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Autopsy Rd 4 - Massive choke - Bottomed out again.
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Oh come on please, the '66 game rebuild' has gone according to plan. The team has been completely rebuilt.
The current group ARE going to be 'the team'. As far as im concerned this is our first real season the last three were cleanouts and drafting.
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Those four are having outstanding seasons. They consistently turn 50/50 situations into clear wins for us.
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Or maybe the coach is ****.
Maybe he picks unbalanced teams and players like Casboult who are completely useless.
Maybe he picks teams that contain 4 key forwards and then plays Pagans paddock with a small mid playing his 4th game.
Maybe he only picks one stoppage player and then is surprised when we lose the stoppages every single week.
That really was an abysmal game. GC butchered so many chances.
But in a race to the bottom and who can screw up worse - always bet on blue.
Our passion for fluffing opportunities and handing the ball back is all-time, Hall of Fame levels.
Need psychologists at club, not coaches, to teach these keen athletes how to calmly assess options and make sound decisions, at least occasionally.
You just cannot create that many chances and torch 90% of them and expect to win anything. We play like we know, deep down, we are going to lose.
One day it will be better. Right now it’s disgustingly bitter and very very bad.
But in a race to the bottom and who can screw up worse - always bet on blue.
Our passion for fluffing opportunities and handing the ball back is all-time, Hall of Fame levels.
Need psychologists at club, not coaches, to teach these keen athletes how to calmly assess options and make sound decisions, at least occasionally.
You just cannot create that many chances and torch 90% of them and expect to win anything. We play like we know, deep down, we are going to lose.
One day it will be better. Right now it’s disgustingly bitter and very very bad.
Interesting point. Stuart Dew apparently not a bad coach. Controversial yes. But am I right.
Iva Bigun
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Agree we saw the D grade Umpires today both should be dropped and never seen again, both sides copped some deplorable decisions and either side could point a finger at game costing decisions
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If that’s true I’m even more gutted.
The Old Dark Navy's
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Hang him for selection, game plan, being too in love with the players, not motivating them, not holding his line coaches accountable, being too scared to drag a player who is making too many bad decisions etc etc
A win on that rule wouldn't feel like much of a win. Sounds like a dumb rule TBH
gardiner stand
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All this losing and in this manner can’t be good for our youngsters psyche. Do you reckon West Coast won’t be trying to have a crack at sps and fisher?
Exactly.
Been saying this for years - fostering a losing culture is going to kill the club in the end.
Ridiculously good player.Another 28 disposals, 6 tackles and a goal! How about that Sam Walsh eh .... ???
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I don't see us getting better this season or next.
Cripps will be well within his right to explore FA and request a trade.
If we start off poorly next season, watch the WA teams come knocking.
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Coaches are to blame as well
The pressure will come later in the year if our form continues and particularly if Adelaide improves. Handing over #1 to the Crows will cause some pain if it get's that far.
They won't point the finger at SOS so if SOS doesn't back Bolts in he's cooked.
They won't point the finger at SOS so if SOS doesn't back Bolts in he's cooked.
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Say what!
VainGlorious
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Couldn’t agree more, we win today it’s all farts and butterflies. In front for 85? Minutes. Shoulda coulda woulda but it wasn’t meant to be.
The unfortunate thing is that we don’t have enough players to bring in at the expense of those exhibiting substandard disposal. There’s a genuine case to drop at least 8 players that played today.
I agree with making a statement but I’d like any change to have an overall positive impact.
We are clearly deficient in clearances and that is a strength of Kennedy - I agree he needs to come in and Dow needs time to work on his disposal and decision making. His error in the last 30 seconds wouldn’t have mattered if he was able to hit his teammates with regulation passes that would’ve resulted in shots on goal.
LOB again - section making poor. We are not good enough to carry players with poor decision making skills. He goes out.
On form JSOS and Kennedy come in. Kreuzer had a really good return game and he will surely come in to exploit English in the ruck.
The rest of our players in the VFL today were either average or meh.
Newman’s foot skills are a worry, as are plowman’s and marchbank’s. Unfortunately we don’t have Doc, Williamson and Macreadie to come in as replacements.
Wickzki
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Here's my truth - some of you know this.
I suffer from a disability that affects one in a million - cauda equina syndrome.
To be perfectly honest, I'm post-cauda equina syndrome (I've had a successful operation on my L5 - discectomy/laminectomy). My nerves are still severely damaged (up to two years to heal if they ever do) and every day is a genuine struggle. Some days are much worse than others. I can be hospitalized at a moment's notice. I had a big family day yesterday and family comes first. By the end of yesterday, I was in agony. I got to bed and woke up at 4:00am in even worse pain. My partner drove me to the hospital where I had my surgery. They put me right in (I'm now on a list whereby my care is considered critical). They wanted to keep me until tomorrow as that's when my second outpatient's appointment is. I declined because this is our only Queensland game this year. They reluctantly agreed to let me leave hospital.
Against doctors orders, my girlfriend got me to the game. I shouldn't have been there but the Blues are a huge part of my life. There's no way I was missing our only game here this year. It was a poor game with poor skills, I can deal with that. I can even deal with losing the game. It's the how we lost and the why we lost that is so utterly heartbreaking.
