No chance. Ross runs rings around Brad.
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I went to the game expecting us to compete hard and lose by up to 80points. I was disappointed with the blow out in the last but was not unexpected. You could see our players just couldnāt physically compete, especially with the running capacity of, Dempsey, smith and Holmes. I love the way that Dursma competes but he really does butcher it by foot. He is required for many reasons at the moment and is the least of our problems but Iād say he would struggle to get into a Geelong side.
I was happy with team selection. No Shiel, Hobbs and Tsatas is fine. Shiel not taking the club forward and Hobbs and Tsatas if they are not playing in the middle no point playing. Perkins sub fine.
I am sick of us being rinsed but I was happy with how Johnson stood up, Kako and Clarke.
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Is that really where we want to be?
Just a bit better than Richmond, North and WCE?
Iād rather be firmly entrenched with those teams this year (and probably next as well) to underline the drastic steps the club is currently taking (and will need to continue taking) to climb out of this list mess and hit the draft hard.
I take absolutely zero comfort in being just a ābitā better than Richmond, WCE and NM.
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Yes.
Thatās the level weāre at.
Our % is worse than Northās, FFS.
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I thought we tried pretty hard all night . turnovers were at an all time high and this pretty much accounted for the half time margin despite the fact the cats didnāt really get out of second gear.
we seemed to take more risk and ran ahead of the ball in the first half and I think the risk and outright skill errors accounted for the margin to that point.
second half we definatley tried to go harder our pressure was up in the first part of the first half of the 3rd but it does take too much for class gap to get a hold and thatās pretty much what happened.
I feel pretty sorry for them but we will get games like this at the level we are at and the fact we have so many out.
it affects the senior players as much or perhaps more I think. they probably feel the weight of responsibility more when we have so many new players, that combined with the power of the cats when they roll.
at half time.i thought it would be almost respectable to keep it below 80 but that wasnāt to be.
id love to sit in on the game reviews to see what the focus is and how they keep the younger players focussed on their progress.
we all know this year is a write off so end of season list management and draft or trading will be very interesting
He was on Miers wasnāt he?
We have a core group of mediocre players, playing a mediocre brand of football, playing to a mediocre game plan, and new players with any talent will probably be hobbled because the team doesnāt really improve with them (we tend to drag them down to standard mediocre level), so we are destined to finish 11th again this season; which means no real improvement for the past 10 years.
We do NOT seem to be getting any better. ATM, we are just slowly drowning in our own mediocrity.
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Felt like a game of 3 decent effort quarters where we played about to our capability and one very poor last term where we were overwhelmed.
Went in expecting to lose by 100. Reckon if we were fully fit, weād still get done by plenty.
Said it last night, but my hope is that exposing most of the list this year gives Rosa a clear lens on how to spend his draft bounty.
I like most of the players be bought in last year, so I have some faith he can reshape this list.
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Weāre ā ā ā ā .
Weāre even ā ā ā ā at being ā ā ā ā .
Bottom 3 percentage but we find ourselves in 10th. Itās infuriating because we are clearly poor at selecting quality players in a draft, we need to finish bottom to have our hand held and guided to the clear cut best choices in the draft.
We take Tsatas at 5 who canāt kick.
We take Hobbs at 13 who struggles to kick 35m.
We take Perkins at 9 who appears disinterested.
Thereās Cox. Harry Jones and so on.
Weāre in a truly dire position because we donāt have any stars to bring us out of this hole.
Weāre a ā ā ā ā team with ā ā ā ā players and a ā ā ā ā board.
Itās fine to play the kids but Iām really not seeing anything from anyone on our side that has future star written on them. Just future good to decent player, which is usually best case for us.
Shut this ā ā ā ā heap of a club down and please just end this ā ā ā ā ā ā ā misery. Itās never going to turn around. Ever.
Soā¦thatās my glass half full summary of our teamā¦
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100% spot on
Weāve put out best 22 teams against Geelong recently who have been smashed just as badly by the cats.
So Iām not sure how anyone could be surprised or angry about the match yesterday.
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we donāt need to worry about this for too much longer.
ablett, hawkins and selwood are all generation-players, and theyāll retire soon.
so cats will bottom out and weāll fly up past them, as thatās how AFL is rigged to work.
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When I saw an experienced, giant in Blicavs lining up on poor Lual, that summed up our chances for the day.
The unfortunate thing is we just never seem to grow up, never improve, everytime we play Geelong (and others)
But for the first time it appears potentially the penny might have dropped that we cant continue the way we have been going.
Keep playing the kids, keep losing, get the best draft position possible and make some fkn tough decisions at the end of the season with experienced players.
If they cant kick or dont compete for 4 quarters, F-CK THEM OFF.
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Brisbane reset a few years back, Collingwood and Adelaide have dropped back for single seasons. It depends where clubs are at, ones that have strong lists can trade along the way and entice good players like Geelong have done. We have been mediocre for too long and sit in no manās land and need to do a bottom out reset as we donāt have the pieces to build around. Should have done this along time ago.
I donāt think we sit in no mans land. We have one of the youngest, most inexperienced lists in the comp.
Sides like that get flogged by good sides.
IMHO right now Carlton, perhaps Sydney(and they were grand finalists last year) sit in no manās land. Probably port too.
If we start losing good players that we want as part of our future we have a problem. Thatās been Norths problem, looks like west coasts problem.
Thank god itās not our problem.
And those two ābottomed out ā
I spent a very chillie Hobart evening grazing and drinking at the winter feast at Dark ā ā ā ā . The mulled cider was excellent, as was the Belgium beer and Analiese Gregoryās Skewers of baby abalone, shiitake and black garlic, grilled over fire was exceptional.
TBH, Iām not sure what would inspire me to ever watch us play Geelong again.
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Yep. If a player refuses to compete consistently. They need to go.
We have too many players who pick and choose when to give maximum effort. The majority of those are players who have been around for a while too
When you keep playing guys like that, it creates a toxic culture. Which is exactly what we have
Unless Scott is prepared to make the tough calls( which he isnāt) ,he needs to go
If we are going to go down the rebuild oath( which Iām still not convinced we are), we need to have the right guy in charge to set and demand the right standards
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Really good summary for all the Brad truthers to read about why the jury is well and truly still out on him
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Generally I agree, but itās even harder against Geelong. They are the kings of scragging, man handling, chopping of the arms etc
They rarely (if ever) concede a free in their d50
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