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6 minutes ago, ignition. said:
This game plan is disgusting. The club ethos not too far off. Lick the ice-cream and get rewarded with a cold.
I watch Hore tear it up and play naturally. Goes back with the flight and eyes for the footy. This time next year he'll be like the rest of them. This game plan and style is pathetic. We want to call the MCG our own but never utilise it's full space. We don't put enough faith in the like of Oliver, Brayshaw, and Viney around the ball to then clear it out to space. Everyone in the team looks to the left or right for a shitty handball or chip kick. In doing so we constantly waste crucial seconds to get it to someone open down the field. By then, the opposition flood.
I'm over this rubbish. I'm over the coaching staff. We need a paid third-party investigation and be sure the right heads roll by the end of the season.
Kick it off, At 'AFL' HQ.
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5 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:
This is what happens when you have incompetence behind the wheel.
Roos and PJ needed to stay for another 2/3 years more than they did. Can’t change culture in a few years when it’s been poor for half a century (apologies to the late 80’s sides who put in).
The Real change in culture will begin when we get a home base. and something tangible to play are hearts out for. Not some flag... but for feeling people.
People who feel really sad when things aren't great... and people who celebrate Strong, when the teams on-song... Not a Fabric Flag
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22 minutes ago, the rolling fog said:
We didn't come here for a lecture on communism
Maybe (national draft)... but is any aggression allowed in Neo conservatism.? silly me. of course it is... just look at the fine print and we will find it in there somewhere.
U Just need a magnifying Glass, to look for it. It'll be in there somewhere. depending on if its inline with the law of making money for the rich.
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Go Toby...
Go-Dees
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8 minutes ago, DSP said:
Boy am I glad I decided to stay home and do the laws....
Terrible footy.cough.... would that be the In-Laws, 'DSP'. ?
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3 hours ago, nosoupforme said:
Hore or Frost ? IMO both have had a good season so far and can hold their heads up high. There is room for the two. Marty can play deep and Hback and has the smarts can hold his own on smalls and talls. Frosty is an underrated player with speed and his skills are good at times. However sometimes he over uses the ball.
With many of our better players coming back from injury soon enough there is room for Marty and Frosty. They have worked hard for their spots.
Frosty seems to get better each game, thru continuity.
I reckon Frost is ahead of OMc for most games now, and once May comes in, I anticipate OMc goes out.
OMc might replace Frost for teams with bigger key talls.?
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21 hours ago, layzie said:
Petracca is pretty much the epitome of everything wrong with a set shot routine right now. Confidence and mental state is low to begin with and then he comes in with the slow run up action and high ball drop. Recipe for disaster.
it would be great if he could start again but when does this ever happen now? Who puts in entire off seasons ala Matthew Lloyd trying to get their routine bulletproof anymore? Just doesn’t happen.
And they want to be referred to as Professionals.? To me this is the problem of a lacking of true depth.
Real depth would fix this lack of skills training.
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3 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:
Present AFL rights are $400M.. NFL $250M and cricket $150M .. per year.
NFL.?
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1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:
It has seemed inevitable for about 3 years that North will end up in Tassie. When that happens is the question but if North don't move up the ladder with their next coach, then the AFL may step in with some "suggestions".
The Iron is hot 'MR'... and the battle for hearts and Tassie minds, is hotting up, in Canberra...
I reckon the laundry will be delivered for pressing, sooner, rather than later.
All things to be considered by a smart coach, for his future.
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2 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:
Foxtel losing money hand over fist... and little chance of growing revenue dramatically plus FTA ad revenues being slashed by digital marketing,. Well reported in the financial press that we have seen the top for the lesser sports and AFL on a global basis is a lesser sport
2 hours ago, A F said:It'll just move to Kayo (Foxtel). I think you'll find the TV rights will be astronomical during the next term, bigger than this time around. If Kayo/Foxtel/Murdoch don't get them, Kayo/Foxtel are done in this territory. The AFL will know this and will maximise their deal.
The world has begun to "spin' backwards. in more than one sense.
The West is battling, with the generation of the East... thanks to greedy Director's in Multinational's boardrooms.
Inflation is dying, unable to sustain any real interest rates... and people are getting really self-centred, and holding what they've got... and not caring about young people who are stuck in the rental trap.
Wages are failing to raise to any sort of sustainable living standard... and full-time work a thing of the past, because we sold our Manufacturing sector out... and let the East take it from us.
In short we are the downward slide, with wages marching in the direction of a world Parity, on Wealth.
Then, Manufacturing will come back to Local markets, trading locally. cutting out the middle men and they importers will shrink... apart from the Spice Trade. Oh wait, we can grow most of these as well.
So who has, and who will have, wealth enough, to pay for Luxury's like Pay TV... and other little nik-naks.?
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3 hours ago, rjay said:
Rawlings has been around long enough now, been really good for the club but may need a change.
Would he be happy living in Tassie, 'rj'.?
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3 hours ago, John Demonic said:
Nah I want a fresh Tasmanian team, they would be most peoples affectionate 2nd team we all want to see succeed and rooting for the Roos is just too unpalatable.
