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Things our team hate doing include, shepherding, tackling, smothering and running past for the handball. Until we fix some or all of those, we will only be an average side.
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Positives & Negatives V Sydney @Geelong
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+ I thought Darling played well after a few weeks of terrible footy. Took some decent marks and created well at ground level for on the wings. Did what he could with crap supply.
+ Naita and Yeo tried.
+ Duggan did some nice things.
- Beaten comprehensively in every area. Each position group was pantsed by their opposite numbers.
- Sheed had an appalling impact for someone with 37 touches. Can’t recall him hitting a target by foot.
- Gov was at sea. Looks lethargic and disinterested.
- Kelly looks like he doesn’t know where to run. Where he fits in our fully fit midfield is unclear. Personally I’d like to see him on the wing because he’s a liability in the middle with his contested and defensive work.
- Witherden was crap. He’s in the team to be decisive and creative by foot but went to water every time he touches it. Rotham back in for the love of god.
- The difference between the quality of their tackling and ours was remarkable.
I think I’ve turned on Simmo. The players don’t look like they want to play for him, such is their lack of effort and intent. There’s an obvious motivation issue if we can’t come out and put in a shift after their display last week. I think it’s a cop-out to attribute that to the assistants, even though i think we could certainly improve in that area too.
We’ve gotten worse every season since 2018 despite the fact that our current squad is better on paper than the premiership team. Increasingly we are less than the sum of our parts, which ultimately comes down to strategy and motivation.
What bothers me just as much is our reluctance to explore new ideas notwithstanding our obvious deficiencies. Persisting with the likes of Vardy tells you where we are as a club philosophically - conservative to our detriment.
I have zero expectations for the rest of the season. We’ll probably make the eight but be bundled out in the first week. I just want to see some improvement in terms of our selection, strategy and, above all else, effort.
+ Naita and Yeo tried.
+ Duggan did some nice things.
- Beaten comprehensively in every area. Each position group was pantsed by their opposite numbers.
- Sheed had an appalling impact for someone with 37 touches. Can’t recall him hitting a target by foot.
- Gov was at sea. Looks lethargic and disinterested.
- Kelly looks like he doesn’t know where to run. Where he fits in our fully fit midfield is unclear. Personally I’d like to see him on the wing because he’s a liability in the middle with his contested and defensive work.
- Witherden was crap. He’s in the team to be decisive and creative by foot but went to water every time he touches it. Rotham back in for the love of god.
- The difference between the quality of their tackling and ours was remarkable.
I think I’ve turned on Simmo. The players don’t look like they want to play for him, such is their lack of effort and intent. There’s an obvious motivation issue if we can’t come out and put in a shift after their display last week. I think it’s a cop-out to attribute that to the assistants, even though i think we could certainly improve in that area too.
We’ve gotten worse every season since 2018 despite the fact that our current squad is better on paper than the premiership team. Increasingly we are less than the sum of our parts, which ultimately comes down to strategy and motivation.
What bothers me just as much is our reluctance to explore new ideas notwithstanding our obvious deficiencies. Persisting with the likes of Vardy tells you where we are as a club philosophically - conservative to our detriment.
I have zero expectations for the rest of the season. We’ll probably make the eight but be bundled out in the first week. I just want to see some improvement in terms of our selection, strategy and, above all else, effort.
The cheers squad was over near the players race for some unknown reason.
I chose going to the game rather than playing golf big mistake.
Didn't watch, had a bad feeling, still in my bunker wallowing in disappointment, the chardonnay has run out
and the arrogance has leached into the septic tank?
They've all drunk too much of their own bathwater in a one horse town with
a big devoted crowd at 'their' special show-pony stadium?
Can't wait to see the next game played at the Disco Donut when they all come running out
under the big blue plastic chook to the sound of intimidating rock guitars and pyrotechnics exploding
everywhere ...like the harlem globetrotters they're not, and the pretenders they are!
(clearly something is very wrong here? In house politics? Players no longer buying into the coaching?)
And yes, Simmo trotted out the predictable post game cliches -
" we’ve got to look at a bit of what we do,” Simpson said.
“We’ll assess that, we’ve got to look at some of the things we’re doing and some of it’s workrate and being clean.
“We’ll keep training that.
“ so we need to get hold of that.
“We’ve got to look at all aspects.”
and the arrogance has leached into the septic tank?
They've all drunk too much of their own bathwater in a one horse town with
a big devoted crowd at 'their' special show-pony stadium?
Can't wait to see the next game played at the Disco Donut when they all come running out
under the big blue plastic chook to the sound of intimidating rock guitars and pyrotechnics exploding
everywhere ...like the harlem globetrotters they're not, and the pretenders they are!
(clearly something is very wrong here? In house politics? Players no longer buying into the coaching?)
And yes, Simmo trotted out the predictable post game cliches -
" we’ve got to look at a bit of what we do,” Simpson said.
“We’ll assess that, we’ve got to look at some of the things we’re doing and some of it’s workrate and being clean.
