Review The good, the bad, the shat - vs Fremantle R3 2024

[Drummond]

The great: one game closer to getting a (probably not let’s be real) adequate coach.

 

[FR0GGY]

The team were obviously shell shocked a leadership group member started as the sub, and it showed.

 

[Executive Landlord]

Jesus ****ing Christ we are going to have to do another rebuild

 

[Crow_68]

Ok: cameos from Max, Soligo, M.Crouch - defence held up okay for the most part
Bad: Freo
Ugly: Game plan, kicking, forwards, midfield, coaches, sub.

 

[BACCS]

As bad as anything I saw in 2020, not much else to say, flat

 

[Southerntakeover]

If there was any decency in this club anyone who had anything to do with Nicks being re-signed at all would immediately resign.

 

[moses]

Since 2017 have we drafted one midfielder who has cemented their position? Our development bar a few has been criminal

 

[Crowstar]

**** the crows

 

[NTRabbit]

Side of mediocre players badly coached.

The long season is only just beginning, I tried to warn you.

 

[Southerntakeover]

As bad as anything I saw in 2020, not much else to say, flat

You're like the one Crows fan in existence who genuinely deserves this.

 

[WheresGroomgone]

Holy shite Tex has hit the Sloane wall really hard

 

[Slippery Pete]

Think of the upside! The club has like 4-6 more opportunities to humiliate itself on a national stage left!

Big win for the administration, let's all gather around and have a nice big cup of our club's traditional offseason beverage: our own bathwater.

Board members re-extended themselves this year… then shortly after extended Nicks.

How comical are these people at this point? Unaccountable isn’t a strong enough word for that they are.

 

[GameofSloanes]

Think of the upside! The club has like 4-6 more opportunities to humiliate itself on a national stage left!

Big win for the administration, let's all gather around and have a nice big cup of our club's traditional offseason beverage: our own bathwater.

Bathwater was certainly drunk over the off season.
Failed to concentrate on working hard enough to even compete. Signed a coach that has no idea what to do. No skills. Not even enough fight tonight to make it look like we're having a go.

 

[Crow till I die]

The team were obviously shell shocked a leadership group member started as the sub, and it showed.

Who was it giving the team talk right before the game..mchenry?

 

[Geoffa32]

There are no positives.


Hopefully there is proper fallout from this.


And if not this week, after the Dees smash us at our State sponsored Gather Round match.



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[Cap]

Sums it up

 

[dogs105]

Good - Michalanney, Keane

Bad - almost everything else

Ugly - kicking, marking, handballing, defending, positioning, leading, tackling, shepherding, rucking, communication

Also ugly - injuries. And Hinge's turnovers.

 

[ams4crows]

Good: Michaelaney is our best prospect and likely next Captain.

Bad: Laird is just a stat padder doesn't Sheppard doesn't do the team things.

The forward line is in disarray none of them can mark or kick. Burns should be immediately sacked.

Ugly
Re-signing Nick's before the season started.
The gameplan is woeful the skills are horrendous the attitude of the players is poor and the confidence is in the gutter.

 

[Redleg Crow]

Smith, Jones, Murphy, Milera, ROB, Tex, Ned, Fog, Dawson, Sholl, Rankine, Rachele, Pedler, Hinge, Borlase either not good enough, too old or have gone backwards.

Have probably missed a few. But that’s 15.

 

[MRB37]

Since 2017 have we drafted one midfielder who has cemented their position? Our development bar a few has been criminal

It probably wouldn't matter a ton when we continually just focus on contest, tackling and endurance when we look for mids.

 

[FR0GGY]

Who was it giving the team talk right before the game..mchenry?

He was probably also delivering the game plan as a nicks left it back at west lakes.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

There's a multitude of factors here.

The Keays non-goal last year led the club to believe that it was the reason we missed finals, that the rebuild was complete and that everything would be coming up Milhouse. Nicks' selections would support that point as he has a set 22 plus a half-dozen players as coverage that he just rotates.

Our forward line is dysfunctional. No one can take a mark, no one can lead to the right spaces and there's no pressure at all. That can be put down to Rahilly's influence

It could be that Tex and Dawson carried us last year, and that their drop-off has papered over some significant cracks, but that doesn't excuse the rest of them going backwards.

Whatever it is, the club looks completely broken, and it's time for yet another rebuild like Melbourne and Carlton had to do. The difference is that we're already seven years out of the finals, and could be well over a decade without it.

 

[Danger Zone]

Watching these guys reminds me of when I filled in coaching my brothers junior team. My full forward just sat down and starting eating grass partway through the fourth. One of my defenders lost his shoes at half time and played in socks after that. Two of my players knocked each other out. At one point my bench was empty because someones dad bought hot chips and was sharing them so they wandered over there. I had no answers while we got trounced and neither does Nicks.

 

[secondary]

I just don't see any positives bar a few young kids.
The list looks in terrible shape, and the lack of drafting any midfield talent in our 'rebuild' will hurt us for years.
We are such a poorly run club.

 

[Peter Doherty]

I think a lot thought we would have to deal with life after Tex next year.

It doesn't look like he will make through this year.

I'm not even joking but we seriously could see Elliot in and Tex out for a decent period of this year.

Nice little snapshot of what a ****ing mess we actually have.