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Our Robbo's Blunt Warning to Current Crop

John Crow Batty
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15 hours ago, bandicoot said:

This crop is nothing like the team of 2005.  Daniher had a terrible defensive structure and teams would easily score against them. 
 

Before their run of losses that year the conceded: 

dogs 15.21 round 2

saints 23 goals round 4

dockers 22 goals round 6

hawks 19 goals round 8

no wonder they lost the next 7 games. As soon as the pressure dropped sides would pile on the goals.


 

 

Alistair Nicholson and Ryan Fergsuon played a good chunk of 2005 in our back line.  Far  cry from May and Lever.

Our midfield was also pretty lazy back then, they had a reputation as downhill skiiers and they were for that whole era really.  One of the main reasons we could never take the next step.

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    Probably a timely article given we are seven zero. Dont want to get cocky.

    But for Dees fans that have been around its hard not to get too excited. 

     

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    For Dees fans we’re waiting for the other shoe to drop.

     

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    We are in the fortunate position to have hungry and in-form players in the wings when we have inevitable injuries.

    I'm expecting a loss this week (yeah, yeah, I know), but I think this current team is playing better Team football than any other group I've witnessed in Dees colors.

    How long can a young group maintain their current effort?

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    I remember that season well, and Sheahans comments in the paper that we were "flaky". He wasn't wrong.

    I think we have been through enough of the proverbial to not get ahead of ourselves, I am still expecting the wheels to fall off at some point

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    17 hours ago, sue said:

    clear your cookies etc if you are on a laptop

    Clear your cookies and you'll have to reenter all your log-ins.

    It's an Age article, so just open the link in an incognito or private window.

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    10 minutes ago, mauriesy said:

    Clear your cookies and you'll have to reenter all your log-ins.

    It's an Age article, so just open the link in an incognito or private window.

      You can clear cookies on a specific domain. I use the add-on  "forget me not" as a quick way to do so.  (Ingognito windows don't always work - though seems it does on the Age -  I'm not a big reader.)

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