Braithy wrote:
bondiblue wrote:
Braithy wrote:
I don't know, mate ... the injuries were bad. but some of our worst performances in 24 came with our best (on paper at least) team selected. we won more games this year (as we did on the 8 game win streak last year) using fringe players and backups.
it might be hard or unpalatable to some to blame voss and cripps. but i'm doing it anyway. high performance and rehab played a massive role too, and apparently the turf at princess park.
i watch my son who's 14 do amateur boxing. he's part of a great stable of fighters. and when anyone in our stable lose, it's not a loss, it's a lesson.
the kids are taught to be accountable and honest. it's such a basic concept. and it's still one cfc just doesn't ever grasp or comprehend. and to be really honest (and a little vulnerable on a forum board here), the constantness of the club's egos, stubbornness and arrogance for decade after decade - it breaks my heart.
we're all sad addicts here. addicted to something that just doesn't love us back.
I get where you're coming from braithy re Voss and Crippa. No shame in that. Hold your ground if that's what you really feel. Not necessarily right but its a position you are prepared to support.
Yep, we're all addicts. Rusted on supporters.
You never cease to surprise me. A 14yo son. Congrats. I hope he stops boxing when the hits to the head start feeling harder and harder. My 16yo was doing a bit of boxing, but I put a stop to that when I noticed the hits were getting bigger.
I'm sure the club wants to do the right thing. I don't think we are far off, and our window will be open for a while longer.
Really important to fight out the rest of the season for more good reasons than bad.
Glad the surface at Princes Park will be fixed. A few have been blaming the surface for a while despite the resurfacing effort from 10 years back.
Go Blues.
i can't shake the nagging feeling of this: our signature through last season and the wins this year was team before all else. and there's just a bit of evidence out there, that maybe the individual forces of some, started to override the team first mantra. something was really wrong, maybe even absent in the last 6-7 weeks on the field.
i feel like it rests (at a bare minimum) with the leadership. captain and coach.
if there's even an inkling of truth to what voss and doc said about pittonet's inclusion. that 1 or 2% shift was all our tiny little train needed to be derailed. ahh! my son is a little legend. this'll surprise you even more - I've solo raised him for the last 6 years too. had to put everything on hold, but it all pails in comparison to watching him shine. he wants to go pro, and fight in vegas ... i'll get you ringside tickets if he ever makes it.
Could not agree more
Our freefall is a multi-factored regression. Some people (not necessarily people on TC) try and hold onto the single or dual factor theory (usually injuries and coaching)
I am soooo firmly of the view that our drop has been a weighted combination of injuries, form/confidence, poor coaching, odd selections, a persistent flaky mindset AND some unintended distraction/destabilisation within the group, especially since the Geel game
Each of the factors are anot independent of each other either and in all likelihood have impacted on other factors
Is our mindset even flakier because we're distracted by not having best players on the park?
Has poor coaching from a previous game resulted in reactionary odd selections in the following game?
Have we not had the confidence to deal with the weight of expectations which equates to a flaky mindset on the field (paralysis etc)?
etc etc etc
I will go to my grave believing something we can't see (something within the inner sanctum) has thrown us out of equilibrium (even by just 1-2% as you suggest), and now all those other factors have cross contaminated our opportunity this year
I'm definitely clutching at straws but maybe this is the year we had to have:
2022-first year under Voss was a success in a way as we were in the 8 until the last game (tragedy, but improvement on 2021)
2023-OMG!!, that Melbourne game and the first half against Bris IN Brisbane WITH all those injuries...was it a dream???
2024-Let's be brutal. We overachieved with those 2 finals in 2023. I got to enjoy it with my adult sons, my old grumpy mates and their adult kids. If you were in Lygon St after the Melb win, it was surreal...so, what I'm saying is that with all the disaster of the last 6 weeks, maybe this was the step back to reality we needed to have to reinvigorate the list, reinvigorate S&C, critically review coaching and make sure List Mgt brings in players that we desperately need (eg. last year with Doc down back and Jack working his backside off in D50 stoppages, we didn't appear as exposed down back, particularly with mids that seemed more in synch. It wasn't as obvious as this year that Weiters needs a soulmate KPD
RANT OVER
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