Autopsy North vs Western Bulldogs

[SpiderBurton22]

Watching with my daughter - in q1 when it was 5g to 3. I said to her, it was going to be 100plus.

Well you were wrong, weren't you.

 

[Ichiro #51]

Chom, Logue and W.Dawson make a big difference for tall defenders. Tall forwards yeah we need but they'll be starved to death with our poor transition.

Chom is made of paper mache, Logue is short and made of paper mache and Dawson is 100% unproven. The fact is we’ve tried to go bargain basement on talls and it’s backfired massively.

 

[amaz199]

Need to stop teasing supporters with a good start then do **** all for the rest of the match.

It's not good enough. We're better than the horrific effort we put on today.

We played fast transition football in the first 15 mins... where was the hunger after that?

 

[Themanbun]

This side is soft as butter.

 

[scottywiper]

There were some blokes in here very quick to defend the club last week. Say how much we'd improved. That those who were very concerned were clueless.
Well, how the turntables....

 

[amaz199]

This side is soft as butter.

Stems from the co-captains unfortunately.

The standard they accept is what the team will accept. So it's hardly surprising what happened today.

 

[Roosurgence]

Stems from the co-captains unfortunately.

The standard they accept is what the team will accept. So it's hardly surprising what happened today.

One of the same Co-Captains that handed West Coast momentum last week by butchering a skill an Auskicker could execute.

 

[Roogal]

I understand that we had nothing to gain except pride if we had won today. Our position on the ladder wouldn't have changed, but goodness me, were we even on the field today? We got clobbered in the forwards, in the centre and on the back line.

The line that "North are improving" is wearing a little thin. It's not reflected on the ladder or in our game results. They are either hot or cold, mostly cold.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Well you were wrong, weren't you.

Not so psychic.

 

[Ruckle]

Left at 3 qtr time , son wanted to leave 7 or 8 mins in to the 3rd. Was Auskick type skills a time, missed kicks, dropped chest marks, fumbles for no reason. Just managed a top 5 or 6 poor performance over the last few years. THAT is an actual achievement.

Did we get sent out early at half time John Todd or Mal Brown style?

McKercher seemingly asking people for an autograph, not sure the chatty thing with their players during the game is ok. Particularly when getting pumped like that. But hey when you are loose around the centre and your teammates cant get it to you then you may as well just "hang out" .

Wardlaw overtaking RHJ I think to try and chase someone, far out, embarrassing stuff - bout the only bloke you'd pay.

Just disgusting. And I have been to slack reading others but 3 picks in the draft and some 30 year old from elsewhere arent going to cut it. Long way off. Such poor management over such a long time.

Is there a way back.

PS. Sitting in front of some Bullflogs supporters who I think were at the first game for the year. They were trying to figure out why the North supporters were booing buku - ffs

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

I understand that we had nothing to gain except pride if we had won today. Our position on the ladder wouldn't have changed, but goodness me, were we even on the field today? We got clobbered in the forwards, in the centre and on the back line.

The line that "North are improving" is wearing a little thin. It's not reflected on the ladder or in our game results. They are either hot or cold, mostly cold.

When it’s all said and done, we’re going to have a worse record (3-20 v 3-19) than last year.

 

[giantroo]

 

[Ischenko]

In it early, cue the diabolical turnovers from which they score at will, psychological demons MANIFEST and its against the team we probably match up on worst.

Scott, Tucker, Xerri, Archer tick.
Hansen Jnr I thought improved again and would persist.
Corr tried, Powell was ok, Fisher tried but his kicking was...err...errant.
Jy was horrid, as was LDU. As was Larkey. As was Zurharr. That's our "leaders".
Idk man. That sucked a lot of the post bye positivity out of me.
And realistically that post-bye positivity was two close wins against garbage sides, a brainless, diabolical loss, and two close losses against mid-table sides that should have been wins; this is despite the at times scintillating football we played.

