clearly patience isnt infinite ......

wont be too much longer...his carry might be needed.. but his general ineptitude isnt.

just watch him when the game tightens up......

the perfect downhill skier minus skills

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So left the game last reflecting, apart from being in semi shock as we've come to expect this sort of result from our team over the past 4 to 5 years.

Here goes:
We have players who are mentally weak.
We have players who are not fit enough to play the modern game for all 120 minutes.
We have an abundance of players who cannot kick accurately, thus costing us many games - this comes to lack of technique and poor recruiting criteria.
We have players who "sleep with the lights on at night" in big games.
We don't have an effective F50 entry system - this has been non existent since the halcyon days in the mid to late 90's.
This list will definitely not take us to no.17, let alone make any impact, in the remote chance, we make finals this year.
We have some players who are improving at a good rate - eg. Casboult, Cachia

What this means:
Biggest list overhaul in recent years required - PLAYERS THAT CAN HIT A TARGET and KICK BETWEEN THE BIG STICKS - one of the key criteria
Mentally and physically tough players - bring in some extroverts FFS.
Trade/draft using a 'moneyball' philosophy - players that can kick but are not getting games at other clubs - eg. like Scotland

Was in semi shock from the result, but supporting this MEDIOCRE team - at BEST - is getting boring.

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For some silly reason, you people want to assassinate him, and it's just rubbish. You people. All of you, ALL of you!

you only need to cull the weakest links.. they drag down the others.

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There's a few of them in that 22 last night and this year, Synners.

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For some silly reason, you people want to assassinate him, and it's just rubbish. You people. All of you, ALL of you!

We need pacey mids & all kinds of forwards

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#DonTheStash

we need more hbfers .....
talls that cant touch their toes
mids that are scared and cant kick....
and all kinds of useless bits n pieces

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This result was pre-ordained. Any time a game is even remotely thought of as season-defining we drop our bundle. Every single time. We have nothing even approaching the mindset needed to win a flag. We're so far from it that it isn't even a distant speck on the horizon. If Malthouse can turn this team into genuine contenders it will, without question, make him the greatest coach of the modern era.

Either way ... a disgraceful coaching performance.

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I am as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!!!

Really disappointing second time this year leading by two or three goals at three quarter time to be run over by both Essendon* and Collingwood - sign of mentally weak side - should have won easily after the boulter kicked that goal - who didn't think we weren't going to win when bombers got a goal behind - smell the fear - lost to esendon and bloody tigers by less than a goal - mentally weak - don't even get me started on that bloody game against stkilda mentally weak - intimidated continually by sides like Collingwood and geelong - mentally weak - every time we have a chance to cement a spot in the eight we squib it - see matches against esendon and stkilda -MENTALLY BLOODY WEAK
SICK OF IT - one last chance next week to show some bloody character and mental toughness - beat hawthorn and give us something

I assume by your name that you are from SA
the same state that golden boy once dominated your local comp when he was a teenager
that my friend says it all

You are a year or so too late with this latest angle Synbad. If anyone said this stuff last year you were shooting them down because it disagreed with your then angle.

You keep this place interesting.

Eddies was a goal, you can see on the replay.

We have no leaders. It's as simple as that.

Hold on

Last year we had a coach who had 5 seasons and 6 games to fix a list
In fact he traded an early pick for Brock.. lost confdence in him .. and let him rot in the reseves till he had to call n him again.
He went for a zillion hbfers that are not superflous
He signed Davies and Joseph on multiple season contracts.
And he didnt make any real calls on anything or anyone.
Not only did we lose season defining games in home and away but we ost finals ike this too..

And still he didnt do anything.... if he stayed he still woudnt have done anything... he would have blamed ourneyman rookie Curnow.. or CHF Hampson ;

He had to go.... now we have a coach finding his way with the list and getting his head around it.

The coach had to go so we can see there were at!!... yes no??

or are you Solomon by telling us even after all that... Ratten should have stayed...!!!

This is Ratten/McKays list.....!!!

Ratten is responsible along with our recruiters... and development people.

Ultimately Sticks is the problem... cos thats where it all starts and ends.
Apha to Omega

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Are you saying extroverts are naturally mentally tougher than introverts? I would have said Bruce Doull for example was mentally tough, but by all accounts was a big introvert

We played like we were complete strangers last night. It was like they had all just met.

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"For the first time under MM, you feel the Blues are ready to do some damage come finals" - Bruce McAvaney (2nd qtr)

We showed you buddy

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unfortunately guys we are getting back to old ground
that synners and I have been banging on for years


THE BOARD NEEDS TO GO
STANDARDS LIFTED

Guys dropped for not putting their body on the line

consequences guys it aint rocket science


back onto Gibbs
He is soft as butter
listening SA blue
as soft as butter

dont know what he was like at the Tigers but

He is as soft as butter

now it can be argued that if he was dropped to the Northern Blues because of it it wouldnt make the slighest difference

fact is he has never been dropped

and that is the perfect example on why we are average
the club accepts it by its own action which is
do @#$%&! all
and standards stay where they have been for over a decade
at a low level
In pressure cooker games softies like
Gibbs and Yarran will cost you


SA blue I know my footy and I can put up with some things but not guys squibbing it

They shouldnt belong to the club I support

If it was me I wouldnt play Yarran or Gibbs next week and tell them why.


Otherwise we are treading water

That means starting from scratch

Undoing the damage done under the Ratten regime will take time...

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McLean is a decent leader out on the ground....but we got him from another club like our former captain.

I think next year Jamison and Henderson need to put their hand up for leadership roles.

Still lack a leader up forward, Waite played well but he isn't a leader. If you play Henderson forward and let him grow into that role then maybe we would have one.