Walls on SEN

[baysidedave 246]

According to Walls we won by 7 goals but were stil crap, we can't win anything from the media, we are just the team to stick there boots into. Also scumbag ex-players the hypocrite 'turtle McLean and useles 'Fathead' Johnson, bitter ex-players decide to stick the boots in. Walls gave Bennell and Ablett the 3 and 2 votes and Green one. l know Bennell was good but Jones was better than Ablett who gets votes because of his name.

[Binmans PA 26,564]

Come on. Ablett was clearly more influential than Jones. Nat had some good clearances, but he regressed to a few of his old bad habits today. Know your limitations. Don't try to break every tackle and sometimes, the first option is the best option.

Meanwhile, Walls is right. We were ordinary today. Those Blues were pathetic too though and I doubt he'll say much on that front.

[angrydee 842]

Poor Wallsy - a bitter bitter man who can no longer score a gig at the top rating stations, or on tv. How it must have been ego shattering for him when both 7 and Foxtel told him he was unwanted. He is an irrlevant anachronism. He just doesn't know it yet.

[deejammin' 2,096]

GC were never within 5 goals of us after the first quarter, that is an easy beating, we can say it was a poor standard game etc etc but ultimately we got the job done and were never seriously challenged on the scoreboard. Thats good enough for me in a season where we have been so much worse...

[Carrot Top 947]

A half decent team would have beaten us comfortably today. A win is a win, and I'm not handing it back, but I also see it for what it was: a poor team playing a poorer one.

[Born to Run 204]

Surely gold coast deserve some heat. Ordinary and some could argue, dare I say it, irrelevant!!!

[Gorgoroth 12,367]

We were crap, they were worse than crap. But next year they will go up a cog easily, with Jaeger, possibly whitfield from this year, I hope we do as well but we should have been a lot cleaner, but the game had such air of Meh about it I nearly fell asleep.

[Guest Spirit of 39]

What do all these names have in common: Batram, Watts, Clark, Petterd, Jurrah, Bennell, Jamar, Gawn, Couch, Davey, Nicholson, McKenzie, Martin and Taggert???? We were always going to find it tough to run out the game with this many players from our list unavailable. And we lost Morton, and and players like Gysberts, Blease, Tapscott, Strauss have no fitness base to speak of. We will improve.

[Dee Fan 3,247]

I'm actually glad they are having a go at our playing list, they were talking us up when we started recruiting some high draft picks and I think we started to drink our own bathwater. All the talk was we had the best young playing list in the comp and it was just crap, we had a lot of high picks but that didn't equate to good footballers and it is sobering to see that we did poorly with our picks.

Our list is behind GC and GWS they have recruited well and are going to have some exceptional talent come through; unfortunately for them unless they get some top quality senior players they'll go nowhere. They will have to start trading some of their first round picks soon to secure a couple of senior players and will have to fight to keep what they've got when they start to test the salary cap.

[pitmaster 3,129]

What'd he say about Geelong last Friday again?

[Dr. Gonzo 22,671]

What'd he say about Geelong last Friday again?

Haha he also said on Saturday that Freo would get smashed and couldn't see how they could possibly kick 16 goals to win the game.

[BLWNBA 374]

Okay I didn't hear what Walls said, and I don't particularly like but I have to agree. While I was happy to come out with the four points I didn't think we were particularly good. Lots of errors and poor skills. The score probably wasn't indicative of our control on the game but I truely think that even in our position we should have come out with a bigger winning margin.

[pitmaster 3,129]

Okay I didn't hear what Walls said, and I don't particularly like but I have to agree. While I was happy to come out with the four points I didn't think we were particularly good. Lots of errors and poor skills. The score probably wasn't indicative of our control on the game but I truely think that even in our position we should have come out with a bigger winning margin.

No question. You're right about the margin. I tipped a 78 point win last week and after we kicked the first goal of the final term to lead by 54 points I reckoned I was going to look like a genius.

