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Please hurry up and do that.

I'll tell you what, there are going to be even more questions if they get smashed this week. It'll be hard to respond to it.

I'd much rather the league quietly get involved in getting the club a superstar free agency. The NBA frequently gets involved in blocking trades etc., and essentially forced Chris Paul to the Clippers after blocking a trade that would have send him to the Lakers (who at the time had won 2 championships in a row).

Not doom and gloom. Simply realism And on top of that, another 10 goal loss coming up this week.

You're all getting far too creative for Melbourne. Come back in 3 years when the "play a mid-sized player in the ruck" innovation has been done and every team has gone back to a traditional ruck formula. That way we can try an old game plan style and continue on our merry way of being behind the ball as a [censored] team that tries to adapt to a game style 3 years too late.

Toumpas could very well fill Salem's role. Time to show his wares.

I find it bizarre that some of the posters here who say, "we've played the three best teams in the comp, what do you expect?" Are also calling for Spencer to be dropped. Granted Roos was obviously in essence "tanking" those games to get some experience into the likes of Spencer against tough opposition but at the same time, I see no benefit in rushing him out before we play a very winnable game against the Dogs. If we complain about the AFL scheduling us the way it has which has led to a drop in confidence, dropping Spencer is just going to continue the downward spiral of development we've seen in previous years. IMO, he gets one more week, maybe two. Let's see if he can compete better against a side closer to our level, and let's give these inexperienced players the opportunity to play themselves into confidence. What have we got to lose anymore? When Jamar retires this year or next we will have no option but to play Spencer more often than not. I remember Jamar being god awful in his first few seasons. Spencer hasn't even played 30 games.

They were good wins, sure. But we all knew the real test would come the week after, and evidentially, the team as crumbled both weeks after their wins. Yeah, the competition has been tough thus far, but surely we've reached a point as fans now that we don't hold wins over GC and Richmond that highly. It's more about now how they respond to both wins and losses. In both aspects, they continue to let us down.

It's definitely not rocket science, but when your team can't even compete and still loses by 100 points, suddenly building a team and applying pressure on game day is like trying to manufacture a wormhole.

My concern with Roos is that the only level of accountability will be through retrospective critique, because he won't be sacked. Only his coaching reputation will take a hit, not his actual employment. Not to say he should be sacked, but Bailey was sacked for a lot less and Neeld's coaching performance was no worse than what we've seen from Roos in 1.3 seasons. Throw a better score average, higher percentage, smaller win margin at me, but you'd expect some improvement because we were so bad. We're still pretty bad though. Is it improvement at all if those previously in a similar position have improved more?

But they train really hard guys!

Bulldogs are playing like a top 6 team for most of this year. Team play, accountable football, confidence in one another, urgency, drive, aggression. They will smash us by 10 goals. Bookmark it. We haven't turned the corner yet to beat them. They've turned that corner. We just need to pray we beat the Saints,Carlton and Brisbane.

Weren't our midfield issues addressed by adding Vince, Tyson, Cross, Vandenberg, Salem, Brayshaw, etc? Our midfield this year is as bad as it's ever been. We're winning more clearances yet evidently even with a better forward line we're still the worst team going forward. I have no idea what the issue is. we are not as bad as the performances we put in. I still think our midfield is far too defensive to give us a genuine chance to hit the scoreboard. What do Jones or Vince have to learn anymore, really? I feel that Roos needs to loosen the hatchet a bit and let our mids run a little more rampant. We're tagging and trying to hold teams down but then we're not damaging enough. Since 2012 our coaches have tried to teach defensive tactics. It shouldn't take this long for 150+ gamers to get it. Going through the motions and getting 25 possessions is one thing. But what are they doing with the ball?

No, women are great. But they'd get crunched in a professional AFL match.

