Did we even want it?

[GreatBradScott]

THOMAS IN THE BEST?

WHAT GAME WERE YOU WATCHING?

SICK OF DEFENDING SOMEONE WHO CAN'T KICK.

DELIST, TRADE, DUMP, DO NOT WANT.

I'm sorry, I can't do it anymore. We love him because he's blue and white, but we all need a does of reality, he's NOT an AFL player. I'm so sorry guys, but he's not. We need to admit this.

 

[Angus1]

Loss? Those 3 players were available and overlooked.

I can't pick the teams pal.
IMO it made a huge difference to our structure.

 

[DarwinRoo]

cant wait to get back hansen like some posters are salivating... he will make a huge difference... just like cunnington in the middle... nothing against these guys personally... i'm sure they are great guys to have a beer with, but as top 5 draft picks they are killing us.... look at the top 4 last year for evidence.
coll... top 5 picks - thomas , pendlebury
hawks ... roughhead, franklin

Hansen didn't even play you muppet.

Hawks 2005 Pick 3 Ellis Pick 6 Dowler
Hawks 2006 Pick 7 Thorpe

 

[DarwinRoo]

THOMAS IN THE BEST?

WHAT GAME WERE YOU WATCHING?

SICK OF DEFENDING SOMEONE WHO CAN'T KICK.

DELIST, TRADE, DUMP, DO NOT WANT.

I'm sorry, I can't do it anymore. We love him because he's blue and white, but we all need a does of reality, he's NOT an AFL player. I'm so sorry guys, but he's not. We need to admit this.

And Thomas is the only player you think played shit?

 

[GreatBradScott]

And Thomas is the only player you think played shit?

Not at all. Goldy, Cunnington.... I really can't do this now. I need to sleep.


Just.. blah. Kicking kills us.

 

[Twinkletoes]

I really can't do this now. I need to sleep.

You're not alone there GBS.

Originally Posted by Kangalicious
I'm as pissed off about that result as anyone. But FFS, we were a matter of centimetres from winning, against a team that had thrown everything at us.

Exactly how I feel KL. It's round one. We move on..................

 

[John Dorian]

When it mattered no we didn't want it.

But I'd rather a game that we lost (literally), than a game where the Bombers won it by being better.

Chuck in Grima, Hansen and Jacky Z and we are a completely different side.

 

[Husk]

Effort was not the issue apart from a couple of notables. Unless our clearance work improves, we are going to get utterly smashed by the top sides again this year.

Collingwood or Hawthorn would have reamed us tonight.

 

[Old Skool]

We are lucky we weren't don by 40. They got violated by the umpired and didnt kick straight, it would have been a blight on the game had we won.

That was a ****ing embarassing performance and Im not even sure the In:McKinleyesque selection work was even the problem.

Turnovers, skill errors, and all the other shit that comes from playing a dozen kids doesn't cover it.

Did we even want it?

Skills were abysmal.

I mean........LEGENDARY......abysmal.

Essendon may as well have had 25 players on the park tonight, such was the dire state of our disposal.

We made their job unbelievabkly easy, yet they're so shit they almost fluffed it.

 

[The Chiefton]

Aaron Edwards was disgusting tonight, looked dejected, hardly chased, dropped some marks, and dropped the absolutely crucial mark with 3-4 mins to go in the last, which he should have taken every day of the week. If he can't do it there, then **** me dead.....
Shit game, bullshit turnovers, making certain Essendon players look good, too many times we kicked to a 2-3 on one situation ...AGAINNNNN, oh look there's David Hille, Dyson Heppell or Patrick Ryder, let's kick it near them. We tried to pissfart around with the ball one to many times, EVERY TIME. We were SMASHED in the ruck, absolutely frigging smashed. We deserved to lose. Yeah cool, sweet... we fought hard to come back and almost pinched it, but to be in that position in the first place is just YUCK.

Turnover after turnover, after turnover, after turnover, dropping marks under no real pressure..... it just never stops with North Melbourne.

We better come out and win by 80+ points next week, no excuses. Brad Scott should be filthy with himself, and the fact that we lose another round one game by under a kick, but at least we tried our ARSES off last year in WA, with no ruckman.

ps: Please start kicking the ball more, Ryan Bastinac. 11 handballs out of 17 possies needs to be fixed.

2 blokes over 160 (5 over 100) for the scum in supercoach and only 1 bloke over 100 for us? yeah, nah.

 

[The Other Dean]

We made their job unbelievably easy, yet they're so shit they almost fluffed it.

