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Are you saying Jonathan Brown is involved?
Genuinely how did autocorrect opt for brown over blown?!?
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Are you saying Jonathan Brown is involved?
Bloody Browny, Cultcha killer.Are you saying Jonathan Brown is involved?
Bloody Browny, Cultcha killer.
Edmunds obviously been fed some stuff from the club but does make the obvious point that McClure was drawing a very long bow.
Only if we win.In all seriousness, unless something else comes out we are going to have to ride out the news cycle until gather round and then it’ll be gone.
Cam is wearing the famous number 16 too.Apparently Cam heated up a meat pie and made Hugh eat it on camera.
And win well.Only if we win.
100%...but here's the thing.I don’t think it is ok and entirely possible that there are issues in the group with it - what I object to is reporting on it at all.
It’s not just the players privacy here, it is their partners/ex partners implicated too - as well as the guys who didn’t do anything wrong but might be assumed to have done something because the media will just speculate but won’t name anyone.
Can believe Erica was involved lolGenuinely how did autocorrect opt for brown over blown?!?
Unless we lose to North and no doubt it will still fester.In all seriousness, unless something else comes out we are going to have to ride out the news cycle until gather round and then it’ll be gone.
Believe it when I see it.
It’s going to be a bloodbath
My take was that we put it out there to say the disunity thing is BS.
But the media described it as a 'crisis meeting'
Was it even a “CRISIS MEETING”? Would the club not be having a meeting with the leadership group the day after a big game that left us 0-3 off the back of a grand final appearance?
I know it’s being reported as that by certain hack journalists, but to be honest rumours or not I’d expect the club to be having internal meetings trying to get the season back on track.
My understanding is that Swann spoke to the media before the meeting was called.
For sure.SO, Swanny is the leak?
100%...but here's the thing.
For years Brisbane has rabbited on about culture under Fagan, and it being a family club and all the boys spend time together and are one big happy group.
True or not, that reputation is gone... And you can't blame the media.
If you make yourself a target we have to expect to be taken aim at.
"A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone" (Orson Scott Card)
When you do something 'wrong' but don't have it as an internal 'wrong' ... eg you know your lady isn't into sharing and would be hurt if she found out you were with another woman but you think it is fine, not really cheating (it is just your body not your heart), they know what you are like (you met them the same way maybe), and something that 'everybody does', a victimless crime (sleeping with a groupie <> deflowering your friends virgin sister), and a perk of the job etc ... and things go pear shaped, the lady finds out and you are either in dumped-city or you are dealing with an extremely rocky period in your relationship while she works through how she can ever trust you again / what other lies have you told / what else have you been up to / who else have you slept with etc then you tend not to blame yourself for having a zipper problem or accept that you did something wrong or you were at fault ... you blame the circumstances that led to that situation (eg the player that left the link connected, the people who organised the trip, whoever it was that you 'wen't along with' at the time, the WAG that chose to share the story with the other girls etc.
Also when you are being haunted by replays of the words the one you thought you loved spoke in pain and grief and what kind of a reception you will get when you get home it can certainly get in the way of laser like focus on the here and now of a football game.
There doesn't have to be a 'rift' in the playing group per se (though such is not out of the question) for things like this to affect the playing group as a whole.
I'm a bit with Lionheart182 on this. I thought Thursday's game was as close as we've had to a 4 quarter effort for the season. Don't get me wrong, the performance was terrible, but the effort I thought was much better and more consistent quarter to quarter.Effort was s**t. What do you mean it was decent?
The washing machine drill sounds like our game day tbh.I'm a bit with Lionheart182 on this. I thought Thursday's game was as close as we've had to a 4 quarter effort for the season. Don't get me wrong, the performance was terrible, but the effort I thought was much better and more consistent quarter to quarter.
I mean, Joe Daniher laid a tackle. We smothered a set shot at goal late in the last quarter with the game basically gone. These are little things worth celebrating because right now they are about all we can hang our hat on.
Unfortunately on Thursday night we saw a side almost completely devoid of confidence, both in themselves and their team mates. This happens when you lose trust in what they are going to do, ie we become unpredictable to each other. This started in the second quarter of the Carlton game.
Ultimately, to regain that trust and confidence, we need to strip our game plan right back to the basics, the fundamentals, if you will. Yes, it does mean we have basically wasted 3 weeks of our season. We should be at the point now where we are able to focus on things like how we move the ball from one end of the field to the other in Coleman's absence, particularly inside 50. But instead we need to go right back to square 1, and get the basics right.
Obviously the dropped marks were to me a sign of a few blokes lacking confidence, but what really stood out to me was the amount of times we handballed to nobody in and around a contested ball situation. When we are up and about this is all pretty automatic, and I remember this "washing machine" drill used to be a staple of our training which would often appear on our social media pages.
(By the way this washing machine drill is where you have 4 or 5 blokes all inside a very confined space and it's basically a fast game of keepings off against 2 or 3 defenders)
I have no idea if this drill is still performed at training, but the game has largely moved past this. Our contested ball work often sees one or more handball backwards to a team mate who ideally has the time and space to make a good decision with the ball. Those handballs missed their target (if there was even a target there to begin with) countless times on Thursday night, and it gifted Collingwood's players at the contest all forward momentum. These were all pretty clear signs of players not knowing what their team mates were going to do, and to me it all comes back to trust and confidence. This can't be fixed by flicking a switch.
