Before Half Time V Power

[The Kipster]

I am watching the game in disbelief and have to say we have not improved and are now playing like we were when Swabby was coaching. It's a disgrace - do we have a runner? as I haven't seen one yet, even when mistakes get made why don't players get dragged?
I am bitterly disapointed and can't believe we are as bad as we are playing at the moment - IT IS AN EMBARRESSMENT!!!!

 

[Bennycoff]

i give up. we are pathetic, that word doesnt even describe us.

 

[Philhawk]

 

[Armageddon]

Ypu've got a long way to go, you're a very young team, those early wins have made expectations a lot higher. Plenty of time, you will get there though, just got to have patience.

 

[Roughie]

Our 2 biggest problems are obviously poor disposal and were mentally weak. We are **** weak, No one wants to run with their man, no one wants to chase, no one wants to push up ground to get the ball. Does any one besides Hodge and Clarke want to try today? lets hope the 2nd half shows something.

 

[Bennycoff]

it won't we will get absolutely smashed, 150+ points.

hodge and clarke deserve captaincy roles, nobody else tries. i hate supporting this club these days, always saying the future is bright, what a load of ****.

 

[burner1]

Ypu've got a long way to go, you're a very young team, those early wins have made expectations a lot higher. Plenty of time, you will get there though, just got to have patience.

Thankyou. A bit of perspective. We are an average team with little depth or experience missing croad, jacobs, crawf, guerra, osbourne, vanders, thats 6 starting 22 players, of which one is our best defender, one our best kpp, one in our top couple of mids and one the captain who is one of the only senoir player who shows leadership on a consistenet basis. Most importantly they are all senoir players with experience.

Out there today our most senoir players are everiit, who doesnt give a stuff, barker in his first game back for yonks, and questionably leaders in smith and dixon. Not sure if theres many other players in the lineup who hav played over 100 games. We have no depth and lack leadership. We were expected to come bottom of the ladder. We will finish in the bottom 3. In the first few rounds we jumped some other teams. Now everyone is up and running and we are were we should be. Near the bottom. Really hard to say how much is AC;s fault as we have not much to work with. In hindsight you can see why Wallet and Rocket steered well clear of hawthorn as theres going to be a lot of pain before we are any good.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Ypu've got a long way to go, you're a very young team, those early wins have made expectations a lot higher. Plenty of time, you will get there though, just got to have patience.

So ..... thinking we should be doing better than being 13 goals down against an ordinary Port Adelaide team is expecting too much? Garbage.

 

[Roughie]

I dont care if we loose by 200 points, I just want the boys to give it a ****ing crack. I want to see them run hard, I want to see atleast one tackle laid with out it being broken, just bloody show something will ya boys?

 

[Buster the hawk]

Have not seen such a substandard team in the comp since Fitzroy's final year.We deserve to be given the ar$e out of Victoria more so than the Roos.We are disgusting.Nothing up forward nothing down back and nothing in between.It's about time Franklin and Roughead started showing something.......anything ,getting the ball just once would be a good start.I'm sick of excuses like being a young team and all that crap because any team that serves up a performance like this one today deserves to be thoroughly cleaned out young or old.

 

[Honest John]

We are the worst team goin around at the moment by far.How did we win 4 games.We need pace pace pace. No one in a hawks jumper will take on the opposition to break the lines or catch a player and drag them down.we are the worst team kicking in or defending a behind .Opposition teams play the huddle we are not even smart enough to have outriders like smart teams .2 cleanouts already done with 2 more to follow. the way we`re goin the hodges & mitchells will want to play in better teams & jump ship when we do start to improve. Obviously a lot of hawk players are overpaid.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I may be the minority here, but FFS can we get past the thinking that Franklin and Roughead, two 19yr olds, are goin to win us games in thier second year of AFL football.
They should be following our leaders, not being judged becasue they are not leading from the front.

Look at the other clubs who have introduced young KPP's to thier senior teams and see who they have around them. These teams have the luxury of playing thier kids in forward or back pockets.
We have thrown Roughie down in the backline as a means to stop rampaging forwards, IN HIS SECOND YEAR!!.......some people here need to get a grip of reality and realise AFL football is not simple and 19 KPP's are not goin to carry us.