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[censored] you umpires. Absolutely cheating.

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    3 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

    They’re bigger than us

    Really?

     
    1 minute ago, Deesprate said:

    Can’t see how selling this game compensates from potentially missing a top 4 position.

    They’ve beaten us consistently at the MCG. The ground is not the issue. 

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    Non efforts by Fritsch are disappointing 

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    5 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

    Love Kozzies effort but he really needs to work on his disposal.

    And some think he is elite with disposal.

     

    6 minutes ago, layzie said:

    Some things just are in football with no need for learning a system.

    A 5kg dumbbell is a 5kg dumbbell, a short handball is a short handball, a 35 metre set shot...

    Mc Adam has done about as much as Fullarton this year. 🙄

    1 minute ago, Demon Disciple said:

    Watch this now become a slog and arm wrestle where we just let the game drift away.

    Why not be proactive for a change, and simply attack……………you know, like we used to do when we were good?

    No. An arm wrestle involves two competitors. 

    We are such a slow team and every other side knows it, if they just come out hard we can’t keep up. We are betting everything on been close enough in the 2nd half to make it a game 

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    Whatever Goodwin and his coaching team are trying to do this year they need to go back to basics. We are so out of sync and just average. There's no identity to what we're doing.

    We're not even at half time yet and the week's footy shows already have an entire week's worth of content to talk about. This isn't just a player issue. This is a comprehensive structural breakdown.


    What the [censored] was that Chandler

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    1 minute ago, praha said:

    This is a comprehensive structural breakdown.

    Not according to our pres who would sign Goodwin to a 10-year extension if she could.

    1 minute ago, praha said:

    Whatever Goodwin and his coaching team are trying to do this year they need to go back to basics. We are so out of sync and just average. There's no identity to what we're doing.

    We're not even at half time yet and the week's footy shows already have an entire week's worth of content to talk about. This isn't just a player issue. This is a comprehensive structural breakdown.

    Unless and until we find a forward coach with forward experience and forward nous we will not be true contenders.   
     

    Enough is enough. 

     

    we have no offensive system at all and the amount of lazy, long bomb kicks is embarrassing, we would do 10-15 for every 1 that Freo do and it's really showing


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