Southerntakeover
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Look, I'm feeling bad enough without having to come into the knowledge that you've been allowed to reproduce.
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Look, I'm feeling bad enough without having to come into the knowledge that you've been allowed to reproduce.
Maybe it's just you lol. I was looking at improvement of the youngsters especially Rachele transitioning into the midfield (which you have dismiss as "impossible" and he will never be elite WE NEED ELITE MIDFIELDER, WHERE OUR ELITE MIDFIELDER, LAIRD IS A C-GRADE PLAYER BLAH BLAH BLAH), how Rankine played (outside of a few very poor shot on goals he was all class), Soligo continue his development into an A grade midfielder and Forgarty's continue where he left off mid last year and I saw all that today. MM debut was an extra positive of my expectation of this young and developing list. Berry and Schoenberg were very disappointing, what was your expectation going into the GWS game?
Southerntakeover
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Lousy medical science. What's it ever done for us anyway?
Southerntakeover
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I don't think anyone really cares what your "observations" were.
And you think they do about yours so you created this thread lol. So again, what was your expectation heading into the GWS game?
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That’s a thin list to hang your hat on
Southerntakeover
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You're in the thread. Right now.
Well, we are still young and developing aren't we? What was your expectation heading into the GWS game?
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Dodging the question againI see what you are doing
If what you see is me not respecting you, correct.
Well, if you throw out trolling statements like "Laird is a C grader" and "Rachele will have fun playing for Collingwood" after seeing he can develop into that elite midfielder you wanted like some of us have been telling you then the feeling is obviously mutual.
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Southerntakeover
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The difference seems to be that I don't crave your attention or respect.
We know about the past 6 years. I have to live them too. This is a new season and drawing a conclusion about how we are going to perform after 1 game isnt smart. I bet you weren't annoyed at how the club did in the trials. If after 5 games we are not performing up to expectations I will jump on the bandwagon too but to do it after a single game......your judgement leaves a lot to be desired.
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The lesson to learn is something I warned about a few seasons back—from a lifetime of watching year after year after year with the Cleveland Browns.
The object in professional sports is to WIN games.
When you set a course to “tank” so you can get a “high draft pick”—you invariably establish a culture of losing is acceptable and excusable. It quickly grabs hold of an entire organization from top down.
Footy—almost even more than gridiron is not a sport where 1 individual vaults you from last to first. There are way to many players on the field. In basketball, sure one guy can impact a team significantly—but this ain’t basketball.
Then what happens is the organization overvalues ALL their draft picks—excusing things like ohhh say fitness (cough cough Fog) for their “ceiling of talent”.
As such, poor conditioning, poor kicking, poor disposals, poor tackling, etc… are all excused in various manners
So that there becomes a “protected” class in the ranks due to draft status.
Inevitably this perpetuates the losing.
This is exactly where Adelaide is now.
A terrible coach, a terrible organizational mindset and no hope of climbing out of it anytime soon.
Excuses were made for to long and losing has long since become “acceptable” culturally in the clubhouse.
That is a stench not easily eradicated
So here we are
The object in professional sports is to WIN games.
When you set a course to “tank” so you can get a “high draft pick”—you invariably establish a culture of losing is acceptable and excusable. It quickly grabs hold of an entire organization from top down.
Footy—almost even more than gridiron is not a sport where 1 individual vaults you from last to first. There are way to many players on the field. In basketball, sure one guy can impact a team significantly—but this ain’t basketball.
Then what happens is the organization overvalues ALL their draft picks—excusing things like ohhh say fitness (cough cough Fog) for their “ceiling of talent”.
As such, poor conditioning, poor kicking, poor disposals, poor tackling, etc… are all excused in various manners
So that there becomes a “protected” class in the ranks due to draft status.
Inevitably this perpetuates the losing.
This is exactly where Adelaide is now.
A terrible coach, a terrible organizational mindset and no hope of climbing out of it anytime soon.
Excuses were made for to long and losing has long since become “acceptable” culturally in the clubhouse.
That is a stench not easily eradicated
So here we are
While I don't disagree yesterday was very disappointing and the club has had a very lean 25 years with a lot of own goals - Blighty once said people tend to really overreact after Round 1. And I agree.
This thread is an embarrestment and totally hysterical. Yes it was dissapointing but get a ****ing grip it's round 1.
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Calm the farm people. Even though I was ready to throw a brick through my tv yesterday it's not the end of the world. If we hadn't been in front at half time and lost the way we did this thread wouldn't exist. I wasn't expecting to beat them anyway and at least this time we didn't get belted. We are still very much a work in progress.
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Nice to see the same rationalizations and excuse making that I have seen for decades with another franchise
Eerily comical how identical this has all become for me
Eerily comical how identical this has all become for me
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It's 25 years, it will be 30.
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The start of your post doesn't support the conclusion.
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It's an opinion that is remarkable for being wrong in two sports.
The Eagles were widely panned for throwing their last game two seasons ago. They made the Superbowl two years later.
Good franchises are strategic.
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Using the Eagles as your example says it all
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Let me know what decade the Crows plan on getting to .500 let alone making the 8
This plan seems every bit the Browns plan
Both working extraordinarily well
This plan seems every bit the Browns plan
Both working extraordinarily well
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We won one superbowl in the last 5 years, narrowly lost another.
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