View Full Version : What's all the worry?
wehavethepassion
2 Apr 2006, 21:59
We will pass 35k members(about 30k of these are season ticket holders) and we keep racking up healthy profits so why all the doom and gloom??
We have been told that the Dockers are an AFL powerhouse!!
We will pass 35k members(about 30k of these are season ticket holders) and we keep racking up healthy profits so why all the doom and gloom??
We have been told that the Dockers are an AFL powerhouse!!
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit...just go for right royally ********ed off!! :D
auste1234
2 Apr 2006, 22:12
A power house off field, and a ********ing joke on the field.
The worry is rather simple I would have thought.
Another year where at times we look the goods and then other times play like a bunch of 12 year old girls with skirts. Ultimately finish 10th, get a new coach, clear the list of dead wood then start over again. Then wait another 2 years before that list is ready to go.
I simply can't wait for more of this bull********!
I love coming into round 1 against a side which finished in the bottom few last year, then play like a bunch of school boys. Nothing gets me happier, I just love seeing us getting beaten and another year where we show a lot of potential but at the end of the season bow out not making the 8. I think I might ask to buy my membership in one bulk package to cover the next 10 years. I am sure we can win at least 3 wooden spoons in that time, make the 8 once and sack 4 coaches.
Geeze i just can't wait.
Just in case you couldn't tell.... I was being sarcastic ( or was I)
Yeah, what's all the worry?
For tonight at least, we're sitting in the 8! :)
Yeah, what's all the worry?
For tonight at least, we're sitting in the 8! :)
Amazingly after playing that badly the lowest we can go is 10th.
We just have to start next week as we finished today.
I noticed at 3/4 time Broadbridge was doing mudmaps of the centre setup and after that we started to win a few clearances.
Amazingly after playing that badly the lowest we can go is 10th.
We just have to start next week as we finished today.
I noticed at 3/4 time Broadbridge was doing mudmaps of the centre setup and after that we started to win a few clearances.
Whats even more astonishing is the fact that Broadbridge hadn't done that before the game. In fact why the **** didn't he teach them that over the preseason. Its like he was astonished that Hawthorn had come up with such a tactic. WOw. You mean the midfielders should be moving around the ruckman so we don't appear so slow and flat footed.
What an idea, take a slow bunch of players get them on the move so they have some pace.
Asafa Powell wouldn't catch me or anyone else across 15m (cause thats how far you run in footy before you kick the ball) if he was standing still and i was bolting past.
It happens week in week out. We watch our midfield stand flat footed and wonder why other midfielders break our tackles and appear to streak off. Its because they are already on the move when they recieve the ball.
Simple yet effective.
Pav for AA
2 Apr 2006, 22:45
Amazingly after playing that badly the lowest we can go is 10th.
We just have to start next week as we finished today.
I noticed at 3/4 time Broadbridge was doing mudmaps of the centre setup and after that we started to win a few clearances.
When the game was over, weak effort.
Whats even more astonishing is the fact that Broadbridge hadn't done that before the game. In fact why the **** didn't he teach them that over the preseason. Its like he was astonished that Hawthorn had come up with such a tactic. WOw. You mean the midfielders should be moving around the ruckman so we don't appear so slow and flat footed.
What an idea, take a slow bunch of players get them on the move so they have some pace.
Asafa Powell wouldn't catch me or anyone else across 15m (cause thats how far you run in footy before you kick the ball) if he was standing still and i was bolting past.
It happens week in week out. We watch our midfield stand flat footed and wonder why other midfielders break our tackles and appear to streak off. Its because they are already on the move when they recieve the ball.
Simple yet effective.
I agree, but in fairness to Broadbridge it is his first real game in charge of that zone.
Old habits die hard and the positive is that he actually could see what was going wrong and did something to improve it during a game even if it was a bit late [/understatement].
Up until then it was a carbon copy of the Subi game in 2005.
I noticed at 3/4 time Broadbridge was doing mudmaps of the centre setup and after that we started to win a few clearances.
Perhaps if he was doing the backs and the forwards as well they'd be a better side??
I am a little worried, because the thing we were supposed to have fix up in the off-season don't appear to have changed one bit - we are still being smashed at the clearances.
