We just don't work hard enough, is it fitness?

To some degree could be fitness .. apparently this year is the only pre season we have done which has benefited fitness wise but 90% of it is hunger for the contest .. hunger to improve and hunger to succeed which only about 5 players have at present. Honestly Garland N.Jones Viney Terlich and Frawley out there are the only ones who even look like they want to play for the club.

Pedersen is not only lazy, he is fat and lazy.

Going to miss flash davey left foot

too many endurance miles in players legs has left them sluggish all year it has been a downside of trying to get the training to elite standard but most of this is heart, confodence and lack of leadership

I have a theory as to why we get smashed at stoppages and clearances ... apart from our mids being nowhere near good enough .. watch most of the stoppages here even in our forward line our players are looking/holding onto their players and running with them instead of being on the move ready to receive the ball .. far too reactive which means that most of the time out backs are to the ball and they have a free run, which would also explain most of the spread directly from stoppages

Toumpas has been creative.

too many endurance miles in players legs has left them sluggish all year it has been a downside of trying to get the training to elite standard but most of this is heart, confodence and lack of leadership

Thats a rubbish post, they dont spread, Mission wouldnt no what elite standards is, the guys a physical education teacher on 300,000 bucks a season, time for him to be moved on, why didnt they plonk Gawn at full forward today? these spuds recruit the wrong spuds, terrible draft selections plain and simple.

luke tapscott and cam pederson are now playing for their careers, one touch between them in a half is simply not good enough.

mjt mission has been involved at other clubs that have been very successful and i have worked with him, i assure you he knows what he is doing for one but here he is just doing what neeld asked him too do

luke tapscott and cam pederson are now playing for their careers, one touch between them in a half is simply not good enough.

leave tappy in SA... use pedersen as a boat anchor.

Tapscott and Howe are seriously lazy players. Take out the 5 minute patch where they kicked 4 goals and it has probably been our best balance of endeavour and ball movement this year.

Toumpas once he improves his core strength over the preseason will be a seriously good player.

Edited August 24, 201312 yr by big_red_fire_engine

mjt mission has been involved at other clubs that have been very successful and i have worked with him, i assure you he knows what he is doing for one but here he is just doing what neeld asked him too do

Hes a spud, hes nothing short of a PE Teacher, time to move on with the rest of the spuds G Lyon hired.

Hes a spud, hes nothing short of a PE Teacher, time to move on with the rest of the spuds G Lyon hired.

You obviously have no idea of his background. You don't work across the board at the very highest level the way he has without knowing what you're doing.

too many endurance miles in players legs has left them sluggish all year it has been a downside of trying to get the training to elite standard but most of this is heart, confodence and lack of leadership

... thats why we need to get some more mature players, so we are less reliant on young players in hard work building their tanks. they should be building & growing @ Casey.

lets have a major crack @ SThompson free agency & at Sewell. offer big fat contracts to them & a trade scenario for Sewell & Hawks.

Watts plus 2nd Rnd pick for Sewell & Shoenmakers? the hawks will sort JW out.

... these 2 mature mids, one can play on the wing or back,,, as well as in the guts, would serve us well...

Edited August 24, 201312 yr by dee-luded

You obviously have no idea of his background. You don't work across the board at the very highest level the way he has without knowing what you're doing.

Hes a spud, the results speak for themselves, the clubs won 6 out of 43 games under his fitness regime, hes a SPUD.

half time.. switched channel to the hawthawn v north game.. just in time to see Harvey spit on an injured Brian Lake. shocked me.

Toumpas will be a star

His workrate is first class

... thats why we need to get some more mature players, so we are less reliant on young players in hard work building their tanks. they should be building & growing @ Casey.

lets have a major crack @ SThompson free agency & at Sewell. offer big fat contracts to them & a trade scenario for Sewell & Hawks.

Watts plus 2nd Rnd pick for Sewell & Shoenmakers? the hawks will sort JW out.

... these 2 mature mids, one can play on the wing or back,,, as well as in the guts, would serve us well...

We don't need to trade good picks and cash for pensioners.

By the way I don't think it's the tank that's the problem, it's above the shoulders. Too many of our players don't know how to work hard enough, to do the gut running required at this level.

half time.. switched channel to the hawthawn v north game.. just in time to see Harvey spit on an injured Brian Lake. shocked me.

really? if true this should be his last game for the year.

6 matches for spitting I reckon....

half time.. switched channel to the hawthawn v north game.. just in time to see Harvey spit on an injured Brian Lake. shocked me.

Not convinced he spat on him.

That patch of play pretty much sums up Brent Harvey. Talented, aggressive mark, over-aggressive, patronising response to an injured player. Playing on while the man on the mark was injured to then kick a brilliant running goal.

I find him imperiously difficult to admire.

Hes a spud, the results speak for themselves, the clubs won 6 out of 43 games under his fitness regime, hes a SPUD.

We could have saved ourselves sacking our coach, our CEO, and moving on half the board if only we'd realised earlier. All Dave Misson's fault.

Hes a spud, the results speak for themselves, the clubs won 6 out of 43 games under his fitness regime, hes a SPUD.

I think your earlier post is more accurate, our recruiting has been disgraceful.

half time.. switched channel to the hawthawn v north game.. just in time to see Harvey spit on an injured Brian Lake. shocked me.

That would be right. I always get angry when i see Harvey.

Without fail...

We could have saved ourselves sacking our coach, our CEO, and moving on half the board if only we'd realised earlier. All Dave Misson's fault.

Whos responsible for fitness ?

I'm just about over jack grimes.. Seriously