Agreed.
Got most of his posessions in the back third of the ground, and just goes for the lazy, easy option more often then not.

Was confused as to why Gibbs started on Goodes again. Ratten seriously needs to get over that BOG game Gibbs had on Goodes back in 2009. The matchup hasnt worked since, but the moron still persists.

Also good to see our ingenious coach wait until we were 6 goals down at 3 quarter time before he finally moved Gibbs into the midfield. Dont know why he had to wait until the game was as good as over before he made such a move.

Its dumb things like that that dont help both player or Club.

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Are you serious? Thornton works bloody hard. Ran himself into the ground last week and had a big influence on our win.

He does a lot of hard and smart work by bringing others into play and creating space. Interesting that we seem to win a lot when he is in the side.

Maybe the reason he isn't picked is because he and Ratten don't get along?

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I saw the same stats here http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/208/default ... sid=142503. Below is the games missed from the best 22 of some of finals teams and us according to that list. Our games missed would be even worse since that article was posted obviously and the quality of the players lost is also a significant factor that this catch all stat misses.

Carlton 87
Collingwood 93
West Coast 87
Essendon* 75
Sydney 32
Hawthorn 45
Adelaide 40
Nth Melbourne 29

As for Casboult I've seen a few VFL games and I'd describe his kicking as inconsistent rather than very good. Fatigue plays a role but thats another issue with him.

Yep, Ratten would stop playing a guy who could save his career, according to you.

Who's being serious?.

TBird is serviceable forward, so it was a simple choice between him CBoult, Waite and Thornton. TBird cant ruck and Wait starred, so it was an easy choice.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Boring game overall. Still don't like to watch Sydney play football.

We have gone back to stuffing around too much getting out of defence and our forward line has no one in it most of the time forcing us to slow down and they get numbers back.

Waite did alright in his first game in a million years.

Gibbs= Soft Serve

Agree with this. Neither Thornton or Casboult offer much defensively in the forward half.

Yeah but it worked once with Duigan and Sticks thought that was the work of genius so he's going to try it every second week for the rest of his not terribly long future career as a coach.

As for Gibbs the flaws I see are in his development rather than his skills.

I look at Gibbs and Daisy Thomas and the way they've progressed over the years and the impact that Malthouse had on turning Thomas into a gut running mid-fielder whilst Gibbs has been allowed to wander around half-back is fairly obvious.

It may be too late for Bryce but I'd love to see what a hard arse coach would do with him.

A spell in the twos after any weak effort early in his career might have done him wonders but it seems you're not allowed to do that to the son of one of the president's buddies.

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Sticks is coach?

Getting your agenda's mixed up there GWS.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Yep Mark Riley said before the Adelaide clash in round 8 that Thornton had been dropped because his forward pressure was non existent.

Nothing has changed since to suggest that Thornton would follow the coach's instructions if picked in the senior side.

Hopefully Brock doesn`t find the experimenting too offensive.

The only thing holding back Gibbs is Gibbs it has @#$%&! all to do with Ratten

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They will create an Emergency to change the Laws

No experimenting ... we can still play finals.

true to some degree

He doesn't have a clanger next to his name. Embarrassing for you. Nice goal assist though.

No.

Ratten is coach and he's mates with the President who is mates with Bryce's dad.

To add to the fact that the club are so shit scared as to what the media might say if they dropped a number one draft pick that they don't.

We're rubbish at the selection table and the reasons for why one player is dropped and another not are so bizarrely baffling that a good conspiracy theory is the only logical solution.

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Absolutely.

Im a massive Gibbs fan but today his decisions were just poor for 50% of the time.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Come on Dominator. That Gibbs to Goodes tactic has worked a number of times. They had a good battle today early before we no longer required Gibbs on Goodes.

Gibbs played a good game. His ball use was poor once moved on ball. I thought he was better in the backline today.

Gibbs should concentrate on becoming the best backman he can possibly be. He should watch Birchall each week and strive to play like him. He has similar tools just a bit shorter. Just needs to get his head around the job and the coaches have to stop moving him around.

So long as we are clear, it's a conspiracy to keep Bryce's dad relationship with Sticks solid.

Phew!

Thought it might be footy related.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

"We're all mates here..."

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb