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2 hours ago, The heart beats true said:

Is it just me... or is the footy just completely uninspired this year - to the point where it feels irrelevant?

Boring games, no passion, feels like watching training. 

You aren't alone, the way the game is played is incredibly scrappy and low skilled, lots of stoppages and the free kicks at times just seem to be random.

I don't know what happened to the footy that was played only a couple of years ago, maybe we can put a little bit down to COVID making things a little weird but it just seems like such a mess right now.

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1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Frost is a better player than all of Lever, O Mac and Joel Smith but most around here can’t admit it just because he’s wearing a different jumper.

Smith - Yes
Lever - Right now, about the same
OMac - Well Oscar played well in his one and only game, let's see how he goes this weekend

Frost himself, not devastated he left. I had my heart in my mouth every time he got the ball, and defensively he gets caught out quite a bit. What exactly has he done at the Hawks so far to warrant your praise?


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Saints are good to watch. Hill and Butler add a real running dimension. They look fit and fast and scoring even if it is only Freo.
 

Wowee it’s good to see a coach (Ratten) show something in the coaches box. 

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Saints have kicked 6 in the first term, which is double what the Hawks could conjure up in an entire game last night.

No doubt the Saints are good to watch and well coached at present, however Freo are pretty terrible.

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Saints proving what shrewed recruiting is.

Don't need to go out and spend 800k on a defender when you you recruit someone like a Dougal Howard who'll come in and just do the job.

Butler, Hill, Jones all playing critical roles for the saints.

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As teams find finals impossible I think the drop in form will be greater than normal years. Another loss by Freo and Adelaide and they are done for the year.

Big game for the Dees today

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4 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Saints proving what shrewed recruiting is.

Don't need to go out and spend 800k on a defender when you you recruit someone like a Dougal Howard who'll come in and just do the job.

Butler, Hill, Jones all playing critical roles for the saints.

They wasted that much on Carlisle

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Just now, Watts the matter said:

They wasted that much on Carlisle

Under Richardson.

Ratten knows what he's doing.

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Just now, dazzledavey36 said:

Under Richardson.

Ratten knows what he's doing.

Hard to argue with that the way they are playing. Think Clark and Coffield have both been impressive this season and neither seemed to get a good go under Richardson.


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Seems to be a pattern in the past couple of seasons where teams get bully like kick sand in face fast starts and then drop off allowing the opposition to get back in the game. A trait we have been particularly good at in recent seasons and then fading.

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Going back to the Hawks game for a moment - their team out there for 3 goals in a game had an average age of 27 - more than a year older even than the team Collingwood sent out, and the Pies themselves  are one of the oldest teams running around at present.

I'm already dreaming of a win over Gold Coast followed by a thumping of Hawthorn to declare our return.

I really hate Hawthorn.  I really do.

 

 

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Saints awful in that quarter. Another average team pumped up by former players in the media.

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34 minutes ago, bingers said:

Long assaulted a player (Darcy) bending down to collect the ball.

An example of the apple not falling far from the tree? (Michael Long/Troy Simmonds - 2000 GF)

Should get 3 +. 

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