This backwards handball is a remnant of the old Essendon 2000 model, as well as the Bulldogs' 2016 flag, and the game has largely moved past this. This handball now really only serves to refer pressure from the disposer to the recipient, ie giving the problem to somebody else.
Instead the best teams, in fact many teams, are now embracing contact, accepting the tackle (if they can't break through it), then getting their arms free, and disposing effectively, either laterally or forward. This gives an attack a greater opportunity of bypassing the first line of defence, potentially creating a favourable outnumber further afield.
Unfortunately it seems to me that our players lack the conditioning to fully embrace this style of play in contested ball situations. We lack the size and strength to adequately absorb contact and still distribute effectively. (This also inhibits the effectiveness of our tackling) We also seem to lack the fitness to spread effectively away from those contested ball situations, either in attack or defence. These are not circumstances which are easily addressed mid-season however.
Going forward I simply want to see if we can improve the effectiveness of our tackling, and if we can improve the confidence of our key forwards by making sure they realise they won't have a team mate flying over the top interfering with their attempts to mark. Having an opponent hanging off you is enough to deal with, without also having to cope with your own team mates trying to take the ball off you. And if this also means that our non-marking forwards can get to the right place at the right time, ie at the front of the marking contest, that will be another step forward.
We've dug a bit of a hole for ourselves, largely of our own doing, and there's no way easy way back. So as supporters we need to disregard preseason expectations, not to mention the scoreboard, and take the small improvements as/if we see them.
Mate, you are wasted on BigFooty.I'm a bit with Lionheart182 on this. I thought Thursday's game was as close as we've had to a 4 quarter effort for the season. Don't get me wrong, the performance was terrible, but the effort I thought was much better and more consistent quarter to quarter.
I mean, Joe Daniher laid a tackle. We smothered a set shot at goal late in the last quarter with the game basically gone. These are little things worth celebrating because right now they are about all we can hang our hat on.
Unfortunately on Thursday night we saw a side almost completely devoid of confidence, both in themselves and their team mates. This happens when you lose trust in what they are going to do, ie we become unpredictable to each other. This started in the second quarter of the Carlton game.
Ultimately, to regain that trust and confidence, we need to strip our game plan right back to the basics, the fundamentals, if you will. Yes, it does mean we have basically wasted 3 weeks of our season. We should be at the point now where we are able to focus on things like how we move the ball from one end of the field to the other in Coleman's absence, particularly inside 50. But instead we need to go right back to square 1, and get the basics right.
Obviously the dropped marks were to me a sign of a few blokes lacking confidence, but what really stood out to me was the amount of times we handballed to nobody in and around a contested ball situation. When we are up and about this is all pretty automatic, and I remember this "washing machine" drill used to be a staple of our training which would often appear on our social media pages.
(By the way this washing machine drill is where you have 4 or 5 blokes all inside a very confined space and it's basically a fast game of keepings off against 2 or 3 defenders)
I have no idea if this drill is still performed at training, but the game has largely moved past this. Our contested ball work often sees one or more handball backwards to a team mate who ideally has the time and space to make a good decision with the ball. Those handballs missed their target (if there was even a target there to begin with) countless times on Thursday night, and it gifted Collingwood's players at the contest all forward momentum. These were all pretty clear signs of players not knowing what their team mates were going to do, and to me it all comes back to trust and confidence. This can't be fixed by flicking a switch.
This backwards handball is a remnant of the old Essendon 2000 model, as well as the Bulldogs' 2016 flag, and the game has largely moved past this. This handball now really only serves to refer pressure from the disposer to the recipient, ie giving the problem to somebody else.
Instead the best teams, in fact many teams, are now embracing contact, accepting the tackle (if they can't break through it), then getting their arms free, and disposing effectively, either laterally or forward. This gives an attack a greater opportunity of bypassing the first line of defence, potentially creating a favourable outnumber further afield.
Unfortunately it seems to me that our players lack the conditioning to fully embrace this style of play in contested ball situations. We lack the size and strength to adequately absorb contact and still distribute effectively. (This also inhibits the effectiveness of our tackling) We also seem to lack the fitness to spread effectively away from those contested ball situations, either in attack or defence. These are not circumstances which are easily addressed mid-season however.
Going forward I simply want to see if we can improve the effectiveness of our tackling, and if we can improve the confidence of our key forwards by making sure they realise they won't have a team mate flying over the top interfering with their attempts to mark. Having an opponent hanging off you is enough to deal with, without also having to cope with your own team mates trying to take the ball off you. And if this also means that our non-marking forwards can get to the right place at the right time, ie at the front of the marking contest, that will be another step forward.
We've dug a bit of a hole for ourselves, largely of our own doing, and there's no way easy way back. So as supporters we need to disregard preseason expectations, not to mention the scoreboard, and take the small improvements as/if we see them.