The AFL missed that boat,, GCSuns.... Nth going North.
Those Blue and White stripes would have looked fantastic up there... in the Queensland's Sunshine.
IMO the warmer coloured Jumper, would have appeared better down Sth, in Tassy.
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4 hours ago, DubDee said:
How is Ken Hinkley still in a job? Zero effort from port. He has not been able to instill consistency over 6 years with a talented list
The season is but young, 'DD'.
Port imv, are still a front running side. Let them off the leash, and they can play. A but like us between mid 90's, and 2013...
Keep a tight reign on a front runner, and they will choke on the pressure.
We've done that on many an occasion, in our past.
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7 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:
With North and probably Carlton and Saints looking for a new coach they may be looking in our direction, specifically Rawlings or Jennings.
I been outside, working on the boat trailer... so Hearing the Scott news shortly before working outside, I hadn't considered the ramifications of the Coaches Merry-go-Rround.
But i reckon discussions would have been held with Scott's manager, by other clubs, well before this week. Probably since the end of the 2018 season
I reckon the Blues would have been into him for sure. They need an experienced coach... and i reckon there would have been a 'price', for them to consider. I reckon they've considered, and accepted.
The Saints are in a less desperate, situation... and probably could be more creative with their ideas.
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4 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:
I honestly have no idea what the FD’s plans are for him. But as an outsider looking in, it looks like they are treating him like Spencer and a “break glass in case of emergency” player.
I think we've got a longer term view with him... what length contract did we give him.?
So I think we have put the job in-front of him, to work hard, to really earn his place.
I see him having to build his tank. So he can improve on his 2018/19 preseason. And I think he has already improved his fitness over where he was last year... judging by his body shape.
He has changed a lot, starting from his work in the USA.
I reckon he'll improve next year, with another preseason, and then again, the year after that.
I think we're looking to be at our top, in 2021
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4 hours ago, old dee said:
You play every game to win, now wether you have the talent/game plan/ coaching ability is another matter.
Exactly, 'OD'... exactly.
We are a team shallow on form, and players, playing a side in they're peak age group wise, and decent form, to boot. The Giants are level on points, with 5 other clubs... and only one game ahead of the Hawks, who hold 8th spot at this stage... they are only a whisker away from dropping out of the Top 8.
I think we will have to play out of our socks... 'OD.!
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2 hours ago, one_demon said:
Once May, Lever and Hibberd return some defenders may get squeezed out. If it came to a choice between Frost or Hore, which would you choose?
I think Hore can play small. Jetta out, for a while yet.
I think the choice is between Frost and OMc ?
FB/ Hore, May, Lever
HB/ Wagner, Frost, Hibbo
CL/ Salem, Oli, Stretch
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7 minutes ago, old dee said:
Win every game possible and worry about the draft picks come September. If it 9th so be it.
Ohh... they'll be playing to win, 'OD'. But that doesn't mean they will be. Winning a lot.
This is a gap year. 2019.
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2 hours ago, DubDee said:
Not sure what changed from two months ago until now. Did they think they’d make finals?
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14 hours ago, layzie said:
Reasonable coach that got the best out of a list that never bottomed out over 10 seasons and couldn’t get that elusive big fish free agent.
Sadly won’t coach again, unless Carlton will go down the ‘experienced’ path.
We don't know how reasonable actually, because how doers a coach do his best within a club like the Roos... underfunded, in comparison to to ther clubs.
And they have tried to buy players without success.
I suspect Scott told the Roos he would not continue next year at the club, because they have continued to fail in the recruiting stakes.
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3 hours ago, Redleg said:
Joke is we could have a full list to choose from late in the season, when we have no chance to make finals.
Well lets hope we don't become another 9thMond. in that scenario... then this year would have become a TOTAL waster.
At the very least I hope we can snare some very good running talents.
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2 hours ago, george_on_the_outer said:
We have a forward line that cannot kick goals this year.
Without Preuss in the side, we have to use Weidemann, Smith or McDonald or Keilty in the ruck for those 10 minutes each quarter that Max requires a rest. So we are even less likely to score during that time.
Preuss provides a ruck option and a forward option. And as was seen in those last minutes of the Sydney game, Preuss covers the rucking in one half of the ground and Max sits a kick behind play to repel and defend. And when he plays in our forward line he takes the opposition biggest defender.
However, if the weather is as forecast, other options need to be considered...... however limited those options are for us with our injuries.
At least Keilty has saved his spot on our List, IMO... shown hes got something.
Ablett wins appeal. System is broken
in Melbourne Demons
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When big business see $$$$$$, morals go out th highest window... and those important things Lose. Morals, Environment, Social Health.
How may times has 3rd world countries had they're environments screwed up for the $$$$... prosperity of shareholders, in other countries.... like Papua NG... like Sth-American countries and now the Amazon itself...
Lets not mention the Arctic and Ant-Arctic.
And its fully evident in VFL-AFL... see Fitzroy Lions, Sth-Melbourne Swans, et al... Fixtures and Prime time TV.
capitalism is devastating