2010 A space oddity (our false dawn and Paul Roos)

[Biffen 12,949]

Feel free to disagree with whatever you wish.

You are good at it.

In 2010 Bailey was close to getting it right.

Queens Birthday comes to mind. Winning that game may have given that group the confidence it needed.

Didn't happen and Bailey never got the team to be consistent. But he wasn't far away.

Ricky P dropping that sitter in the square on the freakin' siren didn't help the cause .

[John Crow Batty 8,886]

I think the same when I read your posts.

Trying to read all his tens of thousands of denialist posts under numerous aliases is a punishment not even Hercules could handle. He was lucky he had to clean out the Augean Stables instead.

[Bitter but optimistic 22,289]

Trying to read all his tens of thousands of denialist posts under numerous aliases is a punishment not even Hercules could handle. He was lucky he had to clean out the Augean Stables instead.

Is everyone shooting up tonight?

[Biffen 12,949]

Is everyone shooting up tonight?

Could explain the slow night.

[Sir Why You Little 37,341]

Ricky P dropping that sitter in the square on the freakin' siren didn't help the cause .

Could of paid off my house if he had taken that grab!!

[bluey 1,118]

If I recall we were 4 points outside the 8 before 186, a poor decision by Stynes and McLardy, Bailey like Neeld were men of great dignity, and were failed by the clubs administration.

[Bitter but optimistic 22,289]

If I recall we were 4 points outside the 8 before 186, a poor decision by Stynes and McLardy, Bailey like Neeld were men of great dignity, and were failed by the clubs administration.

I don't know whether he was dignified or not bluey but the effer could not coach. So eff him!!

Typo

[Whispering_Jack 31,267]

Feel free to disagree with whatever you wish.

You are good at it.

In 2010 Bailey was close to getting it right.

Queens Birthday comes to mind. Winning that game may have given that group the confidence it needed.

Didn't happen and Bailey never got the team to be consistent. But he wasn't far away.

I think the closest we got was a few weeks later when we played Hawthorn in a must win game and were well in the game when our reigning b & f Aaron Davey suffered a broken fibula. I think we lost that game by about 20 points and after that just fell away in the remaining two games. Whatever it was that happened over the summer, we were never going to get there with this team. In 2011 we played the Swans in round 1 and drew the game (in hindsight a reasonable effort) and then we got smashed by Hawthorn in the second half. The signs weren't good but we managed to recover to a point where we were good against the lowly, the new franchise, some of the interstate clubs on our home turf but we weren't in the hunt against the stronger clubs. The kind of game that held us in good stead in that game against the Swans in 2010 failed us.

[DeeSpencer 26,478]

I think the closest we got was a few weeks later when we played Hawthorn in a must win game and were well in the game when our reigning b & f Aaron Davey suffered a broken fibula. I think we lost that game by about 20 points and after that just fell away in the remaining two games. Whatever it was that happened over the summer, we were never going to get there with this team. In 2011 we played the Swans in round 1 and drew the game (in hindsight a reasonable effort) and then we got smashed by Hawthorn in the second half. The signs weren't good but we managed to recover to a point where we were good against the lowly, the new franchise, some of the interstate clubs on our home turf but we weren't in the hunt against the stronger clubs. The kind of game that held us in good stead in that game against the Swans in 2010 failed us.

Agree. That Hawks game I think was played in the wet and was a mix of skill and hardness and we didn't come out on top but we showed a lot. A lot more than anything in 2011 even though we belted some bad teams in 2011.

My biggest reality in 2010 was that we had a game plan and we used it to our advantage. We didn't do forward pressure particularly well, we weren't a strong clearance side, but we had an AA ruckman who helped in that area and we had a seriously underrated backline who held their own. After that it was a matter of finding space and using the ball well enough to get to crafty forwards (Jurrah and Green leading the way). We had so much run and energy against Sydney that we made them look old, slow and stupid.

Perhaps the strangest thing about that day in 2010. Morton v Goodes head to head and Morton coming out probably on top.

We had Bartram, Garland and Frawley as the lock down defenders but I think the 2010 form of Macdonald, Bruce and Rivers as a unit across half back was really underrated. We had experienced players who picked off anything in the air and rebounded (despite shonky kicking) with confidence. Hopefully this year with maybe Tommy McDonald, Grimes and Terlich we can get back to that intercepting and ball winning half back line.

Oh I've got a feeling that Hawthorn are the side that we need to beat to announce our rebuild is finally on track (or over). Ever since we completely trounced them at the G in about 2005 with Aaron Davey rubbing Campbell Brown's face in the dirt they've beaten us senseless. We made them look like a bunch of kids when we were flat track bullies and ever since they've made us look like amateurs. That game in 2010 was as close as we got to competing with them. There's plenty of teams we are due a win against (Carl, Coll, Geel, North and even St Kilda) but there's something about Hawthorn for me.

[Hannibal 5,814]

Could of paid off my house if he had taken that grab!!

I accept that 90% of the population under the age of 30 don't know that it should read "could have", but surely you're old enough ?

[monoccular 17,697]

I loved the video clip earlier on this post (especially the Bruce Mc commentary cartoons) - but who did the editing?

And Dunn can play a decent forward rôle - good kick on goal.

The only thing you take away from that game is that we must have got a certain P Roos intrigued as to what might have been in our drinking water that day.

otherwise our performance was sheer "aberration"

I hope that you aren't Chris Connolly posting under an alias, beelzebub - it could get us fined for joking about.....supplements :-(

[mauriesy 7,429]

"The Dees are going to be something" ... Bruce McAvaney in the commentary.