Preview Round 8, 2024 : Bulldogs v Hawks, 4pm 5th May, Marvel Stadium

[Argy]

Buses replace trains between Ringwood and Burnley too.

Living on the Lilydale line will end me

It's been going on for months. Totally over it. One option is to drive to a Waverly line station and hope you can find a parking spot.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I still find the Scrimshaw spray last week astonishing. One of the few players who has stood up this year yet in the same game, dumbass Chol gives away a stupid free which cost Hardwick a goal and a week on the side lines. If anyone deserved a public spray it was Chol not Scrimshaw

Mitchell has a long way to go to prove he is the right coach to take us through this rebuild

Last weeks spray, several questionable starting sub decisions, and team that is playing soft as butter has him on shaky ground, needs to do better

Yeah, you don’t like Chol, we get it…

It’s been explained continually why Scrimshaw was given a spray. We’ve even had former players and coaches explaining why it made sense.
That you still find a astonishing says more about you than it does about the spray.

 

[smeltitdeltit]

It wasn’t near perfection, he centered the ball to a 50/50 contest.

The direction was clearly to play safe up the boundary line in red time, and Scrim did the opposite.

He would have copped a dressing down even had it come off

 

[The hands of stone]

I still find the Scrimshaw spray last week astonishing. One of the few players who has stood up this year yet in the same game, dumbass Chol gives away a stupid free which cost Hardwick a goal and a week on the side lines. If anyone deserved a public spray it was Chol not Scrimshaw

Mitchell has a long way to go to prove he is the right coach to take us through this rebuild

Last weeks spray, several questionable starting sub decisions, and team that is playing soft as butter has him on shaky ground, needs to do better

He and a few others have asked to be coached that way .
It is actually that simple .

 

[nelk boys]

I still find the Scrimshaw spray last week astonishing. One of the few players who has stood up this year yet in the same game, dumbass Chol gives away a stupid free which cost Hardwick a goal and a week on the side lines. If anyone deserved a public spray it was Chol not Scrimshaw

Mitchell has a long way to go to prove he is the right coach to take us through this rebuild

Last weeks spray, several questionable starting sub decisions, and team that is playing soft as butter has him on shaky ground, needs to do better

Some players need and encourage this sort of feedback. This sort of robust discussion is expected in a professional environment.

If you find it 'astonishing', imagine what it being said to players in the rooms.

 

[Rocket72]

I thought Finn played reasonably well as a defensive forward in the Suns game. Kicked 4 goals, was presenting well and took some strong marks.

His game was one of the few highlights from that match. I would like to see some more of Finn in the forward half, to see if he can play that role consistently. Where he can apply pressure to the opposition backs, while also presenting as a target.

He's a good tagger, we know that. Equally, we know it's hard to select a player every week who can only tag. I've seen him play in just about every position (including the Box Hill games I've seen) and he has never looked like an AFL standard player (unless he is tagging) until the suns game. He held marks, he kicked straight, shrugged a few tackles. Looked like a different player. I'd like to see him play there for the remainder of the season.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Some players need and encourage this sort of feedback. This sort of robust discussion is expected in a professional environment.

If you find it 'astonishing', imagine what it being said to players in the rooms.

I reckon Sam knows Scrim can take it. You don't do it with shrinking violets.

 

[Gut Runner]

We've chosen best available rather than team balance (talls/smalls)

I'm OK with that. But our running game better be on.

Bombing balls into 50 rarely works anyway even if you have a tall - Often outnumbered etc.

Have to nail that short kick to a lead inside 50 - just have to.

 

[Brucie Buffer]

I reckon Sam knows Scrim can take it. You don't do it with shrinking violets.

Can’t have hurt his feelings too bad he was our best player in the last quarter.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

We've chosen best available rather than team balance (talls/smalls)

Can’t really see how you’ve come to this conclusion.

We’ve chose to the play with the structure we want to play with.

Whether it pays off is another thing.

 

[barbster]

I reckon Sam knows Scrim can take it. You don't do it with shrinking violets.

Gets old pretty fast though.
So who are the shrinking violets in the team?

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Gets old pretty fast though.
So who are the shrinking violets in the team?

Only Sam would know.