Didn't you get the memo? They've been training "really hard"

Beating bottom 8 sides and getting flogged by top sides achieves nothing.If this was the first, second or even third year that it's been happening, then that's fine. But playing like actual losers from the opening bounce is something the club should have left behind long, long ago. You can't justify yesterday's showing with "they are the reigning premiers", or, "we've played the top 3 teams all in a row". That doesn't really justify the actual effort or lack thereof. What will we have learnt if we beat St Kilda? Will we know more about this team then, say, if we'd stayed with Hawthorn and lost by 5-6 goals? We won't. We will just know we're better than another bottom side. We can't just keeping waiting to see how we perform against bottom sides. We beat poor sides in 2010, 2011 with the occasional win against mid-tier teams, but we consistently didn't give a puff against top sides. You won't turn a corner if you keep doing that. It'll just be a downward spiral. Before eventually you get spit out the bottom of the porn industry with no prospects and no hope.

If someone pays 600k for him, it'll be a blessing in disguise for us. Another top 10 pick coming our way. Oh, the question. Because we are tanking, duh!

Well, yeah. Draft position determines worth. The higher you are, the more valuable you are. The more potential. Pick 57 is a filler pick. If he becomes something, awesome, if not, it's not like we expected him to.

I think he'd benefit more from playing out of the square with space in front of him. ATM Hogan is a far better target across half forward, because ATM Dawes brings every single ball to the ground, and we don't have the crumbers to clean up the mess. At least with Hogan you know it'll either be a mark, or he has the capacity to follow his ball up. Dawes either falls to the ground over his opponent's feet, or the ball is punched clear because he isn't quick enough to get space between him and his opponent. Collingwood teams of 2009, 2010 made him looked good because they were stacked across the middle and the wing. With our current team he is a massive liability and we need more efficiency across half forward because we so rarely go forward. I'd even rather Garlett pay further up the ground than Dawes, because 9 times out of 10, a Dawes contest ends up with the opposition cleaning up his mess and going the other way, and that is so dangerous where he is currently playing, because it's an easier transition from that half forward line. He has been nothing short of awful, really. He isn't the player we need.

I actually think him leaving would hurt us more than Howe leaving. He'd have polled well in the B&F voting in 2 of the 3 games he's played. Dawes and Howe wouldn't have factored in any of the games they've played.

I want to see how GWS play interstate against top teams in the latter half of the season. GC started off similarly strong last season. But GWS have looked scary. I hate them. Freo by a country mile.

He's not AFL ready. I certainly can't see him ever being AFL ready, because he panics. Someone here called him Jimmy "Tampon". Seems about right. I think that above all else, he doesn't have the mental capacity to make it at the top level. I don't question his skills or commitment, but the mind is a crazy thing and if you're mentally drained or incapable, you can be the most talented player ever and it won't matter, you'll crumble. Seeing him cry, seeing him absolutely break down whenever there is the chance of contact, he simply does not have the mind of an AFL footballer. If you can't see that, you're delusional. Morton showed class and skill, much in the same way Watts has. And like Watts, and he been managed better, he'd have been a champion. Toumpas was the wrong player to bring into a fractured club, because he's a fractured player. We needed a strong body and mind of a Wines. Toumpas was the last type of player we needed. That much is clear now.

Drink.

We still have the 2nd worst percentage in the league, can't score, can hardly defend apart from 2 or 3 players, can't run both ways, can't tackle, can't hit handball targets, can't string together more than 5 possessions, struggle to get inside 50, struggle to get into space, struggle to win games. Changes? Mate, you could bring in God himself, and even he'd miss a target playing for this rabble. Roos hasn't impressed me. I think the improvements we've made have been natural evolutions of where the team was, because it was so bad it couldn't possibly get worse. What scares me is that we can't really hold Roos to account, and instead of coaching for his job, he's coaching for his reputation, which let's be honest will always be remembered for what he did at Sydney. I'm still holding this club to 8 win expectations this year. If we can't do that, it's going to crash again. Bookmark it. Because Jamar and Cross are going to retire, our depth is shocking. Howe is gone. Our best player is a bloke who barely broke the top 100 in the league. Our young kids are thrown into development black holes. Toumpas will be delisted, which will set us back even further. A waste top 5 pick. I didn't expect is to beat any of the past three teams we player, but we still played like the worst team in the league, not a team that should be playing finals in 2016. I could see a turnaround at the start of the year. We're 7 weeks in and now I actually believe the turnaround will never come, that we're destined to be just making up the numbers for another decade.