Roast 2025 hopefully the year of being less shit. Warning includes club criticisms

[FR0GGY]

Mark Bickley?

Is there another Bickley of note?

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

Apparently Bickley is going to get stuck into the rebuild and selection after 5

How did this go?

 

[George Kramer]

How did this go?

I fell asleep and missed it! I do have covid mind you

 

[Mr_Moogle]

I fell asleep and missed it! I do have covid mind you

Bicks criticising the club may have just been a fever dream.

 

[GameofSloanes]

Sometimes online forums/social media is purely a loud minority/groupthink and not the mainstream.

But when myself, my best mates and my family members who barely missed a game for 20 years aren't even going when free tickets are on offer, there are very serious problems beyond "online banter" and COVID.

I've probably missed more games this year than every other season where I've been living in Australia, combined. Including the covid years
However it's because ive been sick often. Missing tomorrow because i booked a holiday due to the rolling fixture and not knowing when games are on
The hurt of missing them is not there this year though, team has become aimless. Somehow nicks' game plan has become worse each year, you used to be able to see glimpses of play and think 'if they keep working on it, that will happen more often' and think things were progressing well. I can't remember too many passages of play like that this year

 

[LeftyLuke]

and laird and keays..

he was putting benny’s stats up against oliver and petracca for comparison for a while there…








this post to get the “thumbsdown“ from Mutineer in 3, 2, 1….

You missed ROB.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

and laird and keays..

he was putting benny’s stats up against oliver and petracca for comparison for a while there…








this post to get the “thumbsdown“ from Mutineer in 3, 2, 1….

I don't want to rag on the guy. I don't care that he has favourites. It's just that he holds on well past the used-by date.

 

[Interloperer]

Do Adelaide win another game this year?

Probably at least one. But it's no certainty.

The Swans and Blues are likely defeats. Eagles are very beatable but it will be tough in Perth. And while the Roos still look bad, but are an order of magnitude more competitive now. The best chance may be if the Power have made or missed the eight by then and switched off for the last round.

 

[LeftyLuke]

Do Adelaide win another game this year?

Probably at least one. But it's no certainty.

The Swans and Blues are likely defeats. Eagles are very beatable but it will be tough in Perth. And while the Roos still look bad, but are an order of magnitude more competitive now. The best chance may be if the Power have made or missed the eight by then and switched off for the last round.

Maybe 1 against North but they looked good tonight.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Do Adelaide win another game this year?

Probably at least one. But it's no certainty.

The Swans and Blues are likely defeats. Eagles are very beatable but it will be tough in Perth. And while the Roos still look bad, but are an order of magnitude more competitive now. The best chance may be if the Power have made or missed the eight by then and switched off for the last round.

4 teams including us on 5 wins... so we will finish somewhere between 13th & 16th.

I said at the beginning of the year I suspect we would finish around the same position with a younger team.

I would say pick #3 looks far more likely than pick #6.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

I've basically accepted I'll never see us win another flag in my lifetime

 

[Danger in Texas]

There are signs of life with a few players on our list. Namely Thilthorpe, Berry, Rachele, Soligo

That said, we need more overall talent (top-end guys and suitable role players) as well as a better, more free-flowing offensive game plan (new coach?). Both are non-negotiables if we want to be in the eight by 2025

 

[AFC979810]

I don't think its as bad as it seems.

Its a game of very small margins. Get a competent coach in there and our future is a lot brighter IMO.

 

[rubbers0ul]

What is the p1ss poor excuse of those with a list management title at the crows able to explain how interstate teams are able to pick so many ‘diamonds in the rough’ players at the end of the draft after crows had overlooked all of them?


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[LeftyLuke]

What is the p1ss poor excuse of those with a list management title at the crows able to explain how interstate teams are able to pick so many ‘diamonds in the rough’ players at the end of the draft after crows had overlooked all of them?


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Our team is stacked.

 

[GROTTO]

I've basically accepted I'll never see us win another flag in my lifetime

I feel for you, I think the AFL system is too long and wrong to wait to rebuild and if you do that wrong, you need to go through that process again.

Ive said before on here, I think our next genuine chance of a flag is in the 2030s. By that time, yes we will lose a lot of posters like yourself who have followed the Club passionately.

The only way to possibly "cheat the system" and reduce that length of time is either hope for elite Father-Son selections we get for basically free and or hope we nail not only our 1st rounders, but 2nd rounder picks as well with elite class. Neither of those scenarios however seems likely, so its the 2030s for us.

 

[GROTTO]

Its not all doom and gloom.


Mathematically the Crows can still make the 8.

 

[kirky]

I've basically accepted I'll never see us win another flag in my lifetime

Thanks for depressing us older folk.

Now for a more philosophical question. Why are we here? What is our purpose? Is this it? If so, what do we make of it all?

 

[GROTTO]

Thanks for depressing us older folk.

Now for a more philosophical question. Why are we here? What is our purpose? Is this it? If so, what do we make of it all?

We exist to help facilitate the rebuild for the next generation of Crows posters.

Only Alex and myself will be around to tell the stories.

 

[LeftyLuke]

Its not all doom and gloom.


Mathematically the Crows can still make the 8.

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Wow. Back to the future. Starring Michael J Nick's as Doc.

 

[LeftyLuke]

I've basically accepted I'll never see us win another flag in my lifetime

If you're over 40 you probably won't.

 

[LeftyLuke]

I feel for you, I think the AFL system is too long and wrong to wait to rebuild and if you do that wrong, you need to go through that process again.

Ive said before on here, I think our next genuine chance of a flag is in the 2030s. By that time, yes we will lose a lot of posters like yourself who have followed the Club passionately.

The only way to possibly "cheat the system" and reduce that length of time is either hope for elite Father-Son selections we get for basically free and or hope we nail not only our 1st rounders, but 2nd rounder picks as well with elite class. Neither of those scenarios however seems likely, so its the 2030s for us.

You gotta nail your top end picks and pick out some gems in the 30-60's. Also you gotta attract quality trades/free agents to plug holes and have an elite coach. Lastly you need luck with injury. Not easy to win a flag.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Its not all doom and gloom.


Mathematically the Crows can still make the 8.

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Certainties.

Has any side ever made the 8 with less than 12 wins?

 

[GROTTO]

Certainties.

Has any side ever made the 8 with less than 12 wins?

The Final 8 with Grotto

In theory, you can make the 8 with ZERO wins.

The Pies made the 8 with 9wins and a draw in the reduced 2020 season.

Since the top eight was introduced in 1994 shows that to be guaranteed a finals spot, a team needs to win 13 games. All 28 teams to have won 13 games in a season in the past 21 seasons have played finals footy.

The same can not be said of the 12-win teams, although it’s still very likely. Thirty of 35 teams to win 12 games since 1994 have played finals footy — a rate of 85.7 per cent. The other teams to miss out were St Kilda (2012), Hawthorn (2003) and Richmond (1998 and 1994).

Seven of 30 teams to win 11 games since 1994 played finals footy, as well as two teams that won 10 games with a draw and one, the Brisbane Bears in 1995, qualifying for September action with just 10 wins.

This excludes the Blues making the 8 because of the Dons and their Drugs.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I've basically accepted I'll never see us win another flag in my lifetime

Don't give up hope

There might be Div 1 and Div 2 one day