Utter guff.

I thought Dunstan and Savage were amongst our better players last night. A couple of the whipping boys had a crack. Relevance? Are we now cool with average players being Ok? Is that what we want now? Sad times. Relevance is a couple of players who have been dropped recently and were under pressure ...

saynta wrote:

saintsRrising wrote:

Johnny Member wrote: McCartin drop what appear to be easy-ish marks.

You have to be kidding?

If there is one aspect of his game that is excellent it is marking. McCartin, or McClunk as some call him, is a very solid, and often one grab, mark.

Prefer you opinion any day to JM's.

Interesting.

Not sure why this warrants its own thread to be honest.

Could have been posted in any of about 15 the threads that already exist.

Joffa Burns wrote:I thought Dunstan and Savage were amongst our better players last night.

A couple of the whipping boys had a crack.

Relevance?


Are we now cool with average players being Ok? Is that what we want now?



Sad times.

???? Membrey - tick Bruce - tick Savage - tick Steele - will be massive tick The problem? Clearly Hamil as forward coach, fitness coach, possibly richo himself, time to move on rooey and monty - We HAVE the talent time to question how we develop it before its too late. I got a bad feeling Acres Gre...

SaintPav wrote:We're not going to win the premiership

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It depends. If you base your self worth on the achievements of 22 strangers each week, then yeah, life would suck. But if you just follow the footy as a form of entertainment and distraction from real life for a couple vof hours each week, like any sane human being should do, then you'd find that fo...

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I said this in March and was mauled for it.

In case some think you're suggesting that the 10 guys are "list cloggers", you're not- these guys are part of our best 22 at the moment, are doing a job well- when we win - but they don't possess the skills or ability to improve those skills, and/or the right attitude or approach to go th...

Fair point made by OP It is difficult not to be impatient with Paddy though. Not his fault, but he suffers from the inevitable comparison with Petracca who the majority of the forumites, not to mention media and other club list managers, thought we would take. Good luck to the kid, I will try and c...

The main point that list illustrates is that people get too hung up about the significance of draft picks. All you get with an early draft pick is raw talent. If you get more early draft picks over a period of time, you get more raw talent. But the talent needs to develop and meld with your existin...

And that's not a knock on Mav necessarily. It is what it is. As teams improve, not everyone on the list is capable of taking the next step. If a team is to improve, everyone has to get better or be replaced by someone who is already better. If that doesn't occur, then guess what? You don't improve! ...

Last year he averaged 16.4 Disposals and 3.9 Marks per game. This season he averages 17.1 Disposals and 4.5 Marks. Last season he averaged 2.0 Shots at Goal and 3.8 Tackles per week. This season he averages 2.1 Shots at Goal 3.2 Tackles. So he's up in everything except he has had 0.6 Tackles less pe...

Was he 'great' last year comparative to the rest of our team? Or 'great' in the context of the entire competition?

Let's face facts. Paddy is way behind where we expected him to be. As a result, regardless of what Roo wants, the Roo issue is very much live in large part due to Paddy A fact is it? Disagree. Concussion aside, McCartin is pretty much exactly where I thought he'd be. He's developing really well.

the elephant in the room...Maverick Weller. Remember him? He's in the leadership group. Is he still carrying that ankle soreness ? He got 17 disposals for Zebs, and 8 tackles, whereas Blake Acres got 26 and 8 tackles, but had a hard tag all day. Go figure Well to be fair, Wellard was put into the l...

millarsaint wrote:pleasing to see the club admitting mistake with Battle and doing the right thing.
makes you wonder though, I've seen Battle a few times at Sandy this year, and he was never ready.

How is debuting a young kid in a development year ever a mistake?

Yes.

It's a little disturbing to me that ppl genuinely think we are completely incapable of turning stuff around and capable of failure before even beginning. To me it's a cop out. I guess we'll just have to leave it there Things don't turn around, if you keep doing the same things over and over again. ...

There may be problems - obviously heaps we can improve - but this particular loss in this particular game I put squarely down to maddie's match. Did anyone see the footage of roo they played back on footy class last night? He's not all he used to be but I've never seen him that far off competetive....

FWIW, If we think it only bad goal kicking that is the difference, were in trouble. It's bad kicking AND bad umpiring, right? Umpiring is always bad. Ask any club, and they'll tell you the same. Except for the Dogs of course. The issue is two-fold: Firstly, this whole 'pressure' thing. Why do we ha...

FWIW, If we think it only bad goal kicking that is the difference, were in trouble.

Isn't "pressure" everyone's game plan?? This season has shown that you only need to be slightly off on energy and commitment and you will get done Pressure is the defining no.1 integral factor of all teams game plans to say otherwise is bulls*** Definitely. Not suggesting for a second tha...

How on earth could someone possibly give Newnes votes from that game??


Mind boggling.