We dont have any kind of 'Plan B' and not surprisingly everbody has now caught onto what Essendon*, St Kilda and now Adelaide did to us. I am not sure if Melbourne have the wherewithall to do it to us but if GWS can make it tough for 3/4 then I guess anything can happen. As much as I hate to say it, Hird and Thompson worked us out and exposed us as one trick ponies!

The question is how does Adelaide overtake us?
Why does StKilda flatten us?
Make no mistake .. were not a hell of a lot better than Melbourne right now and were going down like a lead balloon

time to ditch the 2 ruckmen auto-setting we currently have installed.
drop 1, IMO hampson
Play Kreuze alone and use an extra mid/runner. worth a try
Use tbird or hendo for forwardline ruckwork
Not sure if we have had 1 game where both ruckmen have dominated and been a worthy tactic

Play TEX in the guts for 4 quarters.
Bring in Collins to play the medium forward role

out: hammer, curnow
in: collins, lucas

We have to give those players who have been knocking on the door for selection a game next week. You know all of our good young players, what are their names again?

In a sick kind of way I hope we do get knocked off by Melbourne...
Maybe then the club will actually do something.

If we beat Melbourne just you watch... they will declare things are back on track.. you can only beat who is out there... and quote a bunch of stats to show we once again beat up on a crap team but gives the MC and coaching staff some ammunition to pat each other on the back for another week.

But maybe this is just the depression on a Monday after knowing your club gave a weak as piss performance.

We are the Josh Hunt of the entire AFL.

We are the Josh Hunt of the entire AFL.

Struth there are some Carlton ferals around...when did you all start acting like Richmond people? You don't sack the coach at 5-3...and this week we go from playing the best team in the competition to the worst. I rarely bet on football, but have made a killing from the Crows this year. They're good and punters still don't rate them. Melbourne are bad...weather permitting, this is the game we need to find some form and get out of the rut. Blues by 56.

That is the problem and it happens every year before the season starts you struggle to fit all the players in
have a look at our best 22 thread

Half through the year you are stuggling to find 15 -16 players who warrant their place in the side

Bootsma - to skinny
Buckley - to skinny
Carrazo -injured
Casboult- injured
Collins- - skinny dud
Davies - injured dud
joseph - dud
Kerr -either always injured or not sticking his hand up
Laidler- Injured
Lucas - soft and no tank
Maccarthy - not showing enough always injured
Mccinnes- injured
Mitchell -always injured
Maclean - should be playing coach and fans dont like him
Okeefe - always injured
Rowe - cancer but was struggling
Warnock - struggles with injury to skinny
White always injured
Heyne - dud
Bray - always injured
Bell- fat arse
Carter - struggling
Dale- to skinny
Lodge - struggling

That is the problem and it happens every year before the season starts you struggle to fit all the players in
have a look at our best 22 thread

Half through the year you are stuggling to find 15 -16 players who warrant their place in the side

Bootsma - to skinny
Buckley - to skinny
Carrazo -injured
Casboult- injured
Collins- - skinny dud
Davies - injured dud
joseph - dud
Kerr -either always injured or not sticking his hand up
Laidler- Injured
Lucas - soft and no tank
Maccarthy - not showing enough always injured
Mccinnes- injured
Mitchell -always injured
Maclean - should be playing coach and fans dont like him
Okeefe - always injured
Rowe - cancer but was struggling
Warnock - struggles with injury to skinny
White always injured
Heyne - dud
Bray - always injured
Bell- fat arse
Carter - struggling
Dale- to skinny
Lodge - struggling


No to put pressure on those in the team and the ones in the team not making an effort

Disgraceful recruiting
Disgraceful - development
disgraceful -coaching
Disgraceful -administration

You forgot Essendon* and West Coast. Time for the boys to hit the weights room in the off season as we simply get out-bodied.

Make no mistake. There will be changes to the team confronting Melbourne at the MCG next Sunday.

Bottom line - if you can't win your own footy and you lose too many critical contests you can't play in our team.

I'm not altogether sure the replacements are necessarily ready, but I do know that if we put five, six, seven or eight games into them they will be ready - as opposed to those we've had to carry for a while.

Going into yesterday's game, I was under no illusions about Adelaide. Watching the Crows going around the previous weekend against Geelong at AAMI Stadium, I was so impressed with the way they ran both ways to create and cover and, on the flip side, the way they won the ball that was there to be won.

Yesterday, while I was reasonable happy with some of our work in the first quarter against a really good team, the Crows absolutely creamed us in their capacity to win the 50/50 ball and their work rate to get away from that was a lot more healthier than ours.

The Adelaide loss was of course compounded by the injury to Marc Murphy, and while a player of Marc's character cannot be replaced, his absence requires greater effort from everyone else to make a contest wherever and whenever they can.

It's about every other member of the group lifting a further two, three or five per cent to take up the slack without Marc - and I reckon that's what we need to do to become a better team, because at the moment we're isolated.

Melbourne poses a real danger, but then again every opposition team poses a danger. That's because the competition by its very nature is even and if you allow a team to have a crack at you they do.

As I said, there will be changes to the team line-up on Sunday, and there will be changes to the way we play