Game Day Round 14: Essendon v Hawthorne, Thursday 27/8/20, Adelaide Oval, 4.10pm ACST

[Mr_McBoogerBalls]

This is all too much like the Matty Knights era, handball > handball > handball etc etc etc.

What a ****ing disgrace. This club has alot to answer for and does not deserve the income it makes from its members.

Unacceptable.

 

[jordanl]

Bring back hird

 

[Swerving Irv]

Ummmmm.

Sacked the only good coach we were likely to have. You're an imbecile if you think otherwise.

 

[yodellinhank]

Success is just around the corner. When it happens it will all happen quickly.

 

[Halftimehero]

In 30 years supporting this club, that is the worst half of Football I have seen them play, 6 goals down(should be 12) in a shortened half against a bottom 4 team, it is a disgrace, they aren’t even trying, no care factor whatsoever, this is a broken football club.

 

[Mercurial89]

Not sure there has been a game where every single player has been that pathetic, normally there is 1-3 that can hold their heads up or you could say were trying.

This is absolutely horrific. Its not just not trying, its absolutely the worst skills ive seen all year.

This was coming though, we are playing this handball game and we cant handball, we have been saying it all year.

 

[citizen-erased]

This is the worst year i can recall
Worse than anything under knights
Worse than getting done for doping
Worse than 2016.

Makes me sad that st kilda had the wherewithal to go out and do what we should have done
Steele, ryder, butler, ratten, roughead.

We better not waste this ****ing pick.

 

[MiguelM]

Players have lost all instinct. The handball has to be coached into them. It is too bad not to be.

Need members to overturn something.

I would even take Brad Scott at the moment.

 

[mike14]

I don’t get it, we’ve got marking targets and insist on handballing at every chance. Hooker at CHB, Phillips as a target, Atewart at CHF AND Joe at FF.

Why bother using them though hey?


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I've never been so bemused by a gameplan and a half of football.
What we're doing almost made sense when we were formed to run with an undersized forward line; doing it with JD, Stewart and Stringer is just bizarre

 

[MightyDon]

End of season
Delist
Gleeson
Bellchambers
Zaharakis
Phillips
Cutler
Mckernan
Townsend

Merrett or McGrath to be traded

 

[Charliebrow 16]

Maybe I’ve been a blind ****ing idiot for the past few years but this is the first time I can remember where I’m of the belief this list isn’t going anywhere. Totally inept.

Got to come out with a semblance of energy in the second half. Give some effort.

 

[Falcon27]

Crap skill level. Simple. Not game plan can stand up to constant turnovers.

It's the gameplan creating the crap skills. Players standing around handballing to the bloke standing next to them. 3-4 handballs in a 2m square area. Where the F@ck are players coming up with the idea to do this?

 

[citizen-erased]

Let it sink in for a moment that 6-7 of these blokes are going to earn enough money during their football career that they will never have to work again.

You imply theyre working now

 

[MattyB3150]

This is all too much like the Matty Knights era, handball > handball > handball etc etc etc.

What a ******* disgrace. This club has alot to answer for and does not deserve the income it makes from its members.

Unacceptable.

Agree.I would like them to come out and apologise to all their members. They are a joke. The crows would beat us comfortably if they were playing us right now.

 

[eDPS]

Not only are we getting smashed on the outside it’s also on the inside. McGrath has 8 of our 45 contested possessions with the next best having 4, we have Clarke on the wing who is a contested beast and a hard tackler yet doing neither on the wing and looking lost.

Ham doing nothing up forward either he hasn’t got the size and intensity to influence overhead or on the ground and with tackling so why does he play there?

 

[Mr_McBoogerBalls]

Success is just around the corner. When it happens it will all happen quickly.

Based on what I'm observing, it's not around the corner. Our defensive pressure is worse than preceding years and we continually handball inside 50. It's not happening anytime soon

 

[jaguaress]

Daniher has made all the difference.....

 

[Call Me Cake]

We just can't win contested marks. So the players are afraid to kick - they can predict what will happen (as can we)... so they handball until they see a player on a safe lead - problem is it never comes - so the eventual kick is either a rush kick to a contest that we never win or they get caught fumbling it/holding the ball.

That is where we **** up.

 

[avignon]

In 30 years supporting this club, that is the worst half of Football I have seen them play, 6 goals down(should be 12) in a shortened half against a bottom 4 team, it is a disgrace, they aren’t even trying, no care factor whatsoever, this is a broken football club.

You must have missed last year's Dogs game.

 

[ghostdog]

Reading a lot of melts. You folks clearly don't know tanking when you see it.

 

[Barry Roundhouse]

not one part of the ground was acceptable. Not one player is up to their expectations.

That was abysmal.

 

[DapperDon]

Anyone else think we’re doing not quite the right amount of tanking?

Like, we need to tank just a fraction more

Winning

 

[Mr_McBoogerBalls]

Not only are we getting smashed on the outside it’s also on the inside. McGrath has 8 of our 45 contested possessions with the next best having 4, we have Clarke on the wing who is a contested beast and a hard tackler yet doing neither on the wing and looking lost.

Ham doing nothing up forward either he hasn’t got the size and intensity to influence overhead or on the ground and with tackling so why does he play there?

Bingo. I'd also add to that by asking why Dev (a proven creative goal scorer), is playing down back?!

 

[Jobe Watson]

The club needs to come out and explain exactly what they saw in Rutten to just hand him the top job without a process. A detailed explanation. What is he going to being to our club. Because make no mistake, this is his gameplan and setup we're seeing right now, and it is absolute trash. We haven't looked like a good team all year.

So ****ing sick of this arrogant football club. Hopefully we finish bottom 4 and cop it in the media, because we deserve it.

 

[mike14]

I'd love to see someone in the post match press conference just play Woosha a clip of Ridley (probably our best field kick) handballing to a stationary Merrett who was almost on top of him and just ask 'why'?