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5 minutes ago, Fitz Fitzpatrick said:

As usual on this site, posters will see what they want to because the reality stinks.

weidemann is a bust. KPF take a while but the good ones show potential in the meantime and any astute footy observer can see it.

Highlighting 6 tackles for a KPF is really clutching for straws. Half of us could go out and lay tackles.

move him on

He’s had some very good games at VFL level where he has kicked multiple goals.

1 hour ago, small but forward said:

My apologies Febes, a bit early in the morning. I reckon he’s the quintessential project player, all the signs are there; I’m confident he will come good (including his contested marking)

He might come good in a couple of years. This is not the time to experiment and get game time into a player who has not so far been AFL standard when he plays in the seniors.

2 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Well Im not angry just frustrated. We stuffed it up in the 1st quarter with all those behinds. We missed simple simple we just bombed the ball into our forward line without lowering the eyes. I was listening to the game while watching at the G and Paul Roos was getting so frustrated. the way we just bombed it in. 

Jones Im giving a bit of an out to. For years this bloke has carried us. He was well held today and he isn't our main man in the midfield anymore and nor should he be. Its time for the younger ones to step up which Oliver and Harmes are doing. Just need the others to follow. 

Petracca frustrates me. When has he had a great breakout game? Queens bday last year I can think of, but what has he done since then? Brayshaw has gone past him. 

We just did silly things at the wrong times. Spargo had to shots at goal and didn't make the distance., Oliver thought he was buddy and tried to run around his opponent and got tackled costing us a shot on goal and Hogan seems to have gone back to his old runup and yes he did get injured. 

Its more annoying that they were 2 down before 1/2 times. We should have run over the top of them. But they used the ball smartly. 

I noticed on the news tonight Allen Jakovich was in the rooms, maybe he could have a talk to Jesse if Jesse is willing to listen. 

Anyway we have 2 more chances. I just have this awful feeling its going to comes down to beating GWS. 

Or we will be the laughing stock again like last year. 

That’s ok. 

Weve been a laughing stock for 54 years.

Why change the culture?

This game should have been won. By us. WTF??????????????

10 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Can't argue with any of that.  When is this bloke going to stand up in a big game against a rated club??

That kicking action and run up, not to mention the method of how he positions his hands when running in for a set shot.  Pure madness.

Footy is a tough game and so easy to pot from the armchair, i get all that, especially in a big game.  But he's no longer a rookie!

I've seen enough of the great forwards to know that his set shot method/process is, more often than not, never going to hold up under big game pressure / spotlight.  It just has too many horrible flaws in it.  I've said it from his early days, fix the set shot kicking method and he could be anything.  Just keep doing the same and he will probably be a flawed potential genius for the rest of his career with the odd highlight game here and there.

If we can't help him fix it and show him the way here (with outside help if needed) then we have failed him (and ourselves) as a club.

Totally agree.

Who’s teaching him this ridiculous run up sideways and skipping?

He’s a boy. 

Get a man who has done it properly to teach him.

3 minutes ago, Ante_Up said:

Perspective - against the Suns 

Trade him for a good player.

1 hour ago, grazman said:

Out:  Hunt, Garlett, Pedersen.

In: Melksham, Hibberd, Hannan. 

Jones to go to HBF.

Jones to go to under 12s at Glen Iris Gladiators.

We are a [censored] team who have no chance this year.

2 minutes ago, Optimus D said:

Hogan is obviously playing with an injury. Over the past 2 weeks he has had numerous times where he has been labouring to run. And he seemed to be playing deeper in the forward line this week, which is where I would prefer him to play, and I'm not complaining about that. But just wondering what the problem maybe. Any thoughts????

He’s a poor kick on goal from a set shot. Why run around all over the place? Why not run directly at the target and kick the [censored] goal?

25 minutes ago, Dappa Dan said:

Ok so you're disregarding posters, but still tagging them.

Jesse spent his whole career jumping at the ball beautifully, then with his bad ankle now he can't.

He's as agile as any KP forward going round right now. Has been compared with Nick Riewoldt this year by many impartial observers. But don't let that affect your decision.

OK. "Weed will be better for us deep." Good, we'll just bookmark that for the next 8 years. This Weed/Hogan comparison will come back to bite you, but as we're talking about crystal balling, we can cover this when it's all come and gone.

I'll go with you that we need midfield pace and skill. But trading Hogan out is most certainly not the answer. When you have a star you hang onto them. Especially when they're young. Free agents and drafts can net us good mids over the period these gun bookends play. Not only that but many can come in and have immediate impact. Or at least be up and running within 3 seasons.

Let's come back to this in 8 years and see how each of Hogan and Weed go. 

Wiedemann is a joke. Get real.

Yet another dog vomit performance.

