jnrmac

There's the nub. Small step and who else do we have? Is that the best you have? Do you really believe with that attitude the Dees can be a ruthless finals side? Morton has played 68 games. Most recruits don't play 4 games. Magner has shown more in 4 games IMO. He does not appear to me to have learned anything about disposal or contested footy (please don't bring up his contested count on the weekend!). He has little in the way of defensive skills - he continually hangs off his man by 5-15m. His opponents rack up uncontested stats. Why can't people face it that he has been a wasted 4th pick and move on? Do we want to wait until he reaches 125 games like Miller before we work out he can't play a decent game? It's a cut throat business and we are amongst the worst at it. Why?? Because of guys like Miller and Morton.

You are delusional if you hang your Morton hat on that game. 52% disposal efficiency. 5 out of every 10 cheap possessions went to the opposition. No wonder we can't get our hands on the ball. The likes of Morton keep giving it away.....

44% disposal efficiency. Gets the ball 10 times gives it away 6. I am certain there are better options.

Pretty simple. We need MIDS, MIDS, MIDS, MIDS and MIDS. We can't get our hands on the footy. And when we do we turn it over 50% of the time. Stats don't lie. We have had 100 possessions less than our opposition 4 weeks running. Says it all. Can't do ANYTHING if you don't have the footy.

Wow. We have come a long way from last year. (wince)

Can't agree with you, Davey was on Murphy who nearly single handedly won the game for the Dogs. Did 3 or 3 good things but a poor game and ZERO defensive pressure. Weak attack on the footy on two glaring occasions. Your expectations are so low after Davey's past 2 years that you are happy with what he dished up. Well I'm not. As for saying he is nearly back, you are dreaming and if the club thinks like you we are truly stuffed. Not sure if you watched the game but Dunn was moved on to Murphy in the 2nd half to curb his dominance. Murphy had 6 second half possessions of which 3 were kicks to himself from a kick in. Dunn actually did his job in the second half. Lift your expectations and watch a bit more closely.

OMG who cares?? If you want to be in the MCC - join!! Anyone can. If you don't, great.

Interesting to note no-one has slated Aaron for his poor defensive effort on Robert Murphy. 18 touches in the first half and almost single handedly won them the game. All I have read is Aaron got two goals and was harder at the contest. Surely he has to be dropped??

Really? It's all JA is worth. Not worth discussing any further than that. Oxygen thief.

Who is Lucas Cook?

Oxygen thief. Full stop.

for copping too much blame..

AND DANIEL JACKSON gets nothing for knocking Jack Grimes out over the boundary line.

Is there anyone that thinks Thomas should be suspended? There. Didn't think so.

They DID owe us money but I was pretty sure I heard CS say they recently got the payment after threatening some legal action..

We also had 12 CEO's in 10 years. The place was a shambles.

Todd Viney was quoted (when working with Bailey) as saying "we're not worried about game plan we are just trying to build up their bodies and get games into them" or very similar words. I screamed blue murder at that and it was a classic part of the mollycoddling of our 'younger' players. Teach em the work ethic from day 1. Young kids can do great things on the footy field but when you put no expectations about effort don't be surprised that they don't give any. FFS even our senior leaders give questionable effort most of the time.

Geelong has had an exceptional group of talented hard-bodied players. Not many teams could play that way. We went around to try and recruit elite skilled players (don't laugh!) with athletic ability and endurance to try and play a similar style. Aside from the fact the jury is out on our recruiting We are fighting yesterday's war. The game has moved on and we have the wrong cattle.

His wrist was also a problem. Any word on that??

1. Give me Neale's Win loss record anyday over what has been served up since. 2. The club was essentially bankrupt with a useless Board. We had extremely limited resources. 3. Our recruiting was very ordinary. Having said that we were also a bit unlucky with guys like Nick Smith and Luke Molan. Why we would agree to recruit BOTH the Cockatoo-Collins brothers I do not know. 4. Gutnick should shoulder the blame for a lot of it. He went to the AFL and squealed on cap breaches that cost us 2 drafts effectively. We have never recovered in that 24-28 bracket. 5. Daniher certainly did not play young players and left Yze, White and RObbo around for too long playing games when they did'nt deserve them.

Too right. And we lost LG because we didn't do a good enough job in trying to keep them. This represents a fantastic opportunity to a have a serious, well credentialled, well cashed up major brand. It's a great get and we have too work a lot harder on managing the relationships than we have in the past,

Dont wish to derail the thread but I dont think so.

Interesting to hear MN say that Sylvia was right to play yesterday but the club decided to enforce its Rd 1 suspension of him given his injury ultimately meant the disciplining exercise was redundant. I am happy with that. Could be the making of Col. Our most frustrating player bar none...

66 stellar games.

The only people who think the MCC has an elitist culture are the sad people who want to be in it but aren't. There is no the remotest thing elitist about it. Its simply a good place to watch football and doesn't have mindless swearing or drunken violence because you lose your membership. And if you want to wait another 27 years they 'might' let you back in.