“We’ll keep training that.
“ so we need to get hold of that.
“We’ve got to look at all aspects.”
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Maybe that's a KPI for her career as an Influencer?
I luckily didn't see the game due to work (saw glimpse here and there).
However not surprised to see Shep, Duggan, Cole and Yeo's names getting thrown around as the best of the bunch. If you had to name our toughest players over the ball they'd all be in the top 5-10 in the squad. Surprised Shuey didn't do better to be honest. Naitanui can't be BOG every week.
The other players need to have a proper go. The lack of spread and run from behind is pathetic (this isn't just HBF job, also midfielders sitting behind the play), as is the lack of shepherding in this team.
Lay a good block and someone has >5 seconds to dispose of the ball. Call for a handball while running 3m in front of someone and you'd be lucky to gain 2 seconds in the disposal chain in which pressure is relieved.
However not surprised to see Shep, Duggan, Cole and Yeo's names getting thrown around as the best of the bunch. If you had to name our toughest players over the ball they'd all be in the top 5-10 in the squad. Surprised Shuey didn't do better to be honest. Naitanui can't be BOG every week.
The other players need to have a proper go. The lack of spread and run from behind is pathetic (this isn't just HBF job, also midfielders sitting behind the play), as is the lack of shepherding in this team.
Lay a good block and someone has >5 seconds to dispose of the ball. Call for a handball while running 3m in front of someone and you'd be lucky to gain 2 seconds in the disposal chain in which pressure is relieved.
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She was also influential down at **** burn when her dad worked there.
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Yeah. I have a feeling if 2020 was a normal
season and we’d failed like we did without the excuse of Covid we’d have been more liberal with our list management and moved them on.
We’ve been on the slow decline since 2018 finals and we need reimagine the team like we did at the end of 2017.
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Funnily enough I was thinking about that game the other day. IIRC it was a night game at the G against Hawthorn during their flag years. Despite the huge stats from those 2 players I think they won by about 7-8 goals. The ultimate example of stat padding.
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Yeah I reckon it was 2008 v haw on a fri night
i went and u barely noticed them.
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i went and u barely noticed them.
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Hai gaiz.
I just woke up after turning it off at half time and going back to bed (Night shift).
How was our fightback? Did we turn it around?
Cheers.
I just woke up after turning it off at half time and going back to bed (Night shift).
How was our fightback? Did we turn it around?
Cheers.
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I rec on Foxtel but tbh not keen to rewatch tonight ..
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Yes, highly recommend watching the second half. Champagne football.
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The greatest horror 2hr screen time of all time. Eats Evil Dead for breakfast.
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I always thought Hickey had potential because he really tried. For a gangly dude, he tries to get into the thick of it quite often and he did some good work for us. Shame because Vardy hasn't been good since 2018.
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That's pretty reserved of you: more like a maligned acceptance.
Agreed: it's been happening since round 1, 2019. I think quite a few people saw this on the wall but it's easy to play hindsight.
I taped it on Foxtel, watched the 1st Q and then fast forwarded to the end - I'm not wasting my time watching what was dished up today. Time for a re-jig.
If McGovern and Kelly were team players they would put their hands up for a pay cut until they can play like the players they need to be based on the coin they're on, how can they keep serving these performances up with a clear conscience?
Never going to win a GF with this team and/or this game plan, whatever that is. Sigh.....
If McGovern and Kelly were team players they would put their hands up for a pay cut until they can play like the players they need to be based on the coin they're on, how can they keep serving these performances up with a clear conscience?
Never going to win a GF with this team and/or this game plan, whatever that is. Sigh.....
Never going to get close to a GF. As for winning one? How far away are we from that?
Lucky to make the 8 to be fair.
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Still no press conferance from Simpson that i can see. Longmire did his hours ago.
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Simpson: Heavy losses are 'now a pattern'
Watch West Coast's press conference after round 16's match against Sydney
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- We only won one flag with this group
- It took 12-18 months too late to realise this was where it was headed
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- It could have been worse. We could have lost by 3 goals and maintained the delusion that we could keep going on as is.
- No more denial. Changes are needed. Coaching staff, football department, game plan, maybe a player or 2.
If we act on this, it may save us 2 years of denial and malaise.
Don't be angry, be relieved.
- We only won one flag with this group
- It took 12-18 months too late to realise this was where it was headed
+ve
- It could have been worse. We could have lost by 3 goals and maintained the delusion that we could keep going on as is.
- No more denial. Changes are needed. Coaching staff, football department, game plan, maybe a player or 2.
If we act on this, it may save us 2 years of denial and malaise.
Don't be angry, be relieved.
Era of underperforming and finishing 5th.
We got 2018, luckily we played a team known to choke GF's
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People on this forum are being way to negative and missing the big take home message being that today’s performance was a 5.4% improvement on the losing margin in the game against Geelong. Despite the haters, the club is ticking all the boxes and headed in the right direction.
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