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33 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Whatever. Get a life. I won't be celebrating the first half regardless of your feelings

The response of a bloke who knows he's been called out and he has nowhere to go.  Admit it - for years you've waffled on about W-L being more important than anything, and when we start winning we can't celebrate it unless we play a whole game well.  Hypocrisy at it's finest so you can stay negative for as long as you can.

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Just now, Wiseblood said:

The response of a bloke who knows he's been called out and he has nowhere to go.  Admit it - for years you've waffled on about W-L being more important than anything, and when we start winning we can't celebrate it unless we play a whole game well.  Hypocrisy at it's finest so you can stay negative for as long as you can.

Winning is more inportant than losing. Always will be. Ok

but today is a day for learning rather than celebrating, or else we shall just keep doing it. 

But yes 4 points is always better than 0

 

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We won

A team does not grow from 10 years of losing to assuming it will win overnight

We are 5/5 We are getting there 

We need to get to the mind set of presuming we will win

A la Roughead last night 

We will get there 

 

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Posted

season defining.... said it in the pregame thread. YOYO......

between games... within games... whatevs

next thing is it'll be daniher all over again... good year bad year.....

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A few comments after a beer and dinner at Bojangles.

Gold Coast are more of a rabble than I thought. They failed to comprehend our two player off the back of the square and were smashed at the centre bounces and once they became regular in the second half it became a procession.

clearly we had a confidence issue in front of goal up until 

midway through the third term and it took Jonesy to fix it.

Then GC just packed up shop and  became training cones.

Up until then it was our two Essendon boys and Viney keeping us alive as we wasted opportunity after opportunity. 

There was a slight wind but certainly no gale - to be honest the smoke coming off the BBQ was more of a problem.

Hannan had a huge first term and then struggled for a while - mainly because he was on Steven May. 

Dommy was better and ANB showed fantastic awareness while Harmesy was huge when it counted in the third. 

Pedo and Tom Mc have had better days but it ain't easy conceding height all the time.

Buggy reminded me of Craig Sholl in the 1997 GF - thankfully his lack of scoreboard pressure didn't hurt us in the end.

Funniest moment was Alice Springs officials playing the GC theme song post game - but it is Alice after all!

 

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Can't wait for the Titus take..^_^

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Posted
1 hour ago, Pottsydee said:

Buggy's a tough one, he does all the right things, but as a forward if your not slotting them..

...you've gotta pass them off

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I'm at a party and I promised my kids I'd get blind drunk if we win when we were five goals down.......guess what? 

Im Legless!!!

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The second half was fantastic. It stared with the skipper, Jones, who started us going with his goal.  

Jeff was sensational. I thought Harmes was our best inclusion this week. He takes good overhead marks and actually works to lock the ball in the forward 50. Lewis balanced the back line and directed the young blokes. Hibberd is a terrific kick and a great reader of the play. Joy to watch. 

While he didn't play a major role, I thought Nibbler was great for us in the last quarter. Oliver in close and his release handballs were, dare I say, elite. 

 

Oscar McDonald is the worst skilled footballer in the league. I know everyone hangs it on him, but it's the absolute truth he has zero ability to hit a target by foot. It's a disgrace. As soon as we have a KPF Tom goes back and he goes out. It cant be tolerated. If we make a final, he will cost us in a big way with one of his diabolic turnovers.  He seriously thinks 3 seconds slower than anyone else on the field

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Just now, Dr. Gonzo said:

Terrible attitude

No it's not. It's what we did before. 

The 1st half was not acceptable if we are going to improve. 

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Good to have a win but not worth celerbrating. Yrs end we need to get the cheque book out,our revolving stock players are too inconsistent,if they were not them we wouldn't call them revolving stock. Don't get why Caey seniors have a bye considering that they didn't start 3 wks from the AFL season.

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Multiple goal scorers. Ability to kick a bag of goals in a quarter. Coaching team making several positional changes during the game to get a mix that will work. In the top 1-4 for the most important KPI's.

Quick fix = house of straw. We are building a house of stone. We started the year at lock up stage. Some of our best tradies decided to awol, some were legitimacy sick and others took unwanted long term holidays. When they are all on deck in the next 2-3 weeks the mansion will be complete and we can enjoy the house warming party!

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Bugg would be great if he knew how to slot them.

Seems to find it but has no goal sense. I hope he can find that part of his game, he could be a very damaging player if he does.

