It was half arsed and trying to be too cute.
Either take the damn shot or hit up your teammate.
You can smell the fear in alot of our senior players, nobody wants to take responsibility.
Kako was not an issue.
I said the exact same thing last night. Maybe he secretly hates us all and has done it intentionally.
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Glad for himā¦as long as he returns via the VFL and is forced to earn his spot back in the team.
I have a North Melbourne mate who gets the results that you crave so much. He would be so happy to have our level of success. This year, we have won more than 50% of the games that they have under Allistar Clarksonās rule. Let that sink in.
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Hopefully.
Weāll see.
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For a while, maybe. It really starts to pall in year 20. I mean, north supporters seemed kind of sick of it around 2018, and theyād been winning the occasional final.
Happy Birthday fellow Birthdayer.
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Fingers crossed that this is how it plays out. When I saw it last night I was thinking that would probably be the last we see of him. Would love to see him get out there again and prove his doubters wrong. He genuinely seems like a nice guy, so you always want people like him to come through and have a great career.
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ok, I havenāt been on here since flying the family down from Qld and meeting up with friends (Hawks supporters) for the round one game. I was gutted during that game and after watching and suffering many players insipid efforts, I reassessed my evaluation of our team and some of our players.
Now, nearly 2 months later, I believe having some injuries could actually not be such a bad outcome. If we play well for the rest of the year with an injury ravaged list, I think we still should remain a reasonable attractive prospect for potential and suitable targeted players.
However, especially with the compromised draft over the next 4-5 years I like the idea of hitting the draft this year (as it is meant to be pretty strong!) instead of wasting, or over spending on a Harley Reid.
Yes, he will likely be an awesome player, but his attitude doesnāt give me the same confidence as a Butters, Daicos, Rowell or Sheezel ā¦ Putting the Sheil fiasco aside for the moment, these are some of the highest paid player currently - Tom Lynch, Ben McKay, Christian Petracca, Aaron Naughton, Tim Kelly, Clayton Oliver. Actually theyāre 5 of the 6 highest paid!
Theyāre certainly no where near the 6 best plyers. I would go hard on a player like Rowell, Wardlaw or even Butters maybe, but its also timing. We need the perfect mix, while we still have Merrett for a few years preferably. If we were to get 4 top-end required players from this draft and still keep our war chest, then we go into next year still with a first rounder and son of Darren Bewick the year after. Free agency combined with top end draft picks seems to be the quickest and best value formula to create a VERY good and competitive sustainable team in 2-3 years!!.
Imagine those 4 deputants playing early next season with Tstatas, Hobbs, Caddy, Reid, Kako with another pre-seaon under their belt and with our missing senior players back including Parish, Caldwell, Draper etc. (why would we even consider trading him???)
I was also wondering if perhaps Prior is a double agent? Heās certainly been no improvement on the previous below average players to play that position. It was good to see Perkins finally contribute. I understand his skillset makes us a better side, but I still believe heās been the most underperformer who been gifted the most games in our squad.
If we go down the draft road, which I hope we do, then we also have a few extra swings that we would all agree we arenāt relying on such as Cox, Hayes, Jones, Brian, Johnson, Nguywen, and Edwards (who I rate highly although without any real justification)
If a few of these were to blossom (including Perkins), then Iām really looking forward to the next couple of years. If we spend all our cash and draft capital on a single player, well I think I will be actually disappointed (unless a free agent)
We are not in contention to be giving away draft capital unless its in our favour (ie Stringer at the time)
Anyway, probably wrong forum, but thatās my take 
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I like your take on the selfishness thing. Mentioned that to my mate at the game. That Langford nonsense where he burned Wright (I thought it was Caddy) who was running onto goal unopposed ā ā ā ā ā ā me right off. Jye Menzie trying to snap for goal when Caddy was free in the goal square (kicked a behind from the mark) was another example of selfishness that annoyed me. Agree our gameplan/coaching right now is a mess.
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when it should be leadership group langford getting pilloried
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The Brad Scott era has certainly had a high number of horrible wins that feel like losses. The sheer amount of wins I never want to ever watch a reply of is quite astonishingā¦.
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Legitimately donāt think Iāve ever wanted to watch a replay in the last 3 years
No win has ever seemed like something to celebrate
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So I was a bit flat about the game last night and really didnāt care that we had held on for the win. The injuries and the ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā the game turned into weāre quite irritating.
Fast forward to this morning and my eldest (sheās 8) gets up to watch the mini. The win brought a smile to her face, so thatās all that matters to me.
Go dons.
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āThe thrill of victory fades quickly. What lingers long afterā¦ Is always uglyā¦ā
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Happy birthday. Hope you indulge in schadenfreude tonight.
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Yeah heād just been on the phone, and found out they had run out of pineapple, and the voucher deal was pickup only
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