We do have so many injuries but are those players not injured playing better? Wright once a very accurate kick is missing so many gettable goals and Caddy on the handful occasions he wins the ball also usually misses. Were we better than last year before the injuries started?
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Our leadership group, Merrett excepted, is a real problem, from Captain Obvious.
Im really liking Blakiston. Think theres something to work with there, especially if we can get our full team out, he doesnt even have to be our 1st defender.
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I agree. It is the worst. First time I’ve left a game at 3/4 time 
Just no energy!!
What im really disliking and seeing as a common theme is us being always behind the oppoisiton players, even in our zone or when they break us up, we are consistently always behind. Its evident tonight of how unfit we have been looking. When we sre next to our players at times and they spread, they easily get away from us
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Agree. Even with a full healthy list we are a top 12 to 9 team at best and miles off the top 4.
Outside of Draper and Caldwell who else would have been in the guts? Parish? We’d have been annihilated anyway. Our midfield is so far away from being any good it’s laughable.
Love Merrett but even with him our list has been that horrible for so long we have a bit of an over inflated view of his capabilities
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And yet still not in the hunt to finish bottom and need some luck to finish second last.
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Why did you stay till the end?
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First post I read today. Nearly spat out my coffee.
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Depends on what “this” is. He is 100 percent still open to criticism for certain aspects of what is happening. The injuries are an excuse but not a free pass. For mine he is hiding behind those and getting off way too lightly. I am actually a little bewildered as to how little scrutiny there is on him…I don’t really get it
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Lifelong habit instilled by my Mum and Dad. Mum barracked for Kangas, Dad followed Fitzroy. Every year we went to Brunswick St and Arden Street Grounds to watch them play, and stood in the rain with Dad drinking steel cans of something and Mum just showing her love for her Team. No matter the result or the weather, we stayed until the end, had fish and chips on the way home, and Mum and Dad didn’t talk to each other for two or so days.
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Does anyone know what the attendance was?
We’re being out-tanked by friggin St Kilda.
Who will thrash us
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One can only hope
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I also agree - I am no fan of “sack the coach”, but after three years there is little sign of improvement (injuries or no injuries). A couple of promising youngsters and that’s about it. Right now winning a final feels miles away.
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Winning a final? Making finals is years off. Scott has to go. There is this recency bias pervading discussions around him with the injuries and people forget that we were crap and listless before the injuries- a game plan that changed week to week, poor selection, no sign of any real passion or fight from the coach. This is just papering over the cracks and prolonging the malaise. He needs to go before this is irretrievable, which it almost is now.
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It’s like little league where everyone gets sucked to where the ball is. We have guys all standing two feet from each other and about to be pounced on. Same with “tackling” attempts, two or three guys all go for the ball carrier and they just flick it out to teammates in acres of space.
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How is he hiding? In the wider AFL media he is escaping scrutiny because he’s forced to play Blakiston on Darcy, our back pocket in the midfield and two VFL players in our forward line.
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All I want to be able to say end of next season is that we have clearly improved, and won a game in the second half of the season against quality opposition. The club just drifts along, year after year. Improvement seems too much to ask.