Something seriously wrong with the club (Part 4, August 2024)

[barnz]

@Blummers32

Fast forward to 2025 and they regress and he’s probably a chance to be sacked.

typical spurs behaviour really

[RTBC]

@willie_dick

Our whole club starting with Dave, Craig and Brad should watch this clip
And reflect. Minnesota was fancied by absolutely nobody at the start of this season.

For too long our club has gone out of its way to
Avoid expectation and firmly place a ceiling on what we can achieve.

x.com

I doubt they even know who these guys are, I’ve never heard of a gridiron team called Vikings

[Albert_Thurgood]

@willie_dick

Our whole club starting with Dave, Craig and Brad should watch this clip
And reflect. Minnesota was fancied by absolutely nobody at the start of this season.

For too long our club has gone out of its way to
Avoid expectation and firmly place a ceiling on what we can achieve.

x.com

I appreciate the point you are trying to make.

BUT…

You are underselling the Vikings.

They were expected to do well this year. That have a well respected young coach in his third year who has built the club up over his last 2 years.

Consider this: in close games, he has the #2 record.

Not just in his 3 years, BUT IN NFL HIISTORY.

Contrast that with our situation. Instead of a highly respected innovative young coach we have an unsuccessful coach who had to be begged to come out of retirement, and who has since been… well “he hasn’t covered himself with glory” is the kindest thing we could say about his tenure thus far.

Also Minnesota recruited their GM from one of the most successful franchises, and he has really set them up.

Also, also they recruited their QB, the key player in NFL clubs, from the 49ers, who are THE QB factory. Our own @DonMania pointed out very early in the season that Darnold would do well coming from the tutelage of the 49ers coaching staff.

Contrast that with our situation. Instead of trading in someone who could become the most important player on the team we paid a king’s ransom for a bloke whose handballs give Blitzers nightmares, and an uninspiring HFFer.

Quite a difference.

[Fairybread]

If you follow NFL (and most of the players do) they would know who the Vikings are - they are one of the oldest and biggest teams in the league. They have had some of the best players in NFL history.

They have the notoriety of having made the superbowl 4 times - losing all 4. That, and an uncanning ability to steal defeat from the jaws of victory lead their fans to coin this:

I’ve been a long suffering Vikings fan for 30+ years.

Interestingly, their “new” stadium is an indication of how the new Hobart stadium could look.

As WD said nobody, (me included) thought the Vikes would win more than 5 games this year. They are currently 14-2 with one game to go. Hopefully things can change quickly like this for the Bombers too.

[Sniggles]

@Albert_Thurgood

They were expected to do well this year.

We really weren’t. ESPN had us winning the #1 pick next year. Darnold was considered a placeholder at best.

[Sniggles]

@Fairybread

As WD said nobody, (me included) thought the Vikes would win more than 5 games this year.

I thought we’d do better than last year. KOC performed amazingly well to get us 7 wins with a QB carousel and JJ out for large chunks of the season.

Absolutely nobody saw us playing for the #1 seed in the NFC though.

[Albert_Thurgood]

@Sniggles

@Albert_Thurgood

They were expected to do well this year.

We really weren’t. ESPN had us winning the #1 pick next year. Darnold was considered a placeholder at best.

Shows you how much ESPN would know. They had finished last year well, didn’t they? (I don’t follow them but seem to recall that much).

[Fairybread]

But that’s the whole premise of the video - that everyone had written them off before the season started.

[Sniggles]

IIRC, by the end we needed to defeat Detroit twice in three weeks, and rely on other results falling our way.

As you mentioned in your earlier post, KOC is one hell of a coach. It was a remarkable achievement to have the team in that position considering he was without JJ for a couple of months and was forced to start four QBs over the season.

This image from the weekend is incredible. A coach who knows when to speak and when to shut up.

[Deadly]

Do the 49ers have another spare QB we can recruit?

[Albert_Thurgood]

I think Colin Kaepernick is available.

[Nocturnal]

You’re also forgetting JJ, pretty hard to not be good when you have the best receiver in the game. Making an average QB like Darnold look good.

[Albert_Thurgood]

I am not forgetting him at all. You should be directing those comments to the people who thought the Vikings would be crap this year. Obviously they were wrong now and I would have thought they were wrong at the time.

[Nocturnal]

You would be in the minority, even my Vikings supporting friends were talking a bad year pre season. Darnolds rise was not easy to predict and even with some 49ers coaching nobody though he would be MVP conversation level ever, he was a bust QB 12 months ago.

The question now will be finals. Let’s hope he can carry the pressure.

[karmabomber]

Now I understand what’s wrong with this Club (based on the last few posts!)! We’re playing the wrong sport!!!

[jonovdp]

Well we did win a National E-Sports tournament…… and qualified for Asia.

[Finding_Nino]

“Gadget type operators”

[GrenvoldsGang]

Family Day
Time 4-7
A Tuesday WTF!
A week after school goes back!

Do they not want to people to turn up!?

[Doggatron]

The last 20 plus years of on and off field effort would heavily suggest they do not want people to turn up.

[simmo41]

@GrenvoldsGang

Do they not want to people to turn up!?

yep