Robbie57

I have tried to be optimistic but tonight was the straw. The primary blame for tonight rests firmly with the coaches. No tall of any sort forward and we played ANB, JKH, Spargo,Stretch who are not up to it. Seriously at least Hunt has tried all year and has shown signs. Then we throw Frost forward as an admission of the spectacular selection failure. And what were our mids doing. Max got every tap and they were nowhere to be seen. Secondary is those picked played with no heart. No one will want to join this rabble. It breaks my heart. it was an embarrassing performance. Just pathetic.

Good Grief what a mess.

In my opinion an example of the dreadful double standard of the AFL. They talk down long established clubs that are struggling whilst propping up the clubs they "need" to succeed. GWS (like the Gold Coast) have no natural fan base and are struggling in the West here. The average home crowd is reported as 12000 per match and has been declining in the last two years despite the wealth of talent that has gifted to them.

Well what a pack of miserable old sods you are, we get a 129 cms of fresh snow and all I hear is complaints. There is no pleasing some dees supporters. (Omac was alright today and looked like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.)

Suggested this last week. Take the weight off his shoulders and let him run free for a change, absolutely nothing to lose.

Clearly something is amiss with Brayshaw. On Saturday night I was able to go down to the rooms after the match, as they came down the race to the rooms Goody had his arm around Brayshaw who looked distressed. Mind you they all looked pretty close to distressed and I was left in no doubt as a group they are hurting. I actually found the looks on their faces pretty confronting. Pre game McDonald spoke at the club function and said that all the players know its hard for the supporters to turn up but it means a lot to the playing group that supporters turn up. Goody also turned up briefly and said the players remain united.

Weideman out for the season. Our problem is we have no fit forwards thats why we persist with Smith. We dont present any forward threat so teams can (and have) exploited that. Why not see if Omac is able to take a mark forward, he was hopeless last week but why not try that, seriously what do we have to lose? Its not like the other options are irresistible. Sadly my brother have President's club passes this week and I agreed to go a long time ago. So I have to fly down for this one. A very expensive night of punishment coming up, all i hope is the President is actually there so I can share a few thoughts.

This thread is a lot longer than I expected.

What I despise about this is the sense of entitlement GCS and GWS have when it comes to money, picks and a premiership. They both have been gifted more than enough access to picks and salary cap relief. GWS has managed that process a lot better than GCS.

OMac for Tmac: (can someone insert the popcorn emoji here).

OMac suffering a drop in form and confidence, we are yet to see his best which will be in the red and blue.

6. Jack Viney 5. Max Gawn 4. Tom McDonald 3.Clayton Oliver 2. Jay Lockhart 1. Sam Frost

Legend.

I am no medico but how does Hibbo return so soon? I wouldn't be able to heal a collarbone in less than a year.

First condolences to Brad, his boys and the families, so sad to have your wife and mother to pass so young. Well said JV7.

In any normal round having 3 or 4 of your starting 22 hurts any team. We have 11 out and clearly others who didn't get the required pre-season. TMc looks injured ( to my completely non medical eye) and something is amiss with Brayshaw. We are currently a scratch team the match committee can't do much than work out who is fit enough to get on the park.

6. Gawn 5. Gawn ( really he should be given extra votes) 4. Abstain 3. Abstain 2.Hore 1.Baker

Pre match texted a mate to say we had a Casey team playing. Lucifer nailed it we dont have AFL Standard players to put on the park. 11 of our starting 22 injured. You see it every year that a team with that level of injuries is not competitive.

[ 10: Marty Hore; you can give an emotional 10 can't you?] 6. Oliver 5. Salem 4. Jake Melksham 3. Jones 2. Harmes 1. Sam Frost Tmac very unlucky but found his mojo again and worked hard for the win

6 - Harmes 5 - Gawn 4 - Salem 3 - Oliver 2 - Lockhart 1 - Hibberd

And me. Lewis was absolutely hopeless couldn’t chase.

Go weed....

Grateful to all sponsors so welcome Jag, still would have been funny had it been a Range Rover sponsorship.

Going to call it now

A goodwin special: ‘hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard'. He will fit right in. Welcome and good luck.