Jaded No More

ANB fumbles. I’m shocked. He’s such a clean player.

Goodwin is the right man. Everything will be fine next year. Injuries are why we can’t kick goals or won’t practice our skills. Our game plan is perfect for finals. Never mind if we don’t make finals. Finishing 17th is understandable and acceptable. Nothing to see here.

Agreed. And listening to Goodwin’s painful and full of cliche press conferences only makes it worse. No idea from anyone down there.

For such a dumb team, losing the runners has really affected us. We are too stupid to adjust to the wind or match ups without someone telling them mid quarter.

AFL [censored] players who can’t kick a goddamn goal from 20m out. What a joke!

We are terrible. But 9-0 frees to West Coast?! Give me a break!

Oh my god [censored] off these umpiring is a disgrace!

Not only is our team painful to watch we also need to put up with garbage umpiring. Why do I bother?

Revolting umpiring. Again. Is it the same West Coast supporting tool that umpired our game last week?! 1.4 though. What more can you say but deja vu.

Jesus Lewis can’t even kick them. What a total waste of opportunities.

Jesus Christ we are so bad. How anyone thinks that “we will be fine” next year is deluded. We are hopeless.

Rubbish umpiring. Even worse defensive pressure. How easy is it to kick goals on us?

Regulation shot on goal didn’t even go near it. Terrible from Viney.

So obviously holding the ball is not going to get paid today.

Anyone who thinks that a clean bill of health next year is all it’ll take to make us “fine” again, is deluding themselves and ignoring some serious issues and gaps we currently have on our list.

Tragic for a kid with so much talent who just keeps getting knock backs in life. Wishing him a speedy recovery.

Nothing sticks to rich white man. Just ask Donald Trump.

I get what you’re saying, but just because you haven’t experienced something personally doesn’t mean you shouldn’t know better. Nobody has ever attacked my sexual orientation but I know it’s wrong. Nobody has ever abused me for having dark skin, but I know it’s wrong. In this day and age to pretend that people “didn’t know” booing Goodes was racially motivated is just a cop out. Like someone said in the documentary last night, we want these indigenous players to kick mercurial goals and shut up. I don’t see anyone booing Houli for speaking about his cultural heritage, but as soon as Goodes pointed out the racial vilification and used his platform to try and promote indigenous rights, he was attacked. Not for a week, or a month, but for almost 2 years until it broke him and he had to give up everything he has worked for and walk away. Sorry I don’t mean to attack you at all with this post. I know exactly what you mean. I just think that too often people say “I didn’t know” and think it’s a valid excuse. Lots of Germans said the same thing about the Holocaust too.

Sad that we can’t get excited about these games because our season is over. The Collingwood game will be my last for the year as I head overseas for 3 weeks afterwards. Normally I would be sad to miss games, but I’m honestly going to be happy to wave this season goodbye.

Funny how the loudest voices belong to the fattest whitest most privileged men. A sad reflection of our society and its tendency to stick its head in the sand when it comes to looking in the mirror and acknowledging your wrongness. Imagine if this was happening to Jetta. What an utter disgrace this period was, and how heartbreaking that Goodes retired under this cloud of racism instead of with the grand celebration his career deserved.

Pretty certain Dalgleish is the umpire who has been banned from umpiring the western derby for his obvious bias towards WCE. Watch him umpire our game again this week and not pay a single ruck infringement against Gawn. Such is his incompetence.

This. Our atrocious performance this season is going to force our hand to make important but hard changes and turn over more players and coaches than we would have had we had an average season. You learn a lot from a season like this, and for me the biggest learning (other than injuries are a killer... duh!) is that we need to find some quality ball users and small forwards. We lack defensive pressure forward of the Centre and we also lack quality kicks and leg speed. I hope with an early pick we go all out to recruit a good kid and then work hard to trade in the sort of players we are missing. I also hope the club gets a good solid group of experienced coaches around Goodwin.

No argument that the man knows what winning looks like. But he won’t be around when/if we ever win a flag and I just don’t see his contribution being valid to the side. That his numbers were higher than his teammates is a poor reflection of them, rather than a highlight for him. The midfield performance was rubbish, despite the tap out and clearance differential.

My apologies. 194 was the cursed number. Sorry Freak ?

Salem was good. His kicking sticks out like a tropical island in a sea of [censored].