■■■■ you pessimists have lost your marbles.
I had to reread Hepp’s comments three times to check;
Bread & butter preseason honesty.
“ We didn’t bring intense pressure to JLT.
We need to do that in home & away”
well duh!
“We’re looking to tweak our defence in a couple of areas, and improve on that defence over the year as players adjust and get used to each other”
which is what all teams from the premiers down say and hope to do. You don’t want to peak in Round One.
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So stop reading this as an another sign of the impending apocalypse.
Stop reading literally everything as a sign of the apocalypse if it comes to that.
You’re nervous- good, I sympathise.
But none of you actually want reassurance it seems - you’re having too much perverse fun wallowing in something that hasn’t even happened.
Just hope if it isn’t working again this year they don’t wait till round 9 again to change things around. These new systems can take some time to click but if you look at the last 3 premiers and even collingwood last year (round 4 v crows), their new systems all clicked pretty much in the first few rounds.
I don’t think it’s great hearing the captain conceed that it wont click round 1. Should we not strive to be at our best every match? What kind of message does that send to the players and supporters. It’s already a excuse. Just like before geelong our fkn club website said we will “keep some secrets” its 100% conditioning us for if we lose, there is some kind of excuse we eluded to beforehand
I don’t like reading them things. Just shut the fk up and win games.
I would have thought if they were worried about it being ready for round 1 this so called system should have been practiced a bit more thoroughly in game conditions either through intra clubs or additional practice matches prior to the season starting.
Bullshit would have perferd him to stay “We were disappointed in how we played in the JLT series” not this “Hopefully we can get ourselves in order for round one to be able to compete at our best.”
Yeah nah, they get asked questions, they trot out lines, people get outraged, then we rinse and repeat. Mind you this time some are getting outraged by things not said, so that’s a new one.
Why doesn’t anyone else need to “master their systems” or”work on the new game plan?.”
Why do other sides, good sides, seem to start every season fully formed? What it is about EFC that we can’t seem to do that, we’re always a work in progress?
Doesn’t inspire much confidence.