Low on experience

[cwrcyn]

We have 9 players out there today with an average of 10 games played. And here we are, expecting us to be highly competitive. That's a healthy sign.

Wilkie 6
Joyce 3
Clark 17
Marshall 17
Long 18
Battle 13
Paton 6
Parker 6
Marsh 15

At the start of the year, if you'd told me the following players were unavailable, I would have held much less optimism about our potential to be competitive

Hannebery
McCartin
Roberton
Carlisle
Geary
Steven
Lonie
Brown

[Scollop]

We have 9 players out there today with an average of 10 games played. And here we are, expecting us to be highly competitive. That's a healthy sign.

Wilkie 6
Joyce 3
Clark 17
Marshall 17
Long 18
Battle 13
Paton 6
Parker 6
Marsh 15

At the start of the year, if you'd told me the following players were unavailable, I would have held much less optimism about our potential to be competitive

Hannebery
McCartin
Roberton
Carlisle
Geary
Steven
Lonie
Brown

As you say it is healthy for our rebuild...but not that healthy if you want to be competitive over a long season

And yet if you have a look at the Votes thread in the next couple of days I reckon you'll find that there'll be more votes for our newbies rather than the others who played versus GWS today

[Special]

I’m over 7 years of rebuilding.

Prefer the Geelong method, but sadly no one wants to come to us.

We need to do a Footscray Flag Fluke. It’s our only hope.

[Ape_Man]

I’m over 7 years of rebuilding.

Prefer the Geelong method, but sadly no one wants to come to us.

We need to do a Footscray Flag Fluke. It’s our only hope.

Geelong just copied Hawthorn and recruited on the back of success.

We missed our chance to emulate.

This crop looks like it has potential. With our new coaches, I am optimistic.

I just hope some experience can come back so we don’t do a Carlton.

[tedtheodorelogan2018]

Building games into these players will be enormous in another 2-3 years.

[ss1986]

Building games into these players will be enormous in another 2-3 years.

Yep! Right about the time of contract renewals and we lose them because we are still paying someone who cant get on the park $800k a year.

[tedtheodorelogan2018]

Go away. Have we lost anyone we didn't want in the last 5 years? Answer..no.

The negative BS is ridiculous. Get a grip.

[ss1986]

Go away. Have we lost anyone we didn't want in the last 5 years? Answer..no.

The negative BS is ridiculous. Get a grip.

Your unwavering support is admirable... your unwavering support is also ridiculous.

We havent had anyone to worry about losing for the last 5 years!!!!

[samuraisaint]

We have 9 players out there today with an average of 10 games played. And here we are, expecting us to be highly competitive. That's a healthy sign.

Wilkie 6
Joyce 3
Clark 17
Marshall 17
Long 18
Battle 13
Paton 6
Parker 6
Marsh 15

At the start of the year, if you'd told me the following players were unavailable, I would have held much less optimism about our potential to be competitive

Hannebery
McCartin
Roberton
Carlisle
Geary
Steven
Lonie
Brown

As you say it is healthy for our rebuild...but not that healthy if you want to be competitive over a long season

And yet if you have a look at the Votes thread in the next couple of days I reckon you'll find that there'll be more votes for our newbies rather than the others who played versus GWS today

If we beat the Eagles next week with the young list we have it will build immense self-belief. Our biggest issue is our forward line. It is absolutely dysfunctional, and our midfielders never kick enough goals either. The game plan still needs big changes.

[Cairnsman]

Building games into these players will be enormous in another 2-3 years.

Yep! Right about the time of contract renewals and we lose them because we are still paying someone who cant get on the park $800k a year.

You'll make the place great when you overthrow the board. Let me know when the voting starts.

[ss1986]

Building games into these players will be enormous in another 2-3 years.

Yep! Right about the time of contract renewals and we lose them because we are still paying someone who cant get on the park $800k a year.

You'll make the place great when you overthrow the board. Let me know when the voting starts.

PM me Cairnsman. If you are so offended bc the club employs you, let’s catch up and give me a chance to vent, and you a chance to explain why we are going in the right direction.

Or you too afraid to give up your identity?

If you don’t want to, then you are also just another keyboard warrior who will have to put up with people calling out your garbage.

[tedtheodorelogan2018]

Go away. Have we lost anyone we didn't want in the last 5 years? Answer..no.

The negative BS is ridiculous. Get a grip.

Your unwavering support is admirable... your unwavering support is also ridiculous.

We havent had anyone to worry about losing for the last 5 years!!!!

What complete and utter BS of the highest magnitude. You are a good baiter though so I will give you that.

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[Ape_Man]

Building games into these players will be enormous in another 2-3 years.

Yep! Right about the time of contract renewals and we lose them because we are still paying someone who cant get on the park $800k a year.

You'll make the place great when you overthrow the board. Let me know when the voting starts.

PM me Cairnsman. If you are so offended bc the club employs you, let’s catch up and give me a chance to vent, and you a chance to explain why we are going in the right direction.

Or you too afraid to give up your identity?

If you don’t want to, then you are also just another keyboard warrior who will have to put up with people calling out your garbage.

Didn’t mean to thank you. I meant to hit the quote button.

Do you know that calling some a keyboard warrior and wanting a face to face just makes you a keyboard warrior?

What are you expecting to happen?

Even if I was Bruce Lee I wouldn’t meet up with some stranger telling me their opinion was more valid than my own.

Absolutely juvenile.

