Review The good, the bad, the shat - vs Fremantle R3 2024

[feenix67]

What's worse, our midfield lineup or your quarterback tandem?

Im just following Min Woo at the moment, all this football stuff is just a distraction

 

[1970crow]

What?!?!?

A 3 hour flight for a professional athlete who isn't 100% is a massive deal.

I know you are 1970 Crow, but this isn't 1970's football old man.

Obviously you’re not being serious. If sitting in a seat for 3 hours is a problem then playing 90 minutes of football at the elite level is well beyond you.

 

[Multiballz]

It can be both.
And it is.
Nothing is just this OR that.

Nah, its people clutching at straws.
We have more than enough talent upon which to build a challenging side, and we we're all up and about considering natural progression prior to round one.

Im not saying recruitment has been stellar over the past decade, but this excuse has run its course. Its all on the Coach now. GWS's list would be in the same position under this Coaching group.
Take a good look.Its the potential elite talent on our list that has either floundered or gone backwards,.
not your Murphys or Mchenrys whove been consistently bog average from day 1.

 

[AmericanCrow]

Im just following Min Woo at the moment, all this football stuff is just a distraction

Hope all is well your way mate---we will have to catch up sometime

 

[Southerntakeover]

Isn't watching other teams and seeing teams kick to a lead, and hit them, mind blowing?

 

[cmndstab]

Isn't watching other teams and seeing teams kick to a lead, and hit them, mind blowing?

It's frustrating enough seeing it from the opposition teams in our matches.

 

[Multiballz]

I am following.

This is professional sports... Percentages decide whether players play or sit out.

Have you ever had a back injury? Being forced to sit upright for 3 hours 20 minutes can set you back massively. Or you can get there and be feeling fit and ready to go with a massage.

There is no rule book on recovery from a back injury.

Was it you telling me about Mileras battle hardened, AFL ready body?

Never mind glassmans latest injury, did you see the way he flopped at the hint of contact just moments before?

 

[feenix67]

Hope all is well your way mate---we will have to catch up sometime

Pretty good here mate, how's the little golf pro going? Probably not so little anymore? You should come onto our Discord sometime and chat

 

[AmericanCrow]

Pretty good here mate, how's the little golf pro going? Probably not so little anymore? You should come onto our Discord sometime and chat

Was State Runner up as a sophomore last fall. Rallied from 6 back to start the day in last round to be tied for lead heading to back nine. Fell just short but was a hell of a charge.

I will try to do that

 

[SugarShane]

Washington Generals fans are more optimistic

They're due.

 

[BrissyCrow]

You know what, the ‘improving’ is a mirage. Remove Nicks’ first year where he drove us to a spoon and how fo we track? It’s only courtesy of low expectations that we seemed to have been improving.

One thing for sure is that this year we have gone backwards. I mean effectively we have the same team on the ground as last year but we look unorganised. Last night there were patches of us moving the ball from one end to other or defending and from the Half back line we were doing short kicks under pressure and the kicks all landed. They looked good in patches but overall they still looked unorganised.

 

[Faaarrk]

Was State Runner up as a sophomore last fall. Rallied from 6 back to start the day in last round to be tied for lead heading to back nine. Fell just short but was a hell of a charge.

I will try to do that

Have they been watching the crows play?

 

[Sanders]

Imagine strutting around bragging on a forum about the number of posters you had blocked for voicing criticism of the club, as if constructing the world's stupidest echo chamber of opinions that think one of the worst sporting organisations on the planet is a great success story is meritorious and then turning up all sad face wanting sympathy when you're surprised that the team is a rancid infected ball sack.

And that you’d been protected from accountability for your claims every time someone tried to point out your contradictions

 

[Sanders]

Where are all the usual Nicks supporters on this board?

Gone very very quiet....

Trying to re-script their characters

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Isn't watching other teams and seeing teams kick to a lead, and hit them, mind blowing?

Yeah, we used to do it last year, but shelved it this year for some unknown reason.

 

[King Elvis]

Haven't visited or logged in since August last year but had to come in and have a read after the season's start.

- There was massive bathwater drinking and back slapping over the offseason. The Keays goal/behind allowed the club to pretend the rebuild was over - "we should've made finals" - Olsen went full PR politician, came out all tough, everyone felt sorry for us, whilst avoiding what would've been a ten goal Elim smashing against Carlton at the G. They got the credit of making the finals without making the finals.

- Nicks has made everyone feel nice about themselves. He's not a finals coach's ars*hole. His re-signing was as laughable as his 8-man leadership group. He is now blaming players for the results - good luck putting that genie back in the bottle.

- We lost 6 games by less than a goal last year. Rather than keeping with the attack and trying to kick one more goal a game, or focus on two minute drills, we completely overhauled it and went defensive, too quickly. Players have no confidence. That is 100% on the coaches.

- The actual club itself is dysfunctional in a high performance sense. Said it for 20 years. It's summed up by the baffling decisions the administrators make over a long period. For example, John Reid engineered the Kurt Tippett saga that decimated our draft capital and credibility with trading, so we appointed his son as list manager two years later and despite only 3 finals appearances in 12 years, is still the list manager.

That is the Adelaide Football Club. It's a side hobby and wine-and-dine experience for the Board when they're not spending money building pubs, buying MPs or starting law firms.

Anyway, my two cents, I will jog on and maybe check in by August. Cheers.

Nailed it.

 

[King Elvis]

Sportsbet: $41 flag, $21 to make GF, $3 to make the 8.

All ridiculously short.

Might do a lay off bet against us making the finals.

 

[Sanders]

OK ....here's my feelings

Despite those who find a negative in anything and everything .....I have thoroughly enjoyed the rebuild .....by-n-large, the Club has done a great job

Yes, but you don’t really care enough to develop serious opinions about such matters

 

[Sanders]

And this is 100% correct !

Our best Qtr of footy, was the one Crouch was hardly in the midfield .....there's zero doubt Laird has slowed down with age .....but as expected the opposition are treating our midfield as traffic cones

Is there nothing you’re not stupendously wrong about?

 

[Sanders]

How on earth do you go from the best attacking team to the worst?

with great difficulty

 

[King Elvis]

Brodie Smith, Lachlan Murphy, Wayne Milera, Darcy Fogarty, Riley O’Brien, Mitch Hinge plus Jordan Dawson.

Yep, there is group you would want to go into battle with.

FMD, our playing group surely didn’t pick these lot. Seriously?

Reckon what happened is players picked a different group of players and then the coaches said, no way, this is the group we want.

Smith should be SANFL.
Milera is irrelevant, doesn't show any on field leadership.
Murphy should be SANFL.
Fogarty lucky to be in the side, no one field leadership.
Hinge - tries hard, might be a leader.
ROB - no on field leadership.
Dawson - fair.

That really is a pathetic leadership group - no wonder we can't adapt during matches.

 

[King Elvis]

Rankine needs to be able to roam the ground, forward pocket is a terrible use for him.

Put him on a wing or something.

 

[n4sir]

How on earth do you go from the best attacking team to the worst?

Change the offensive coach to someone with no idea of it... sadly we did it before (from Teague to Hart... now Rahilly to Burns)

Rinse and repeat all over again

 

[n4sir]

Might do a lay off bet against us making the finals.

Bet on Lever setting a new record for intercept marks next week. Get on in before the odds change.

 

[GreyCrow]

Easter Sunday - time for the social media team to make sweet sweet posts of fairy floss and rainbows