The pies were obviously having a run of poor form after winning the flag ... with a reduced pre-season following their extended flag-winning season, Teflon. How do you on the other hand explain the hot and cold form of our players? Our players were obviously good enough to beat the pies! You can't h...

Time to vent ... we've won only 9 of our last 27 games.

That's 33.33% w/l.

Sicily's 46 and Martin's 44 possessions off half back was the player's fault too ... it can't be the genius game plan.

You and I could have coached that side to a premiership, Teflon.

I was obviously referring to the first Lyon stint, Shrodes.

I thought Sicily missing would have tipped the scales our way ... but the better-coached/drilled team won.

Coaches do make a difference after all.

Coaches did well today Swung battle forward , Wood forward, Payton into middle all good moves We have the weakest , dumbest players in the comp THE worst midfield- nit by a little but a long way 12 years of recruiting HBF/HFF crap like Billing’s and co has set us back 10 years RTB set us back 5 yea...

The better-coached team won.

Not that the coaches count.

RTP ... Ross The Perplexed.

We can still do it, despite him ... his genius.

Clark has strong legs. Probably not a good idea for him to put on upper-body bulk (he doesn't have speed to burn, as it is, to be fair) - anyway, he doesn't need to (bulk up) given his evasive skills and footy smarts. He will be very handy when he returns. No doubt. Overdue for a change of luck. Imp...

And Alan Bond was always going to buy channel 9.

"Always going to" = tunnel-vision.

You mean the best available tall talent (that was the focus of our tunnel-visioned recruiters).

Billings is not a midfielder. Was never considered one. We have tended to draft the best tall forward in the draft, or worse stll, even a half forward flanker (Billings was not even a key position forward) and have been happy to overlook obvious midfield talent to get one .... Petracca, Rozee, Butte...

The thing is a skinny, lanky key position forward or ruckman, etc... takes years to develop/reach their peak, and might eventually get there ... but it is never a given. Whereas a Rozee, Butterrs , Darcy Wilson etc.. are ready to hit the ground running from the word go.

Port Adelaide nailed the 2018 draft. They took Connor Rozee at pick 5 and Zac Butters with pick 12 Both have been All Australian and Rozee Is Port Adelaide's captain. St Kilda took Max King at pick 4 and Gold Coast Ben King at pick 6. St Kilda did not learn from the 2014 draft chasing after the all...

King is not a natural forward. He averages a contested mark or two a game ... but that's all he wants to do, contest. A Dixon, Hawkins or Tex Walker can probably get away with that (contesting mostly) with their builds. Sure, he will kick a bag of 3 or 4 once or twice a year (well, Wilson did this w...

If we swapped Membrey with Dixon and their midfield with ours, we would have won by 10 goals. We need a decent midfield and a hulking, one-grab forward. We're probably only 4 star/high-impact players away from a premiership. We are/look "boring" because of that (probably not the game plan ...

Why wasn't there a question regarding Jack Steele's leg strapping?
What's his issue ... knee soreness?

Hastie in the forward line?

SaintPav wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:50pm Cordy is much better than Howard.

More Cordynated.

Anyway, when we get everyone fit and back, we will do okay.
Liam Henry was a big loss.
If Bonner and Stocker are considered bottom 6, we're not doing too badly.

Too much energy is being wasted and misdirected on coaches and their importance ... concentrate on getting the all-important recruiting right, and everything else will fall into place.

I am not a fan of our current game plan, mind you.

A rebuild presupposes astute recruiting and drafting.
That would be an aberration for us.

A club like Geelong on the other hand .. just when we think they're past it, they keep proving us wrong, thanks to their drafting and recruiting.

Supporters are supporters. The problem is, it's our recruiters who have over-rated our players and their recruiting ... "Winx this, Winx that""He slid to pick18 "etc . and keep under-rating obvious midfield talent. What do we expect? We (the supporters) should be doing the recrui...

It's not enough that we have an average midfield, we're not helping things by giving/gifting midfield numbers to opposition half backs.
We effectively have two midfields to compete against.

Bailey Dale B.O.G. .... Be Our Guest (for the week). Help yourself.