Autopsy Rd 4 Blues annihilated by 86 points

[Wily trout]

Shattered about this as I particularly despise North, but where is the spark going to come from, where do we go from here? what do we need to do to get this team competitive again? Not interested in smart arse, self gratifying, look at me 'I'm in a bad mood' type responses or arguments. What do we have to do short and long term?

 

[bigm386]

I think the only positive was LOB. A hard day for the club.

 

[mediumsizered]

Getting the popcorn ready and looking forward to seeing how eager the usual suspects are in trying to explain how our rebuild is moving along quite well lol

Lol? I'm glad you enjoyed it. We can do without supporters who can't wait to bask in our losses.

 

[RoyalParade]

O'brien showed a bit.

Dow continues to show nothing

 

[Navara79]

Fix the bloody midfield asap.. Our defence gets put under immense pressure because of turnovers up the field

 

[Blueboys7]

And Weitering

Weitering has been hacked by the Russian's, I'm sure of it.

 

[BIuebagger]

LOB, Cripps, Ed and maybe at a stretch, Daisy. I'd struggle to find any other player on the park I could speak positively about. Rebuild, this that, yes I know. Doesn't mean the effort and intensity stays at home. We are devoid of those two things at the minute.

 

[TheKing101]

I would like to say it can’t get worse than this but we still have both Sydney teams to play, and port and bulldogs and west coast.. oh ****

 

[jd2010]

There's you wooden spoon battle and we nearly lost it by 100 points. Gone too hard with the rebuild 10-4 under 21s out there tonight. Most sides have 3-5 a week we regularly have 8-10.

13 players with 12 or fewer possessions to 6. Our 22-28 year old range on our list is absolutely second rate. Cripps (and Doch) aside there's not a single player even at a B-grade level. Ed Curnow the next best and he's a great role player. The rest are avg. role players or just not up to it.

Here's hoping we stick fat with Bolton after a 3-19 season. What hopes he got with such an abysmal list

 

[HBF]

Can we try and have some considered discussion?

Like actually?

We need to vent first.

 

[Dadda Dave]

Getting the popcorn ready and looking forward to seeing how eager the usual suspects are in trying to explain how our rebuild is moving along quite well lol

Don't like it ? Don't let the door hit you on the way out ..

 

[passmark]

Hopefully that is rock bottom and we are on the way up.

Hope we don’t go full Tigers on here after that performance

Got them a flag.

I'm ready to eat our own because frankly "our own" are the same type of vested interests who've ****ed us for 20 years.

 

[Stamos]

We played with a sense of bravado in the 2016-2017, but even putting personnel aside, we are going backwards.

The club's in a pretty vulnerable position at the moment.

Thing is, you can’t put personal aside. Last year we were carried by our 6 senior guns. Carried. 3 of them didn’t play today, and one is injured and finished the game on the bench.

 

[BrianSetzer]

I'm still going to go next week. I'm not going to crack the sads and walk away

Exactly, its not like many of us around here are used to winning anyway.

 

[chelseacarlton]

That wasn’t especially good now was it?

 

[Chookaradley]

Never expected miracles this year, you dont need to be a superstar team to have workrate. Bottom 4 for tackles
Bottom 4 for 1%s in the comp.
The team has to learn to defend again. Opposition are just scoring way too easily.

 

[Milsome]

At least we are playing attacking footy.

Attacking? When? Did I blink?

 

[jj1978]

Melbourne go bad the AFL intervene gets Roos in and does a few other Blackfoot dealings. Same with Brisbane who only won 3 premierships last decade.. here’s a priority pick etc etc... Suns a rabble they try their hardest to get them going.. and here we are one of the oldest clubs.. can’t attract a free agent, can’t grow our membership but yet AFL does what? Gives us Friday night games when we’re not ready to make the morale of the club worse by highlighting to all how bad we are.

 

[Blue_Fusion]

That's it. Enough is enough.

I called for us to drop several players after that piss poor effort against GC. It didn't happen.

As a result, these blokes have become complacent with their spot on the team and play like they don't GAF.

I don't care if we have to put a freaking training hat out there next week, Weitering MUST be dropped.

Same as Jones, O'Shea and Mullett.

But I want to make it clear, it's not just those 4. Apart from a select few, the whole team needs to be put on notice.

So does the coaching staff. I'm sorry, but that lack of intensity and effort doesn't just happen out of having a young side out there. These players are not motivated at all.

We didn't just lose by 86 points to a good team on the rise, we lost by 86 points to a team who finished bottom 4 and only ONE spot ahead of us last year.

Totally unacceptable.

 

[skadoosh]

We’ve actually been playing worse and worse each week...please tell us it turns around from here

 

[mediumsizered]

Yep and the ones that say it as it is are trolls or campaigners

It must feel good to come on here after we have suffered a shattering loss & adopt the moral high ground.

 

[bigm386]

LOB, Cripps, Ed and maybe at a stretch, Daisy. I'd struggle to find any other player on the park I could speak positively about. Rebuild, this that, yes I know. Doesn't mean the effort and intensity stays at home. We are devoid of those two things at the minute.

I think Garlett was ok but needs to be more involved. Plus Silvagni on return worked hard just used it badly.

The only real positive was Lob

 

[jd2010]

And Weitering

He's already dead. We have our own Jack watts

 

[thedan29]

LOB - hold your head high, first game in the big league and you absolutely showed how not to throw the towel in and got rewarded for your effort... well done!

O’Shea - will unfortunately be nothing but a VFL player the amount of time he panicked when he had the ball, and then turned it over when he had so much space was ridiculously poor

Mullet - unfortunately gets to the footy, does the right things but like the whole team this season just doesn’t use it nowhere near well enough. Admire his effort and willingness to want the footy and will be okay for a back up player

Dow - at the moment is just not getting any benefit being out there at the minute, he has turned it over by foot but he is still making the progressing through to AFL but just needs a few of weeks in the VFL to get his bearings and not void his confidence

Jones - FFS, doesn’t play man on man, doesn’t play the 1%’s as you need to as a defender, and for the love of god stop punching the ball down the corridor... ALWAYS DEFENSIVE SIDE!!!

Weitering - as much as I loved him in his first two seasons, and I know he’s been bad this year so far... he just doesn’t want to be there at all.. the lack of pressure, the constant falling to his knees in every contest and the way he used to swallow up easy passes so regularly it’s absolutely disappeared

Bolton - please don’t play an offensive style of gameplay when we have so many injuries and just simply don’t have the cattle to play the plan... the team is battling bad and is struggling with the absolute basics because they look like they have lost confidence in themselves on the field... please play man on man and focus on pressure, contested footy and tackling next week

 

[TheKing101]

Liam jones tries hard but damn, I’ve seen blind people read it better than that.