Autopsy 2024 Rd 22 Blues finals hopes sink like a stone

[Loose at HB]

Haven’t left a game early in my life.

Not proud of it but did today. Pathetic effort. I can cop shit - I’m 29 and have seen nothing but shit following the Blues my entire life.

What I can’t cop is that pathetic half arsed effort. Injuries aside, that is the worst performance I have witnessed live - maybe because of the expectation and the fact that this team is nowhere near as poor as what they showed today. They just never wanted it

There is something seriously seriously wrong with our footy club.

 

[viking12]

Season done with Hawks having Tigers & North last 2 games.

need Crows to beat Dogs to still have a chance.

Another game where speed was the issue and this one should have been seen a mile away.

 

[MitchRobinson12]

Insipid performance, same old story, no spread from contest, no plan but bomb down the line from defence. Key defenders 15m off their man even though our mids are getting slaughtered. Amateur club.

 

[Bobmonkey]

hope the club enjoys having 50-75k members next year instead of 100k+

You wouldn’t buy a faulty TV or any other faulty product, why pay for a faulty team?

 

[WyntersGame_]

Round of Applause to all fans who stuck it out through that game, oh and Cowan can hold his head high

Otherwise nothing positive to really say so I'll leave it to others

 

[jj1978]

A comedy will be playing soon, Voss’ presser.

 

[Santo the king]

well we fell away meekly

cowan, wieters and cripps tried...

 

[Opium]

Didn't cook publicly state that it would be a disaster if we missed finals earlier in the year? It's as bad as could possibly be. At least now we can blood some kids

 

[DirtyLeeds]

Injuries just added to the malaise, what I want to know what specifically happened after quarter time in round 19? Have injuries completely derailed the year? Is this why Russell has been effectively sacked? Why have we gone back to the same well at every opportunity? How many first year players have we actually given a game to this year? So how do we actually measure them?

 

[berisha]

Absolutely annihilated on the field and in the coaches box. Voss needs to get off the bench and back into the box. In reality he should be sacked but no chance Sayers does that.

Embarrassing, pathetic, disgusting, gutless. There's just so many adjectives you could use. We are completely shite.

 

[Kruezing]

No wonder I drink.

Drink smoke it’s all happening again

 

[Graffy4242]

Must be the first time in a while that Carlton, Essendon, Collingwood and Richmond have all missed the finals.

One small positive

 

[Sam The Doc]

Urgh how to finish the year with a bang !

 

[Bringbackeddie]

Can you imagine, your whole bloodline following the Hawks, reminding you that they’ve won 4 premierships since my birth to our 0, went through a rebuild and have overtaken us again in the same time?

What a miserable day. Miserable.

I’ve been biting my tongue for a couple weeks now thinking just one win will make it all click, oh how foolish I was/am.

I honestly, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart think this club is about to implode from within, we may need to make some drastic changes come years end.

I’d get rid of Vossy, think he’s respectfully inept compared to a majority of the other coaches in the league. but that won’t happen, I don’t think.

Feel your pain. My wife, daughter and sister all Hawks supporters. I even bought my daughter a blues jersey when she was 3, but she ditched it a few years later in favour of the brown and yellow. Kind of glad for her she did - being a blues supporter is a tough gig.

 

[dumb]

Continued our ineptness early, then had injuries seal the deal. Not that I could say we would have won otherwise.
This was supposed to be the easy part of the draw. Arguably a worse fall than Essendon.

 

[thefrog]

I guess we have to play some youth next week…

Although knowing our Match Comittee we will play Young at half forward instead of blooding Lemmey and somehow Binns/Lord won’t get a look in

 

[TENACIOUS]

Game plan is outdated, we bomb it so much we don’t run or provide options anymore…

We lack KPD (Gov & Kemp liabilities)

We lack in midfield outside of Cripps and our small forwards are non existent most weeks.

We don’t have the B graders to take us the next step, because we pay our a graders too much.

Hawks have gone passed us and they have heaps of cash to spend.

 

[Soapy V]

Gutted

 

[jj1978]

Haven’t left a game early in my life.

Not proud of it but did today. Pathetic effort. I can cop shit - I’m 29 and have seen nothing but shit following the Blues my entire life.

What I can’t cop is that pathetic half arsed effort. Injuries aside, that is the worst performance I have witnessed live - maybe because of the expectation and the fact that this team is nowhere near as poor as what they showed today. They just never wanted it

There is something seriously seriously wrong with our footy club.

Lots of gold after a big loss.. the things I saw and heard after our record shellacking to North in the 00’s is something I’ll always remember.

 

[HarryFlashman]

I love you all.

Well done Hawthorn. Too good today. Good luck in the finals.

Bring on the off field clean out.

In Brian Cook we trust.

Unfortunately Cook signed off on Voss’s extension early this year, that doesn’t happen to inspire my trust!
There was no need to do it & look at us now

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

To go from a potential top two team to that rabble we've just seen is a shocking collapse in form.

Our list has issues, we have injury prone players etc, but Vossy won't survive another poor year in 2025.

I do have every trust in Brian Cook's ability to make the right calls at the end of the year. Of course we might still make the finals, but we'll only be making up the numbers.

Last year was a flash in the pan sadly. We still have a fair bit of work to do, before we're ready to win a flag imo.

 

[SolGoodman]

To me, all of this falls on the match committee and in turn, Vossy.

So many times we’ve chosen to rush back players and not trust nor even give anyone in the VFL a chance, now it’s come back to bite the whole club on the backside.

There’s almost no way we make finals, and even if we somehow did, we’d just be making up the numbers.

So the question truly is, what now?

 

[BlueLocke]

Ah back to having our hearts crushed. Must’ve skipped the anger stage, because it’s straight to sadness.

 

[M_I_G]

Single select player voting
Appropriate

 

[jj1978]

Injuries just added to the malaise, what I want to know what specifically happened after quarter time in round 19? Have injuries completely derailed the year? Is this why Russell has been effectively sacked? Why have we gone back to the same well at every opportunity? How many first year players have we actually given a game to this year? So how do we actually measure them?

You can just see us playing Charlie, McGov, Saad, Fog etc next week just to not play kids. Even Acres is hurting with a bad shoulder.