was. Richmond's form now mirrors ours at the start of the year, they have yet to beat a strong side, and it remains to be seen if they can maintain the rage; I would have our overall performance this year comfortably ahead of theres at this stage. A bit of perspective, please.

Edited by stuie

We are soft because we are small. Put our players up against any other good side in the comp and you will see they are much bigger than us. Until we get some beef onto the field we are kidding ourselves. League footy is a weight game. We need bigger blokes. Simple as that.

I've been waiting for us to get some beef on our players for years and it still hasn't happened. It's not just the size of the player it's the size of the heart in the player, I question our commitment and our endeavour, we were pathetic today and very few of the players will walk off the ground today with their heads held high.

We were out played out coached and out thought. Our senior players are the softest most easily beaten players in the competition and that's why we get rolled in games like this.


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