Sorry I must of been mistaken for you defending Zac Clarke with a straight face. Not sure about Hurley, check out his thread maybe? I think his spoiling was called on?
Right, so we’ve established that Zaka is not the only person copping it then. Great. So you were wrong (I know, you’ll never admit it as everyone on Blitz knows.)
Personally I think a soon to be 30 year old should be doing a lot better than what he’s consistently serving up these days. A LOT better. Saying there’s 5-6 kids that are playing worse does not make me feel better about a so called leader who played more midfield time than anyone struggling to reach 20 mediocre possessions in games now.
Just so we’re clear, HAP thinks Zaka put in a good performance and that’s what we should expect from soon to be 30 year olds. That ladies and gentlemen is why we are SH*T again because we applaud mediocrity. Bring up Zaka to every other opposition supporter without rose coloured glasses and they laugh. But it’s good enough I guess. Tipping we’ll rotate Parish out next week to leave this boy in.
Yep. Stringer, Merrett, Saad, McKenna, Redman, Hooker, Brown and Smith generally play hard and give the same output regardless of how the game is going.
The rest all fall off dramatically when the ■■■■ hits the fan.
In a round about way we as supporters are at fault. The only way to force change is to hit the club where it hurts. Don’t attend any more games, don’t purchase memberships, give the club zero just like they have given us. See if changes are made when they play in empty stadiums
No because it’s in ingrained mentality of EFC to accept mediocrity as success and applaud poor to mediocre games. We can’t stand up to any expectations and get found lacking when the heat is on. You have to look to the players as to the reason why and you start with the leaders/oldest players and work your way down.
I’m truly happy for you that you think Zaka had a great game last night. I personally hold higher expectations for 29 year old leaders of the club in the midfield. He had just about more midfield time than anyone outside of Heppell, Shiel and Zerrett so yes I’m looking at him. I’m sure he’ll keep fulfilling your expectations for the rest of the year and we’ll finish 12th.
We can do two things. Turn up, or not turn up.
Keep not turning up, and the eventually sack the coach.
But sacking the coach doesn’t = winning flags.
Otherwise we’d have had 3 recently.
Kind of sounds like the coaching staff have NFI, right? Dropping kids like Parish who should be smack bang in the middle over elderlies like Myers.
The same is not expected of a 200 game player than a 1st gamer. The only similarities is going hard at the contest and giving their all. Relative performance is not expected otherwise 95% of 1st gamers would never get a second game because most are generally underwhelming unless your name is Barlow or Walsh.
You stick with kids whilst they learn the game until the pay dividends down the track. At 18 you are not the finished article. Especially talls. At 30 you should be.
Don’t try and talk sh*t and argue for 1000 years like you always do and say with a straight face that the coaches expect the same performance from a kid than a 30 year old. Jesus.
Needs more than just the coach replaced. Notice how the utter duds like Skipworth still have a job despite the change of coaches. Clean the lot out out from the top down