[ss1986]

Go away. Have we lost anyone we didn't want in the last 5 years? Answer..no.

The negative BS is ridiculous. Get a grip.

Your unwavering support is admirable... your unwavering support is also ridiculous.

We havent had anyone to worry about losing for the last 5 years!!!!

What complete and utter BS of the highest magnitude. You are a good baiter though so I will give you that.

Putting aside all of the agro and BS... we honestly have not had anyone re-sign who we were ever at risk of losing... unless you can enlighten me.

No one has wanted our players over the last 5 years to warrant paying a premium to them.

[Devilhead]

Pretty easy to kick something or someone when their down - a lot harder to stick fat when the going gets tough

I know which supporters I prefer

[tedtheodorelogan2018]

Billings, Gresham, Long, Bruce, Roberton, Steven for starters.

[ss1986]

Building games into these players will be enormous in another 2-3 years.

Yep! Right about the time of contract renewals and we lose them because we are still paying someone who cant get on the park $800k a year.

You'll make the place great when you overthrow the board. Let me know when the voting starts.

PM me Cairnsman. If you are so offended bc the club employs you, let’s catch up and give me a chance to vent, and you a chance to explain why we are going in the right direction.

Or you too afraid to give up your identity?

If you don’t want to, then you are also just another keyboard warrior who will have to put up with people calling out your garbage.

Didn’t mean to thank you. I meant to hit the quote button.

Do you know that calling some a keyboard warrior and wanting a face to face just makes you a keyboard warrior?

What are you expecting to happen?

Even if I was Bruce Lee I wouldn’t meet up with some stranger telling me their opinion was more valid than my own.

Absolutely juvenile.

Actually, if you read my post... I offered a genuine discussion first - and suggested that if he didn’t, then he will also be deemed another keyboard warrior of this forum.

I am more than happy to be called a keyboard warrior bc I am comfortable that im coming from the right place - wanting the best for my football club.

I am equally comfortable explaining my position to anyone from the club that wants to meet with me face to face.

It’s not a threat...

[ss1986]

Billings, Gresham, Long, Bruce, Roberton, Steven for starters.

Offers ON the table... such that St.Kilda renegotiated and paid anpremium to keep?

They were all newspaper rumours Ted

[tedtheodorelogan2018]

Fact is is that we have retained all our best players and developing players for many years now. That is the truth and a very good sign.

[Ape_Man]

Building games into these players will be enormous in another 2-3 years.

Yep! Right about the time of contract renewals and we lose them because we are still paying someone who cant get on the park $800k a year.

You'll make the place great when you overthrow the board. Let me know when the voting starts.

PM me Cairnsman. If you are so offended bc the club employs you, let’s catch up and give me a chance to vent, and you a chance to explain why we are going in the right direction.

Or you too afraid to give up your identity?

If you don’t want to, then you are also just another keyboard warrior who will have to put up with people calling out your garbage.

Didn’t mean to thank you. I meant to hit the quote button.

Do you know that calling some a keyboard warrior and wanting a face to face just makes you a keyboard warrior?

What are you expecting to happen?

Even if I was Bruce Lee I wouldn’t meet up with some stranger telling me their opinion was more valid than my own.

Absolutely juvenile.

Actually, if you read my post... I offered a genuine discussion first - and suggested that if he didn’t, then he will also be deemed another keyboard warrior of this forum.

I am more than happy to be called a keyboard warrior bc I am comfortable that im coming from the right place - wanting the best for my football club.

I am equally comfortable explaining my position to anyone from the club that wants to meet with me face to face.

It’s not a threat...

I did read, it was when you started with ‘if you are so offended...’ then wrote this line:

‘Or you too afraid to give up your identity? ‘

And followed up with ‘keyboard warrior’.

Maybe not a direct threat, but seemed threatening.

[ss1986]

Well it wasn’t meant to be.

[Yorkeys]

So why not double down. Flick journeymen with plenty of experience of losing (because they are not going to benefit from more of it) and give youth the experience some will not handle it and some will say losing all the time is BS and we want better and deliver - its just too late for several time servers in the team to get better. And use crowd voting to decide draft picks - the median of our diverse and possibly demented by years of failure judgement could not be worse than what the pros have dished up. Tossing a coin would do better actually.

[Harvey To Hayes]

Building games into these players will be enormous in another 2-3 years.

Yep! Right about the time of contract renewals and we lose them because we are still paying someone who cant get on the park $800k a year.

You'll make the place great when you overthrow the board. Let me know when the voting starts.

PM me Cairnsman. If you are so offended bc the club employs you, let’s catch up and give me a chance to vent, and you a chance to explain why we are going in the right direction.

Or you too afraid to give up your identity?

If you don’t want to, then you are also just another keyboard warrior who will have to put up with people calling out your garbage.

You know right now we’re in the 8 right? And there’s a clutch of teams still 2-3 wins behind us after 7 rounds? Not even considering our huge injury list? What were you hoping for at start of season, 6-1? 7-0? That’s nice..,

[saintbrat]

Comparing to the playing the same team at the same venue 6 yrs ago we had 1 player out there yesterday .
They had 7
Both of the teams had experienced players out
And our most experienced backman played with a broken hand much of the game after one if the regular kick of the ground options used by GWS

[Saintmatt]

Building games into these players will be enormous in another 2-3 years.

Like Clarke and Coffield? Hard to do that when you don’t actually pick them