Review Round 7, 2024 - GWS vs. Brisbane Lions

[Nunez]

Try concentrating on the football mate and the performance of our key forward. Do you have a response or analysis of Joes game.......or do you just have silly insults.

Go for it champ.

What ya got?

Quit embarassing yourself champ.

 

[Elixuh]

Try concentrating on the football mate and the performance of our key forward. Do you have a response or analysis of Joes game.......or do you just have silly insults.

Go for it champ.

What ya got?

I just got champ’d. How will I recover.

I do watch the games but my world doesn’t come crashing down when a player has a bad game. You should try it.

 

[Nunez]

I just got champ’d. How will I recover.

I do watch the games but my world doesn’t come crashing down when a player has a bad game. You should try it.

What if Cam has a bad game though?

 

[beardancer]

Joe didn't look right yesterday to me . Maybe why we persisted with Henry.

Joe's been a major reason for us winning 8 in a row and we won't win a flag without him . Enough said.

What we need to do is totally focus on winning our next 2 . Any thoughts of who we would like to play a bit pointless but needless to say fit and well we should beat the Cats and the Swans.

I'm concerned that we're relying on Joe to be our spearhead yet he's so flakey. He seems mentally fragile and reactive. I wish he was the sort of personality you could depend on but his mental toughness is similar to a first or second year player. Going into another finals campaign is nerve racking because our offensive leader is a flat track bully and a coaster.
It's a shame really that guys like Joe are going to burn other players careers just cause Joe isn't going to chase, isn't going to tag, isn't going to stand under the high ball etc.

 

[beardancer]

I just got champ’d. How will I recover.

I do watch the games but my world doesn’t come crashing down when a player has a bad game. You should try it.

And that's it?

 

[Elixuh]

What if Cam has a bad game though?

 

[martinson]

Speaking of Cam yesterday was the first time I've seen concerted physical attention paid to him and significant respect from the opposition every time he went near the ball. Nearly having his head taken off by 3 players in the last quarter was a shocking umpiring error.

Two things. It's maybe a new challenge for him after working his way through the expectation of being No 1 pick. The next step is performing strongly when you're targeted as a threat.

The other issue is it has to make it easier for some of our other guns if the opposition has added him to the mix of who gets special attention.

 

[Viceregal]

Speaking of Cam yesterday was the first time I've seen concerted physical attention paid to him and significant respect from the opposition every time he went near the ball. Nearly having his head taken off by 3 players in the last quarter was a shocking umpiring error.

Two things. It's maybe a new challenge for him after working his way through the expectation of being No 1 pick. The next step is performing strongly when you're targeted as a threat.

The other issue is it has to make it easier for some of our other guns if the opposition has added him to the mix of who gets special attention.

FYI you are in the round 7 thread ...

 

[martinson]

FYI you are in the round 7 thread ...

Ta.

Don't quite know how I've ended up there.

Senior Citizen mishap.

 

[Section 5]

Ta.

Don't quite know how I've ended up there.

Senior Citizen mishap.

It started with beardancer post today.
Then the replies.
I nearly added to the confusion until i saw Viceregal post

 

[martinson]

It started with beardancer post today.
Then the replies.
I nearly added to the confusion until i saw Viceregal post

Right .

Beardancer running rings around our best players.

 

[M Malice]

I just got champ’d. How will I recover.

I do watch the games but my world doesn’t come crashing down when a player has a bad game. You should try it.

I too used to get too caught up in my teams sporting results, but with age comes an increasing sense of perspective.

I was over our GF loss last year pretty quickly, a normal H&A game is Meh in comparison, yes I am well and truly invested in the team but don't fret about the uncontrollables.

beardancer is probably very young.

 

[McIvor]

Some fans are so unrealistic with their expectations.

Heard a stack of them this week saying we'll go on a run similar to 2001, which I wasn't one, but still, was that unrealistic of them in saying that?

 

[Nathan Barley]

Heard a stack of them this week saying we'll go on a run similar to 2001, which I wasn't one, but still, was that unrealistic of them in saying that?

You're the one acting like anything less than that is unacceptable

 

[McIvor]

You're the one acting like anything less than that is unacceptable

No; I've been acting like anything less than finishing second is unacceptable when it within our grasp, irrespective of where we were on the ladder earlier in the season which you constantly bring up.

 

[Nathan Barley]

No; I've been acting like anything less than finishing second is unacceptable when it within our grasp, irrespective of where we were on the ladder earlier in the season which you constantly bring up.

But to do that involves going on a huge run…

How can you not follow this?

 

[McIvor]

But to do that involves going on a huge run…

How can you not follow this?

Obviously, which we did

 

[Squizz89]

Not sure why this thread got bumped originally and apologies to keep it going, but just my thoughts around how we’ve turned around the season.

I think any team carrying 5 blokes on the LTI list with ACLs aren’t meant to be competing for finals let alone flags and in reality that along with our start probably ends up getting us in the end. However, and I have been as critical as anyone on this team in the past, but the turnaround to at least get back and give themselves a chance should be commended I think.

Yesterday hurts because after all the hard work it feels like that was a bit of a self inflicted dagger, with everything now seemingly much harder. It doesn’t take away the turnaround from the club though, which I think should be applauded.

 

[ZoBlitz]

Might just lock this until the confusion stops.