extremely disappointing....but awfully predictable !

pros

1. tonight marks the beginning of the end....for B Ratten - smart people make mistakes, stupid people make the same mistake twice...but only B Ratten makes the same mistake over and over again !

(Sidenote - The truly amusing thing is that the closest ratts has come to beating Essendon* as coach was in his first game against them when we were actually trying to lose !!!!!!)

Exactly...Ratts is a top bloke but not a coach..

Pros
One week closer to Rattens axing

We can only dream...but don't like your chances....

Pro
Lucas

Cons.
Coaching Panel is substandard. Either you surround Ratten with better assistants or you find an A grade coach
Kicking efficiency is the key to the modern game. The current group is not capable of becoming a topside because it lacks a pool of players who can execute effective disposal (Walker, Robinson, Carazzo plus others). Some players have to go. It is not that they are not AFL standard, it just that our team lacks balance.
Backline is brittle
Key Forwards non existent
-Caz, maybe you were a little too optimistic

Carbon copy. CARBON FRICKEN COPY of every time we’ve played them.

The players should hang their heads in shame. The lazy running and errors were a disgrace.

And Brett Ratten should most certainly hang his head in shame. No emphasis on stopping their run through the corridor. No effort to correct the structural mistakes of games past. A disgrace!

PROS

1. Kade Simpson – should’ve captained all three games. The only player to win his position tonight.

2. Gee, I’m struggling. Eddie? Did pretty well.

3. Nice to see Kane lucas get a bit of it.

4. Russel was ok I guess.

5. Kill me

CONS

1. Brett Ratten has no answer to stop Essendon*’s run through the middle. It shouldn’t be that hard, they switch to the corridor with strict regularity, but we watch on. Embarrasing for Ratten.

2. When under pressure we hug the boundary. It lacks courage, is meek, and does nothing to help us. How the coaches have not taught our players to take more risks through the middle is beyond me.

3. Our skills are atrocious. We have too many poor kicks to build a successful side. Some of these guys just have no future.

4. Some players –
Walker is lost – the matchup on gumbleton was terrible but he’s not really putting his hand up to play anywhere else. Has his kicking gotten worse?
Warnock – CAN’T CATCH to save himself. Liability
McLean – he might be OK, might not. But was he worth a first round draft pick. Really?
Thornton – worse than last week. Had concrete in his boots.
Setanta – still frequently has no idea what to do and makes unforgivable errors.

5. Fumbling! Our midfield backed up after last week’s sterling effort with a punity and pathetic performance. They had butterfingers. Why wasn’t Murphy’s tagger put under any pressure? Weak!


Just a weak, embarrassing, pathetic performance.
Players were shit.
Ratten was shit.

Waste of bloody time

extremely disappointing....but awfully predictable !

pros

1. tonight marks the beginning of the end....for B Ratten - smart people make mistakes, stupid people make the same mistake twice...but only B Ratten makes the same mistake over and over again !

(Sidenote - The truly amusing thing is that the closest ratts has come to beating Essendon* as coach was in his first game against them when we were actually trying to lose !!!!!!)

extremely disappointing....but awfully predictable !

pros

1. tonight marks the beginning of the end....for B Ratten - smart people make mistakes, stupid people make the same mistake twice...but only B Ratten makes the same mistake over and over again !

(Sidenote - The truly amusing thing is that the closest ratts has come to beating Essendon* as coach was in his first game against them when we were actually trying to lose !!!!!!)

Pro

-Judd is back next week