Apart from playing to my natural hatred for that rubbish club (in as much as I know they won't be setting any worlds on fire this year), this gives me no f***ing consolation whatsoever.

 

[scottywiper]

THOMAS IN THE BEST?

WHAT GAME WERE YOU WATCHING?

SICK OF DEFENDING SOMEONE WHO CAN'T KICK.

DELIST, TRADE, DUMP, DO NOT WANT.

I'm sorry, I can't do it anymore. We love him because he's blue and white, but we all need a does of reality, he's NOT an AFL player. I'm so sorry guys, but he's not. We need to admit this.

In all seriousness...LT was a beacon across half forward.
He turned half chances into chances tonight, when he had no right to.

 

[AngryLittleMan]

For a quarter and a half they seemed to want it more, they ran harder and were more willing to spread hard up the field and give the ball carrier something to kick too.

We have to many passengers for mine, not enough given from alot of blokes and a few guys getting through on potential and not much more at the moment.

Should have lost by 5 goals+, It's laughable we got so close.

 

[ThePezDispenser]

Blokes having a go at Lindsay??? Please??

 

[Mordecai]

Boys tried bloody hard I thought.

We just aren't a side who can cover the loss of key players such as Zeibel, Greenwood, Pederson, Grima, Delaney and Hanson.
Add them and the whole structure will be different and we might knock teams like Essendon over.
The worry is we can't cover them.

Choice of the coach though.

Tarrant going down is what did us in. It all changed after that.

 

[Woodson]

Too many panic merchants..

If H kicks the goal you'd have different opinions..

You'd think this game will make North's chances from now on, an incredible task.. c'mon people.. pull yourselves together. Both teams are even.. an eight point game most definitely but then again.. the Bombers will find ways to shoot themselves in the foot against other (lesser?) teams and hopefully North will be more resilient and squeeze out a few upset results. Can be done. LOCk it in!

 

[The Chiefton]

Too many panic merchants..

If H kicks the goal you'd have different opinions..

You'd think this game will make North's chances from now on, an incredible task.. c'mon people.. pull yourselves together. Both teams are even.. an eight point game most definitely but then again.. the Bombers will find ways to shoot themselves in the foot against other (lesser?) teams and hopefully North will be more resilient and squeeze out a few upset results. Can be done. LOCk it in!

Sorry mate, I like your positivity, but right now I feel like putting my fist through the computer screen.
Losing round one, like that, to Essendon (again in rd 1, like 08), just doesn't cut it.

 

[Coldacre]

beautiful thread

 

[Old Skool]

beautiful thread

I don't see why you would be gloating about anything.

Your lot were just a slightly different shade of shit.

If Hamish had kicked straight, Hird would be swinging from the rafters of Etihad.

 

[Husk]

I don't see why you would be gloating about anything.

Your lot were just a slightly different shade of shit.

If Hamish had kicked straight, Hird would be swinging from the rafters of Etihad.

Agree.

They smashed us in the clearances and had 67 inside 50s, yet we still could have won the game with the last kick.

Mediocre team at best.

 

[Old Skool]

Agree.

They smashed us in the clearances and had 67 inside 50s, yet we still could have won the game with the last kick.

Mediocre team at best.

Put Ziebell, Hansen, Grima and a fit Greenwood in our side and we win by 5+ goals last night.

I'm not concerned about Essendon in the slighest. I'm shooting for much higher stakes.

 

[Husk]

Put Ziebell, Hansen, Grima and a fit Greenwood in our side and we win by 5+ goals last night.

I'm not concerned about Essendon in the slighest. I'm shooting for much higher stakes.

I am critical of his disposal, but we missed Greenwoods hardness last night.

We only need 1 more KPD too IMO. We were good apart from the Goldstein at FB experiment.

 

[Juryduty]

Of course North wanted or they would never have fought back like they did.

But comeback aside, we can't go away from the truth that our midfield were beaten tonight, our ruckman ordinary, Essendon went inside 50 metres 67 times, keep that up and we'll lose alot of games and lets face we are gonna come up against better midielders than the bombers in games to come.

Gotta lift and gotta get tougher.

 

[naturally north]

Bit harsh picking on the Bombers, only reason we got close was their shocking kicking for goal.We've much bigger problems...

 

[keeno 111]

How we didn't lose by 40 odd points I don't know?

We were killed tonight in the middle all over the ground they controlled it for most of the second half. To think we could of won...


I'm going to go cry now