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I pine for all those Post Fagan Premierships that are just around the corner.The bolded? Seriously, do you pine for the good old pre Chris Fagan days of 2016?
I can’t believe what I just read ,but hope you feel better after getting that off your chest .Well hello all you guys. Having posted on here in past years this is my first post this year for a reason. That being maybe I thought I was too critical of the Coaches, Selections, Game Plans A and B, Kicking, Cannot perform for four quarters,fade-outs, playing out of form players and more. I never at any stage this year thought we were a chance to win the premiership. Even in the last quarter my wife said to me we are going to win, I said to her you watch we will not win this. Unfortunately Brisbane are soft and mentally fragile. Since Fagan has been at Brisbane nothing had been rectified - Nothing has improved. We have gone backwards and teams are passing us because they see we are team that cannot take pressure and hence crumble. Yesterday seeing Fagan chewing his gum, hands in pockets on the boundary was a total loss whereas Fly was up and about with enthusiasm and pumping his side up - Bloody Fantastic. Fagan is probably a good man but I have said early in the peace we will not win a premiership with him as coach. I have seen many coaches not in the AFL that would put Fagan to shame. Unfortunately we are going to live in hope for a few years more until changes are made for the better. Forever Lions.
I'm with you. One more bite at the cherry for Fages, and then we need to see if another coach can get us over the hump. Winning a premiership isn't easy, but if Fages can't do it with Neale, Cameron and Daniher in their primes, I can't imagine he's suddenly going to be able to do it when they're all 32 and starting to decline.I love Fagan, aboslutely think what he has done for the club is next level, along with a few others. I've been quite open about my desires to see a succession plan put in place as I don't want him sacked but the club is just not fair dinkum if they're not even remotely considering it/planning it. You cannot extend him at this point, his age alone is catching up and we don't want to look at Port/Hinkley and see how things can get even worse with time between fanbase/coach.
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Tough watch when Nathan Brown is summing up what went wrong.
I agree. I do admit though that Joe torp to no one in particular did piss me off. I know, I know it’s Joe being Joe but at some stage that shit just needs to be reigned in. He only brings the noise on himself doing shit like that. I get you don’t want to take away his natural flair, but that was honestly just stupid.Give me someone to rewatch the game and put a package of all the mistakes together and I could make most footballers look like this
Utter nonsense to suck in idiots. Footballers aren’t perfect. All of the probably 100 decisions they make in a game won’t be the right ones
I agree. I do admit though that Joe torp to no one in particular did piss me off. I know, I know it’s Joe being Joe but at some stage that shit just needs to be reigned in. He only brings the noise on himself doing shit like that. I get you don’t want to take away his natural flair, but that was honestly just stupid.
We lost by a point against Collingwood at the MCG .
Could not agree more, David King is a beauty for it, he and/or his Champion Data Minions troll through vision of games selectively editing footage to suit their click bait narratives.Give me someone to rewatch the game and put a package of all the mistakes together and I could make most footballers look like this
Utter nonsense to suck in idiots. Footballers aren’t perfect. All of the probably 100 decisions they make in a game won’t be the right ones
While I disagree with trading Bailey, it's not exactly one HTB - the moment Quaynor came on to the screen I knew what was going to happen because somehow Bailey never knows when he's getting chased down.
If he fixed that and his desire to fend you'd have all the goodness and 10% of the **** ups. That would be quite a player.
Don't think anyone would take him.
Just seems a fraction small to break the tackles with strength , or to make them effectively.
Could ask the Gold Coast for Rowell (for Bailey and Eric) wow our chances would go UP.
Tough watch when Nathan Brown is summing up what went wrong.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing but how many games has he broken ? How many coaches votes or even Brownlow votes has he got in his career ?Almost every team would be all over Zac.
He is copping so much crap when most of the team played like shit trucks. Bailey at his best is a game breaker, to even consider trading him is nuts.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing but how many games has he broken ? How many coaches votes or even Brownlow votes has he got in his career ?
He's got potential for sure but perhaps a bit overrated ?
Give me someone to rewatch the game and put a package of all the mistakes together and I could make most footballers look like this
Utter nonsense to suck in idiots. Footballers aren’t perfect. All of the probably 100 decisions they make in a game won’t be the right ones
I thought Oscar was great last night.
I get your sentiment, and perhaps I'm being too naive. I do feel though that we're still in our window. We fell 4 points short last year and our best this year had us as premiership favourites before two heartbreaking losses.So you’re relying on a bunch of players coming back from ACLs, some 30+ year olds and an 18 year old to be our panacea. I don’t see it.
After five years of the team building and going deeper into the finals, I'm getting mightily sick of still hearing about 'Learnings' from Fages.So many “learnings”, so few lessons heeded.
After five years of the team building and going deeper into the finals, I'm getting mightily sick of still hearing about 'Learnings' from Fages.
At this stage he should be talking about the 'Teachings' we're inflicting on other teams.
It's so frustrating that we gave a now certain top 4 team in Port a flogging on their home deck by 79 points not all that long ago.I mean, in the last few months we inflicted some mighty fine 'teachings' on form teams like Port and the Dogs (even the Saints, who are finishing strong and we monstered).
Games like yesterday are immensely frustrating - we've definitely thrown a few away this year - but we've done well to even be in top 4 consideration after our awful start to the year.
The 3 things I said would beat us did. The yips infront of goal, the running game and smalls (Schultz eg) would swamp us and the home ground free kick advantage. I was very wrong about the margin, 30+ I called.
Free kicks were 23-20 to the Pies in the end. 11-2 in the last qtr. Complete momentum killer, completely unbalanced. How do you not see the trip on Daniher then give a free kick the other way? Fletcher cops one high in a tackle from Schultz but then gets penalised for holding the ball for an easy goal to said offender. The umpires were not looking for free kicks to us, only against us. Plenty to be said for what Longmire expressed during the week.
Everyone has a right to express their disappointment any way they like. Just as I have a right to disagree with it and call it out for being sooks. For goodness sake, some of the vitriol, hate, player slurs, etc is disgraceful. It makes me wonder if many have ever played a team sport at any level after primary school and if they did I'd reckon they'd have been the very average player in the background backstabbing the captain or coach. Go on, have a crack back at me. I'm too old to give a flying rats arse.
We lost to a very good team, with the strongest home ground advantage and a game plan/style of play we struggle against, by 1 point. That's sport, that's footy. If ya wanna support a team that never loses, is perfect every week, then there's always the Harlem Globetrotters.
I thought Darragh Joyce was quite good yesterday, probably made less errors than Harris on the day.
My Fab 5 were Lohmann, McCluggage, Ashcroft, Starcevich and Dunkley.
Having a look at the ladder and likely winners this afternoon and next week, I have us playing an EF against the Bulldogs at the Gabba.
If we won that would highly likely see us come up against the loser of the Swans v Cats QF in an away Semi Final.. I would fancy our chances against the Cats.