1–2 weeks.

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Give it a few months.

Stand-by, people

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So far, not a lot.

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

We desperately need someone in the coaching panel , even alongside Bolton with some better bloody tactics and game strategy

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

I reckon the strategy has been excellent tonight.

Like last week we were in the game for a long time - against top 4/top 6 opposition.

This with loads of injuries.

Get some more class in there and it's looking good.

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

Exactly.

He's already modified our game so much because of our deficiencies but you can only coach for turnovers so much.

We've been terrific but just error after error after error.

It drains the will of even the strongest players.

We should have still been very close or in front at 3/4 time but we don't have the skill or the bodies. He's done a remarkable job.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Still too much backwards, sideways, useless flat footed ring a rosy handball, too high pressing, no forwards, minimal leading towards the ball and on and on.

Most of our good stuff comes from moments of individual brilliance because we do have a lot of talent on the list.

Though there is a lot of horrible skills as well....

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

They go hand in hand Grro I think ( a bit like ring a rosy) .

WE can't expand our game with the cattle we have. They are either flawed or small or developing.

Bolts is stopping the bleeding. 30 points is a good result and we could have got a lot closer without the shit skills.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Coach killers!

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"our electorate seeks less to be informed and more to be validated." Sad times.

yep there is no flow because we cannot string three good possessions together.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

I will say however that I really hope we can do the stoppage work like the Swans do.

That hand balling to guys on the move out of congestion used to be something we used to do in the 90's better than anyone and haven't done it since Ratts retired.

Just not sure how much of that is skill and how much is coaching.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Our players are running into congestion when they get it. Our handball is more like pinball.
We hardly ever have players running past the player with the football at a mark or free to take a handball. The end result of that is that the opposition always has the numbers at the drop of the footy. When we were 2-1 to zip, the camera went to the Swans box and he said to the bloke in his right,
"we have to run it more."
Bang! Change of plan ten minutes into the game.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

And maturity. We've regularly had guys like Dow, Fisher and SPS starting in at the centre bounces, guys that shouldn't have to worry about that until they've had another three years in the gym. They're doing well given how much development they have ahead of them.

Another couple of early picks on mids of Dow's quality and a few years to build endurance and muscle, it'll come together soon enough.

Agreed
It's not only coach killers but marriage killers (not always a bad thing...)
Handballing to someone who is running...straight into a tackle
Handballing to someone stationary...straight into a tackle
Kicking it to someone...with an opponent so close they need to be checked for an STI
Kicking it long...to a 3 against 1
Trying to pick up a ball when you know you're going to get tackled instead of soccering it off the ground and continue to push forward to the next opportunity
Forwards always playing behind. 80% of kicks from the middle to our forward line are marked by defenders playing in front
Allowing Kruezer to win the throw ins but then Kruezer does EXACTLY what they want him to do
Players spending too much time running to cover space after our kick outs that the player kicking can't kick to them bc they have their backs to them
Opp taking uncontested marks in a contested situation
lack of shepherding
Tackling woeful
Little intent to run to an open space
etc etc etc

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If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you!

I feel sorry for Bolton having to persist with senior players who are trying to lead but butcher the ball so badly. It must be doing his head in.

every point you make is a coaching issue

What do all those blokes do up there in the box?

Just keep stats?

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

I don't understand why we play a brand of football that won't;
a. Win games now, and
b. Won't ever win a flag

When our players get the footy, their firtst instinct is to look sideways or backward. Why is this? Is it instruction, is it their mental weaknesses? Our forwards don't offer 1st, 2nd, 3rd leads because they know we have to take the ball via 'the cape'. If they go backwards because the forwards don't offer anything, teach the @#$%&! forwards to offer lead after lead. What's the worst thing that can happen - we get beaten by 10 goals?

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You can't play the game you want if you don't have the players (with the skills) to play it.

It is obviously now just "damage control", "stem the bleeding" or whatever cliché you want to use.

We tried playing in an aggressive manner but it didn't work. This is two years away. They need to learn the basics and getting smacked week in week out was not the way to do it.

Another 50 games into these guys and they will be better.