The probllem with RTB suddenly blaming skill is that he's said loud and clear in the past that he doesn't coach skill, he coaches effort. With effort comes skill, as the team proved in the opening rounds. When the effort trails off, so does the skill. The effort was there when they were scared of him.

Wow Max King missed 3 games in his first few years Has led AFL contested marking Has just turned 23 And he’s a bust ???? Just wow Craig McRae will have him Max missed his entire first season. Throw in this entire season (effectively) and that's two seasons out five. He's fragile, unfortunately. And...

Sharman shpowed an immense amount of early promise. Then ... what happened? He wasn't groomed as a forward. Played everywhere else, when he was played at all. This CONTINUED under RTB. The bloke couldn't get even get a game. Yet again, in today's presser, RTB praised Caminiti and Phillipou but didn'...

Richmond were lower than us in 2016. The following year they won the flag (In fact, we flogged them in Rd 15 of that same year.) Melbourne were lower than us in 2020 (we made the finals and they didn't). The following year they won the flag. Collingwood were lower than us in 2021. Now they're flag f...

Wow Max King missed 3 games in his first few years Has led AFL contested marking Has just turned 23 And he’s a bust ???? Just wow Craig McRae will have him Max missed his entire first season. Throw in this entire season (effectively) and that's two seasons out five. He's fragile, unfortunately. And...

Who would be surprised if we lose the next two rounds?

Then we can really start talking rock bottom.

History will show that RTB inherited a side he had little respect for. "I can't take this lot anywhere," if rumours are true. But the playing group were sure sh*tscared of him,. We've all heard stories of players doing heaps of extra gym work and training in the off-season. Voila. Season s...

Passed Richardosn in games coached weeks ago simply by virtue of the fact that he coached ten finals and Richo coached none.

Sides usually put a good show on after the sacking of a coach don’t they ? Apparently not, there has been 14 recent cases and 6 teams won but don't let that stand in the way of fate. We are St.Kilda Six out of 14 struggling, demoralised teams is pretty good. And GCS isn't even at the bottom of the ...

This is what worries me about the atrocious delivery into the forward line. Is the onus really on the midfield or are the forwards just not leading and getting to the right spots? Or are they just too underdeveloped physically to break free from or outmuscle their opponents? Phillipou, Owens and Cam...

Plugger kicked 117 goals and won the Brownlow at age 21.

WellardSaint wrote: ↑Sun 09 Jul 2023 10:45pm Max and Ben should go play basketball rather than AFL.
Their bodies were perfectly fine in under-19s because they weren't playing against bulky hardened men.

They're not suited to AFL at all

It's an interesting point.

Plugger was a KFC-eating colossus.

Would he be suited for the modern game?

Nursing injury-prone marquee players is a drag.

Can't blame King himself but our great white hope is looking a little dubious.

His brother also isn't living up to the hype.

Very depressing.

Hunter Clark? Mattaes Phillipou?

Other teams learned to minimise Wikie's influence on games.

Why can't we do similar?

A worthy bearer of the sacred 7 guernsey.

18th for Scoring Shots Inside 50 is a shocking indictment on our forward line and/or the delivery into the Inside 50.

A new challenge every week.

Cotchin's 300th.

WCE redemption game.

Not to mention the self-inflicted Male Depression Game.

And now it's Melbourne who've been flayed by the media.

Now that the Danny Frawley Centre is up and running there's surely no need for Male Depression Round. It's a downer. In 2021 we'd one the first round when we played it and lost. The first half of our season was a disaster. In 2022 we were 8-4 when we played it and lost badly to Essendon. The second ...

Surely related to his failure to man up or chase Taranto when Taranto kicked the match-winning goal. Was highlighted by Kane Cornes and demanded some sort of response.

Sicily wasn't there to kick it to.

We were a better side than Melbourne in 2020. They won the flag the following year. We were a better side than Collingwood in 2021. Look at them now. Not sure I buy the old mantra "we can't do much with this list". In fact, we WERE doing great things with an injury-riddled list only a coup...

Snapped a good goal and should have been groomed all along as a Milne-like forward pocket.

Either through personal ambition or club overestimation he's been played as a midfielder with dubious results.

I was hoping RTB would turn him into a premier crumber.

If the rezzies are good enough for Windhager (for approx ten weeks) and Bytel (practically permanently) then they're good enough for Phillipou and Caminiti.

Wow.

Feel incredibly foolish for thinking they'd show up to play tonight.