17th
18th
18th
17th
17th*

Wouldn't bet on finishing 16th next year at this stage.
Sack our forwards coach.

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Anyone who isn’t composed needs to be replaced in the next 3years:

• Jy
• McDonald
• Fisher
• Stephenson (didn’t play today)
• Pink (didn’t play today)

Considering these players are in the first 26 picked players in the squad this year, we have so much dead wood to clear.

 

[Ischenko]

We must also be allergic to the corridor.

They systematically denied it to us. Good coaching.

 

[amaz199]

They systematically denied it to us. Good coaching.

Didn't seem like it to me.

It felt like we didn't want to touch it after we torched the footy in the first.

We've gone back to pre-bye shitness. So hard to watch at the game today.

 

[Rooniversity]

Was at the game.

Everything's been said already.

Hawthorn will crush us like a Solo can next week.

 

[Mr north man]

Embarrassing. Our best player out and you can see how badly our bottom 6-8 are exposed. How is Rawlings still in the job? Absolute spud farm out there today.

The reason Rawlings is a job is just like McDonald and others they have mates within all areas of our club and these mates are not fit to be part of our club but are.
If this club had a McGuire/Kennett type in our club they would get a broom and sweep away the that has destroyed our club but that won’t happen as they scared frighted and gutless to see the problems at our club and try and fix them

 

[Ischenko]

Didn't seem like it to me.

It felt like we didn't want to touch it after we torched the footy in the first.

We've gone back to pre-bye shitness. So hard to watch at the game today.

Maybe a bit of both. Admittedly I wasn't at the game but on TV whenever someone looked up off half back the corridor was clogged and because of our lack of confidence after butchering the ball early we reverted to long down the line. There were surely chances to bite of corridor kicks but we were mentally shattered half way through the first.

 

[kool kangas]

5 or more goals from turnovers. l stopped counting after that doesnt help.

And losing Comben at 1/4 time then Bergman (concussion) and having Archer, Stephens, Jy, Larkey all limping half way through the 3/4rd quarter didnt help the situation either.

We definately need to look at doing something with our forward line. Zuurhar, Ford, Curtis and Teakle were MIA and Larkey just wanders to far from goal to be dangerous. RHS is improving every week but we definately need to find another tall.

McDonald and Corr are good at directing but its time to move them on.

During the game it was easy to see who really came to play and never gave up, Wardlaw, Xerri, Scott, Archer, McKercher, Shiels but it was just to big a tack to accomplice with so few.

Time to make a few changes next week...

 

[Dan]

We were lazy with our kick ins and the dogs set up well to intercept.

Still would have been a bad beating with a full game from Chom and Sheezel playing.

 

[Marstermind]

Footy has been really *ing hard to watch for several years now. I just want some joy out of my weekends. I want to love these blokes again. Now I'm just tolerating them. An overwhelming feeling of sadness. I want the season to be over and I want to not have to watch these ****ing muppets for six months. Shoot me. * sake. It's made all the more worse by having to listen to Brad Johnson gurn his way through a commentary session, and Sarah Jones and the fellas actively barracking for Darcy to kick 10.

This. This club is killing my enjoyment of football. I can't even get angry anymore. Just sad.

 

[koshari]

Anyone who isn’t composed needs to be replaced in the next 3years:

• Jy
• McDonald
• Fisher
• Stephenson (didn’t play today)
• Pink (didn’t play today)

Considering these players are in the first 26 picked players in the squad this year, we have so much dead wood to clear.

Pink and fish are stopgaps, sleevo is cooked and the other 2 are skippers (saddest bit of the paragraph).

 

[Mr north man]

Mate you can go down to the club and riot, you’ll be the only one there.

We are no longer the Shinboner Spirit
We are the hitboner Spirit the most embarrassing sporting organisation in this country

 

[Moti]

Watching on replay, Stephens was ok, involved a lot more than in other games this year.