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Positive suggestions/ideas for Mark & the boys??

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If you're going to play like that, at least have the decency to wear clown shoes.

 
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We are behind GWS too.

We are the basket case of the AFL.

I seriously hope not Dee. I won't believe it till i see it. But then again i didn't believe i'd see what happened happen yesterday either until i watched it unravel in front of me.

Mirror , Mirror on the wall. Whose the best footy team of all. "NOT you miserable lot of losers".

This is what will happen when they were told to go have good hard look at themselves.

 

Is there an under 8's team we can call on to stand in for us? They will probably try harder and display more skills.


Fly Watts immediately to the jungles of africa where he is treated like a wounded dog until he gets a killer streak...

Playing him on Hurley all day might be more of a financial benefit than an OS trip

The penny will drop eventually

One week is a long time in footy. We may come out and beat the bombers and then we are 1&1 and we go into rd3.

If we get smashed again, neeld has nowhere to hide. He will be lynched with everyone else who was involved with this deplorable rebuild.

We find out on Saturday night.

Probably the biggest game in neelds career, as it may just be his last.

Remember schimelbusch got sacked after a pre-season match when the kangas got comprehensively belted. He was a club champion however, the kangas went on to the most successful decade in their history.

Rd2 is a big big big game for mark 'duffy' neeld.

 

My biggest gripe and best suggestion : Apply tackles that stick and make them hurt. Especially in the first quarter. Too often are we seeing a soft tackle applied because the opposition has just disposed of the ball as they are being grabbed. The players are too worried about the next play and move on before completing the job in defence.

After watching Hawks Vs Geelong > THEY FINISH THEIR TACKLES ! And when they don't put a player on the turf , they pay the consequence because you can be rest assured that that player will be most likely in the next passage of play.By finishing tackles you create spaces and also free a passage of play by taking the opposition player out of the game for the next few seconds.

Melbourne is not finishing tackles and then those opposition players are creating and assisting the next passage of play.

Determination without consequence > make them hurt and slow their game. Finish your tackles and the rest will flow.

Demand the players take risks when moving the ball. A 1 or 2 meter break is all a team mate should need to be rewarded with the pass. Tell them to ignore the audible groans from the crowd if they stuff up. If players don't attempt the risky passes, then the team mates stop running and we are gone. No risks means no game the following week. No one has ever succeeded anything significant without taking risks.

What I saw on Sunday and the explanation from Neeld that the players threw the pre-season out the window when the game was on either means either the players are super fragile and dropped their bundle when the heat and expectations rose OR our training intensity and match simulations have been not "AFL" quality.


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