Interdimensional Bigfoot
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that's not a good thing tho.Sav was possibly our best player on Friday.
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that's not a good thing tho.Sav was possibly our best player on Friday.
Yes good pointsThe cherry on top with both coaches thinking he was in the top 4 players on the ground. In his first proper game (Eagles at KP doesn't count) in the role, in front of 90,000 fans in a game where our midfield was pulverised.
If he had a bad game McStay would have taken 14 marks and kicked 8 goals in such circumstances.
Won a flag 3 games ago lolAhem…
Is it? That side was reliant on a lot of old players playing well, and they did that at the back end of the 2022 season and into the grand final.How we've gone from the best team in the comp to the worst in 6 months is baffling.
Is it? That side was reliant on a lot of old players playing well, and they did that at the back end of the 2022 season and into the grand final.
But for players in that age bracket, the end can come quick, especially if they ease off, lose fitness, have interrupted pre-seasons, are carrying injuries, etc.
Last year seemed like we hit a tremendous purple patch of many players playing their best despite their age or previous inconsistency. Now we're seeing the opposite side of it. Many are slowing down, playing injured or playing at their worst.
It's not just the oldies though, the younger players are all playing below their best as well.
But yeah some could have fallen away.
I think when a lot of players start falling away around you, it affects your form as well, especially when you're a younger player who derived confidence from trusting and expecting certain things from your teammates. Suddenly you're not getting the same support from your teammates, they're not winning it at the contest as they were, not leading for you, not able to get to the same positions as they were previously, not blocking for you, etc. A lot of the time young players blossom in premiership teams because the system is functioning so well. Now it is not, so they are perhaps a bit out of sorts.It's not just the oldies though, the younger players are all playing below their best as well.
But yeah some could have fallen away.
I think when a lot of players start falling away around you, it affects your form as well, especially when you're a younger player who derived confidence from trusting and expecting certain things from your teammates. Suddenly you're not getting the same support from your teammates, they're not winning it at the contest as they were, not leading for you, not able to get to the same positions as they were previously, not blocking for you, etc. A lot of the time young players blossom in premiership teams because the system is functioning so well. Now it is not, so they are perhaps a bit out of sorts.
That said, a guy like Stengle should be doing a lot better. Many of them should.
Yep, guys like Stengle, Close, Holmes etc aren't replicating their 2022 form.
Unless you explicitly predicted it before the season, then yes it it very surprising.Is it? That side was reliant on a lot of old players playing well, and they did that at the back end of the 2022 season and into the grand final.
But for players in that age bracket, the end can come quick, especially if they ease off, lose fitness, have interrupted pre-seasons, are carrying injuries, etc.
Last year seemed like we hit a tremendous purple patch of many players playing their best despite their age or previous inconsistency. Now we're seeing the opposite side of it. Many are slowing down, playing injured or playing at their worst.
That’s probably down to the older guys performing so they played their role and looked good last year. Now it’s time for them to stand up in an underperforming side which is a lot harder, and as you can see, non existent so far.
Precedent for sacking a coach 4 games after a flag?
Precedent for sacking a coach 4 games after a flag?
Nah, they won't.
You took that comment seriously?....really?
Scotty was very prickly in the press conference yesterday. I actually like seeing him being a bit more emotional and combative in the presser. As long as he's not a downright knob like Ross Lyon or Damian Hardwick, I'm all for it.
Buckley is a flog. It was clearly done to injury or take away the ability to compete.He was irritated by the "hit" on Blicavs and the umpires ignoring it, even though the AFL had issued an advice saying actions like that were reportable.
Meek simply kneed Blicavs in the abdomen in a way the AFL had deemed reportable.
Stanley was a victim of a similar incident inflicted by Tom deKoning that kept him out last week.
Scott pressed hard that ruckmen MUST stop this action, particularly so when they never even leave the ground but simply knee their opponent.
Seeing the incidents, I tend to agree, though Nathan Buckley felt it was a non-event..