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I cannot cope with the doom and gloom around here sometimes. We won - as ugly as the first half was - we won. I will take that any day of the week and I for one are celebrating.

Go Dees.

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1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

No don't make excuses for the 2nd term. 

It was very bad and needs to be seriously addressed. 

This is not a win to celebrate. 

That said Jeff Garlett can have a cold one

Sorry SWYL 

Any win is something to celebrate! I have just watched that third quarter again and to me, it showed that this is a team with real potential. We do have a core group of leaders who can govern a game. This is exactly what happened in the third quarter. Jones was heroic, Vince opportunistic,Lewis strategic and Jeff fantastic.

I was at that Essendon Melbourne match when Kickett killed us in the final quarter. I don't remember whether we dominated the game for three quarters-we lost, 

I would far rather be in the position we are tonight than having been gutted that day. So win well, win badly but win and celebrate.

Mydee

 

 

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1 hour ago, Dappa Dan said:

Disagree/Agree. lol

Weird day eh Sku? I don't feel better at all.

 

I think in the wash we probably weren't as bad as it seemed in the first half. Certainly a culmination of frustrations though.

They had a heap of extra run early after coming off the bye. We looked like absolute midgets next to their talls. Structurally we are still really really hurting. They had the wind and used it the old fashioned way, while we couldn't get the distance from outside 35m. When we had the wind, which had died down considerably, we were trying to control our entries but couldn't execute properly, and still we had a heap of shots on goal. After the half, this short-passing game clicked, GC lost their running advantage, the wind died off, and Pederson shifting forward largely fixed our forward structural issues. 

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Just now, Skuit said:

I think in the wash we probably weren't as bad as it seemed in the first half. Certainly a culmination of frustrations though.

They had a heap of extra run early after coming off the bye. We looked like absolute midgets next to their talls. Structurally we are still really really hurting. They had the wind and used it the old fashioned way, while we couldn't get the distance from outside 35m. When we had the wind, which had died down considerably, we were trying to control our entries but couldn't execute properly, and still we had a heap of shots on goal. After the half, this short-passing game clicked, GC lost their running advantage, the wind died off, and Pederson shifting forward largely fixed our forward structural issues. 

Yup, yup and yup.

Has Goody added to his reputation after today?


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There's such a thing as an empty victory.

This wasn't that.

Neither is this glass half full.

We got away with a half of footy.

GC are shlt. Lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Lets sing the song and drink merry.

Lets not ger ahead of ourselves

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16 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

No it's not. It's what we did before. 

The 1st half was not acceptable if we are going to improve. 

We won the game. We got the points plus a bit of percentage to boot. That's all that matters.

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2 minutes ago, Mydee said:

Sorry SWYL 

Any win is something to celebrate! I have just watched that third quarter again and to me, it showed that this is a team with real potential. We do have a core group of leaders who can govern a game. This is exactly what happened in the third quarter. Jones was heroic, Vince opportunistic,Lewis strategic and Jeff fantastic.

I was at that Essendon Melbourne match when Kickett killed us in the final quarter. I don't remember whether we dominated the game for three quarters-we lost, 

I would far rather be in the position we are tonight than having been gutted that day. So win well, win badly but win and celebrate.

Mydee

 

 

Sure if you want. But today was a "Brent Moloney" style of victory. 

Better than losing, yes but still far too Flakey

2.5 Quarters to get going??

we have to sort that out. 

But as i have said before 4 points is always better than 0...so celebrate quietly..

Posted (edited)

I can only remember one win that I flat out did not celebrate and that was the game against Brisbane in 2015. That win wasn't ugly. It was circus freak ugly.

Generally speaking there is cause for celebration when you grab the 4 points.

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7 minutes ago, jane02 said:

I cannot cope with the doom and gloom around here sometimes. We won - as ugly as the first half was - we won. I will take that any day of the week and I for one are celebrating.

Go Dees.

Exactly Jane here here

Seems some posters have forgotten how morose it was to follow this team a couple of short years ago. Think how you felt watching this team in 2013 and what you would've given for a game/result like today 

I'll be enjoying every win I see from here til the day I die. Yeah some mean more than others but they all count.

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10 minutes ago, Dappa Dan said:

Yup, yup and yup.

Has Goody added to his reputation after today?

Let's say I like the way it's trending.

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Jones and Goodwin both said post match that they felt we were doing a lot right in the first half. I hope WYL didn't hear that, for his dog's sake.

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