Opinion Non-Crows AFL 9

[MrBarry]

Spend the collateral where it’s needed and trade for other positions.

Won't win them a flag. I'd bet the farm they don't make a GF this year or next. They go to ****ing water when the heats on.

Port have an incredibly soft underbelly.

 

[Crow till I die]

Your list manager is very good at his job. I’d back him in to get some things done.

I honestly don’t (and have maintained this belief) believe your list is bad, the new coach will hopefully have a transformative effect - too much talent there to waste.

I know it sounds like a dream, but at some point there will be enough people tired of not moving and some decisive changes made

I love your optimism Shuestar13 , i really do, but i don't have daith in our board to sack nicks and to get this group up and running. We are in for a few more years of mediocrity i feel. Tbh, it would not shock me to see your side shoot past us in coming seasons. I have really changed my perceptions since preseason on my club

 

[dblstR]

Watching Trac and Claz line up in the midfield against our battlers last night and now watching port have 3 genuine A+ graders at their cbas just makes me vomit

 

[cleanhands]

Need Rory to announce his retirement to take the heat off and focus on Rory

 

[MrBarry]

Watching Trac and Claz line up in the midfield against our battlers and now watching port have 3 genuine A+ graders at their cbas just makes me vomit

And yet they are kicking it to people like Dixon and Rioli.

Mediocre at best. No point having a porsche engine in an old toyota hilux.

 

[Crow till I die]

Won't win them a flag. I'd bet the farm they don't make a GF this year or next. They go to ******* water when the heats on.

Port have an incredibly soft underbelly.

We hope this to be true but if jhf, butters, rozee, wines stay fit and healthy, they have a winning midfield and that pays for just about everything else these days

 

[FR0GGY]

Won't win them a flag. I'd bet the farm they don't make a GF this year or next. They go to ******* water when the heats on.

Port have an incredibly soft underbelly.

Look at Melbourne then, drafted mids with high picks then traded in other positions.
Collingwood similar.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Watching Trac and Claz line up in the midfield against our battlers last night and now watching port have 3 genuine A+ graders at their cbas just makes me vomit

Mate... We have 3 A graders right here...

 

[Drummond]

Your list manager is very good at his job. I’d back him in to get some things done.

I honestly don’t (and have maintained this belief) believe your list is bad, the new coach will hopefully have a transformative effect - too much talent there to waste.

I know it sounds like a dream, but at some point there will be enough people tired of not moving and some decisive changes made

Sorry mate I like you but you massively overrate our list. It stinks.

 

[WetCrow1991]

Hamish will be salivating over a small forward….

Or an uncoordinated tall defender with Osteoporosis or something.

 

[MrBarry]

Look at Melbourne then, drafted mids with high picks then traded in other positions.
Collingwood similar.

Melbourne haven't won a flag - I don't count that either 2020 or 2021, load of nonsense.

 

[MrBarry]

We hope this to be true but if jhf, butters, rozee, wines stay fit and healthy, they have a winning midfield and that pays for just about everything else these days

So how did we do the double over them last year, if they are so unstoppable?

I find this boards fawning over Port Adelaide a little cringe at times.

 

[FR0GGY]

Melbourne haven't won a flag - I don't count that either 2020 or 2021, load of nonsense.

Don’t do that, thats ABAB thinking. They absolutely earned it.

 

[Crow till I die]

So how did we do the double over them last year, if they are so unstoppable?

I find this boards fawning over Port Adelaide a little cringe at times.

They are young and improve with experience and extra preseasons under their belt. What are they 20, 23 and 23?. Mids dont usually peak until they hit mid 20's.

 

[MrBarry]

Don’t do that, thats ABAB thinking. They absolutely earned it.

Nah, anything in those years has an asterisk next to it for me.

 

[FR0GGY]

So how did we do the double over them last year, if they are so unstoppable?

I find this boards fawning over Port Adelaide a little cringe at times.

The opposite is also true, not acknowledging they have a sensational midfield is also cringe.

 

[MrBarry]

They are young and improve with experience and extra preseasons under their belt. What are they 20, 23 and 23?. Mids dont usually peak until they hit mid 20's.

And we are younger?

 

[FR0GGY]

Nah, anything in those years has an asterisk next to it for me.

Ridiculous

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Melbourne haven't won a flag - I don't count that either 2020 or 2021, load of nonsense.

I get the thinking the COVID Cup of 2020 having an asterisk. Not 2021 though, that had normal quarter lengths played in a normal season time frame even if crowds/venues weren't the same.

Melbourne deserved that flag.

 

[MrBarry]

The opposite is also true, not acknowledging they have a sensational midfield is also cringe.

When the heats on, they aren't midfielders who are winning you a flag.

Petracca and Oliver vs Rooze and that midget Butters.....? I ain't taking the latter.

 

[MrBarry]

I get the thinking the COVID Cup of 2020 having an asterisk. Not 2021 though, that had normal quarter lengths played in a normal season time frame even if crowds/venues weren't the same.

Melbourne deserved that flag.

Wasn't played in the proper stadiums with full crowds, totally different ball game.

 

[Cap]

GWS have the best midfield

Can we buy theirs?

 

[FR0GGY]

When the heats on, they aren't midfielders who are winning you a flag.

Petracca and Oliver vs Rooze and that midget Butters.....? I ain't taking the latter.

He’s taller than Viney

 

[Drummond]

Andy McGrath is a genuine spud. Pick 1, oh dear.

 

[Shuestar13]

I love your optimism Shuestar13 , i really do, but i don't have daith in our board to sack nicks and to get this group up and running. We are in for a few more years of mediocrity i feel. Tbh, it would not shock me to see your side shoot past us in coming seasons. I have really changed my perceptions since preseason on my club

I hear you totally
It’s been a bitterly disappointing start, I mean if one looks at the scorecard and sees three losses by a combined total of 40 points, they would say competitive and unlucky but the reality is something different.

I put my hand up, I thought despite how bad you were against GC with all the factors against, you nearly pinched it and against Geelong, failing to take control and letting a seasoned side put the decisive break on in the third cost you.

Last week… yeah, no hiding from that. I thought Nicks had made some decent progress last year, I did echo some of the reservations on here, but was hoping that this would be a year of full growth. I’ve seen enough. Year 6, you can’t be starting 0-4 with the team looking the way it is. Needs to go, you cannot afford to stagnate.

There is enough talent on the list that with proper structure and a game plan, could play finals. The rebuild isn’t over and I don’t think it is throw it all out and start again, enough there to build on.

We (WCE) have quite a bit more pain to go through. Let’s hope things improve for both of us. Especially as WCE are using the AFC as a guide on how to rebuild