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POSTMATCH DISCUSSION - Round 11

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Interesting point raised by the commentators today. According to them this is the sixth season in a row we've made it to halfway at 1-10. I'll be very curios to see what happens after the bye.

It really is a nothing season again and that's what I feel nothing.

I am so over finding these pizz ant positives out of each Match.

Would be nice to play more than one quarter of footy too.

It seems like this will never end.

Hang in there brother (or sister) it's the strength of an ox and the navigation of a weathered seaman that will survive these treacherous waters

 

This exactly. The turnovers just kill us each week.

Other teams, eg saints, seem to offer up 1 or 2 "coach killer" moments a game; our boys offer up 20 to 30.

Sigh.

Positive: i won all of my five supercoach leagues! Boo yeahh!!


Understanding our forward structure was shot after half time but a long kick and turnover or contest ten metres from our goal has got to be better than the stupid side ways kicking and one metre handballs in the middle, especially the ones overhead.

Matt jones, rodan and Mckenzie constantly get the ball (tick) - but their running around in circles and one metre handballs totally throw out any positive spread we have - just run forward and kick long on the 45!

Any positives?

yeah Mitch is 15 to 20 weeks away.

Just got back home. There were some positives. I thought there were good signs from a toumpas and Fitzpatrick. On the flip side. Mckenzie is one of the slowest players I have ever seen and I do not want him in the side ever again. And I'm rapidly losing faith in Blease.

 

Yes our skills are poor and we turnover the ball but a lot of that is because of little to no movement up the ground. Coming out of defence there are next to no legitimate targets moving. Is it because our players just don't read the play well? is it because they don't have the fitness to make position? is it because the can't be shagged getting it? is it confidence, or is it because of the game plan?

Solve that problem and we pick up at least half the margin we've been losing by...guarantee it.

Just got back home. There were some positives. I thought there were good signs from a toumpas and Fitzpatrick. On the flip side. Mckenzie is one of the slowest players I have ever seen and I do not want him in the side ever again. And I'm rapidly losing faith in Blease.

I quite liked Blease's game today. Thought he worked much harder defensively and was a constant threat in attack.


One comment about Nathan Jones, whom I love. I've never seen a bloke spin back into packs as many times as he does with ball in hand. Gets a lot of it but burns it too often.

I quite liked Blease's game today. Thought he worked much harder defensively and was a constant threat in attack.

You've just got to keep playing him and use him further up the ground where he can run and carry the ball. He's a wingman, midfielder not a small forward.

I quite liked Blease's game today. Thought he worked much harder defensively and was a constant threat in attack.

RM, I'll take your word for it in that it can often be harder to tell a players performance when at the game (make sense?)

Matt Jones, Toumpas, Kent,Terlich, Pederson showed good signs.

Why didnt we tag Swan, saw no one anywhere near him all game.

We are the turnover Kings ofthe AFL.

Garland is a beauty.

Great to see Trengove back.


But I wlill not change my mind re Mckenzie

Interesting point raised by the commentators today. According to them this is the sixth season in a row we've made it to halfway at 1-10. I'll be very curios to see what happens after the bye.

Not a great stat cause it's not true.

We strung a few games in 2010 and 2011.

Interesting point raised by the commentators today. According to them this is the sixth season in a row we've made it to halfway at 1-10. I'll be very curios to see what happens after the bye.

I think they said four out of the last six.

Just got back home. There were some positives. I thought there were good signs from a toumpas and Fitzpatrick. On the flip side. Mckenzie is one of the slowest players I have ever seen and I do not want him in the side ever again. And I'm rapidly losing faith in Blease.

you didn't enjoy blease's goal?


But I wlill not change my mind re Mckenzie

Ive said it before and ill say it again.

Mckenzie s not an AFL standard player.

Big heart but, too slow with no skills.

He hasn't even taken a decent scalp this year as a tagger.

His constant inclusion in the team only hinders our development.

We could be at least turning someone with a bit of pace into a tagger , like Nicholson.

The post match excuses from Neeld continue to blow me away.

I'd get sacked four times over by now. Staggering.

I'm not going to lay blame on Neeld solely because he is just part of a very very large problem. But he is not helping, and when you have had as many poor showings as we have, he has to go.

Positives are Garland, Terlich, M and N Jones and Toumpas who I thought was really good for parts of the game.

Sam Blease's inability to breath after running for 2 minutes is a massive negative. Will never make it if he doesn't improve his aerobic capacity.

 

Can't believe people are actually saying Pederson was good... That's what I hate about stats, it says he had 23 disposals etc.. He was terrible, has to be one of the most inept one on one defenders i've ever seen. Gets slaughtered in marking contests, makes bad decisions, and doesn't run hard... at all

They were bigger, stronger and more experienced but we had a crack. Unfortunately, what worked in the first quarter failed after that. The loss of Dawes affected our forward structure and we simply lapsed into a frenzy of self-inflicted errors of which Collingwood took maximum advantage.

Once we eliminate the errors, these games will be 6 to 8 goal losses. Get a few of those injured blokes back and we won't be far away from winning games against our fellow cellar dwellers.

I'm sorry wj, but this is one of the most pathetic, excuse riddled comment I have ever heard on this site. You have just lowered the benchmark for success to an all time low. Not only does this comment condone a loser, excuse making mentality, but it encourages the notion that we are intact useless and insipid and our only hope is to barely compete against wooden spooners.

And let me guess, your a neeld supporter?

No wonder we are in deep excrement.


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