Look it takes guts to play footy. The players are physically courageous no doubt.
I think one of the prime directives that have been hammered into them, is don’t do anything that might get you suspended. Another prime directive is don’t be drawn into fighting. Concentrate on the game.
So yesterday in a number of cases they allowed a single player to be swarmed by up to 6 or more Carlton players, with none of our players supporting them.
But this is not what a real team does. This is encouragement of traits that emphasise playing for yourself and not the team.
In the words of Sheeds. “Don’t EVER let any player or club DOMINATE you,”
“At a ball up or at a stoppage, in the air on the ground, don’t ever let any player or club dominate you."
You are ■■■■■■■ kidding me. That was a set piece from a tv broadcast of the giants first game. Had about as much inspiration as a slap in the face with a wet fish.
Of course that’s the ideal. But it never works that way. Teams dominate, players dominate, often for parts of games, sometimes for whole games, rarely for whole seasons.
The 2000 season will never be repeated in footy again. We need to move.
We have 22 men out there on the footy field whose morale has been obliterated. Its not just 5 losses in a row that have caused that: none of the losses have been blowouts. Its leadership at the coaching and playing level that is lacking imo, but there may be some other reason for it, such as internal conflict about " the way we want to play" or something else. In time I suppose we will find out.
He’s slow. He has poor disposal. Has poor intensity. Doesn’t pressure. Doesn’t tackle.
He’s good overhead, he has great endurance and he has good ball/game awareness. But he needs to add a few more strings to his bow pronto or he’ll be at the crossroads in another 18 months.
Darli, read my post again. I never said the players were pea hearted. I said “the pea hearted way our team allowed themselves to be bullied by Carlton”.
I refuse to retract that statement. So don’t waste your time challenging me.
I noticed an incident yesterday when Mutch went to help up a FC player he had knocked over . Nice kid , but Saad took him by the elbow and led him away. Moral : Give em nothing.