There is nothing redeemable or positive in that performance on or off of the field. It's an embarrassment that our eighteen-year-old prized recruit is arguably our smartest player (I'd rate Cripps before him but Walsh is something else). So many half efforts today that resulted in nothing. So many coachable skill errors all over the park. Even more simpleminded errors. Zero composure by veterans, in the end, to lock down the play. My girlfriend turned to me in the last 30-40 seconds and said we're going to win. I kept telling her that they would get the goal. It was only a matter of time. Probably 20 seconds. Twenty seconds.
Some of you will claim that it wasn't Bolton's gameplan to kick it to Gibbons forward of the ball. Perhaps it wasn't. But it happened too much of today and should have been corrected. It wasn't. There was no attempt to correct it. That's on Bolton. When we were playing well today we were playing through the centre of the ground. Then why did we revert to playing on the boundary line for most of the last quarter? It was the same shit as last week against the Swans.
Accountability. That is all that I ask. Accountability among the playing group on and off the field. Accountability to the coaching staff for making smart decisions throughout the day. We lost today because we're not accountable. Neither the 22 on the field or the coaching staff.
If changes aren't made this week starting with the coach you can forget about the reset and rebuild. We're heading in the wrong direction. Expecting the club to win a game in the first month of the season should be expected in the FOURTH year of the reset. We traded our first-round draft pick. That trade demonstrates that the club itself placed expectations on itself. Therefore, somebody or somebodies absolutely must be held accountable.
I'm probably taking myself off of this thing for a few days. I'm just gutted. Absolutely gutted. This is the lowest I've felt about the club since SOS arrived. I just can't see the forward momentum at the club anymore.
I suffer from a disability that affects one in a million - cauda equina syndrome.
To be perfectly honest, I'm post-cauda equina syndrome (I've had a successful operation on my L5 - discectomy/laminectomy). My nerves are still severely damaged (up to two years to heal if they ever do) and every day is a genuine struggle. Some days are much worse than others. I can be hospitalized at a moment's notice. I had a big family day yesterday and family comes first. By the end of yesterday, I was in agony. I got to bed and woke up at 4:00am in even worse pain. My partner drove me to the hospital where I had my surgery. They put me right in (I'm now on a list whereby my care is considered critical). They wanted to keep me until tomorrow as that's when my second outpatient's appointment is. I declined because this is our only Queensland game this year. They reluctantly agreed to let me leave hospital.
Against doctors orders, my girlfriend got me to the game. I shouldn't have been there but the Blues are a huge part of my life. There's no way I was missing our only game here this year. It was a poor game with poor skills, I can deal with that. I can even deal with losing the game. It's the how we lost and the why we lost that is so utterly heartbreaking.
There is nothing redeemable or positive in that performance on or off of the field. It's an embarrassment that our eighteen-year-old prized recruit is arguably our smartest player (I'd rate Cripps before him but Walsh is something else). So many half efforts today that resulted in nothing. So many coachable skill errors all over the park. Even more simpleminded errors. Zero composure by veterans, in the end, to lock down the play. My girlfriend turned to me in the last 30-40 seconds and said we're going to win. I kept telling her that they would get the goal. It was only a matter of time. Probably 20 seconds. Twenty seconds.
Some of you will claim that it wasn't Bolton's gameplan to kick it to Gibbons forward of the ball. Perhaps it wasn't. But it happened too much of today and should have been corrected. It wasn't. There was no attempt to correct it. That's on Bolton. When we were playing well today we were playing through the centre of the ground. Then why did we revert to playing on the boundary line for most of the last quarter? It was the same shit as last week against the Swans.
Accountability. That is all that I ask. Accountability among the playing group on and off the field. Accountability to the coaching staff for making smart decisions throughout the day. We lost today because we're not accountable. Neither the 22 on the field or the coaching staff.
If changes aren't made this week starting with the coach you can forget about the reset and rebuild. We're heading in the wrong direction. Expecting the club to win a game in the first month of the season should be expected in the FOURTH year of the reset. We traded our first-round draft pick. That trade demonstrates that the club itself placed expectations on itself. Therefore, somebody or somebodies absolutely must be held accountable.
I'm probably taking myself off of this thing for a few days. I'm just gutted. Absolutely gutted. This is the lowest I've felt about the club since SOS arrived. I just can't see the forward momentum at the club anymore.
Jeffy38!
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I blame the players
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Sorry I'll try again.
I doubt our midfield intentionally targeted Gibbons, they were just rushed with their kicks. It's no wonder they were rushed, Gold Coasts small forwards pushed up into the contest & helped apply pressure. Since we barely had any small forwards to do the same we were outnumbered.
TooBlue14
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We’ve been calling for patience for too long. Enough is enough. It needs to happen now. I’m ****ing sick of losing. Clearly Carlton arent. I will blame everybody today. All of them. It was a cluster **** of coincidences that got GC the win. They got lucky all day. Where the **** is our luck. When have you ever watched a free go begging for our opposition or us get a lucky bounce. We work our arses off to no reward. At some stage it’s sypposed to turn. But when. I’ve been waiting 10 years. Jones marked it. McKay marked it. And GC cheated on the last 10 seconds. It’s supppsed to be a free and 50m penalty if you infringe 666 in the final minutes.
