We've really gone backwards since the great dual premiership team of the 2000s.

I'm with bluegirl. I like vaginas.

ok you dont see lappin in buckley ,but you see campo at twenty or content if buckley is whitehead cos of his toe!

ok

Of the newcomers, the only one I was disappointed in was McCarthy. I know it's only early and he really didn't get that much game time, but I did expect him to show a little more.
I was also disappointed that McInnes didn't play as I am inclined to think he has a better chance than Watson and McCarthy of making the grade.

What were you expecting to see from a developing 2nd year player after an interrupted first season, in his first taste of action, in a first round NAB Cup game that the club was clearly using as a glorified training run?

Bluegirl, speaking of watches.
On ebay there is this guy from Ukraine , he has the most amazing watches.
Theyre quite historical , he has ww2 u boat issue watches and SS Gestapo watches from the SS
He has German Paratrooper watches.
They look amazing.. often he has a story attached to his selling blog about the watch (For example Doxa brand) and then a story about the regiment they were issued too.
He gets some huge prices as every tom dick and harry believe him and want their very own piece of hisroy.
These watches look amazing.. meticulously dialled with insignia etc.
But if you look very closely you sometimes find accuracy mistakes incorrect dates etc.
But people still buy his watches.
Sometimes they are converted pocket watches into wrist watches.. beautifully re dialled of course.

Really funny.

People believe anything if they wanna believe anything...

"We weren't switched on at all," Ratten said.

"It was like we were coming out for a training session and we weren't switched on at all.

"Defensively we were really poor and we should maybe have been five or six goals down, which wasn't the way that we wanted to start 2012.

"We want to make sure that our performance is to a level that we expect and there's no doubt in the first game that it wasn't, whether we played the kids or the older players."

on big pat he was too skinny last year but he needs to step it up this year.
to me if just looks like he doesn't believe!

the club has a problem with players that are low on confidence and don't think they belong. we have seen it way too often.
the good clubs know how to get everybody up!

If we were taking it as seriously as most, Murph would have played both games to give us some bite in the middle with Judd and Robbo out and a kid like McCarthy may not have played at all.

My point was more about what someone was expecting to see from McCarthy.

There are players that seem to be carrying doubts upon themselves and I may have mentioned it here through training reports.
Those guys are Watson, Davies and to a lesser extent McCarthy.
Watson and Davies were the regular fumblers that were visibly disappointed and distressed in their output, where McCarthy just seemed to smile nervously.

Don't for one minute think that we're the only club that suffers for having a few players down on confidence though.
Every club has players that will ebb and flow in the way they see their own performances.

confidence is everything in football!
the more players you have with self doubt the less good youre going to be.

some teams are better at handling the mind dimmension than others.
we are not one of the better clubs at handling mind issues.
we have had a few players on the footy scrap pile over the last couple of years.
thornton,bower,grigg,walker,setanta etc

some have shown something when we have given them belief!

i think collingwood are miles ahead when it comes to players feeling good about themselves.

to just believe it cant be improved and is natural is ludicrous in an era of high intensity and work load on individual players you need everybody up and firing .

confidence is everything in football!
the more players you have with self doubt the less good youre going to be.

some teams are better at handling the mind dimmension than others.
we are not one of the better clubs at handling mind issues.
we have had a few players on the footy scrap pile over the last couple of years.
thornton,bower,grigg,walker,setanta etc

some have shown something when we have given them belief!

i think collingwood are miles ahead when it comes to players feeling good about themselves.

to just believe it cant be improved and is natural is ludicrous in an era of high intensity and work load on individual players you need everybody up and firing .