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Cayman Docker said:
I don’t vent much, but I’m getting a bit sick of the “we’re still a young side” excuses. How long are we going to keep hiding behind that crap?

The team have shown they can mix it with the best, so it’s all there, but somehow it’s gone the next.

1000% between their ears now.
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Well you're free to say this, but the data doesn't support your argument as we fielding the second youngest and second least experienced team on the weekend behind the hawks.

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It is not an excuse, it is the reality of the situation we find ourselves in after we offloaded 6 experienced players last offseason. We've taken a step back to hopefully take a step forward next season when we're fielding a side much closer to the average.

I know this is the vent thread, but whatever ;).
 
mattis117 said:
Well you're free to say this, but the data doesn't support your argument as we fielding the second youngest and second least experienced team on the weekend behind the hawks.

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It is not an excuse, it is the reality of the situation we find ourselves in after we offloaded 6 experienced players last offseason. We've taken a step back to hopefully take a step forward next season when we're fielding a side much closer to the average.

I know this is the vent thread, but whatever ;).
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Youth/inexperience impacts execution of a gameplan. Our problem isn't the execution, it's the nonsensical conservative and uninspiring ball movement that was successful years ago but has since been made redundant. I cannot fathom how posters see Ryan bombing it to a pack (which he is instructed to do) and blame the 'youth' of our team. There is no excuse to get smashed by Carlton on our home deck.
 

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mattis117 said:
Well you're free to say this, but the data doesn't support your argument as we fielding the second youngest and second least experienced team on the weekend behind the hawks.

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It is not an excuse, it is the reality of the situation we find ourselves in after we offloaded 6 experienced players last offseason. We've taken a step back to hopefully take a step forward next season when we're fielding a side much closer to the average.

I know this is the vent thread, but whatever ;).
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Add in David Mundy and take out Johnson and have a look at what that does to our averages.
I think the point generally being made is that after rebuilding for 6 years we're still one of the youngest most inexperienced teams in the comp. Having traded out a starting forward and defender for a packet of chips while paying a huge amount for a complete non need whose played a couple of good games. We hide behind 'we're young' or 'we're rebuilding ' or 'we have a new coach' and have done so since day one.
 
I don't think our list is too bad, we just have too many players who are either injured, or in the worst form of their careers. Freddy, Walker and Switta couldn't possibly play any worse than they have the last month.There's others not much better. No team can carry 5 or 6 players each weekend.

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Bicco said:
Add in David Mundy and take out Johnson and have a look at what that does to our averages.
I think the point generally being made is that after rebuilding for 6 years we're still one of the youngest most inexperienced teams in the comp. Having traded out a starting forward and defender for a packet of chips while paying a huge amount for a complete non need whose played a couple of good games. We hide behind 'we're young' or 'we're rebuilding ' or 'we have a new coach' and have done so since day one.
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Add in David Mundy (from a few years back) and see what it does to our win/loss ratio
 
hoss said:
I don't think our list is too bad, we just have too many players who are either injured, or in the worst form of their careers. Freddy, Walker and Switta couldn't possibly play any worse than they have the last month.There's others not much better. No team can carry 5 or 6 players each weekend.

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Injuries have not been an issue this year.

Our depth is shit, especially forward half so any Injuries or out of form player is magnified.
 
Get f*k*d !
The Serong decision is a joke
No free kick
Umpires didn’t call a sling
No head contact with the ground

**** this shit !
VFL Carlton love affair confirmed ?
 
I joke about our legal representatives being Lionel Hutz or Dennis Denuto, but I honestly can’t remember the last time we were successful at the tribunal. Do we have the worst lawyers in the AFL?
 
Tonga Bob said:
I joke about our legal representatives being Lionel Hutz or Dennis Denuto, but I honestly can’t remember the last time we were successful at the tribunal. Do we have the worst lawyers in the AFL?
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It doesn’t matter who we have , why do people continue to sprout this line?
It’s blatant AFL/Vfl corruption … every single time- freo players will be made examples of meanwhile a Carlton player (ironically Cerra again)gets off for a much more obvious dangerous tackle.

They don’t even hide it these days …
Medium impact ?????
The bloke got up immediately and played out the game to receive 10 coaches votes ffs
 
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Tonga Bob said:
I joke about our legal representatives being Lionel Hutz or Dennis Denuto, but I honestly can’t remember the last time we were successful at the tribunal. Do we have the worst lawyers in the AFL?
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We do and I'm not joking either. Most teams get a win every now and then but we don't. Not getting O'Meara off especially was disgraceful.
 
Cayman Docker said:
I don’t vent much, but I’m getting a bit sick of the “we’re still a young side” excuses. How long are we going to keep hiding behind that crap?

The team have shown they can mix it with the best, so it’s all there, but somehow it’s gone the next.

1000% between their ears now.
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"Excuse" is just a lable. It's either a factor or it isn't. If you don't think age is a factor what's your case for that?
 
I don’t know where to rant about this so I’ll vent here

Someone needs to teach Brayshaw that he doesn’t need to turn himself inside out every single time he gets the ball

Now that’s also a support issue from the other mids not providing a side or rear release but the amount of times I see him get pushed backwards by 1-2 opponents and lose time creating a turnover or HTB is concerning

Need Brodie or Johnson to be the tap dogs and Brayshaw/ Serong playing more outside
 
Plus there was the one the other week against the dogs where Switta got sling tackled into the turf. Razor Ray essentially accuses Switta or staging, saying there’s nothing in it. FFS
 
arsesmart said:
"Excuse" is just a lable. It's either a factor or it isn't. If you don't think age is a factor what's your case for that?
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My case is that when we are switched on we can mix it with the best. So why can’t we back that up the following week? If we had one hell of a physical game the week prior, fair enough, but players literally play out of their skins one week and go walkabout the next. I don’t question that our general age would come into that, but everyone keeps harping on about it, which just gives it legs and player’s, coaches something to hide behind. At what data point are we no longer a young team? I think Collingwood are a great example of a team that have it right between the ears, maybe with time and maturity we will to.
 

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