Game Day Round 4, 2024 : Collingwood v Hawthorn, 5:10pm Sunday 7th, Adelaide Oval

[SSSSSS]

The team has been physically weak for half a decade now. Can't tackle. Can't run through tackles. Don't hit hard. Really soft.

We've got Geelong looking like He-men out there and we keep building our list full of greyhounds and wonder why we keep getting smashed in the contest.

 

[RobHawk]

We are a very young team playing against the reigning premiers,the crowd and the umps.
Great experience for our boys

 

[burger09]

Tough watching but not sure we should have expected anything different.

Very young team, devoid of A grade experienced talent.

Once the pies started playing competently it was all over.

Meek giving it his all. Ramsden showing something.

 

[Dazza the Viking]

We just can’t any run our of defense, because we can’t get the ball there

 

[CHUBBSS]

What I hope for next half: just put Amon on a wing, try get some speed into the midfield and hit a target

 

[Leather Poisoning]

We're not playing well and it's hard to watch.

Just nothing happening forward of centre. And getting through the middle part of the ground is an absolute grind.

First qurter was better when Chol led to the wing and we used it as the long kick target. But sheesh - can we kick it to his advantage inside 50?

Newc is having a crack and doing the things that will play him back into form. Worpel quieter this week (but he gets a pass).

We have a few players who run into trouble as the first move. Nash, Impey, Moore, Scrimshaw (sometimes) - and it is so strange.

 

[Flamin Joe]

Cheer up fellas, things are bleak now and probably will be for most of the season, but before you know it we'll be at the End of Season Meaningless Wins™. I for one cannot wait.

 

[RoughysMullet]

If everyone could stop taking pot shots at Josh Ward that would be great… he had a good half really- there were much worse…

 

[Linda CRS]

Gee hard to find positives, we are losing relevance week on week. Maybe guys over 6’6 trying hard. Hard to scream development and have guys like butler come in and be so off the pace. Not on his own though.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

A lot of alarm bells.
We don’t have the tall cattle stocks.
Our smalls don’t have the chase down speed to keep their running half backs accountable.
Our midfield has regressed considerably and we struggle to win clearances now.
Our backline is constantly under pressure but also lacks defensive accountability.
Our most reliable defender has been Sam Frost.
Despite all this the biggest problem is our inability to execute basic skills. Missed tackles, missed kicks everywhere.
Not a lot to like.

Not a lot I can disagree with there. Not much to add either.

 

[SSSSSS]

Tale of the tape really.

 

[hawk for 37]

Witches hats. The smugness of Howe waking off summed it up.
No system, no skill and no heart today.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Looks exactly like the most experienced list in the comp playing the 2nd youngest list in the comp.

Our skills are not helping.

They set up better, they weather our tackles, we are rushed, we are pressured.

 

[Yardie]

I'll be interested to see how the year pans out. I do think that we have gotten the coaching structure wrong for a young group. We had four senior assistants (Fwd, Mids, Contest, Def) but now only three (lost Contest) and bought in another development coach who has very little experience.

 

[OnTheRocks]

My biggest highlight of the quarter was when my toddler yelled out from the toilet asking me to wipe his arse

Same shit just different poos & wees

 

[LunchboxLegend]

I’m struggling to find a single player who can hold their head high.

Not one.

 

[Rob R]

Obviously there is some developing talent in the side but yeah this is demoralising stuff. Embarrassing that we are just as bad as North and the Eagles.

We will improve but I think North are actually better than us at the moment (mids and a quality kpf)

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[Jethro!]

A lot of alarm bells.
We don’t have the tall cattle stocks.
Our smalls don’t have the chase down speed to keep their running half backs accountable.
Our midfield has regressed considerably and we struggle to win clearances now.
Our backline is constantly under pressure but also lacks defensive accountability.
Our most reliable defender has been Sam Frost.
Despite all this the biggest problem is our inability to execute basic skills. Missed tackles, missed kicks everywhere.
Not a lot to like.

Can't think of a player that's improved so far this year, beyond Worp and Frost.

 

[westhawk]

We don't have a spot for a MSD pick

We will make one, I could delist half a dozen today to make room.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

We are a very young team playing against the reigning premiers,the crowd and the umps.
Great experience for our boys

Not sure getting embarrassed is a good experience for anyone

 

[Blackhawk42]

Lloyd Meek looks like our number 1 ruck.

The midfield has looked better live than it must come across on TV. Ward, Mackenzie and Newcombe have all had nice games, at least offensively.

Don't have anything nice to say about the defensive efforts, aside from in the air, which has been okay.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

If we had taken the pick GWS offered us for him twice in different years the kid would be close to 150 games now and could be a leader of this rebuild.

If only we drafted more kids so that you could rush to claim that they’re not good enough after they’ve played 30 games.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I smell a rebuild. Current list not cutting the mustard

I thought we WERE rebuilding

 

[CHUBBSS]

Hales lost me as the mid coach worth installing Gunston and bruest as the forward coach and getting rid of hale, it’s getting uglier week on week

 

[Sleutheren]

We've been awful once again, but Christ we've been ****ed by injuries.
And the fixture we've been dealt doesn't help a lot either.

So deflating.