Autopsy v the rubber head bands

[FootySmartSimpson]

Larkey has to step up. Actually lead to the ball and act like the power forward he is.

Key players are woefully out of form.

Midfield is Jekyll and Hyde. Jy, Wardlaw, Powell and (outside of three ripping tackles) Phillips were very poor.

The backs were out of touch as well.

The only positive is that X continues to rip through the opposition like a monster.

 

[Cyber_punk]

Spoon again

Hope not but looking like it's going to come down to the West Coast game.

Richmond probably go in warm favorites next week

 

[Luke72]

No, we’re really not.

Yes we are. You’re a negative campaigner

 

[Spud11]

l would like to see a game without Zuurhar playing. For what we are epected to pay for him staying l would rather use it to keep our younger players. He is a hit and miss player and no longer the impact player of years gone by....

I’d cut him loose and spend the cash elsewhere in a second. He ain’t worth it.

 

[Spud11]

Yes we are. You’re a negative campaigner

Oh ok. We are. Zero evidence, but sure.

**** off.

 

[RossHenshaw]

Hope not but looking like it's going to come down to the West Coast game.

Richmond probably go in warm favorites next week

Chom injured
Corr injured
Wardlaw trip suspension
LDU dangerous tackle suspension
Darcy Tucker dangerous tackle suspension

 

[scottywiper]

Yes we are. You’re a negative campaigner

I have also become very negative about this team.
I wish they'd stop giving me the material.

 

[Luke72]

Oh ok. We are. Zero evidence, but sure.

**** off.

Twat

 

[Only Forwards]

I'm with you

Here’s the thing. We’re all in the same bus and we have no control on whether we careen over a cliff or hit a fast lane to a flag.

 

[William Caresser]

To be +14 for contested possession, have 77 tackles and win the clearances (albeit just) is a big improvement on anything we served up in the first half of the year.

However, to state the obvious, our ball use was poor. So many good opportunities to score squandered through poor decisions making or execution. 79 turnovers - hard to watch. As Kingy highlighted during the week, we're ranked 18th for scores from stoppages. We just waste opportunity after opportunity and it takes its toll. Sheezel being the exception.

Part of the responsibility has to also lie with our forwards who rarely create separation and our lack of a class small forward or two to help Paul Curtis out.

 

[koshari]

Larkey has to step up. Actually lead to the ball and act like the power forward he is.

Key players are woefully out of form.

Midfield is Jekyll and Hyde. Jy, Wardlaw, Powell and (outside of three ripping tackles) Phillips were very poor.

The backs were out of touch as well.

The only positive is that X continues to rip through the opposition like a monster.

But he isnt a power fwd.

 

[JGreezy]

Oh ok. We are. Zero evidence, but sure.

**** off.

We're playing much better football if you're watching the games

 

[scottywiper]

Part of the responsibility has to also lie with our forwards who rarely create separation and our lack of a class small forward or two to help Paul Curtis out.

Well maybe if the Ironsteins who have been managing the list put some effort into filling this hole over the last decade had done their job....

 

[Luke72]

Oh ok. We are. Zero evidence, but sure.

**** off.

Come back after you cool off. We’re going to slaughter these shit teams in the very near future

 

[William Caresser]

Well maybe if the Ironsteins who have been managing the list put some effort into filling this hole over the last decade had done their job....

Always been an afterthought but that has to change.

 

[Spud11]

Twat

You put about as much effort into your opinion as our forwards put into leading.

 

[scottywiper]

We're playing much better football if you're watching the games

We are playing patches of better football. Unquestionably. But what has it meant? Narrow wins over a floundering WC and a GC team that can't win away.
We also showed good signs under Noble in his first year, best wooden spooner ever IIRC, and where did that go?
Until we start getting results flashes of good footy are just a tease.

 

[showusyacunningt]

Get Toby back in there. He works with the other talls way better than Teakle.
Teaks has the height over him, but he's essentially non-competitive in ruck. You could even give Charlie 5 minutes in the ruck and park him a kick behind the ball.

 

[Ball Dont Lie]

Yes we are. You’re a negative campaigner

Based on what? We aren’t exactly flying. We have won 2 games against basket cases. We have lots of talent so it’s inevitable we should improve. Unfortunately it’s just slow and other teams are doing it faster.

 

[Spud11]

We are playing patches of better football. Unquestionably. But what has it meant? Narrow wins over a floundering WC and a GC team that can't win away.
We also showed good signs under Noble in his first year, best wooden spooner ever IIRC, and where did that go?
Until we start getting results flashes of good footy are just a tease.

This.

I’m not sold on specks of brilliance followed by them being cancelled out with the same old problems. Which are worse than ever.

Are we serious as a football club?

 

[Prancer]

Problem is no one wants to come and play at North. We're not a destination club, so we'll just keep going around in circles.

We are the laughing stock of the comp and Opp supporters.

I need another drink

 

[Luke72]

Based on what? We aren’t exactly flying. We have won 2 games against basket cases. We have lots of talent so it’s inevitable we should improve. Unfortunately it’s just slow and other teams are doing it faster.

So you’re arguing but agreeing!?! We are improving, not as fast as I’d like but still improving

 

[Spud11]

Problem is no one wants to come and play at North. We're not a destination club, so we'll just keep going around in circles.

We are the laughing stock of the comp and Opp supporters.

I need another drink

Everyone was telling me through the week that we’d beat Geelong. I laughed and said it would be another loss with “some good signs”. If every team was as easy to predict as ours, tipping competitions wouldn’t exist.

 

[scottywiper]

Come back after you cool off. We’re going to slaughter these shit teams in the very near future

I hope you're right, but how can you be certain of that? As it stands we can barely beat anyone?
Sheezel is a gun, Wardlaw is promising. McKercher is promising.
LDU would be elite if he could use it better.
Xerri has really stepped up. Comben been pretty good.
Larkey is solid. Archer has showed some signs.
Curtis has talent but not yet a reliable factor. Logue should be solid for coming years.
After that, it's generally plodders.
There are still a lot of holes to fill before we start beating teams IMO.

 

[Liam Boy]

You really notice the way Geelong see an open, unstructured field ahead of them and they don't wait, they move it quickly and exploit the lack of setup. Professional strategic footy. Too often we do the opposite, players take a mark and play David Noble footy, waiting way too long for the opposition to set up behind them, blast it long to a contest, absolutely no advantage to us unless X or Chom can pull out a miracle contested mark. We die by the sword all the time, we should try living by it for a change.