Autopsy 28 point loss vs. GWS franchise

[scottywiper]

Spicer runs, works, chases and tackles.

It’s light years more than Curtis has been showing. The guy is either disinterested, lazy or lacking major fitness.

Can't disagree but Curtis is a player with the tools to succeed. He has smarts and class.
Spicer is laughably bad.

 

[Chadwiko]

From our list, who would you suggest?

General rule of thumb I think the sub should only ever be a midfielder or small forward.

Defender was a strategic misstep.

From our list I realistically would have preferred Drury, Curtis Taylor, or even Cunnington.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

At this point, we need to focus on the positives the youngsters are providing. Took it up to an experienced midfield, featuring multiple high draft picks, and just tired towards the end.

Warlord is going to be very good. JHF-who?

 

[Roosurgence]

Spicer runs, works, chases and tackles.

It’s light years more than Curtis has been showing. The guy is either disinterested, lazy or lacking major fitness.

Spicer is shit. Anyone that thinks this guy does anything that resembles an AFL level footballer is kidding themselves.

Pressure? What pressure? The only reason he chases is because he is actually too shit to win the ball.

He actually goes out of his way to avoid anything that looks like a contest where he might wear body contact.

People are delusional if they think having this bloke on the side is a good thing.

Give me ****ing Kane Turner over this potato.

 

[Val Keating]

That was such a shit game. They looked cooked after half time.

 

[koshari]

The Hawks cleared the deadwood and we kept it. Unfortunately due to Scott killing our list before he left we have to play some seniors with the kids, but most of them are just shithouse.

The only Hawks senior player that plays at North Melbourne is Frost and he even has some redeeming qualities.

We just had more to clear which obviously takes time because you only get access to 6 or 8 players a trade period untill your well into rookie/speculative territory.

 

[Val Keating]

Spicer runs, works, chases and tackles.

It’s light years more than Curtis has been showing. The guy is either disinterested, lazy or lacking major fitness.

The problem is that he fumbles too much and makes too many skill errors.

 

[zoomba23]

Poor George is gonna be pretty despondent having seen almost none of his teammates cracking in like he did. That's how you extinguish, or at least reduce, the fire in a kid's belly

 

[Roosurgence]

We just had more to clear which obviously takes time because you only get access ro 6 or 8 players a yrade period untill your well into rookie/speculative territory.

The stupidity is that we play our senior core in the back half which has become an important part of the field.

It’s just ****ing dumb.

 

[Roosurgence]

The problem is that he fumbles too much and makes too many skill errors.

And that’s when he does manage to get it, which is about as often as Sasquatch sightings.

 

[Carey4life]

Can't disagree but Curtis is a player with the tools to succeed. He has smarts and class.
Spicer is laughably bad.

Also, Curtis' kicking into our forward 50m is elite. Spicers is below below average (the second below isn't a mistake). The difference is score involvements vs turnovers in similar positions.

PC needs fitness to be sure, although far more likely to benefit the team long term from playing games now...

 

[DuckYeah]

I'm lost as we were gassed inches 2nd half. Too many passengers in the 2nd half. I'm taking this hard, thought this was our big chance

I always thought it was a 50/50 match. Ended up being so. We were bullied around contest late. Its not a bad thing, a juvenile thing.

Personally I wanted competitive and we got that. We definitely need LDU and Greenwood in the team

 

[barnrokn]

Spicer runs, works, chases and tackles.

It’s light years more than Curtis has been showing. The guy is either disinterested, lazy or lacking major fitness.

Chases like a pack a day smoker

 

[rippersnipper]

Every player that we bring into the club from now on either needs to be an exceptional kick or needs to be able to run fast and have some proper size about him. No more of these slow and/or skinny blokes that get rinsed by proper athletes time after time, and then can't do anything with the ball when they do get it.

 

[Cyber_punk]

Spicer is s**t. Anyone that thinks this guy does anything that resembles an AFL level footballer is kidding themselves.

Pressure? What pressure? The only reason he chases is because he is actually too s**t to win the ball.

He actually goes out of his way to avoid anything that looks like a contest where he might wear body contact.

People are delusional if they think having this bloke on the side is a good thing.

Give me ******* Kane Turner over this potato.

Ha I'm not sold on Spicer yet but let's not go comparing a 21yo to 27yo Turner who has had about 3 good games his entire career.

 

[Roosurgence]

Ha I'm not sold on Spicer yet but let's not go comparing a 21yo to 27yo Turner who has had about 3 good games his entire career.

That’s 3 more good games than Spicer will ever have.

 

[Firebat]

Such a chasm between our good, bad and ugly players.

I firmly believe that once the following have 20 games played together, they’ll literally drag us kicking and screaming into the 8 and the thumpings ( defined as victories over 35 points) will cease completely:

LDU, Jy, Sheez, Warlord, Powell, Scott, Ford, Thomas, Wifi, Zurrs, Larks, Logue.

 

[danj]

The Hawks cleared the deadwood and we kept it. Unfortunately due to Scott killing our list before he left we have to play some seniors with the kids, but most of them are just shithouse.

The only Hawks senior player that plays at North Melbourne is Frost and he even has some redeeming qualities.

This, anyone who can recognise Scotts impact on our current situation is going to cop a big like from me you can slice it you can dice it, you can put it in a mix master but you’ll never escape the reality that for the ten years he was out coach Scott put us behind our competitors year for year he was there

At the end of this season I see another list clean out, some excellent first round picks, good trading, Clarkson back on board for a killer preseason and our next premiership core to be on the park and firing from round 1 2024

 

[William Caresser]

Most of our senior players continue to be very ordinary and/or inconsistent. But they keep getting picked. They're not fit enough, they can"t keep up on the outside, make numerous skill errors but somehow keep getting a game.

 

[kangatragic]

We will never win games with JZ, LMac and hall as the distributors off the backline. Fix that. Fix north

100 percent agree.

 

[Yianni]

Poor George is gonna be pretty despondent having seen almost none of his teammates cracking in like he did. That's how you extinguish, or at least reduce, the fire in a kid's belly

So he's got a strong mentality and great spirit, but it's also so weak that it'll be extinguished by shitmen?

 

[justroyal]

I genuinely liked Hall and Ziebell. But it’s time to play some younger guys in at-least one of their spots. And Luke. Time for a spell.

Also, with Larkey. Yes he is a great forward. But cmon you could have put a big dent on team moral and the score board if you convert those opportunities

 

[DuckYeah]

The disrespect lol. But it's deserved and honest.

Teams are so confident against us they can spill the tactics publicly

Well outside is hard when LDU is out and we have players like Hall running around.

 

[Spud11]

This, anyone who can recognise Scotts impact on our current situation is going to cop a big like from me you can slice it you can dice it, you can put it in a mix master but you’ll never escape the reality that for the ten years he was out coach Scott put us behind our competitors year for year he was there

At the end of this season I see another list clean out, some excellent first round picks, good trading, Clarkson back on board for a killer preseason and our next premiership core to be on the park and firing from round 1 2024

Is that the same Clarkson that played a re-listed Turner for over a month while he did nothing?

Cool. Looking forward to it. Scott’s fault as well.

 

[Roosurgence]

North Melbourne back six