Its not a matter of buying anything. Were we off the boil against melbourne? Against GWS? Against brisbane? There was no one making excuses for us then. We were not up to , had to sack the coach , and most of the players. We had injuries too at the time.. That wasnt relevant. We lost players early from memory as well. Its a matter of beating who you are up against.
Are we to say that freo are gone if we happened to beat them? No, instead we realise that teams cant be on every week, that the competition is so even now that there is little difference. But there is mentally.
A few less skill errors and we win. You could say that about 3-4 games this year. If we had won those we are about 6th. As i have said before, we are not that far away. Replace wood with kreuzer. Put a fit walker back in instead of ellard. As others have said, Everitt could well have nullified fyfe. Then there us menzel. 4 very handy additions. At the moment we certainly dont have a world beating list, but it is not terrible, and it does not deserve the pillorying and the disdain that some have given it by demanding a complete rebuild.

The old boys were great ( Judd,Simmo ) ,but it is a big worry that the young blokes didnt stand up (Levi,Tommy,Hairdoo )...........................Big plus for mine,as The Moshpit h as already stated is we aint coppin' shit.If ya go Murph,ya go all of us.Even Murphy himself dished out a bit of dirt.Great stuff Murph and may it continue.For all those wanting to unload Robbo i just wish we had two of him.His use of the pill has improved greatly for mine.Reckon we are a top CHF and an accumulating midfielder away from being a contender for a top four spot.You can queary our list,but i reckon you can queary everyone's list.They all have holes in 'em just like us.Bit of smart tweakin' and we are right back in the comp.But i reckon we have got to be careful we dont load up on good ordinary players.We need a touch of brilliance.
P.S.....................reckon it is a must we kepp Judd going,as even on one leg he is so far our best player it dont matter.Slip him onto starvation corner ALA Diesel and i reckon he would be gold.

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One of the highlights from the last 10 years. Only time I can remember us flying the flag even close to that was Judd's first game against the Eagles. I actually don't mind Crowley that much. If he was playing that role for your club, you'd love him, but it was great to see both teammates and Murph himself giving it to him.

Malthouse is starting to get these blokes playing as a team, and playing some good defensive footy.

Feel bad for Cameron Wood. Will be the focus of a lot of people, but why was Neale standing on his own 30m out anyway?

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Woods last minute blunder was one of many that cost us the win but while his effort and willingness to compete remains high I'd prefer him to 206 at the moment.

..touhy's selfishness and jamo's short steps cost us that match..

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Jamisons effort on the hbf against fyfe that led to their second last goal was appalling

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Thanks BB74. Appreciate that...yep I didn't want to derail the thread either.....good to know we always thought Talia was sh!t

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Thanks BB74. Appreciate that...yep I didn't want to derail the thread either.....good to know we always thought Talia was sh!t

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I agree the natural decline in judd and simpson waite, will barely be offset by one years improvement in the kids. 4 years before we are top 4

If the players were playing for Mick, we would have won!!

No excuses for that loss, not even:
* having Menzel, Buckley, Kruezer, Walker, Robinson, Everitt and a clear headed Garlett out of that team
* carrying list cloggers in Ellard, Carazzo, Maclean
* quiet nights by Henderson, Waite and Casboult
* the most dysfunctional ruck division in the AFL (Warnock, Kruezer and Wood are all B grade ruck at best)
* having probably worst recruiting of any AFL team over the last decade
* a dinosaur as coach
* playing the reigning runners up on their own turf on the rebound after they were embarrassed by the Saints

Roos, Hinkley et al would've got us over the line. Take that to the bank

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dane's trolling again

Gee you can waffle on with a load of unrelated shit. Stick to the point.
I didn't say sack the players when we lost. I didn't say sack the coach. I'm not bagging the team for Losing on Thursday. In fact I think it was an admirable effort.
I just made a point that Freo had lost to the bottom side in their last game by 10 goals. If that doesn't confirm Club29s view that they're off the boil, I don't know what does.
Carrying on about our previous games or Everitt or Kreuzer or anyone else is totally irrelevant to my post.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

Confidence is a wonderful thing, teams that have it look unbeatable and those who don't look like no-one can hit the side of a barn.

Once we start winning some of these close ones and the belief comes, then believe me the skills WILL improve.

I don't agree with Leigh Matthews on alot of things, but I do in this one - teams are rarely as good as you think they are and conversely teams are rarely as bad as you think they are.

I think that once it starts to click, then the improvement will be rapid.

Do I think that we can make top 4 next year, I doubt it, but I do think that we can get close

Still gutted.

I know, I know in the great scheme of things it doesn't really matter. But haven't been able to stop replaying all the major mistakes in my head.

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This post is fair dinkum isn't it?

I think he's making a joke.

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if it is, 99prelim needs a snickers

Gee you can waffle on with a load of unrelated shit. Stick to the point.
I didn't say sack the players when we lost. I didn't say sack the coach. I'm not bagging the team for Losing on Thursday. In fact I think it was an admirable effort.
I just made a point that Freo had lost to the bottom side in their last game by 10 goals. If that doesn't confirm Club29s view that they're off the boil, I don't know what does.
Carrying on about our previous games or Everitt or Kreuzer or anyone else is totally irrelevant to my post.[/quote]

Many on here did want to sack players though, your position at the time was not in my mind in my last post as i really dont care what individuals think really, its more the general concensus that i was pointing to.
All that losing to the saints by 10 goals proves is that they were "off the boil" against the saints.
As to me waffling in, I reserve the right to put anything in my post whether you approve or not. I felt it was relevant .

The disappointing thing is that the draft was so strong from our picks at 11 and 12 and #43 when we had our next pick, if we put all the names in a hat and picked blindfolded, we probably would have done better Its all very well to talk about retrospective recruiting, but there are also good choices and bad choices and they are the difference between finals footy and 14th. Check the draft you think it would be hard to get not get a 200 gamer with #11 and #12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_AFL_Draft

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