beelzebub

Essendon are rabble... Going to be a close game lol

Half a brain... So much for Nibbler lol

@ignition. et al Not sure the having no plan B is as much the issue as having no A

Rocket Science 101 really Shame we have no Rocket Scientists in charge huh ??

Higgins says hello

Its probably hard for Pig or Hunt to get too excited about running it out off of half back....who do they spot up ? Richmond were spreading....we were having book club meetings. We've regressed years in our ability to create opportunities/options. By contrast the Tiges looked to have paddocks to run in. Its the same bloody oval. Two very contrasting 'styles'

Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Why does that seem familiar ? Many observers note we dont have quite the experience in some areas and some age groups yet we seem to persist in asking them to deliver as though they have...refer para 1 It is entirely normal practice as you evolve in any learning to work to a level, perfect it, then step up...work/perfect....repeat..repeat. To have participants repeatedly fail highlights a number of concerns: That those attempting are ill suited or incapable ? We've been told we have 'talented' players. However many are arguably underachieving. That which is being attempted is ill suited or impossible to do? This is the Brand, the Style....the Gameplan. In this regard consideration is given to results as this seems the most logical of metrics to assess. Results suggest there is much wrong. Great periods of ineffectual play can only offer up one outcome. A loss. One group is in effect the engine of the boat, the players. Another the course and quality of the journey, the Coaches. You can have a good engine but if piloted poorly... you'll founder. You can have a missfiring engine but still navigate with some effect. If engine stuffed and the Bridge asleep or unattended you'll be praying for no icebergs. A game of footy is essentially a course set through persistent bad weather, icebergs, sandbars and the potential for collateral damage. Everyone needs to be on their game and a passage thats navigable charted. No sense attempting what you cant achieve ( and haven't previously ) refer para 1. The FD has to address THEIR insanity.

So is King Kong...not known for his finesse

Fmd Fritsch had how many days from the Hawks ? If he needs a restbit ought to have been against Ess. He actually has some footy nous. He tries all game. Hes fairly clean of hands and can kick. Doesn't seem adverse to the wet etc. He's far from magnificent but would have been very handy last night when we desperately lacked finish. Who givesva flying fig about the Ess game in that context. No point protecting tomorrow when we're fvcklng useless today !!

Ernest...it already IS a miserable season.

VFL v AFL

It seemed , to this humble observer, that our game style ( note i haven't said plan...as i can't discern one ) was simply pressure on the ball/man. It was very British Bulldogs really...just stacks on the mill and with a fairly inventive copy of a rolling scrum we got it ti our end and got a bit lucky...scored a try. Then, Richmond working intelligently utilsed our desire to concentrate manpower and used the resulting open spaces, and lack of effective opposition to run amock. We were still playing a very dumb game. It works for at best a quarter. Why were we not switching ? That HAS to be instructed. Why do we often have the wrong players on at crucial moments ? That's direction. Why do we continually have poor structure. Why do we just bomb away? Why do other teams find it so easy to score out the back door ? Why are we going backwards ?

Last night answers that other threads question for mine. Need someone up that end whos MORE than useful. I actually thought Weed wasn't too shabby. But hes more icing ( if that ) than cake currently. We simply need goals kicked.

Edited for clarity. 4-6 anyone

Its not who we played Its how we played.

Actually Red i totally agree with ADC You're missing the point entirely. Camps arent about skills or gameplans... they're about mindsets, building resilience, building a relationship between themselves . The comradery, the trust , the belief is borne out of these experiences. Here we have a group aloof from such ideals and they play like it. We're a rabble and we'll never be any good...well..not quite but almost. Not quite but almost ??? Sums up our Brand absolutely. NQR should sponsor us as that's us to a T We're an absolutely embarassing shambles. Skills ? Plan ? Cohesion ? Nous ? We can't win a Premiership to save ourselves, hell we couldn't take a trick at a Bingo night playing like that. Think we're favourite to win the Laughingstock of the League trophy though. We just pretend we play footy. We go and get supposed Coaches. We get all these 'talented' players and put on colourful garb and dance around like the Easter Bunny at a kindergarten. Can we be more inept with a ball ? How many fresh-air kicks does it take to make a team ? How many Too-many up for a mark does it take to make a circus ? We must be the best team at Spotting up opposition...i mean fair dinkum we excel at it. About the only thing we do. We're Pretenders. We have Coaches pretending they have the slightest idea of what they're doing coupled with players who pretend they have ability. Had Richmond been on target earlier we'd have been annihilated instead of simply dismissed. I don't mind losing. That is if you've applied yourself to the task 100% . We just turn up....to turn it up. Houston, we have a problem.

I say chaps .. Who's up for an Honorable Loss against the Prems eh what

He's a genius eh ?

Hard to soar like Eagles with so many Turkeys in your jumpers

Over

That hurt

They peaked

Bugger

Milkshake brings the boys to this round

Fmd Max kick it