mcgrath_truther
AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
what i think i hate most about press conferences is that no journalist will ask the genuinely tough questions. ask him about selection choices, ask him about regressing back to what we do when we don't know what to do (bomb it long to a disadvantageous contest for our forwards, or kick it to the shortest player in the forward line). i was a toddler when we were good, and that was when brad scott player football, he was meant to be a hardcase right? why the **** is he coddling the geriatrics who're unable to perform well.
1) he talks about the intangibles; pressure etc. sure, okay, but it begs to ask why he doesn't chose to play any players who provide pressure (such as ADJ, who mightn't be the biggest contributor but he provides that pressure which we desperately need
2) he talks about flexibility and versatility. i can accept this, but how much has it actually worked? he's (essentially) unsuccessfully spent a season making nic martin into a worse 2023 nick daicos, and for what? aggressively mediocre transitional play and limited defensive capabilities (same as naicos) and worse disposal (generally speaking)
3) effort. "the thing about effort is marginal" (direct quote). our effort in the past 20 years has been atrocious. our best efforts are spread between about 4 players at the best of times, everyone else is coasting. the club breeds this mindset of complacency because campaigners are deemed "almost" undroppable and get exposed every single ****ing week by the same things. our effort has been lazy all season, and it'll only get worse.
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a (surprising no one) issue for us across this season has been the lack of defensive accountability from a ton of players. how many times have we been burnt on turnover because everyone is a lazy prick who won't try hard. i'd wager most because we're piss easy to score against. i swear or defense is almost incapable of playing well at this point. plodders like keays and shamen kick bags against us every single week because we're lazy and selfish pricks.
we also have arguably the most dysfunctional forward line in the league. langford is receiving actual attention now from actual key defenders and can't handle it. he's also probably playing injured. wright is about as soft as warm butter. stringer is a plodder who's only good against shit truck teams (and even then, he's not good). the only player who seems to actually make an effort is someone with less than 10 games of experience. he passes the eye test, the rest don't.
our list make up is trash. we have too many players who do the same thing and are incapable of expanding their capabilites. menzie was okay last year in that he kicked just under a goal a game. he's a pressure forward with no ball skills, no leg speed, no tackling ability. kelly is a dumb plodder who's incapable of making a decision quickly, heppell is old and provides "leadership" in the same sense that a dog is smart because it won't bite it's owner. laverde plays a good game every so often but still leaks goals every single game. he's so easily outmarked that i'd take a bush league player over him at this point.
it's disheartening to see him constantly pick the same group of players who're rubbish to play week in week out expecting something to change. i can't imagine how demoralising it is for some of the youth to try their asses off every single week and get heppell or kelly picked before them because... they just need to be okay!!
brad scott needs to make the tough calls this week. it was mentioned that he had that tough chat with dyson last week... then picked him again? lol. what's the point of the tough chat if you just pick him straight back in. it's unbelievable. he needs to retire and **** off from the club, so do all the middling campaigners.
/melt.
1) he talks about the intangibles; pressure etc. sure, okay, but it begs to ask why he doesn't chose to play any players who provide pressure (such as ADJ, who mightn't be the biggest contributor but he provides that pressure which we desperately need
2) he talks about flexibility and versatility. i can accept this, but how much has it actually worked? he's (essentially) unsuccessfully spent a season making nic martin into a worse 2023 nick daicos, and for what? aggressively mediocre transitional play and limited defensive capabilities (same as naicos) and worse disposal (generally speaking)
3) effort. "the thing about effort is marginal" (direct quote). our effort in the past 20 years has been atrocious. our best efforts are spread between about 4 players at the best of times, everyone else is coasting. the club breeds this mindset of complacency because campaigners are deemed "almost" undroppable and get exposed every single ****ing week by the same things. our effort has been lazy all season, and it'll only get worse.
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a (surprising no one) issue for us across this season has been the lack of defensive accountability from a ton of players. how many times have we been burnt on turnover because everyone is a lazy prick who won't try hard. i'd wager most because we're piss easy to score against. i swear or defense is almost incapable of playing well at this point. plodders like keays and shamen kick bags against us every single week because we're lazy and selfish pricks.
we also have arguably the most dysfunctional forward line in the league. langford is receiving actual attention now from actual key defenders and can't handle it. he's also probably playing injured. wright is about as soft as warm butter. stringer is a plodder who's only good against shit truck teams (and even then, he's not good). the only player who seems to actually make an effort is someone with less than 10 games of experience. he passes the eye test, the rest don't.
our list make up is trash. we have too many players who do the same thing and are incapable of expanding their capabilites. menzie was okay last year in that he kicked just under a goal a game. he's a pressure forward with no ball skills, no leg speed, no tackling ability. kelly is a dumb plodder who's incapable of making a decision quickly, heppell is old and provides "leadership" in the same sense that a dog is smart because it won't bite it's owner. laverde plays a good game every so often but still leaks goals every single game. he's so easily outmarked that i'd take a bush league player over him at this point.
it's disheartening to see him constantly pick the same group of players who're rubbish to play week in week out expecting something to change. i can't imagine how demoralising it is for some of the youth to try their asses off every single week and get heppell or kelly picked before them because... they just need to be okay!!
brad scott needs to make the tough calls this week. it was mentioned that he had that tough chat with dyson last week... then picked him again? lol. what's the point of the tough chat if you just pick him straight back in. it's unbelievable. he needs to retire and **** off from the club, so do all the middling campaigners.
/melt.
