First quarter, after the siren free kick wasnt a free kick.. shouldnt have happened.Play to the fu**en siren instead of spending the last minute of the game thinking about the break...
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First quarter, after the siren free kick wasnt a free kick.. shouldnt have happened.Play to the fu**en siren instead of spending the last minute of the game thinking about the break...
Look at our forward structure.Well obviously they don’t, otherwise the two dickheads that have a big say in him playing wouldnt have picked him to play as a forward?
I get this feeling that Tom is one of those great clubman that is well liked by the group and gives it his all. Maybe they feel obliged to give him a game because of what he brings to the group? They won’t play him in the ruck, because we have one of the best in the comp, so they stick him up forward, cross their fingers and hope something will happen. Well its been tried twice now and if there is a third time god help us, we have just employed a dud.
Surely after tonight Campbell is only ever break glass in case of emergency.
Shouldnt have been down there to be awarded. Our red time stinksFirst quarter, after the siren free kick wasnt a free kick.. shouldnt have happened.
That butcher who had too many chances already and is destined for the scrap heap?agree; the one we have who is showing a similar ability is Kyron Hayden
I’m actually scared of playing Adelaide.Been following North for more than 40 years.
Never been so flat about us.
Almost unwatchtable over last month. The same mistakes over and over again such as the last minute goals. The inability to have a small pressure forward have an impact. Brown failing to compete in the air. Hall burning his teammates. Atley trailing his opponent to a contest. And then to pick Campbell.
I know we have injuries but all teams have injuries, and not once in last four games have I felt like we were a winning chance.
Where's the excitement?
Simpkin and Goldstein are about it, with the odd highlight from Zurhaar. Other than that why would you watch us. Tragics like us on here will but anyone else won't bother.
I remember a couple of years under Laidley where we just hung on game after game, hoping to snatch a win, and never genuinely looking a chance. This feels like that again.
Sadly we've largely been mired in mediocrity for 20 years and it continues.
If we are to bottom out, which is really what we need to rebuild the list, then we can't make mistakes like picking Campbell and playing Hall. I acknowledge that Shaw is playing several kids, something Scott always feared, but players like the two mentioned earlier must not take games off others any more.
I can't remember the last time we lost four on trot, and it's hard to see where next win comes from.
We need to play Adelaide, and it's hard to believe that's where we are at after the way we finished last year.
To cap it off my young fella is thinking of a switch to GWS.
Just a sh*t sandwich.
I hope it's not in Adelaide!!I’m actually scared of playing Adelaide.
Begs the black hat question, was Scotts right about a whole rebuild?
And let's stick to that rebuild concept before launching into his career
The very definition of topping up.The issue is not with the concept of a rebuild, it’s the audacity of it coming from a bloke who brought in Tyson, Hall, Pittard, Polec on long term deals and signed Campbell to a 2 year deal.
This is who is gone since the 16 season:He was 100% right. Should have happened Avery the Dusty and Kelly chases. Hell, maybe after the 16 season.
We have been rebuilding since summer 2016/7.Have we not commenced a rebuild ? I thought that was what we did with the player exodus in 2016? Another clean out this year and some higher draft picks will be what we need
Yes. He straightens us up. and rarely misses. Apart from that its an old story, we were given more than enough chances to win last night and continually blew it. I agree with Shaw in that we had the chances they took theirs, we didn't, game over.Is Larkey going to make our forward line function? Tonight we were shocking up forward
Yeah, but that happe na all the *en time and we need to be ready for it.First quarter, after the siren free kick wasnt a free kick.. shouldnt have happened.
What do you expect when we don't have a full time backline coach?Horrific vision played on the Sunday Footy Show and how woeful our defensive set up was last night
Presented by none other than Lordo...
We have been rebuilding since summer 2016/7.
Our first player from the 2016 draft is just coming into his own now.
I think this is spot on. We have a really solid list of under 23's. It is probably the 2022 season when our list will really start to come into its own with Simpkin, LDU, Thomas, Hayden, Taylor, Larkey, Zurhaar, Scott and a few others all being in the zone where they have enough experience to be very consistent AFL footballers. I have high hopes for our 2019 draftees too and all three of Flynn, Comben, and Mahoney could be established players by then.
LDU will be the best out of the lot of them.How many of those do you think will be top 20 AFL players. Maybe Simpkin. Too early on Thomas.
I’m actually scared of playing Adelaide.
Been following North for more than 40 years.
Never been so flat about us.
Almost unwatchtable over last month. The same mistakes over and over again such as the last minute goals. The inability to have a small pressure forward have an impact. Brown failing to compete in the air. Hall burning his teammates. Atley trailing his opponent to a contest. And then to pick Campbell.
I know we have injuries but all teams have injuries, and not once in last four games have I felt like we were a winning chance.
Where's the excitement?
Simpkin and Goldstein are about it, with the odd highlight from Zurhaar. Other than that why would you watch us. Tragics like us on here will but anyone else won't bother.
I remember a couple of years under Laidley where we just hung on game after game, hoping to snatch a win, and never genuinely looking a chance. This feels like that again.
Sadly we've largely been mired in mediocrity for 20 years and it continues.
If we are to bottom out, which is really what we need to rebuild the list, then we can't make mistakes like picking Campbell and playing Hall. I acknowledge that Shaw is playing several kids, something Scott always feared, but players like the two mentioned earlier must not take games off others any more.
I can't remember the last time we lost four on trot, and it's hard to see where next win comes from.
We need to play Adelaide, and it's hard to believe that's where we are at after the way we finished last year.
To cap it off my young fella is thinking of a switch to GWS.
Just a sh*t sandwich.
Yep. The injuries, lack of structure and form slump aren’t Rhyces fault but to continue with the same mundane gameplan every week full knowing we won’t win is ludicrous.He's got an ordinary team with a long injury list and some players in career worst form so he's got the cards well and truly stacked against him, but Rhyce has to step up.
For the last four weeks the ball movement has been awful, the game plan is either bad or not being followed and team selection bafflingly poor. All things Rhyce can control. Losing is one thing but doing it consistently and having a sameness about it each time is the frustrating bit. Feels like we're marking time until a difficult year is over.
He's a young coach with a mountain of problems but Rhyce needs to be better.
Thanks. Seemed like he was winning every clearance on his own. I can't think of a better ruckman in our clubs history, and I saw everyone from Dempsey onwards.Come in peace.
Just want to acknowledge your stalwart in Goldstein. Deadset gun needs to be talked more in the same category as Grundy and Gawn.
Dont know what special awards NMFC has but needs to be recognised once he does finish up!
Not sure anyone noticed but this was the possession heatmap for both clubs at HT:
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