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Sir Why You Little Legend

Sir Why You Little   36,617

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Mental Toughness of the team is no where near where it should be...that said i still have faith that it will get there.

Listen to some of "Yabby" Jeans speeches on youtube...no wonder Hawthorn were so strong for so long.

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Jurrah without doubt hasnt continued to spark, hes sort of treading water in a fashion. But I think in all honesty hes got a hell of a lot on his plate. Not too many players wil lhave to concern themselves with not only pushing themsleves week in week out whilst having to worry about whats happening back home. He's a community leader in absentia and it must get to him. He has my sympathies in that regard.

I marvel at how the club ( and indeed LJ himself ) have managed it to date. Cant be easy.

Bate will probably find himself with a DCM come seasons end. Maybe fresh fields might renew/continue his career.

Dunn's bben mentioned...he might be joiing Bate. Morton for mine is not living up to expectations...but that been done to death

Greens performances have been all over the place really. Curse of the captaincy ?

Davey before injury was well off the boil.

Maybe we were spoiled with Chip's stellar 2010 as 2011 isnt quite so spectacular, but hes not alone.. a few more are lucky not to get a mention.

Im not sure which Sylvia will show up these days... needs much better consistency and impact.

Bit of a trend amongst all that.. as a few of the "senior" players seem to go missing at times.

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Range Rover Redleg

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- Inconsistent mental application

- Seemingly needing an embarrassing bake in the media in order to fire up

- Dearth of genuine leadership

* The last has been a cultural problem for far too long, the first two are coaching failures IMO.

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- Inconsistent mental application

- Seemingly needing an embarrassing bake in the media in order to fire up

- Dearth of genuine leadership

* The last has been a cultural problem for far too long, the first two are coaching failures IMO.

Sums it up. Nothing much has changed. These guys only seem to play when their pride is hurt. Well #@$& pride. When they have a chance to make a genuine step forward they don't show up. The bad loss against the dogs cost us plenty. Still can't beat other Vic clubs except Richmond and Essendon, still playing other sides into form, still can't win away and interstate unless we are playing lame ducks.

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Hardnut Redleg

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Yabby Jeans, John Kennedy, Ron Barassi and the greatest of all, Norm Smith (or his brother Len). We desperately need a modern equivalent of them to turn good players into great ones!

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Crompton's the man Mighty Demon

Crompton's the man   659

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- Inconsistent mental application

- Seemingly needing an embarrassing bake in the media in order to fire up

- Dearth of genuine leadership

* The last has been a cultural problem for far too long, the first two are coaching failures IMO.

Absolutely correct - and it goes wwaaaayyyyy back

Maybe we do need one of the Filth's discards

But that avenue is about to be blocked off

P.S. we don't need too many more young and undeveloped talents on the list - maybe more like Beamer

I think I'll look up Punt Road End to make myself feel better

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