Q: Would you keep Brad and let him rebuild or would you try to trade out Merrett, Parish, Caldwell, 2mp and maybe McKay and the end of the season. Would you do this considering Gresham, Guelfi, Setterfield, Perkins should be delisted.
Nope
I’d bring in a new coach for next year and still trade and delist a whole heap of those you mentioned
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Feel the exact same frustration at the clubs long term failure.
We were leading in the 3rd quarter last year and the year before was a classic so the commentary of it being one sided rubbish is not accurate.
The overall win loss feels very one sided, sure. We have also been ■■■■ for 20+ years.
Headloss and calls to lose the game are ridiculous. Theres a chance the team gets worse before it gets better again btw.
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New coach and removed all those you mentioned as well as Jones and Cox.
If you want to see the difference in game plan - and how us guarding blades of grass when defending and obsessively handballing in attacking, watch this video analysing how Hawks smothered the Suns forward handball game (like Pies did to us - remember, we had 3 more handballs than kicks to 3QT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX-SbZaxdZM
Defending properly starts with setting up 1:1 defensively, something i have banged on about before in my reviews.
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Thats what Robert Shaw would say…
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Can’t believe Langford actually said it was the younger players that didn’t handle the occasion?! My goodness - how do we get the improvement if this is the assessment. The senior players were far more disappointing
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Fk off Langford.
And fk off each and everyone one of you senior players who got overawed on Anzac day for about the 10th time in a row
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Throwing the younger guys, who have a ticker, under the bus.
Just when you think they can’t go lower, they do.
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■■■■ off Langford. No ■■■■■■■ accountability. GET OUT OF MY CLUB!!!
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Yeah Kyle, the young players being overwhelmed are why Parish, Caldwell and Durham squibbed multiple contests. Our senior players really are good at taking every opportunity to look like complete ■■■■ heads.
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Imo it doesn’t matter who the whole team is to blame for that performance
The entire team let them selves down i cant think of any player who played well apart from Roberts
Way to throw the kids under the bus you farken pea hearts.
And Kyle should be the last one to throw stones after he cost us a win on ANZAC Day recently.
These senior blokes are just so tone deaf
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Ok i have listened to Langfords comments - watched video version too. He was asked specifically at one point by the interviewer on the younger players. He answered that particular question with maybe some got overwhelmed but he pivoted to whole team to the bulk of the interview
“we have to look hard at ourselves, own those areas. Every single player and coaches included”
I get we are all mad but i am not getting sucked into classified trying to sway that incorrect narrative sorry. That was not the spirit of his interview at all
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And THAT is exactly why I can’t stand Langford and the rest of the senior guys. Langford and guys like him are a cancer to the team
Always passing the buck, it’s always someone else’s fault
A bottler telling others that they bottled it…fk me
You don’t think day wicks or hawli played well?
And there you have it, folks.
This - a tone-deaf passing the buck from an entitled, underwhelming footballer who did fark-all other than kick a couple of junk-time goals - is PRECISELY why this club is so incontravertably farked.
Couple this attitude with a completely and utterly pathetic coach and we are where we deserve to be, with absolutely no end in sight…
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Matty didn’t have an issue with what Langford said he was actually happy with what he said.
The media like to take things out context to suit their narative
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Listen to the interview. Honestly a headline now is getting us sucked into false rage
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To be honest, I think the appropriate response would have been around the senior players not rising to the occasion - I felt we actually had more younger players trying to stand up.
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