Hopefully it was a nice little wake up tonight when the greed of ticketing the match led to smaller crowd that left half way through the game.
Actually what am I saying the presidents where to busy having a lovely little dinner and sucking each other off to care
I never and i mean NEVER used to leave early, infact I even had a crack at those who did. In the past youâd debate leaving early because you just never knew, Most games these days the wife and I will at some stage in the 3rd quarter at 45-50 points down just look at each other and say âthats enough of that yeah?â and without debate head straight for the car.
We weâre ready to go home at HT last night and ended up leaving 15 mins into the 3rd.
Said it before and ill say it again, this is one of the BIGGEST problems we have. Havenât had one since Jobe.
We came up from Geelong and still could only last until three quarter time - 5 hours investment for no joy at all. We have a boring team of vanilla players who donât know or canât follow a confused coachâs game plan. We are reaching new lows.
I know people who come down for games from as far as Swan Hill and Mildura. They will just leave and head straight back to the hotel.
Our fans have lost the care factor and trust in the club and this club needs to do more than fluffy tik toks to win us back
I will never forgive them for the sliding doors moment of taking Knights over Dimma.
By the time he is done at GC Dimma will be at LEAST a 5 time premiership coach, Knights has been gone for 15 years and never had a senior AFL gig again.
I used to love coming to Melbourne for either round 1 or 2. Not anymore. I donât even bother. Waste of money and energy. Iâll only watch our matches now, well the start of them anyway, when theyâre on FTA.
Iâll go in gather round but thatâs more because I love Adelaide oval than Essendon.
Yep, exactly what I mean.
As a supporter base we just donât care. The next stage is to stop giving the club money, stop enabling this â â â â .
But yeah just know the club are going to come out during the week and say HEY LOOK EVERYONE BUY THIS 2000 GRAND FINAL REPLICA GUERNSEY FOR $275
Weâve had a big cleanout of the playing list. We have a new president, new ceo, new fitness team, new coaches. The list goes on.
Yet somehow, after all of that, we have ended up with a coaching group of Scott, Stanton, Roberts and Jacobs. Giving solly a small pass as he is new.
Stanton is the stoppage coach, and we are getting flogged at the stoppages with apparently stronger midfielders. Jacobs with the midfield line, who cant defend transition, dont know where to run or set up and let the opp midfield completely dominate.
Roberts has completely fukd the forwardline with no structure, no leading and no pressure or accountability to speak of.
None of these 3 have had coaching experience in the past.
Then the masterminded himself, who had sent us backwards at a rate of knots since the moment he arrived.
How did we let it get to this.
Yep
I pay over 1700 a year for my fkn membership home and away reserved seats and constantly deal with this fkn â â â â
Absolute crap
As much as I agree with these thoughts on the coaching panel, the senior core of players have been a big part of the problem for a long time. Theyâre the main reason why we keep seeing these sort of results.
Yeah wow. That is fkg grim.
I know from afar you can never truly know, but the idea of Brent Stanton being a coach just always seemed weird to me. Just never had that sort of leader energy or demeanor about him.
Agree with the whole post except for the start, we need a big clean out of the playing list. Too many senior spuds that the âcoachesâ loveâŚ
The X captain doesnât want to be there. The captain is a nice bloke but doesnât inspire or play inspirational footy. Redmans head drops before almost every player when it gets tough. Martin is âsoftâ, careless and isnât hard enough.
Senior core of what? How many games would have Ridley, Parish and Merrett played together over the last three years? Maybe Iâve missed the multitude of 10 year vets playing consistent footy together.
I was the same for years. Always stayed till the final siren, regardless of the scoreline. Figured you had to experience the bad times to enjoy the good times. I just donât know if the good times are coming any more. Last year I just stopped caring, you turn up expecting a loss and bail early because Iâve invested enough time and money of the years itâs my right to leave.
Last night left about half way through the 3rd qtr and the train was already packed with supporters leaving. Would have been better of leaving at the end if you wanted to beat the traffic.
I worry more for the young supporters like my kids who will just not show up when theyâre older. The club is a shell of its former self.
Cam Roberts.. What would he be able to teach Caddy and May about key forward craft??? Isnât that a clear example of how the club still isnât investing properly in development? Think about it.. Caddy needs a key forward who was noted for his craft to teach him. This stuff baffles me.
Stanton might be â â â â â but what hope does a decent midfield have roving to Blakiston? Yes, the midfield doesnât defend and wonât dig in but that still leaves a parlous situation where the midfield group canât get first hands on the ball and Drapers departure leaves a hole I donât think anyone realised would be so large..
the routine now for me and my old man is to meet up an hour before the game. we used to be arrive on the bounce operators. now we still get quality hangout time, and get an earlier train home
and there inlies the problem and why it wonât happen.
for that plan to succeed, you essentially have to get rid of
parish
mcgrath
langford
redman
on top of that you have roughly 7 odd players will or should be on the chopping block before them.
what coach, at this club in this environment has the balls or ability to stand up to the shitshow of a club and say hey we want to get rid of those senior players ?
they couldnât even allow one player to leave last year.
the club is no where even for the medium term because of this soft underbelly whoâs leading the way for the next generation of players, they will turn out as meek as those players listed above, because thatâs whoâs teaching them how to be afl footballers.
Tell you a funny interaction I had last night and gives you an insight into the common supporter.
Some context, I am a musician, been doing it for 20 years now. Weddings and solo acoustic shows mainly. I play a lot of venues like RSLâs and so forth which usually have the footy on. Itâs unavoidable.
I finished a song and had some banter with the crowd and said for the last 20 years, the worst part about my job is having to play upbeat, happy music while my club gets consistently flogged right in front of me. Remember that game where bulldogs piled on 267 unanswered goals? Well I was strumming along with people dancing while being force fed that â â â â on a giant screen in front of me. Itâs rough.
Anyway, one older gentleman near me says once Iâd finished my set says âwe arenât out of it, itâs only 19 points, have some faithâ I said no mate itâs over. He looked genuinely shocked I had come to this conclusion. Genuinely couldnât believe it and said âitâs not even half time, we are gonna roll themââŚâŚ.so I kindly said I doubt it and left it at that.
This guy was about mid 50s. Now, how the â â â â can anyone have this mindset!? It baffles me. Not sure if he has the right attitude and I am just a âgloomerâ but it really boggles my mind and equally â â â â â â me off that after 20 â â â â â â â YEARS sample size of our putrid, predictable performances where we fold under pressure, I canât believe there are happy clappers like this guy who have that much faith we are going to suddenly beat a good side. How does someone watch us play and get mildly offended when another supporter suggests we are trash!?!?
Some of our supporters are brain dead and just happy to clap along. Good for them I guess but fark me Iâm tired of sucking and Iâm tired of being forced to watch this dirt ass team play while performing haha.