North - spineless, poorly coached or just not very good?

[Forum_Leader]

The last option

PLEASE

SOMEBODY TELL ME

WHERE ON GODS GREEN EARTH DOES THE NORTH HYPE COME FROM??

THEY'RE JUST NOT. THAT. GOOD.

Yep perfect comment. I'm a North supporter and said exactly that last night.

 

[showusyacunningt]

As worrying as last night was, it's too early to tell. Come back after Round 5.

 

[Morris Major]

As worrying as last night was, it's too early to tell. Come back after Round 5.

Dogs (ES)
Port (ES)
Sydney (SCG)
Collingwood (MCG)

would you say 3-2 is the pass mark before saying North's season is in trouble?

 

[WinmarToLockett]

It's funny how there's some mod announcement thing saying no "where are they at?" threads until Round 10, yet for every defeated team tthis year there's been a "Where are they at?" thread posted. I mean seriously. I'm posting in one right now.

But more importantly, when did "Do you still beat your wife?" become synonymous with loaded questions?

 

[King Elvis]

All of the above.

Name their match winners and elite players?

 

[Engimal]

Dogs (ES)
Port (ES)
Sydney (SCG)
Collingwood (MCG)

would you say 3-2 is the pass mark before saying North's season is in trouble?

2/5 is acceptable but 3/5 would be a solid pass. I'd like to think we could beat the Dogs and Port. If we're switched on, we could take Collingwood as well.

 

[theflea]

Oh believe me, I wasn't speaking for myself!

Just remarking on pre-season predictions I've read/heard from various journos and media "experts". Please don't ask who - I don't bother to keep track of every muppet who gets paid to give their opinion!

I get what you meant and agree the media love hyping up teams, then can them for not doing what they think. Its like a slap for embarrassing them and that's all the counts!!

 

[MaddAdam]

We really need to stop these slow starts to years.

 

[Heisenberg_]

From what I saw, it didn't look like then played any different to how they did last year.
Just very unaccountable which was why they got Leigh Tudor in I though?

 

[J_Moore]

Not very well coached. The talent is there (but it is in most sides).

 

[MaddAdam]

From what I saw, it didn't look like then played any different to how they did last year.
Just very unaccountable which was why they got Leigh Tudor in I though?

I thought we looked very different last night from last year like when, say, we smashed Richmond by ten goals.

The talent is there, the facilities are there, the coaching group is there.

What appears to be lacking is a certain mentality among the players, especially the senior players.

But it is Rd1. No need to be microwaving memberships just yet.

 

[MaddAdam]

The question I would ask is which player could stand in front of the rest and give them a good old fashioned honest serve. It can't be a coach. It has to be a player. And our key problem is that I struggle to think of one who could. Goldstein maybe, played a game on one arm.

And plenty of credit should go to Essendon, they were excellent.

 

[MaddAdam]

They're just not very good.

And it's great.

A shame this win didn't happen on your birthday hey mate?

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

Petrie plays one good game every 7 and they hired the wrong Scott brother

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I thought we looked very different last night from last year like when, say, we smashed Richmond by ten goals.

The talent is there, the facilities are there, the coaching group is there.

What appears to be lacking is a certain mentality among the players, especially the senior players.

But it is Rd1. No need to be microwaving memberships just yet.

Ba bow.

All good apart from that.

This bloke hasn't got a clue. It's clear as day. It's a bloody solid list now and they just have no resilient structure and system.

Bombing the ball inside 50m is a dead giveaway in modern footy.

Don't really blame North supporters for not totally seeing it, many of them wouldn't have seen a genuinely shit, incompetent coach at the helm of their club.

It's the same as Knights - the rebuilding of list masks it for a few years, but really that is more about planning and has little to do with running a footy team.

The sooner they heave him the better.

 

[Tas]

This week, all of the above. Will probably beat Geelong again though.

 

[SA HAWK]

As worrying as last night was, it's too early to tell. Come back after Round 5.

Try round 15.

Far too early to tell after 5 games.

 

[MaddAdam]

Ba bow.

All good apart from that.

This bloke hasn't got a clue. It's clear as day. It's a bloody solid list now and they just have no resilient structure and system.

Bombing the ball inside 50m is a dead giveaway in modern footy.

Don't really blame North supporters for not totally seeing it, many of them wouldn't have seen a genuinely shit, incompetent coach at the helm of their club.

It's the same as Knights - the rebuilding of list masks it for a few years, but really that is more about planning and has little to do with running a footy team.

The sooner they heave him the better.

Nah, I - obviously - dispute that.

The bombing the ball inside 50 thing had to do with Goldstein being injured, forcing Petrie to ruck, leaving us with basically one tall.

On the Scott coaching thing, I keep coming back to one of the games last year when we threw away a lead for the umpteenth time and Cam Ling was embeded with the team for the night.

He said that Scott was making all the right moves but that the players were simply not carrying it out onfield.

Our problem is onfield leadership - who stands up when the going gets really tough? Who can DEMAND the other players lift?

Obviously that is part of Scott's job too but a far more nuanced element.

Anyway, it is Rd1, lucky we've got another five months footy ahead of us.

 

[Papa G]

Despite idiots like Damian Barrett beating their drums, who has put all the hype on North? I don't understand where it's come from. They might improve, and yes, are missing Swallow...but compare them to the top teams and there's a massive gap.

The AFL. They've given a team with no supporters that finished 10th, 5 Friday night games, so people automatically think they must be good because it makes no sense otherwise.

 

[King Elvis]

Name their match winners and elite players.

 

[Westicle]

 

[ANGEL DARK]

Dogs (ES)
Port (ES)
Sydney (SCG)
Collingwood (MCG)

would you say 3-2 is the pass mark before saying North's season is in trouble?

They could well lose all of those games but you can bet they will beat Geelong then all of a sudden we will be all talking them up again for at least a week before they lose again the following week. When your best player is a 35 year old you know your in trouble

 

[West Coast Weasel]

They have talent, they were just constantly out coached last year. How else would you be able to explain so many close losses

 

[Royce Hafey]

Neither of these will smell victory in September.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

I'm always happy to give coaches time, but I'm starting to thing Brad Scott just aint no good. Seriously good list and in the right age bracket to be competitive. Its only round one but off the back of last years poor returns, the Roos are under the pump early.