Simply need to tank it from here. No point finishing 9th
Great, so we'll create a cancerous culture while we're having a s**t season.
Tanking is literally the worst thing we could do from here.
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Simply need to tank it from here. No point finishing 9th
we don't tank we just play the kids and * off the old dead wood .Great, so we'll create a cancerous culture while we're having a s**t season.
Tanking is literally the worst thing we could do from here.
And honestly playing the kids might be our best chance of winningwe don't tank we just play the kids and **** off the old dead wood .
We should still try and win but just do it with sheed barrass Duggan nelson Cole karpany partington Lamb Mutimer Watson rioli all getting a decent extended run at it
A lot of those drafts were dud central though. 07, 09, 2011 and 12 were terrible quality drafts where we had picks. The problem is we didn't really nail any of our late selections. Even getting one of someone like Walters, Sloane, Neale would make a big difference. But those drafts were wastelands after the top 20-30.Missing the 8 means the club won't have making the 8 / playing finals to hide behind. They can't give us the "we think we're close" bs. We're far from close. We've hardly been competitive in most games this year. I'm sure the backline are sick of trying to win / save games because of the midfields incompetence. I think I remember Gov having a bit of a dig at the midfield group on camera a few weeks ago.
Stuffing up the '07, '08 '09, '11 and '12 drafts have really hurt us imo. Naitanui, Shuey and Sheppard are the only players from those 5 drafts that are still with us that I feel have fulfilled their potential and are A grade players or at least very close. Masten spud, Ebert & Selwood are gone, Notte delisted, Swift retired, Smith and Jones delisted, Stevens gone, Weedon delisted, Newman gone, McInnis rarely impacts at wafl level, Colledge and Carter delisted and Hutchings is depth at best. The '08 draft besides NN and Shuey was really bad considering the talent taken with later picks. I know the later rounds especially are more of a shot in the dark but we took Smith, Jones, Swift over guys like N.Jetta, Walters, Sloane, Zaharakis, Hannebery and beams. That period after Judd and Cousins left and a whole lot of our Premiership players were retiring, with the picks we had we really needed to do better.
You haven't met our match committee have you?Well I think today's result might just put an end to the idea of Nicnat playing this season. Why risk him for no reason? Keep him in a rehab program and get a real crack at the preseason to launch into next year.
We already have a cancerous culture.Great, so we'll create a cancerous culture while we're having a s**t season.
Tanking is literally the worst thing we could do from here.
We already have a cancerous culture.
Lol. Righto mate.Then why haven't you changed teams yet?
Lol. Righto mate.
I want us to give a crack to some more of our kids, rather than go into selection damage control and load up on senior players.
Because I think makes no sense to rob the youngsters of a chance to get some more experience leading into the preseason, simply so we can finish 9th or lose an away elimination final.
There is absolutely no evidence that this "builds a cancerous culture" so I'm not sure where you're pulling that from. I know you'll go and refer to Melbourne in the early 2010s, but I'm not buying that argument at all.
The team's senior players have had serious mental issues for a long time now so I fail to see how missing the eight is going to make much difference.
I would honestly consider trading NicNat. Sick and tired of our whole existence being built around him. All you hear is "when Nics back we'll be better" honestly he is great but no other team in the league relies on 1 guy as much. It is very worrying.
Obviously they wont but we could probably get decent player and a rd1 pick for him and when u get rid of 5-7 others go 4 the rebuild.
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It's basically just a figure of speech. I don't want to have to care about winning anymore this year because ultimately it seems almost impossible we could win the flag in this formFair enough. Sorry if I came off as a bit of a prick, but I've always assumed tanking means trying to lose instead of playing the kids.
It's basically just a figure of speech. I don't want to have to care about winning anymore this year because ultimately it seems almost impossible we could win the flag in this form
It would be much easier to watch the remaining games and focus on any improvement we can see in the kids
Not the same.Geelong should also get rid of Paddy Dangerfield, their over reliance on him is doing more harm then good.
We had belief, in the Geelong game, it went away again.I'd say there's still a chance for form reversal, but it'll need to come from somewhere deep down that hasn't been seen in a while.
The minute we get belief (which is looking unlikely from here) it'll catch like wildfire and potentially take us to a GF.