I just want more smack talk in the AFL.
Not fabricated nonsense either. Genuine smack talk. Whoever is playing North Melbourne this week - someone come out pregame and say they are hoping to really boost the percentage.
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Jesus farking Christ
Yeah the Saga happened but do we really need to keep apologising for our existence?
We did it with Pete. Begged the tribunal to rub him out for as long as possible.
Now this ridiculously overblown Draper stuff. While the head coach is out there talking up Tarryn farking Thomas.
We should ask them to take the St Kilda points off us because they didnât kick it straight enough.
My goodness.
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I think Bradâs response to it was fine and in keeping with what I would expect from a seasoned leader of any organisation. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The EFC has not been a respected organisation for a significant period of time. Brad is going about changing that. You donât gain respect by doing what Draper did, and ultimately those who want respect, give respect.
I have no issue with the club distancing itself from the comments and the individual who makes them and calling it out unequivocally.
The EFC has been a joke club for over two decades now. The message to the players needs to consistently be pull your heads in, or â â â â off. The softly softly approach has not worked for us.
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Also, we probs donât know about half the dumb â â â â Draper does - he may well have accumulated a bit of heat from the club and patience may have been lost.
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And it might have the exact opposite result, and everyone will remember the turning point. Have to wait and see.
I mean as if the on field dumb â â â â wasnt enough?
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Itâs silly to read anything into it like that.
I will say that the last thing I want Draper to be is less instinctive. And I hope I donât see that.
Edit: lol. but heâll probably just ignore it.
I hope so.
I donât think heâs the sort of guy that would take it to heart.
I donât think it will have any impact on his playing.
He will probably lay low in the media for a while now.
Thatâs about it.
Too soon
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Well, yeah.
Because if that tweet up there is correct, heâs not appearing on his own podcast for a month.
Iâm sure that was entirely his decisionâŚ
Itâs funny how there can be so wildly differing views on his âinstinctiveâ style of play.
I think that instinctiveness is genuinely holding him back. I can get over the lack of skills if he plays within his means.
Soccering the ball off the ground at dumb times, taking the ball out of the ruck contest deep in defence etc⌠thatâs not good instinct.
Just play team orientated football. The âexcitingâ or âinstinctiveâ stuff is where he really lets himself down.
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Okay. So he isnât on his podcast for a while. It might do him some good.
We donât know how many conversations Brad has had with him.
And none of this seems heavy-handed to youâŚ
shrugs
Okay, I get that.
It seems like a big frigginâ whack to me, and the whacks keep coming.
From his own club.
Like I said, Iâm glad he doesnât seem sensitive.
But anyway, come back after your possibly internal dropping and hold up our ruck because weâve just seen that Goldy canât do it on his ownâŚ
Itâs hard to really say, because we donât know how many times Brad has spoken with Sam. From the outside it doesnât seem like a huge deal to me.
I thought Brad talking about Tarryn Thomas was far more detrimental.
You meanâŚsupporting ThomasâŚ
Edit: smfhâŚand Draperâs the storyâŚ
Exactly. He should not have even mentioned him.
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I just want more smack talk directed at the AFL.
one person from each club, every week.
start with the MRO.
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Iâm pretty over AFL mouthpieces in our own club âtalkingâ about us winning respect whilst simultaneously saying we need actions ânot wordsâ. They donât even realise how stupid it sounds.
I tell you what doesnât win respect. Putting your foot slightly in it and then apologising to everyone about how sorry you are. What a bunch of grovelling wimps.
A better response after being asked would have been âI donât think any opposition coach pays much attention to the opinions or attempts of humour from opposition playersâ. Done.
Instead we are bending over like Xavier Campbell is still in charge.
â â â â Bevo, â â â â the Dogs.
Harden up Scott and support your players publicly, not just Domestic Violence scumbags.
Up Cooney Fark Port.
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It says the coach wonât put up with players acting like a goose. About time. The club was unhappy after he re-enacted the dive post match against the Crows and very unhappy with his podcast comments. Heâs piised off the coach âŚâŚI hope he fronts on Saturday and plays the game of his life
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