jannissary
AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
where do we go as a club from here, exactly? week in week out, we have a stark contrast in performances, excluding zach merrett & 2023 nic martin, we rarely have anyone who'll string together a consistent number of games before 1) a season ending injury pops up, 2) soft tissue injury causes a 3 month stint on the sidelines, or just performing so poorly that they all but deserve to be dropped from the side. i can understand our end of the year last year as it was extremely evident that everyone had essentially checked out after coming up against GWS and Collingwood at the end of the season, but it's round 4, how can you honestly be proud of this performance as a coach, as a member of staff and as a player. except for a few players, it was gutless and pathetic. i've played in u15 games that had more guts than we did, and i was at best a pretty mediocre player (for a 15 year old)
some general complaints (consider this an ever expanding list)
1) we're not fit for a full 120~ minute game of football, half way through the 4th quarter we're consistently run ragged, and arguably have been for years. no other team except a decimated west coast and a young north melbourne side are about as equally unfit as we are.
2) we constantly pick no one with actual, linebreaking pace. we constantly have to rely on our kicking/handballing skills which are bad at the best of times, and result in game ruining turnovers. our win vs saint kilda last week felt like a miracle while watching our thumping today. i have no idea how we were able to keep the ball off the saints long enough to run the timer out, but it was an absolute miracle.
3) for people who're paid to kick a football for a living, they've rarely done a good job actually doing that so far over the past 5 or so years, so many times i see kicks that end up just going to nothing, or are so bad they're turned over
4) our support staff have got to be some of the worst in the league, players get injured for "1-2 weeks" and they're out for a month+ because they don't know how to diagnose or treat seemingly the most mundane injuries that plague our players.
5) i know very little about the administration side of things (for a good reason, that garbage bores me to death) which is why i'm still so confused about the lecherous parasites who still manage to maintain a position within the club like dodoro et al. has he not been one of, if not the primary source for all our failures, misfortunes and shit performances? he's been the one doing drafting, recruiting and what not for 30~ years now and what do we have to show for it, 24 years of mediocrity, while being good in the 90s? i feel extremely lucky that i was "alive" (doing a lot of work here) for both our last finals win and our last premiership. we should not hire "from the inside" as that iwll only keep the rot manifesting year afteryear
6) where to from here? what does the club have to do to actually reach our "alleged" potential. ev ery year i read rubbish about how "we're finals prospects" and all of those prospects end up going away after a shit performance like this.
i'm sure i could go on for longer and longer but i'm drunk and it's 1:30am. at least we can have solace in the fact that we were once good.
if this isn't the proper spot for this post pls put it where it belongs xoxo mods
some general complaints (consider this an ever expanding list)
1) we're not fit for a full 120~ minute game of football, half way through the 4th quarter we're consistently run ragged, and arguably have been for years. no other team except a decimated west coast and a young north melbourne side are about as equally unfit as we are.
2) we constantly pick no one with actual, linebreaking pace. we constantly have to rely on our kicking/handballing skills which are bad at the best of times, and result in game ruining turnovers. our win vs saint kilda last week felt like a miracle while watching our thumping today. i have no idea how we were able to keep the ball off the saints long enough to run the timer out, but it was an absolute miracle.
3) for people who're paid to kick a football for a living, they've rarely done a good job actually doing that so far over the past 5 or so years, so many times i see kicks that end up just going to nothing, or are so bad they're turned over
4) our support staff have got to be some of the worst in the league, players get injured for "1-2 weeks" and they're out for a month+ because they don't know how to diagnose or treat seemingly the most mundane injuries that plague our players.
5) i know very little about the administration side of things (for a good reason, that garbage bores me to death) which is why i'm still so confused about the lecherous parasites who still manage to maintain a position within the club like dodoro et al. has he not been one of, if not the primary source for all our failures, misfortunes and shit performances? he's been the one doing drafting, recruiting and what not for 30~ years now and what do we have to show for it, 24 years of mediocrity, while being good in the 90s? i feel extremely lucky that i was "alive" (doing a lot of work here) for both our last finals win and our last premiership. we should not hire "from the inside" as that iwll only keep the rot manifesting year afteryear
6) where to from here? what does the club have to do to actually reach our "alleged" potential. ev ery year i read rubbish about how "we're finals prospects" and all of those prospects end up going away after a shit performance like this.
i'm sure i could go on for longer and longer but i'm drunk and it's 1:30am. at least we can have solace in the fact that we were once good.
if this isn't the proper spot for this post pls put it where it belongs xoxo mods