Remembet Pagan doing the same thing
Poor workman always blame their tools

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2012 was injury plagued.
Murphy didnt play most of the year, I think jamo was out. Carrazo was out most of the year and a number of quality players

If you have a few key defenders and key midfielders out then the ball will be going in there like no tomorrow. I think stats are great but think out side the box sometimes

He needs to go because he cant be judged anymore.
He has lost the players, even yarran said the players are playing for themselves.
He won 92-94 gf with an expansion team in wce. 16 years later he was lucky the ball bounced over milnes head. Otherwise it would of been 2 flags in 30 years. I used to think he was a good coach back in the day, but now he looks lost and has a stagnant game plan that allows the worst teams in afl beat us.
If you can give me some confidence that he has new strategies or new ideas then I can change my view.

But he has got nothing but to blame the list.

Is there any other coach in the comp who has publicly stated his list just isn't good enough?.

I've heard coaches say that players aren't trying had enough, not following instructions and making errors, but I don't remember too many just curling the toes up and crying "ït's all too hard with these guys"

How bad is this team anyway?. All we here every week is how exciting the Pies are and how crapola Carlton are. But for a few kicks we had that game, MM can take some credit for that, but FMD he's used to being one teflon coated muther flower.

How is this suppose to help?

What possible benefit to the players or the club is saying they are shit?

There was a conga line of nuffies on this site who poleaxed Ratts for daring to suggest that a couple of players didn't pull their weight in games, but MM comes out and slags off half the team, time and again, and we are supposed to swallow this like it's icecream?

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Yes ratten did bag the players, but he was involved with the recruitment of nearly all of them bar judd most of them himself . Their is a difference don't you think. Incompetent recruiting and the overseer was rotten, but let's not have your dellussional rant hide that fact.

Thinking Ratten was the head recruiter is pretty "dellussional".

So he did not have a major say in proceeding, that's dellussional!!

Never heard a coach repeatedly bag the list in public as much as this teflon coated mutha.

A better man would simply accept the limitations and work to fix them.

I can't remember ANY coach going down this track.

It's not a slip of the tongue it's 100% blame shifting.

He didn't need to say it. He could simply have said "we tried hard, we got close but some skill errors cost us" .

It's almost what he said anyway but he just couldn't bring himself to be associated with a group of players he's supposed to be coaching.

Weak.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

And to accept a part time school principal as head of development.When other teams had 3-4, well you tell me.

He is only saying what we have been quoting on here at nauseum. And he is right, lazy money grabbing players who think we should owe them a living and us as supporters should keep coughing up our hard earned to keep them living a lavish lifestyle.pfft.

WTF are you talking about.? Your deflection skills are so well developed you must be related to him !!

This is MM declaring he does not want to be associated with a large number of his team.

It's the weakest display by a head coach in any sport I can remember.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

What sports at senior level have you coached

People here aren't disputing the fact he's right, it's more down the lines of what is he achieving by saying that half the list, and Ed Curnow especially, are crapola?

HAHAHAHAHAHA


All of them flower!!!!!

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Murph missed like 6. Jamo missed the last couple of games. Nothing extraordinary.

I only just read that.

That's even worse.

Unbelievable.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Yeah ... at this point would probably prefer a real 'can-do' coach ... one that sees the list all as men who can be taught and trained to play how they need them to play.

... rather than curling up the toes and saying its all too hard.

Even worse than your drivel, I doubt it.
We'll answer the question, were have you coached in a senior capacity, bar the public service.

He didn't say anything of the sort. He said look how to players with almost identical stars and meters gained can be seperated in the eyes of the public by 1 kick. Instead of reading articles which only include selective quotes and are written by those with an agenda, watch the full 9 minute presser on the club's website. He was actually praising Curnow.