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That was directed at a 28 year old in his seventh season at the club.
The nonsense about Vince's behaviour may have been stupid but the trade worked out pretty well for us. How many times would we have been better off trading a player in their late twenties while they still have value instead of handing them a long term deal? Imagine if we'd traded guys like Smith, Sloane and Laird when we had the chance.
Doesn’t nicks have a worse win %Well almost no onehttps://www.geelongunitedbasketball.com.au/person/mark-neeld
Our effort on tonight’s game holds most interest to me. With very few exceptions I have always felt the team has “played for” Nicks. “Emptied themselves out” was Buckleys description about our players efforts last year in a close loss to Pies at The G.
Now IF they come out tonight and don’t give a shit - say 10 goal + loss - then it actually says something very disturbing to me that he may have finally lost them. Plenty of teams in our situation do lost these sort of games by huge margins at the end of a year.
I will be interested in our efforts as may be illuminating
We never would never have traded him if we weren't stripped of the draft picks for the Tippettgate debacle.
Possibly, can’t be bothered checking, but Neeld seemed completely out of his depth from day one and lost the players almost immediately from memory. For all his faults, Nicks and the team had shown textbook linear improvement cumulating in being the highest scoring team (first time a non 8 team for decades) in 2023 playing a very attractive game style and seemed capable of beating ANY team on any day (our record against top 4 teams overall was very good - I think best in the competition).
He has as many goals as Bobby Hill this year - do people think Hill has been underwhelming? Not sure how many games this year though in comparison
I think Hill hasn’t progressed this year. Either the same or slightly worse than last year. - not that I follow as closely.
It's gone right into this tertitory:
It's leadership team first.
LOL ....someone posted that getting Luko would spell the end of Murphy .....so anything goes apparently
Prime Eddie Betts wouldn’t spell the end of Murphy.
Won't get an argument from me ....and at least you put some rationale into your post & POVBoy oh boy you fans will be the reason Rachele leaves, not the decision for him to get dropped. Shaking the cage after someone gets dropped after 10 disposals at 40% disposal efficiency. Go back in this thread a month ago and ya’ll were asking for him to be dropped. He finally gets dropped, and apparently it’s a crisis? Talk about a beat up.
The club has backed him in all season, when he had some real ugly moments that have cost us games. He has publicly come out and demanded midfield minutes but continues to shirk contests. He has finally been dropped (maybe a bit too late) for a dead rubber in Sydney against the top team and you’re all ripping up your memberships?
I enjoyed the banter during the week, and had a chuckle at the celebration, but there is a certain expectation that if you put the spotlight on yourself, particularly for an away game, that you back it up. Josh did not do that. Chad Cornes (hate him) would at least make his comments, but then destroy us most showdowns.
Port have been the ones recently making comments prior to showdowns, their whole ‘crows are entitled’ script, and it didn’t work for them. Josh gave Port a reason to be fired up, and the fans backed them up.
All this ‘he has no choice but to ask for a trade now’ talk is crap. How many games do you think Tex, Bernie Vince would’ve played for the club if they asked for a trade every time they got told off? We will actually learn a lot about Josh in the next 6 months. This could be a turning point and he might knuckle down big time. If he asks for a trade? Well, then he can’t have been that invested in the first place.
The only issue I have with how this was handled was Rory Laird’s comments on radio. His football hasn’t done the talking in years now, so he has no place to make those comments.
Josh has all the makings of a star, but still has so so so many things in his game he needs to iron out, and I think him focusing on those deficiency’s rather than poking the bear will hold him and the club in better stead going forward.
Look forward to all you campaigners disagreeing with me
Perhaps our Women management should take over the men's too...
Didn't take a Rhodes Scholar to tell you Murphy wasn't getting dropped ....however he is still just a placeholder
A guy yesterday on radio having a go at Josh and saying Akermanis might say stuff but back it up by kicking 5.
This whole thing is a distraction away from how pathetic our leadership group are collectively on the field. The team lost their way after the Rankine hit. Where were the leaders? Oh, it’s Josh’s fault as his comments don’t help us win. What a bunch of losers..
Blight, Sanders, Hammond etc era.Yet we won two flags in two years!
This was my exact point. We have shown that you don't need to be at the top for many years to win two in a row.
So it continues .....Dawson is pathetic on field ....Keays is pathetic hey
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