Games are won and lost in the coaches box and training track
Ratten wasn't a pimple on a coaches bum - but we have gone backwards at a rate of knots since he left
Don't often agree with Eddie but he was right about Mick
Low disposal long kicking game is going to get cut up every time
Can't keep giving up the corridor and giving up possession - you need the ball in your hands to win games of footy and you need to close things down when a team gets a couple in a row to stop their momentum
We did it in the third couldnt do it in the second and last quarters

Pro

Hairstyles and grooming at elite level


Con

We got smashed mentally and physically.

9 top 10 draft picks - nothing wrong with the list - a poor workman always blames his tools

Thought we tried to use the corridor a fair bit last night.

Ratten's game style suited our players. Faced paced running football. Our players loved it because it was unaccountable. It just wouldn't take us to the top.

MM is trying to bring in a successful team defence first model ala Freo, Hawthorn, Sydney etc.

The issue is our players don't work hard enough for long enough. I have no issue with the coach or game style.

It's time the players took responsibility for these inept performances.

So what your saying is that you have taken a girl to the dance who can only do the waltz but you now want here to start doing the samba and the tango but she keeps tripping over her feet

444So whatabout the other 30 players on the list???

Who are our second and third rounders on this list?

Youre exactly the problem of this footy club... youre looking at the hole in the donut not the whole of he donut.
The delusional thinking is with supporters just as much as the club.
Second.... we wanna blame Collingwood people for where were at??? How did they get here?????

thats just more delusional thinking...
as is the Tigers game from last seasons finals.

All the stuff we shouldnt be looking at to be serious.. we do look at.... all the things we should be looking at we dont .. we prefer to look away and elsewhere....

I really get the Essendon** supporter thinking just by watching our people....

scary!

9 top 10 draft picks - nothing wrong with the list - a poor workman always blames his tools

Lets wait and see how Roos goes at Melbourne - they are a shitful club - See if he can change their fortunes
They are at the lowest of lows - See how Roos goes

No 1 example in the world of how a coach can change things in Manchester United
The most successful club all round in the world - Fergie goes and there goes United
But if you were following united you would blame the administrators of the club

No 1 example in the world of how a coach can change things in Manchester United
The most successful club all round in the world - Fergie goes and there goes United
But if you were following united you would blame the administrators of the club

So what your saying is that you have taken a girl to the dance who can only do the waltz but you now want here to start doing the samba and the tango but she keeps tripping over her feet

Ollie Wines played every game in his first year.

Any chance we can give Cripps a bit of a run?
See how his fitness holds up ?

i dont think our early picks were wrong.... Murphy Kreuzer Kennedy and Gibbs are all solid footballers.
We got our drafting strategy wrong.... we have nothing from second third rounders.
Nothing.
We went for defenders when we needed midfielders.
We have too many holes because of this. A midfielder can play hbf or hff .. cant be said the other way.
We used to have an over abundance of hbfers.. most of whoch were culled.
Now we have an over abundance of one paced inside mids..
But the game is about the spread.

You need a couple.. you cant have ten.

we overcorrect too much in our drafting
We dont balance what we need.
We get a bunch of hbf... only 2 or 3 can play...
or a bunch of slow inside mids... good for stoppages.. not run
or a bunch of rucks ... were still struggling .. Capuano is a problem
or a bunch of talls all in the one hit... theyre all useless.. except hendo but we almost had bradshaw and rischetelli instead of henderson

But we dont take what we really need ....

Great analogy.

The list needs to develop. Evolve or die. Those that can will succeed, those that can't will go. Not enough dance styles in the bag, not enough shuffles on the floor yet. By the end of this year we'll have another bunch to cut and an even clearer idea who we need to fill out the Can-Can.