Steve_C7 wrote:
Synbad wrote:
kernafides wrote:
Waite as a loose man has no idea?? I must have been at a different game...I thought he covered 3 or 4 blokes on many occasions and I lost count of the time he saved our ar$e
You lost count with how many times Waite saved our ar$e???
Ok we were smashed by a big score kicked against us....
We had a few players playing defensive roles.....
If Waite was ok as the loose man across half back..... how come we were scored so heavily against and we had a flood????
Waite isnt a natural reader of the ball.... what he can do is at times do the athletically incredible stuff....and its very eyecatching..... but he also creates some eye catching stuff ups...
While were on the defence how many times have a heap of our forwards gone up as one and come down as one on their backs only for the ball to hit the ground and an opposition forward to just waltz in and kick a goal???
Ok another one....
How many times have our defenders punched the ball back to an opposition forward ????
Defence 101....
Welcome back Synners, I thought I could smell crap in the air - after all you only come around after we have a crap game.
Before you start pointing the finger to Waite, perhaps you could look at Saddo who game so many one on one goals away or Thorton who can seem to puch without the slight touch of the opponents back or the entire midfield who seemed to let them get the ball away without being tackled.
Yet it seems that all this is Ratts fault because he is coach and to a point I agree with you, but it was very clear from his presser that the boys didn't follow the instructions that was given.
Do I think that Ratts is a great coach - No, do I think he can be a great coach - only time will tell, but right now he is the best person for the job.
Look back to the last couple years and you will see that Russel wanted to go home, Thorton wanted out and there were murmors about a couple others who wanted out as well, now I know that allot of people would say good riddens if they don't want to play for us then we don't wants them, but how many would be saying that when Hampson goes to GC17 and Gibbs goes home and Bower prefers the WA climate - I think you get the point.
The first and most important job that Ratts has done is to repair the team spirit that was torn to shreds last year and only after that has been completed can you start to work on tactics and strategies. I am prepared to give him some time to show what he is capable of, after all who cuts a player they draft after 1 year because they think they won't be up to it?
Steve ... how are you?
Suprised you can smell crap - i thought youd be immune to the smell.. haveing it as a mainstay all the time.
Why did i post this week and not last week???
I dont post on practice sessions anymore...
Should i have come on and said "We were unbelievable last week"?Dont think so.. Port are not a measure....
If youre aiming at the stars you dont look for worms....
Now as for Saddington... i dont even mention him cos everybody knows what i thought about his a) trade b) inclusion....
He is irellevant to us except hurting our growth each and every time he is picked.
Saddo is a lovely guy..... but he cant play AFL football unless he is chosen by a coach who believed that "Austin may have cost us a couple of games and we need some senior body experience".... which is just another laughable theory when that "senior body experience " is Saddington...
As for Waite... geez he is flashy isnt he?
He does some umazing things.....does nt he???
But then when he falls to the ground when he has to hold his feet in a contest..
or that really lazy disposal....
Or the fact he does all that undisciplined stuff at crucial time....
There are too sides to JW... his best is great.. his worst is woeful....
And no he isnt the smartest footballer out there.....
As for Ratts he is a couple of games like the North game away from taking us back to where we were....
The fact he is repairing Pagans damage 14 months in is laughable....
He needs to stamp himsel;f on the team with a sustainable gameplan.....
The rest is BULLSHYTE!!!!
......were becoming the new StKilda..... talent in the side.. but "next year... next year"
By the way,,,,,, do you think that his automatic choice of Russell is great on the morale of players who dont get given an opportunity????
Do you REALLY believe that by choosing Russell the players look for the open Russell or the 3 to 1 Fevola when were attcking???
And what do you think the spells for the psyche of the team????
A couple of players have been 'damaged' by his not even handed appraissal of where the players are at...
Some get the wax lyrical approach for very ordinary performances and some get told theyre not doing enough .... blah blah blah.. for a ripper game in the VFL...
Yes.... Ratts might be looking at selling off another early pick and a good young player for his answer.....
(Which makes it 2 top 20 picks in last years draft and JK and then we might be looking at a top 10 pick in a strong draft and a kid... maybe for Kerr....
So we have Kerr and Judd but lost FIVE 10 year players...
Now i dnt have a problem with Judd .. hes the best player in the comp and something we seriously lack.....but Kerr??... that smacks of desperation of a team who has NO confidence in its recruiting and NO confidence in its development and has NO answers on how to formulate a gameplan...
Now we know that Kerr will cost us HEAPS!!!.. we know that!!!.. not "we " as in us on TC.. but "we " as a club.. including CEOs coaches and MC....
Interesting to see what happens next.....
But having said all that..... if we could move the ball into our 50 with space... and link up out of defence with wthats considered a bloody good midfield by alot of people.. not very young either... middle aged in footy terms...
Why would we even be considering Kerr for a heavy premium???
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