club29 wrote:
keogh wrote:
best post I have read for a long time no excuse.
Thornton and Houlihan can piss off and not come back
Its the same old same old
I walked out with the misses in timeon of the third quarter and wont be back until they finally sort this shit out whch means that
1 those players mentioned have to go. I have seen enough of these 2 blokes to know they wont be part of a premiership team. The fact that they have been at the club for so long is laughable
get a new head coach who knows what he is doing
a new President who knows what he is doing
Both are so not good enough to be in these positions
Great players heart in the right place but simply not up to it
If the MC were fair dinkum they should drop 12 players this week
Of course that wont happen but you could drop 6. That wont happen as well.
Play Ellard
He deserves a game tries his arse off. You will get 100% effort from him unlike Houlihan and Thornton who have both been cancers at this club for too long. What is the point of having a rookie on your list for 3 years for one game three years ago.
Got to give him a month at senior level. He could do no worse than the rest of the midfield with the exception of Judd
Promote Tuohy, Casboult,White for next year
Tuohy has learnt quickly.
He is super tough a strong body and is quick. He can slot in somewhere next year.
Casboult should be promoted because he can take a pack mark and is a reasonable kick. The coaches should work really hard on getting him aerobically fit during the summer break. With a proper game plan that isolates Casboult with his direct opponent he could be very handy and we desperately need a strong marking forward. He is worth the risk to be promoted
White is tough and has shown enough to me that he deserves a promotion
Thats for starters
The team is as soft as warm butter
Its been like that for !@#$%& years but worse than that its been excepted. In the new facilities there is a walkway with every player that has played 200 or more games for the club. Houlihan is likely to be up there soon. His effort like last Sunday I have seen so many times and he gets a game because he sometimes stops the opposing backman. Not good enough
I think Richmond is a great example of what we should have done 3 years ago.
They had a thorough process to get a senior coach with a few years as an assistant at successful clubs in Hawthorn and Port Adelaide who has installed a sense of toughness in the squad and a game plan that is beginning to pay dividends. Hardwick coaches the way he played and he expects nothing less from his players. Its not just about having a gun forward in Jack Riewoldt its about changing the culture of the place that has been !@#$%& for 30 years
Of course they will have bad losses because they are a young team learning. But they are on the right path.
Notice Hardwick aint playing the likes of McMahon,Morton, Polo. Players that Teflon Terry played because they had some skill.
Notice how the club acted swiftly to send a message to Daniel Connors that his behaviour in Sydney wouldnt be tolerated and he was give the arse for 8 weeks during the season unlike the wet lettuce the Carlton footy club handed out to Betts, Houlihan and Walker.
You need no further proof that something stinks down at Royal Parade than to watch that game on Sunday.
And there is the Warnock and McLean trades. All clubs have recruiting howlers but these 2 are real bad.
I feel like a trater that I wont be going to any more games until the likes of Kernahan, Ratten, Lappin, Bradley, Wiggins,Fisher, Johnson,Houlihan and Thornton leave but as a little kid said to me as we walked out of the ground with his dad
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH
Tantrum !
Call it a tantrum if it was the first time it happened.
Your narrow minded opinion deflects the real issues.
So let me give you an example
In 2007 My lovely partner and myself went to Sydney to see the Blues and Swans at the SCG. It was a great weekend except for the footy
We were in the lower deck.
10m from where Thornton lolly popped a 30 m pass to the shortest player on the field in Eddie Betts. Of course he had to stop and prop and he was a sitting duck to have his opponent punch the ball away from him.
Thornton cracked the shits towards Betts and everyone where I was sitting heard it.
Now Ratten was an assistant to that flower Pagan who for reasons best forgotten got a contract extension for winning the Wizard Cup. Thornton was not taken off . A junior player would have been . Thornton wasnt.
Now club 29 go forward 3 years and Thornton tells Simmo a guy who tries his guts out every week to jump higher to spoil the 211cm giant known as Aaron Sandilands. Two rounds later he accidently breaks Armfields nose and doesnt even go over to see how he is and leaves that task to Jamison.
That my friend is a cancer on the club. This club does not nip the problems in the bud. They ignore the problem(s) and we sink further into the abyss.
Look at Collins from Richmond who was pole axed and 6 Tigers players went to his aid.
Thats what a good coach will install.
My advice to you and a few others is grab your head from where ever its not seeing the obvious and face it that unless this club acts now we wont win a flag for a long time to come.