1 minute ago, Demon Disciple said:

Agree that Jones has been useless today. He looks really slow (against the Swans of all teams).

As usual

11 minutes ago, MSFebey said:

Me to 

I’m wrapped to and all youse loosers, their should of spelt it write!

11 hours ago, layzie said:

Yeah that one can be a bit frustrating. 

Whike on the subject, why are there so many people in the general public (not on DL) who say ‘quite’ instead of ‘quiet’? 

“Yeah that date shouldn’t be a problem mate, our factory has been quite lately.”

Rant over 

And some even confuse ‘his’ and ‘he’s’. Including Tim Watson on SEN!!

Hunt should be retained. He shows great potential. He just needs to think more before he passes the ball. His position on the field may not be back. Perhaps wing or forward of centre. He’s fast and can kick long and accurately. It’s just his footy smarts with disposal that need improvement.

13 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Caleb Daniel and Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti are shorter than Spargo.

Dayne Zorko, Paul Puopolo, Dion Prestia, Willie Rioli, Lewis Taylor, Eddie Betts, Hayden Ballantyne and Jack Lonie, amongst others, are all the same height as him.

Allen Christensen, Orazio Fantasia, Jade Gresham, Billy Hartung, Jack Higgins, Rory Laird, Lachie Neale, Tom Papley, Cyril Rioli, Michael Walters and Devon Smith, amongst others, are all just one inch taller than him.

Your argument that he is "too short" is completely unfounded.

How tall are you Mr tight botty?

By the way there were some very crude comments from Adelaide supporters and a lot more unnecessary booing when our players were doing well or kicking for goal by Adelaide supporters on Saturday night than from the Port supporters a couple of weeks ago.

10 hours ago, Jaded said:

Agreed. Adelaide fans I’ve met and matches I’ve been to in Adelaide have always been pleasant.

Port are the scum of SA. They are horrible awful people. I went to a match in Adelaide against Port when I was 16. The amount of sexually crude comments hurled at me, a friggin 16 year old, was revolting. 

“Friggin” is sexually crude. Look it up.

Jones should be dropped on last night’s performance but he won’t be because he’s the captain. Kicked direct to opposition, out of bounds on the full, handpassed to players about to be tackled. Hopeless play. 

Apparently revved the players up at three quarter time. That’s at least something!

7 minutes ago, ProDee said:

It hasn't been mentioned, but I thought the Crows lacked class by not acknowledging Lewis' career post game.  Most clubs celebrate a 300 game champion as he's chaired off, but not the Crows.  Nowhere to be seen.

But that's what you get with a soulless cheeseburger corporation.

The Crows formed a guard of honour for Lewis as he was chaired off.

6 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

That miss by Betts could be the difference between us playing finals or not.

Huge let off.

Or Max could have kicked the goal against Geelong after the siren in the first round. Or Geelong could have missed the goal after the siren last weekend.

Lots of possibilities for and against us, and lot of umpiring BS also through the year. 

A bit of luck has to go our way sometimes!

The ‘deliberate’ out of bounds in the first quarter was ridiculous. Even the biased Adelaide radio commentators thought so. Then several clear deliberates were not paid against Adelaide.

46 minutes ago, america de cali said:

I am talking about the last 25 seconds and not the final 3 minutes when the ball was inside our 50 and a swarm of our players did not try to kill the loose ball for a stopage but were trying to get the ball out or waiting for the release. At one stage Brayshaw picks the ball up and then fires off a short handpass quickly to no one when tackled. He should have swallowed the ball. I doubt he would have been pinged for holding the ball in that pressure situation. It would have been a 60/40 chance for a bounce up and if a free was paid, structures would have been reset  and time would have likely ran out. This was the killer tactical error that allowed Geelong out.

 

But the players didn’t necessarily know there was only 20 seconds left.

16 minutes ago, america de cali said:

They would have known there was little time left. We played like we had to score to win rather than kill the ball and soak up time and restructure.  

3 minutes or 20 seconds are very different in a game of football in terms of the approach that should be used, according to armchair experts with the benefit of the hindsight retrospect scope. This is very difficult for players to judge without a watch and knowledge of the actual time clock of the game, especially in the hurly burly of the final moments of a close game in front of 30,000 screaming people.

8 minutes ago, america de cali said:

Vince punched the ball back to inside 50 in an area where there were seven Melbourne players. Nothing wrong with that. Instead of trying to lock it in to force stoppage, Brayshaw and Neal-Bullen were trying to knock it out of congestion with the others waiting for the ball to come out. I suggest this was the only error that mattered in the heat of the moment. Everyone should have piled in and stopped the game.  Even if they gave up a free it wouldn’t have mattered. 

Don’t forget that the players don’t know the exact amount of time left. A free could be highly disadvantageous if there’s enough time to go coast to coast and kick a goal down the other end (which is what happened for other reasons).