But instead of them fading as I expected, it was us who ran out of legs. That reflects the state of the team that took the field, and losing Morton diminished our interchanges and our run _ he was in the side for his motor after all. This is part of the reason I think the critics on this side are overdoing it. When it counted we were much better than the (admittedly mediocre) opposition.

[Guest José Mourinho]

I did hear Walls say that Green celebrated like Watson did when he won the grand final, except Green did it for "every one of his goals against the Gold Coast kids."

Very true too.

A bit sad.

[Ron Burgundy 8,584]

We had them covered all day. Good teams don't always win pretty - they just win.

We won.

Some of you are dead set unbelievable.

There have certainly been some worrying games this year, but that wasn't one of them.

[Mazer Rackham 14,970]

Get over it, support the club, and when the wheel turns, enjoy the success.

[BLWNBA 374]

Agree. Basically my short view of it is that yesterday still highlights how far behind the comp we are. And yes I am aware

of the outs before I get stuck into! But any other side would have beaten us yesterday. Guess that win proves that we're ahead of Richmond though? Seeing we did what they couldn't. Trololol.

[Tony Tea 2,792]

We are having a sh!t year and we beat the bottom team. That's all she wrote.

[Hatchman 487]

According to Walls

There's your problem right there.

[Deeoldfart 7,825]

After quarter time yesterday we were very disappointing imo. Clearly we are a long, long way off the standard being set by the top teams, and I reckon this is what Walls was alluding to. I also think Bennell and Ablett were probably best and second BOG. We won because we had a more even team performance than GC, who fell away sharply after those two. I am definitely not a Walls fan, but I find it hard to argue strongly against his assessments on this occasion.

Edit: typo

Edited August 5, 2012 by Deeoldfart

[diesel 420]

According to Walls we won by 7 goals but were stil crap, we can't win anything from the media, we are just the team to stick there boots into. Also scumbag ex-players the hypocrite 'turtle McLean and useles 'Fathead' Johnson, bitter ex-players decide to stick the boots in. Walls gave Bennell and Ablett the 3 and 2 votes and Green one. l know Bennell was good but Jones was better than Ablett who gets votes because of his name.

I too don't need Walls or anyone else to tell me how to interpret a win or the value of it however It was an ordinary game with few positives IMO and we were largely allowed to play as we liked early on because of Gold Coast letting being unable to fill space and seemingly playing man on man.

Positive was that the players would get a little more confidence about how they moved the ball and I thought their pressure was pretty good. I also thought Bennell and Ablett were in the best but Jones should have got in there as well.

[jumbo returns 6,555]

Again, over emphasised rhetoric.

Everyone knows we're ordinary atm, but what's new?

No comment on Carlton? Port? Tigers (best midfield in the comp, according to some) GCS? Hawks choking? Western Bulldogs? Western who?

Walls, Wallace need relevance in their lives - I know, let's attack the MFC.....ffs.

Edited August 6, 2012 by jumbo returns

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,534]

I'm actually glad they are having a go at our playing list, they were talking us up when we started recruiting some high draft picks and I think we started to drink our own bathwater...

Not an expression I've heard before but fits into the same category as "p1ss1ng in your pocket". Somehow both are meant to mean...er, what are they meant to mean, again?

[John Crow Batty 8,323]

Means nothing really. The Suns are our current peers along with GWS. The bottom trio are an irrelevance. The only positive is that we are not the absolute worst and can take points against them easily. What still irks me is that sides that would normally be considered very bad teams like the Lions, Bulldogs and Port are far better than we are and there is a large gap between us and them.

Edited August 6, 2012 by america de cali

[gsmith12 491]

At the risk of upsetting the critics who post here, I suggest that injecting four class players into our side being Jamar, Jurrah, Watts and Clark would make a huge difference to our performance and our confidence.

Removing a similar group from any side would make them struggle.

We are not the basket case that many believe.