I was hoping for a better J. Carr and I didn't see it - his kicking was awful. I was hoping to see Peake give us some speed and flair and he didn't even manage to make the team.
Instead l saw McManus back and Bell, still kicking short nothing kicks, making skill errors and poor decisions - and they were amongst our best players!! Courage and toughness is one thing, but if you can't make much use of the ball then significantly reduces its value. M Carr, Black and Walker vanished and Hasleby appeared to only have a cameo role.
Early verdict: still slow (Moving and decision making), lacking high skill and still no power to break the lines in the centre. Same critical problem as last year.
The names "Joel Selwood" or "Leroy Jetta" are already sounding quite good (and also more realistic) after today...
Well, we have 21 games to fix it. Maybe less for CC, I have a feeling that CC is one stubborn mother in the box and/or the players are not listening.
As far as gameplan goes, we came out playing a high possession, slow game and paid for it. When the time came to make a sudden change our boys didnt know what hit them..
Bored to tears watching the same rubbish, the loose defenders for Hawthorn were incredible. Do any of our boys know how to run to 50 and kick for the sticks?
mick ryan
3 Apr 2006, 15:44
Amazingly after playing that badly the lowest we can go is 10th.
We just have to start next week as we finished today.
The Eternal Optimist
You'll die wondering Rip!
1. Players must be selected on their performances over the last weeks, not on their name.
2. All players must give 100%, not just 3 or 4.
3. Give the coaching staff an Auskick coaching guide, I'm sure it has a chapter about standing on your opponents toes.
4. Alot of the "senior" players seem to be in the wrong gear, extract the digit and play with some pride.
5. Get off Macca's back, there are better targets for your daggers ...... seagulls.
6. I'll coach the backline for $50 000 .......
Overall that was an insipid display.
1. Players must be selected on their performances over the last weeks, not on their name.
2. All players must give 100%, not just 3 or 4.
3. Give the coaching staff an Auskick coaching guide, I'm sure it has a chapter about standing on your opponents toes.
4. Alot of the "senior" players seem to be in the wrong gear, extract the digit and play with some pride.
5. Get off Macca's back, there are better targets for your daggers ...... seagulls.
6. I'll coach the backline for $50 000 .......
Overall that was an insipid display.
7. ...start at the beginning of the Dean Laidley playing/coaching guide and play accordingly...
The Kangaroos are nowhere the most talented in the league, but they're never going to die wondering...
I love how all you blokes can sit back and give so much ridicule and it's first round into the season, I agree that it was a poor preformance on our behalf but give them a break, it is only first round.
Kapow!!!
3 Apr 2006, 20:26
It's going to be a long season. For the optimists out there I just don't see where the improvement is and where it will come from. I'm even so disillusioned I'm not even sure we'll beat Carlton. I'm worried and untill the team puts in a whole string a consistent performances at their best and shows the improvement we've so sorely needed then I'll stay pessimistic.
I'm f***ing angry and I want results!!!
I love how all you blokes can sit back and give so much ridicule and it's first round into the season, I agree that it was a poor preformance on our behalf but give them a break, it is only first round.
Its not that they lost it is how they lost. I would be happy if we lost absolutely busting a gut in the middle & were only beaten by a better team. The fact is that the only reason the hawks won was that their midfield wanted to get their own ball rather than wait on the fringe like so many of ours.
The only clearance winners we have are hase, carr J, & cook to a lesser extent & that is it!! is seems like every other team is full of clearance winning midfielders!! So when the three above aren't on their game we get smashed in the middle. this was supposed to be fixed in the off season but obviously hasn't.
It's going to be a long season. For the optimists out there I just don't see where the improvement is and where it will come from.
If you cannot see where improvement will come from, given the insipid display with more passengers than transperth carry on most days, then give away footy.
You're such a pessimist you'd win lotto, then worry about the f**king tax.
It's round one, that was disgraceful - lets wait til round 5 and then see where we are at - remember the swans were 2-4 and even the AFL commission was on their back ... and we all know what happened then.
Early days - but anymore of that, I'll be buying a dog, so I have something to kick.