MurDoc516

5 day breaks only affect us it seems.

Are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater by suggesting some changes to personnel? Or by suggesting the gameplan hasn't stacked up all year when it mattered. Even if we did make finals, we will just make up the numbers. We haven't beaten any of the genuine contenders.

Give me 18 points and ill show you three more losses. Using this excuse to cover up the real underlying numbers is how you quickly find yourself in a hole.

Positives: A better first rounder. Negatives: We are a long way off anything close to a team that can contend (and i'm not just talking about this year).

Well said. Goodwin paid off a lot of the complaints many posters here had about him pre-2021 by winning that flag. Since he's absolutely burned the credit he had in the bank. Bunch of shoulda, coulda, woulda about our performances in the finals, end result is we lost and left as a laughing stock each year. However, right now It's not about getting rid of him. It's about him and the staff around him proving they're good enough to get us back to that level. Just because we won one flag doesn't mean he gets infinite cracks at the whip. Re-building on the run, injuries, 1 senior ruckman, lack of quality talls forward of the ball are all being used as excuses to save him when he is the man in charge who is allowing it to happen (bar injuries, he has no control over that). Todays result was obvious, easiest tip of my life. You can get away with beating Draper and 2MP in the wet on our home deck but you're not having the same luck against 2 million dollar ruckmen. "But what could he have done? we have no other ruckmen!". Exactly, he can stand behind the choice of bringing in a C grade fwd/ruck option rather than a genuine number 2 option.

Well I tell you who wasn't at fault today, the list management and coaching team! No sir, no way they could be of any blame.

For what exactly?

How the actual [censored] are we always a man down in defence

Why did it have to be Billings there, why god why!?

That's great, Chandler had done nothing until a 5 minute patch in this 3rd quarter. Kosy has actually done something the last 3 weeks. Do you want him benched more then Chandler?

Aren't you blaming umpires? or the defenders when the midfield give up -19 clearances?

Oh no Chandler going to get 2 goals, he's not going to lose his spot until the end of the season now

Theres no point in complaining. We were never set up to win. Not this game or this season. Inexcusable to make your list worse in the off season and we went and did that.

Jack doesn't want to give it Chandler because Chandler is terrible and I don't blame him

[censored] sake Kolt are you [censored] kidding me with taking 5 seconds to kick a [censored] ball, and we concede on the siren after all that work.

Chandler plays like he is 6ft 5, 0 ability at gathering a low ball

Anyone blaming the defenders when the ball is coming forward with no pressure is as brain dead as the people at the club who decided to go with Gawn as sole ruck.

Fullarton is a tax scam I swear. Reality is this year was [censored] as soon as we traded Grundy and brought in a guy who averages 4 hit outs a game.

Gee willikers, this team is so fit.

Still thinks heads are going to roll from this. This season alone the club dragged Oliver to try get a reaction from him and then everyone has tried to cover their own [censored] instead of owning up to the fact they didn't handle the situation well. When have we ever been in the news more than this season? Everything we do is wrong it seems.

Jeffo's stat line the last 5 weeks where he has seemingly found his feet is: K H D M T G B 6.2 3.8 10 3.4 2 2.6 1.8 If he improves on that for the next 5 weeks and we are sitting anywhere outside the bottom 8 then I would say throw him in just so he can get a taste of the AFL level.

1 mil per year? poor brisbane.

Key defenders: T. Mac can stay as a key defender (unless he wants to retire), Tomlinson will likely be let go, he's wanted out forever. Tall defenders: Turner should be a defender, swinging him forward is in line with my number 1 gripe at the club, moving magnets to cover weaknesses we've failed to trade/draft for. Half backs: Likewise with Salem, he isn't a mid, move him back to halfback. I feel as if his move to midfield was to justify a place in the team when he was out of form at half back because of the money he is on. I'd rather Rivers move as a mid over Salem. Inside midfield list is suddenly very light. Outside mids: again, very light. I don't see Windsor or Langdon having the ability to start centre bounce either. Keyforwards: Kentfield is a complete unknown. Fullarton i can garuantee is a dud. JVR's progress actually looks better when you keep in mind how woeful we are with our entries. Jefferson, god help the kid as people begin to latch onto him like we did with Weideman. Rucks: Another year in the legs for Gawn. Sole ruck at 33 this year, another area we must get cover in. Can't believe we didn't address this properly. Retirements: I thought Brown and Melksham would retire for the last two years but they keep stick around. Both out of contract now though, so lets see. Delist: Schache has a deal with the devil in that he can never be off an AFL list. Hunter, Spargo, McAdam, Laurie and Billings are warm bodies. They make up numbers so we don't have to recruit 12 players in one season.

Ever since day 1 I have been skeptical on Sewlyn Griffith. He came from Brisbane and was heralded as some genius, but Brisbane where always far from the fittest team in the league. Then he starts implementing his own programs abandoning what we had done under Burgess who had real world samples proving we were fit. Every time we lose there's always some excuse about how we are loading this week and that's why we look leggy. We never looked leggy in 21? I'd rather Roffey stay silent for once. I actually took some encouragement from Goodwin's press conference yesterday. It only took an absolutely disastorous performance to smack some reality into this club. All our wins where we scraped over the line with clear issues, all our losses being written off due to alternative excuse when the clear problems a lot of spectators can see are not being addressed. I'd rather Goodwin not be sacked, here is his chance to prove himself, surely now he can't hide behind the W/L record and past glories that are fading into distant memory. Fix the midfield, fix the forward line and fix the gameplan.

Just remember, everybody had excuses after the Swans game, the Lions game, the Carlton game, the Eagles game. Can't wait to hear them today. Fremantle deserved everything they got today, we were hot garbage. Too many magnets being moved to cover weaknesses in the team have left us looking like a bottom 4 side.