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This thread has once again turned into a “woe is me, we have the worst team and our coach is awful” joke.

Why can’t we comment about issues without resorting to degrading our best forward or getting stuck into our premiership winning coach? 
Not everything is perfect, but [censored] you’d think we are North Melbourne. 
 

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      On 19/05/2024 at 09:42, whatwhat say what said:

    absolute rubbish

    gawn - tried him as a 50% forward

    plugger mac - moved him forward then moved him back

    petty - moved him forward

    pickett - from a small forward and now more into the midfield

    petracca - inside / outside midfield rotation

    completely correct. ive corrected him with dozens of examples in the past but he’ll stick to his incorrect view. 

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      On 19/05/2024 at 09:43, DeeSpencer said:

    We’ve introduced run and carry to a team that can’t run or kick, and therefore increased a bunch of turnovers.

    Then we’ve added trying more aggressive kicks to stationary targets rather than sharing the ball to runners then leading to space to ease the burden of those kicks.

    And by playing so defensive at stoppages our mids end up chasing their tails or panic kicking.

    The dominant factor of our premiership side was handball and explosion from the stoppage. That’s our 1 wood to quote David King. Why would you take that away?

    Now our game plan relies on a bunch of young half backs trying to kick to a midfield that has poor spread and skills. It’s so flawed 

    Simple the game has changed, we haven't since 21.

     
      On 19/05/2024 at 09:34, Superunknown said:

    It is how it works though

    and club presidents stand by, mute

    That’s the problem - clubs don’t speak out .Are they scared ? Of what ?

    I think we will kick up a gear and win this. All we need is more drive from the midfield. 


      On 19/05/2024 at 09:31, The heart beats true said:

    The non free kick against Reid for holding the ball really annoyed me. Thats holding the ball against 99% of players. 

    You can’t adjudicate the rules differently because you want him to keep taking the game again. Thats not how it works.

    Cripps (CFC) and Reid have special rules. 

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      On 19/05/2024 at 09:41, The heart beats true said:

    Have some faith. We aren’t playing well and lost one of our most important players in terms of winning the ball back in the first minutes.

    Hopefully we can reset with a new plan at half time and come out firing.

    Go Dees!

    We are Garbage, reality check on agenda! We thought it a walk in the park!

      On 19/05/2024 at 09:36, dazzledavey36 said:

    It's actually fun watching Harley Reid bully our mids.

    Kid is a genuine star.

    Which begs the question. Why don't we ragdoll his [censored] off like every other team does to our mids?

    Don't worry, I already know the answer. We'd get pinged.

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    West Coast look like they have five more players out there.

    Umps aren't interesting in pinging wc for htb.

    Not gonna happen.

    On queue, we give away the first goal.

    Goodwin words on Fox Footy just empty words.

    We're too slow between the arcs.

    Midfield has no depth, been saying this for 2 yrs.

    We have defenders, so so forwards, a whole heap of utility types and a very shallow engine room.

    The list is out of balance becaus it is too tailored to structure and control.

    Relying on Gawn, Trac and Oliver in the guts and May/Lever to intercept every week is not a gameplan.

    Win or lose today I think we're in trouble going forward.

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    If lever wasn't injured I'd move Tmac fwd.

    He's having a bad night.

    Obviously not alone.

    Are we training too hard . We look so flat again.


    Lol do our defenders not want to play on a man? How does Liam Ryan just casually get off so easily.

    How was supposed to manning Ryan? 

    Seriously horrid defending

    West coast playing a different game. Great kick in, ryan takes the game on and creates the goal

     
      On 19/05/2024 at 09:52, 1858 said:

    We're too slow between the arcs.

    Midfield has no depth, been saying this for 2 yrs.

    We have defenders, so so forwards, a whole heap of utility types and a very shallow engine room.

    The list is out of balance becaus it is too tailored to structure and control.

    Relying on Gawn, Trac and Oliver in the guts and May/Lever to intercept every week is not a gameplan.

    Win or lose today I think we're in trouble going forward.

    Coaching staff accountable at some point?

    Not sure what will be the future, we do have some young guns. Very disheartening after 2021.

    Bring your mouth guards monday boys.  And learn how to tackle.  This is pathetic.  

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