Preview 2019 Semi Final v West Coast
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Seems most are too angry to care about this semi final. Which is fair enough. Be nice if there was a thread to discuss game where we didnt have to deal with Scott issues / dropping Stanley etc. Lot to play for this week..
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Thank you!
Am waiting for the canes AFL members to kick in. Probably from another Fred but this whole AFL members need to be looked after is irritating given few will turn up Friday like with Syd two years ago.
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Will be bloody hilarious if there’s only 35k at the game. Ticket sales look abysmal.
There may even be more eagles supporters than cats this week
There may even be more eagles supporters than cats this week
No because Caroline Wilson and Chris Judd said it was ridiculous and the AFL thought so too. Foff the lot of them.
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All talk about preparing the the team since the bye about being primed for finals is...well not working.
Can we just revert back to pre bye form before the whole season is P1ssed away.
Can we just revert back to pre bye form before the whole season is P1ssed away.
well there is not a lot of incentive..
They will probably only say.. OK next time you are at Docklands ...
Or why it's not on at a reasonable time for Geelong folk to get to the game.
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I want to see cats the bring the heat this Friday - if ever its now. 3 games to go, all in Melborune, why not.
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David King again showing what a **** up it was to move Blicavs ‘the organiser’ from defence. That loss is on Scott. He owes us a Gf spot! Must beat WC & tigers for that disastrous decision!
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Esava interview on ‘on the mark ‘. Seems top bloke. Maybe the two Fijians for the opening bounce. Stanley in F50 . Could be great move Scotty boy!
Sav needs to stay forward or Barrass and McGovern will mark everything.
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Sav needs to smash packs like his life depended on it. Gazza at his feet to save the day.
We will lose this game by 50+. Scott needs to have his position reviewed, as does the board, once this happens. We have taken the strongest possible position, and converted it into a weak one. There's no way we beat West Coast this week, without Dunc, sore players and a ruckman who they don't even trust to play.
I have defended everything about Scott and the club for so long, but the fact that we're playing West Coast this week, instead of a final at the 'G against Brisbane or GWS, is exactly why his position needs to be reviewed. Brisbane and GWS don't know how to play the 'G that well, and Collingwood have as easy a run as they could hope for, now that they beat us. That could have been us, but it wasn't.
The disunity, Chinese whispers and subterfuge going on re: the Stanley debacle, will show on game day. Stanley is a confidence player, and we sapped him of that. We should have backed him in, even if we did lose, as he would at least have had game time and confidence coming into this week. Now it's a lose/lose situation. If someone as positive as I have been about the club this year, can think this way, then it's no wonder that there'll be f*ck all of our supporters showing up Friday. We've all had it. Scott and Carter need to go.
We don't play like a team, we play like 22 players who are trying to adhere to a rigid game-plan, whilst not trusting their teammates to adhere to it. Whatever youthful exuberance we had at the start of the year is gone, and there is no passion in how we play the last 10 weeks. We had flaws at the start of the season, but we also had individual brilliance coupled with team aggression and team camaraderie. That's all gone now. It's been replaced by the aforementioned rigid coaching and the on-field disunity that we see now.
I hope it changes, I hope I'm wrong and we win this week, but I'm 99% sure that I won't be. Some big questions need to be asked at the end of this year, and it needs to be different people asking them. Until then, we're not going anywhere.
I have defended everything about Scott and the club for so long, but the fact that we're playing West Coast this week, instead of a final at the 'G against Brisbane or GWS, is exactly why his position needs to be reviewed. Brisbane and GWS don't know how to play the 'G that well, and Collingwood have as easy a run as they could hope for, now that they beat us. That could have been us, but it wasn't.
The disunity, Chinese whispers and subterfuge going on re: the Stanley debacle, will show on game day. Stanley is a confidence player, and we sapped him of that. We should have backed him in, even if we did lose, as he would at least have had game time and confidence coming into this week. Now it's a lose/lose situation. If someone as positive as I have been about the club this year, can think this way, then it's no wonder that there'll be f*ck all of our supporters showing up Friday. We've all had it. Scott and Carter need to go.
We don't play like a team, we play like 22 players who are trying to adhere to a rigid game-plan, whilst not trusting their teammates to adhere to it. Whatever youthful exuberance we had at the start of the year is gone, and there is no passion in how we play the last 10 weeks. We had flaws at the start of the season, but we also had individual brilliance coupled with team aggression and team camaraderie. That's all gone now. It's been replaced by the aforementioned rigid coaching and the on-field disunity that we see now.
I hope it changes, I hope I'm wrong and we win this week, but I'm 99% sure that I won't be. Some big questions need to be asked at the end of this year, and it needs to be different people asking them. Until then, we're not going anywhere.
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West Coast are beatable, I'm really not sure where this whole West Coast are flying thing has come from, in the last 6 weeks they barely beat Melbourne and Adelaide, lost to Hawthorn and were far from dominant against Carlton.
I don't like wishing bad but a low turnout of Geelong supporters might make another statement that our delusional coach might acknowledge. He will blame the weather... I have lost any strong connection to the club and players with Scott in charge, his smart ass attitude has no place at our club. Start being a smart ass when you can at least coach our players the basics.
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Pretty much where I'm at too.
For so long I quietly believed in CS......and at social gatherings etc I defended him against allegations of stubbornness, arrogance and cluelesness.
But he's destroyed my confidence just as surely as he has Stanley's. Yep, he's got us to the finals on regular occasions, but starting every race near pole position only to hit the fence on the first corner nearly every time has become intolerable.
It simply can't be written off as an unlucky streak or plain bad luck anymore. Thirteen times we've started, ten times we've hit the fence. That's a pattern.
The only remaining comfort this time round is that we're still in the race, albeit we've lost a few positions, sustained some panel damage, got a loose wheel, and the steering is unpredictable.
Can we make the finish line from here?
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