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53 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Performances we are more than capable of rectifying, not to mention the fact we are still well and truly in the hunt.  It's not as if we're two games adrift.  I know it's not in your genetic makeup to have some faith, but you should try it sometime WYL.  You might like it.

Seen enough over the last 2 weeks

And the last 2 weeks of last year

i am a realist....

 

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1 minute ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Seen enough over the last 2 weeks

And the last 2 weeks of last year

i am a realist....

 

No, you're a defeatist.

Plus you like to hand pick things to support your view, such as ignoring the 10 wins we've had this year and the ability to stay in the season when so many other teams would have crumbled under the pressure of so many injuries.

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17 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

No, you're a defeatist.

Plus you like to hand pick things to support your view, such as ignoring the 10 wins we've had this year and the ability to stay in the season when so many other teams would have crumbled under the pressure of so many injuries.

No i am not a defeatist. You don't know me at all

i have watched the MFC fall over many many times since 1971, they are experts at failing to convert. 

Hand pick?? WTF are you on about

who else hasn't beaten Nought for 11 years?

did you see their putrid first half last night?

Only the MFC can be a bit.ch to that club

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1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

No i am not a defeatist. You don't know me at all

i have watched the MFC fall over many many times since 1971, they are experts at failing to convert. 

Hand pick?? WTF are you on about

who else hasn't beaten Nought for 11 years?

did you see their putrid first half last night?

Only the MFC can be a bit.ch to that club

Of course I don't know you.  I just go by how you post on here.

I'll ignore the 'watching since forever' rubbish as it means little to me.

And yes, you hand pick.  Even in the above you start waffling on about North, even though it had nothing to do with what we were talking about.  It's your classic posting strategy; you deflect well and drum up other stuff to cover your tracks.

I've seen the putrid first half, I saw last week and I've also seen the courageous wins over the Eagles and the Crows on their home deck.  Which side are you on?  Obviously on the one we've seen in the last two weeks.  I'll hang on to the team that defied some adversity and gave us some terrific wins.  I'll back them in to turn it around, you can start thinking about next year.

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I knew Jack was going to be poor after his injury after I saw that he had taken a mid week holiday to Byron Bay to shoot clips for his boardshorts label. Tells you a bit about where footy fits in his life. 

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On 8/5/2017 at 6:28 PM, jumbo returns said:

Stop hijacking the 'it's Jack Watts' fault' thread, please

'the'?

Lets not pretend its the only one.

Posted
31 minutes ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

I knew Jack was going to be poor after his injury after I saw that he had taken a mid week holiday to Byron Bay to shoot clips for his boardshorts label. Tells you a bit about where footy fits in his life. 

He has never had footy as his #1 priority in his life. He's never been like Viney who lives and dies by footy, and he never will. He has never wanted to be the centre of attention. Deal with it.

Someone who does and has gone badly missing the second half of the year is Petracca. He needs to lift big time, be it as midfield relief or (where we need him contributing more) as a forward.

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53 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Of course I don't know you.  I just go by how you post on here.

I'll ignore the 'watching since forever' rubbish as it means little to me.

And yes, you hand pick.  Even in the above you start waffling on about North, even though it had nothing to do with what we were talking about.  It's your classic posting strategy; you deflect well and drum up other stuff to cover your tracks.

I've seen the putrid first half, I saw last week and I've also seen the courageous wins over the Eagles and the Crows on their home deck.  Which side are you on?  Obviously on the one we've seen in the last two weeks.  I'll hang on to the team that defied some adversity and gave us some terrific wins.  I'll back them in to turn it around, you can start thinking about next year.

Waffling on about North has a lot to do with where we are right now

2 losses in 2017...

but to you it is pointless

"Close your eyes and the problem disappears.."

brilliant strategy...Works every time

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37 minutes ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

I knew Jack was going to be poor after his injury after I saw that he had taken a mid week holiday to Byron Bay to shoot clips for his boardshorts label. Tells you a bit about where footy fits in his life. 

Is that so....

brilliant...

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2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Waffling on about North has a lot to do with where we are right now

2 losses in 2017...

but to you it is pointless

"Close your eyes and the problem disappears.."

brilliant strategy...Works every time

Yep, that's exactly what I'm doing.

