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25 minutes ago, Stiff Arm said:

ANB is a momentum killer

Runs hard, does lots of 1%ers, can't kick, turns it over at critical times, fumbles incessantly, terrible below the knees for a small forward 

You can blame anb but the fish rots at the head - Max drops another chest mark, stuffs around with it in the middle after getting a free kick when we're down with 3 minutes left, then tries to dribble through a goal from a boundary throw in instead of handing it off.

I said it in the game day thread but have a team of low footy IQ players, one of the few on our list who is a natural (JVR) gets dropped

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Just now, Older demon said:

Thanks, WCW when I saw the ice on his left foot I was hoping it wasn't the same injury he had pre-season. Assume from your post it is. I fear he may be missing for an extended period as it looked bad. Send him my best wishes and hope we see him back soon.

Busted  I fear, it could be long term🤯

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2 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Goodwin unfortunately looks like a coach that needs everything to go his way, because he is stiff and has only one METHOD. 

2021 everything went our way and we were sublime.

Our list is the same or perhaps better, on paper.

However, we are a shell of our premiership year. what is worse is that Goodwin won't do jack**** to try something new (be it personnel or strategy).

He did with Petty and when it finally worked he scrapped it. Strange 

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3 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

So are we right in thinking Fritousky has a pretty serious injury?

Yes. That’s the word, at this early stage. 

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Skill level was deplorable & kicking .., Trac kicking continued to get worse, Hunter kicking is a joke as kicks it  straight to the opposition & has done so all season, fwd 50 entries are a joke , going long to Brown in wet conditions, honestly how dumb is that!  The ball just kept coming out  of  their backline it’s so Frustrating watching dumb entries 

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Just now, leave it to deever said:

He did with Petty and when it finally worked he scrapped it. Strange 

Or what about the pre season attacking through the corridor? Nowhere to be seen.

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I’m even starting to think about dropping Grundy for Van Rooyen

Harmes always try’s to do too much and is not as good as a Jordon or even a more skillful player like Laurie who may even kick it to the forwards properly.

ANBs effort goes unquestioned but I believe he has cost us dearly with his disposal in his last two games.

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8 minutes ago, rpfc said:

Here is a stat to warm the heart; in the last month, we have had 9 more inside 50s than total points scored…

Is that a Premiership Metric©️ 

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2 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Definitely will do. 💖

Tell him that I’ll leave a tub of hair gel out for him while I have a mental breakdown at the thought of our forwardline without him 

 

 

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1 minute ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Yes. That’s the word, at this early stage. 

I was wishing that he would finally break into the AA team. 

Tough luck but he'll be back hungrier and stronger. Can we ask him to reach some of his teammates how to kick for the time being? 😬

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7 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

St Kilda will end our miserable underperforming season next weekend

You just know it'll happen.

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7 minutes ago, Flag 2021 said:

Jack Viney was enormous today.

Judd McvVee is a limousine cruising out of our back line garage.

Toss-up for worst disposal between Trac and Harmesy.

Yet someone was saying McVee was bad, I agree with you, might be worth a crack in the centre, has a football brain.

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A loss like that could be really emotionally draining for the players. How can you dominate a last quarter like that and lose. It really is mind bending.

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3 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

Skill level was deplorable & kicking .., Trac kicking continued to get worse, Hunter kicking is a joke as kicks it  straight to the opposition & has done so all season, fwd 50 entries are a joke 

Hunter for Hunt not the gain we were hoping for. Would not have lost anything had we kept JH.

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8 minutes ago, stranga said:

Derrrrrr I mean after that. Wasted 2 years since the premiership lost in its prime. Going in the wrong direction 

Give us all a break. We finished 2nd on the ladder after H&A in 2022.  We went out in straight sets because we had a number of players banged up and couldn't run finals games out. Today's result was incredibly disappointing because it was entirely due to skills errors. We're still every chance of making Top 4.

8 minutes ago, —coach— said:

It’s a very rare day I stop watching a game part way through but the writing was on the wall at the start of the third. Said to my family this is the same script I’ve seen before, and went off for a walk.

I’m actually embarrassed by our team at the moment and how we manage to loose the same way over and over again. It’s not like teams are doing different things to beat us each time, it’s the same thing!

Writing on the wall at the start of the 3rd? We lost after a GWS goal with 3 minutes left. If you're embarrassed by Melbourne I suggest you start suppoerting another team. No loss to me at least. 

8 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

Supporting the club feels really futile when we produce the spectacular own goal of selling that game to the NT government, making it a 50/50 contest, and then losing it.

I agree about the disadvantage of us needing to play in NT for financial reasons. I've posted on this before but I'm so tired of us losing home ground advantage by playing an interstate team every year in Alice Springs. These opponents should be playing us on the MCG. Similarly, if we play Geelong once it's always at Kardinia Park whilst bigger teams never play there. It's all about money, at the expense of fixture fairness.

7 minutes ago, picket fence said:

OUTS GOODWIN, STAFFORD, CHANDLER, ANB, LANGDON, SMITH, TRAC 

INNS, CLARRY, WOEY, JVR, JEFFERSON, JORDAN, and biggest out the Censored Selection committee

Oh and also.. No more P.F Casey Training reports.. This team is a psychological killer. Thats it done and dusted!🤮

Clearly you've never watched Casey play because if you did you'd know Jefferson is nowhere near ready. I agree there needs to be some changes. Clearly Clarry would be in if fit but we didn't lose because of our midfield. We lost because of poor skills execution. It wasn't a putrid performance, Incredibly disapointing when you lose games that all the stats show you should be winning, but putrid is unfair. The effort was there, but not the execution.

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28 minutes ago, Neil Crompton said:

Sorry WCW but we were awful today, and not a performance that can be justified for any reason. (Don’t even try Binny, haha). Evidence also suggests that our goal kicking coach needs some skills’ updating.  

Our goal kicking coach should be on commission only if not shown the door.

Clearly he's not helping.

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Just now, dl4e said:

A loss like that could be really emotionally draining for the players. How can you dominate a last quarter like that and lose. It really is mind bending.

It's called coaching, plan A plan A and plan A when all else fails go to plan A.

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5 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Has been unbelievable all season and especially since Clarry went down. Superb game from him yet again. 

The effort across the board was very good. You can’t question the commitment or the hardness. We played very good strong contested footy. But we cannot execute simple skills and we make some mind boggling decisions going forward. 

It is why Bowey, Salem and McVee stand out so much. Because their ball use is at top tier god levels, and the rest are at VFL reserves levels. 

Love this.

GWS would feel like they snatched that one. The problem for us supporters is that those kind of losses are super common over the last 5 seasons. We have to put in so much effort and still come up short. It’s heartbreaking for the players like Viney, who literally couldn’t do any more.

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7 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

You can blame anb but the fish rots at the head - Max drops another chest mark, stuffs around with it in the middle after getting a free kick when we're down with 3 minutes left, then tries to dribble through a goal from a boundary throw in instead of handing it off.

I said it in the game day thread but have a team of low footy IQ players, one of the few on our list who is a natural (JVR) gets dropped

Gawn is bordering on as a liability. If he keeps this up … 

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5 minutes ago, praha said:

You just know it'll happen.

To be clear, they won’t end our season. 

We will. 

We are beating ourselves. We are losing games to sides who don’t play well, who don’t play better for longer, but who take advantage of our mistakes. 

We are ending our own season by failing to fix fundamental problems. 

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