 

[Noel Gallagher]

Yeah, you don’t like Chol, we get it…

It’s been explained continually why Scrimshaw was given a spray. We’ve even had former players and coaches explaining why it made sense.
That you still find an astonishing says more about you than it does about the spray.

Some red flags coming through on Mitchell from what I can see. Let’s just hope that he’s not the next Stevie Gerard.

 

[Symons]

Gets old pretty fast though.
So who are the shrinking violets in the team?

It's been happening for years.

Jordan Lewis talked about this a few months ago, saying that some players need a softly-softly approach from the coach, whereas he preferred to be fired up with robust feedback.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

It's been happening for years.

Jordan Lewis talked about this a few months ago, saying that some players need a softly-softly approach from the coach, whereas he preferred to be fired up with robust feedback.

Exactly. This happens in all walks of life.

Some can cop the sprays and get on with it. Some just fall apart. Scrim clearly can deal with it and it shows

 

[barbster]

It's been happening for years.

Jordan Lewis talked about this a few months ago, saying that some players need a softly-softly approach from the coach, whereas he preferred to be fired up with robust feedback.

So what was the reason Lewis left the club?
Tom Mitchell also came out saying he didn’t feel he was treated right under Sam, so looks like Sam got that one wrong.
If Scrim leaves end of year then that’ll be another Sam got wrong.

 

[Big Hotdog]

So what was the reason Lewis left the club?
Tom Mitchell also came out saying he didn’t feel he was treated right under Sam, so looks like Sam got that one wrong.
If Scrim leaves end of year then that’ll be another Sam got wrong.

Shit if scrim leaves because he coos a spray here and there would be hard to fathom.

I'd say you would have to have re issues on top of this to consider leaving.


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[Big Hotdog]

So what was the reason Lewis left the club?
Tom Mitchell also came out saying he didn’t feel he was treated right under Sam, so looks like Sam got that one wrong.
If Scrim leaves end of year then that’ll be another Sam got wrong.

He was invited to look around by Clarko.
Lewis thought he was next in line to be captain.

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[Yardie]

Sam's spray got so much airtime cause he hardly ever does it. Now all of a sudden people think he does every week and it's "getting old".

 

[barbster]

He was invited to look around by Clarko.
Lewis thought he was next in line to be captain.

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So he leaves after Clarko tells him to look around, talk about soft.

 

[hawk for 37]

Late Sunday games……. People running out of ideas to talk about. Far bit of waffle going on in here.

 

[Samurai Hawk]

It's been going on for months. Totally over it. One option is to drive to a Waverly line station and hope you can find a parking spot.

come live in Tokyo..never a late train , bus... I rarely see a live Hawks game ,,but my transport stress is Zilch.. how Melbourne ever got a most liveable city rating !!!??? sorry to sidetrack ..back to where you were

 

[peetoo]

come live in Tokyo..never a late train , bus... I rarely see a live Hawks game ,,but my transport stress is Zilch.. how Melbourne ever got a most liveable city rating !!!??? sorry to sidetrack ..back to where you were

The ‘liveable city’ I hear is in terms of expats. So very few of the issues residents have.

Funny how we never include that little fact

 

[Simon Crawshay]

Sam's spray got so much airtime cause he hardly ever does it. Now all of a sudden people think he does every week and it's "getting old".

I think it's because of all the players to cop a (very) public spray it was Scrimmers who is in the midst of his best ever season.

And who (I still maintain to this day) was very harshly treated by the coaching panel last year.Dropping him for Bramble, I mean really how did that age?

Fair enough maybe some players can cope with that feedback better than others but given Scrimmers is a free agent next year I think Sam should be showing him a bit love mixed in as well as I am 100% certain Clarko is sussing him out as we speak (he's exactly what North need and they will pay overs to get him).

 

[lethalselbow]

I still find the Scrimshaw spray last week astonishing. One of the few players who has stood up this year yet in the same game, dumbass Chol gives away a stupid free which cost Hardwick a goal and a week on the side lines. If anyone deserved a public spray it was Chol not Scrimshaw

Mitchell has a long way to go to prove he is the right coach to take us through this rebuild

Last weeks spray, several questionable starting sub decisions, and team that is playing soft as butter has him on shaky ground, needs to do better

Dumbass Chol? That's pathetic.

Learn something about Scrimshaw and his coach before shooting your mouth off.

Sub par idiotic comments.