I don't think you have the capacity to engage in an intelligent conversation.

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25 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

He has never had footy as his #1 priority in his life. He's never been like Viney who lives and dies by footy, and he never will. He has never wanted to be the centre of attention. Deal with it.

Someone who does and has gone badly missing the second half of the year is Petracca. He needs to lift big time, be it as midfield relief or (where we need him contributing more) as a forward.

Petracca is quietly staying out of the firing line.  His recent games:

- GWS: 3 kicks, 13 handballs.  DE% 43.8.  1 tackle.

- NM: 2 kicks, 15 handballs. DE% 76.5.  1 tackle

There was one passage of play yesterday, 2nd or 3rd quarter when the ball was going toward the boundary line.  I think it was at least 2 GWS players vs our 1.  Petracca was jogging toward them and then slowed up rather than go help his teammate.  It wasn't a good look. 

I don't know why he has suddenly become handball happy.  And 1 tackle per game is shocking for a forward.  It is no wonder the ball ricochets straight out of our fwd 50. 

None of our fwds are effective right now.  Petracca should also share the responsibility of the complete breakdown of our forward line in the last few weeks.

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If you are looking for someone to blame for that first half - Goodwin is your man.

I couldn't believe it when I saw how we were playing Manuka as a local... Just horrendous instruction and the fact we didn't have a loose man in the first quarter lost us the game.

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24 minutes ago, rpfc said:

If you are looking for someone to blame for that first half - Goodwin is your man.

I couldn't believe it when I saw how we were playing Manuka as a local... Just horrendous instruction and the fact we didn't have a loose man in the first quarter lost us the game.

In those conditions you would have a lose man back on any ground 'rp', not just Manuka....

It appears the instruction was to use the outer side (watching from TV), as the wind was pushing the ball that way and to the right of screen. Is this what we should have been doing?

We let them open up the corridor and scoring side way too easily. This is where I would have stationed our spares and kept pushing them to the line and forcing more stoppages and boundary throw in's...this is what they did pretty easily when we had the wind.

All in all I think we played really dumb football, but I also think we have a few dumb footballers in the team.

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I've always wanted Jack to do well, to perform well consistently.  But now I've come to see him as consistently mediocre. After around 150 games how many has he dominated? Not many. Is he likely to improve? Probably not. He is what he is I guess.

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27 minutes ago, I'm an Individual said:

I've always wanted Jack to do well, to perform well consistently.  But now I've come to see him as consistently mediocre. After around 150 games how many has he dominated? Not many. Is he likely to improve? Probably not. He is what he is I guess.

This may well be the truth ?

Posted
2 hours ago, Wiseblood said:

Yep, that's exactly what I'm doing.

I don't think you have the capacity to engage in an intelligent conversation.

Only if it is worthwhile.....

Posted
On ‎5‎/‎08‎/‎2017 at 7:33 PM, Clint Bizkit said:

People who defend Watts don't fully understand why he is criticised.

Yes we do, and we understand limp keyboard warrior 'supporters' like yourself love to slag off your own players, and that your life must be a drag


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By now a player of Jacks talent should be in the leadership group and an All- Australian. He's never had the intensity or application to go to the next level. He teases by giving glimpses and then goes missing to the point of being dropped. I doubt that it will ever be any different - he doesn't have the ticker for the contest or the work ethic that champions are made of. We seem to collect players like this and I for one am sick of it.

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Give Jack a break.

His summer range has only just been finalised .

He had to go to Byron to do the casting and pick all the talent.

Some of the girls in the shoot came back out of shape and had to do extra sessions .

It's not easy to run a summer brand in a cold climate.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Biffen said:

Give Jack a break.

His summer range has only just been finalised .

He had to go to Byron to do the casting and pick all the talent.

Some of the girls in the shoot came back out of shape and had to do extra sessions .

It's not easy to run a summer brand in a cold climate.

 

 

not to mention the countless hours spent on the video review

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13 hours ago, rpfc said:

If you are looking for someone to blame for that first half - Goodwin is your man.

I couldn't believe it when I saw how we were playing Manuka as a local... Just horrendous instruction and the fact we didn't have a loose man in the first quarter lost us the game.

I don't like the game plan as it relies on playing in perfect conditions all the time where you can handball a lot a get away with it.

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