Time for a cleanout at north starting with brad scott
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Thats Wright
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But you are spot on with Brayshaw. Brad would have to kick the cleaning lady to be even questioned by him. JB's not capable of that.
Onfield, playing Gibson has killed the season. Has been rubbish all year apart from a half against essendon. Pure longterm liability. Horrible.
Thomas and Scott in combination is destroying the club and culture.
Wouldn't be the end of the world if Carlton slipped Brad a bag to make them mediocre.
They should have been 10 goals up, were absolutely killing the pies. For whatever reason they continue to switch off with big leads much like they did in 2013.
The current crop of most teams probably wouldn't respond to the 'shinboner spirit' type thing anyway.
Now they have a 'trademark' which outlines key indicators of a successful team. It's all about being able to measure elements of a performance. What does shinboner spirit mean? How do you measure it? If it's always there, why has it skipped decades? There in the 70's, gone in the 80's, back in the 90's, gone in the 2000's.
It wouldn't have hurt for it to be still thrown around but it I also don't think it has hurt them now that Scott has binned it.
Still to be proven, started with a pretty good list and took them backwards to set them up how he wanted, but he appears to be back on track again.
He will get plenty of time to prove himself as he is part of Eddies masterplan but he needs to make the finals this year or the media heat will have to be on him as well next year.
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I don't think anybody with half a brain expects that the Pies need to make finals for Bucks to be safe. He has got a very inexperienced side tracking pretty much exactly as you would like and anywhere above 11th would be seen as a pretty amazing effort. Most Pies supporters acknowledge that we will be hot and cold this year and yesterdays game was a testament to that. It's exactly what inexperienced sides do but the fact that Bucks has them consistently getting high contested ball numbers is being seen as absolutely the right way to go and not easy to do with sides at this stage of development.
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I think North rebuild when the two expansion clubs or at least one, were signing up the best 17 year olds. The players they have are good foot soldiers, but there is not a lot of star quality.
I would do a Collingwood and get some draft picks for players that still have some value and do a mini rebuild. Get some elite midfielders in there, imagine an Olly Wines or a Brayshaw or Billings in there.
Also I don't like the way the coach carries on - he comes across as a weak character. Yeah it was an atrocious loss yesterday but blaming the players and abusing them publicly, how about his role in the loss.
I would do a Collingwood and get some draft picks for players that still have some value and do a mini rebuild. Get some elite midfielders in there, imagine an Olly Wines or a Brayshaw or Billings in there.
Also I don't like the way the coach carries on - he comes across as a weak character. Yeah it was an atrocious loss yesterday but blaming the players and abusing them publicly, how about his role in the loss.
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Hit the nail on the head.
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Geez you've taken this loss hard, hope your doing better today, as for me I might go watch the replay.
Is Brad Scott the worst coach in the AFL?
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He'll be trotting out the Neeld line next 'ïts our 2nd crack at a rebuild in 5 years'
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Bit harsh on Lindsay, James Brayshaw & Brad Scott are killing North Melbourne, no one else, this club is almost unrecognisable as the club I grew up loving.
The next coach at North is going to inherit the following list:
Ziebell
Goldstein
Cunnington
Swallow
Atley
Brown
Hansen
Dumont
Thomas
Higgins
Not a bad core. Just need a quality coach. Woosha or John Blakey
Ziebell
Goldstein
Cunnington
Swallow
Atley
Brown
Hansen
Dumont
Thomas
Higgins
Not a bad core. Just need a quality coach. Woosha or John Blakey
Waite has to be dropped.
You just can't miss from 5m out
Not to mentioned his turnover in midfield that resulted in goal.
Daw is playing well in VFL
Petrie has credits in the bank but on thin ice
He is a 'North Supporter', who doesn't post anything but hatred of North. That should tell you all you need to know.
Win or lose, he posts the same s**t every time there is a 'Where are North at?'
Just watched a replay of the game. North wilted like spinach on a warm pan. Brad Scott's expressions were priceless though.
Too many players on that list that skate by on playing the odd good game.
Petrie is top of that list. When he is on, great, mostly tho he is mediocre to poor.
THEN THEY RECRUIT WAITE. OMG
Waite is the King of playing just well enough, often enough. That kick yesterday was close to the worst i have ever seen at AFL level. He missed by 30m from 5m. FFS.
The mids are one dimensional. All grunters.
Goldstein must be livid. Plays like a colossus every week but many around him make a flake seem a solid structure
Petrie is top of that list. When he is on, great, mostly tho he is mediocre to poor.
THEN THEY RECRUIT WAITE. OMG
Waite is the King of playing just well enough, often enough. That kick yesterday was close to the worst i have ever seen at AFL level. He missed by 30m from 5m. FFS.
The mids are one dimensional. All grunters.
Goldstein must be livid. Plays like a colossus every week but many around him make a flake seem a solid structure
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North are in the second tier of teams along with Collingwood, West Coast , Richmond, Port Adelaide. They'll play September but like Collingwood don't have fire power to compete against the big boys like Freo, Swans and Hawthorn
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Goldstien the only top shelf player there, Need a a couple of gun midfielders and a gun forward if that list is going to do anything. Need to go after Dangerfield hard and perhaps less likely Hawkins as well.
Thats Wright
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It's a wonder why the clowns about take so long to see what's staring them in the face year after year.
Such basic flaws in the way Scott and the club go about it, yet the bigfooty crew are usually blind to it until it gets absurd or thumped in a final.
North is set with such wise observers as yourself and Gibson, Jacobs, McMillan, Thomas. Why don't they think of the children and just give them the flag?
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TBH I thought Collingwood showed the 'Shinboner Spirit' in the 2nd half.
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Thats Wright
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Is that feeling you get when excellent footballers like McDonald, Atley, Cunnington, Wood, Turner begin to play like complete duds.
Development beyond terrible. Aligning with selection of pure spuds like Gibson, Mcmillian, Jacobs.
Simple errors like not dropping Gibson were a key factor in Norths disgrace.
Wood could've easily been set on Gibsons path after Sam was putrid throughout the pre season. He's the softest dud to play at North in a while. At least Sam Power went occasionally.
Scott is way out of his depth. He's the best in front of a camera but hides a hollow gameplan and stubborn stupidity.
