Is Foggy still in here ?
add the these two to your list
sheedy
madden
lets all move
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I donāt see a big difference between our game plan and that of nearly all other teams bar a few, except for a few tweaks here and there.
What I do see is a youthful team that is unable to implement the game plan consistently over 4 quarters, or for long enough in one quarter when the heat is on, and a team lacking onfield leadership with resilience and grunt.
A coaching group that lacks game day awareness, initiative and dare, but this may be by design at this stage of development.
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paul hamilton says hi lol
But so many false dawnsā¦
Itās been stuck ticking on 12:01am since 2001.
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OUR DONS ARE GOING NOWHERE
(apologies to David Byrne)
20.8.2022
We donāt know where weāre going
And we donāt like where weāve been
We donāt know whatās worth knowing
And we donāt like what weāve seen
We play like little children
We donāt know our game plan
Ruttenās future not certain
Will James Hird be our main man?
Weāre on a road to nowhere
No leader in sight
Taking that ride to nowhere
We donāt even fight
Not feeling okay this morning
Clarkson said no
Not going to pay admission price
Why should we go? Clarkson said no
Maybe you wonder where we are
We do as well
This century when weāre on a slide
Take us where? Down to hell
Our dons are going nowhere
Our dons are going nowhere
Our dons are going nowhere
Premierships on our mind?
Canāt sing our song, too far behind
And itās not right, bombers itās not right
Oh, itās very far away
And getting further day by day
Flag out of sight, bombers itās not right
Would you like to change the board?
And give the club an overhaul?
Coz itās not right, bombers itās not right
Theyāll do internal review
And try to sell a seat to you
But itās not right, bombers itās not right
Our dons are going nowhere
Our dons are going nowhere
Our dons are going nowhere
Weāre on the road to nowhere
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Listen to SEN now ā¦.very interesting
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I donāt know just this corporation with over 80,000 worker owners and over ā¬12 billion in revenue.
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What are they saying?
What did they say?
So Iāve been posted since May that we seriously needed to get rid of Rutten and X and, in essence, due an external review. One of my biggest reasons was that we could give Cara a decent ārunā in the chair, salvage something from the wreckage of another wasted season AND be in better shape to pursue the ābest coach availableāā¦ especially if that was Clarkson.
Got flamed by some but time has only strengthened that it was the correct call.
Now we sitā¦ Cara is the forgotten man of the coaching world after suddenly, and still inexplicably, gone from ānext in lineā to a lazy, inept coach that was the cause of all our on field woesā¦ our board has had a public, inept coup leading to more ridiculeā¦ we didnāt put a bid in for Clarkson until he had all but signed the contract and even then it was done it the worst way possibleā¦ Gia is being tossed up as next choice, seemingly out of nowhereā¦ Yze is taken and was seen as next bestā¦ Players are dividedā¦ we have had no clear communication or leadership and Rutten is going to lead our team out tonightā¦ knowing there is another board meeting tomorrow that will likely, finally praise be to the lord let it happenā¦ end his dismal pathetic tenure as a coach at this club.
I guess no one could see that comingā¦
At what point do you acknowledge that this clubā¦ is not the club we all have loved and supported but rather just a carcass that uses the same name? Is this shell worth our support? Worth our time and energy? What does it mean to be a supporter? A fan? A member?
If a partner treated you this badlyā¦ with this much contemptā¦ would you stay? If a company promised you something and then failed to deliver time and time and time againā¦ would you demand a refund? Your club, my club, our club has not delivered on any of its promises for a very long time. I donāt demand premiershipsā¦ I understand sport doesnāt work like thatā¦ but its promise should be effortā¦ competencyā¦ standards and a modicum of success. They have instead delivered nonsense year after year after year.
At what point are we released from our obligations? Yes we promised ātill death do us partā but at what point is the promise null and void if they fail to fulfill their vows? When can we ask whether following this club brings us joy? Do you look forward to game time with excitement or dread? Like a gambler watching their winnings go downā¦ do you now feel pot committed and thus lose it all? We are all the definition of ārusted onā supportersā¦ you donāt post of a footy forum unless you are dedicatedā¦ but when does the rust finally eat through and snap off?
I donāt see a path back for us. There is no shining light. I see disunity, lack of leadership at every single level of the clubā¦ our list has holes big enough to drive a bus through and there will be plenty more after the trade period as anyone with a brain/talent/skills will leave this car crash. We sit hours away from the end of the career of a āgreatā EFC manā¦ who was capped AA twice and seen at different points as the best backman of the compā¦ and yet he hangs up the boots without even a finals win. Just let that sink in.
So yepā¦ the sheep will file into the MCG tonight and clap and cheer as we get demolished by the second string of a hated rival that is heading towards yet another finals campaignā¦ and the board will do its review and we will change our fitness guyā¦ and absolutely nothing will change. Good luck to all. We can only hope that something so bad happens (like every single player refusing to play for us) that we are finally forced to accept a bail out and let a competent administration can come in and clean the place out.
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We dodged a bullet with Clarksonā¦
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My problem with this is that he has been on the board since 2015, how have none of these great operational plans helped us to date. I just see him as another Paul Brasher. Long time board member that has achieved nothing!
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I just think he is good coach and if it wasnāt for the bull shirt saga he would of been successful at least got us the preliminary finals consistently with the squad he had.
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Well said
Lawry works for Sen and is just driving listener numbers
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Baa baa baa
My guess āEssendon, culture, Rutten, unfairā etc.
Is it possible at all that the club can move back to windy hill?