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[Passmore]

I’m glad someone’s enjoying themselves

I apologise again.

 

[Spud11]

I apologise again.

Nah it’s fine man, just having a hot minute stuck at work, was watching the scores relatively happy until the third quarter when the inevitable barrage of opposition goals followed by excuses came rushing in.

I just get a bit sick of it sometimes. It’d be nice if we could chase premierships instead of mere “bravery” against a fellow minnow club that ain’t even assured of being top 8 this year.

You at least agree don’t you, it’s always something that could’ve, should’ve or didn’t happen as an excuse? Do you get a bit tired of it?

 

[Ry009]

Nah it’s fine man, just having a hot minute stuck at work, was watching the scores relatively happy until the third quarter when the inevitable barrage of opposition goals followed by excuses came rushing in.

I just get a bit sick of it sometimes. It’d be nice if we could chase premierships instead of mere “bravery” against a fellow minnow club that ain’t even assured of being top 8 this year.

You at least agree don’t you, it’s always something that could’ve, should’ve or didn’t happen as an excuse? Do you get a bit tired of it?

I think some of the angst around here is understandable, it's been too long and we miss the feeling of walking up to every game at least thinking we're a good chance of winning.

Trying to be a bit diplomatic here and not pot people getting frustrated and communicating that poorly, I just think those of us that are trying to be positive at times aren't excusing the systematic issue the club has and wants to address.....we're just trying to enjoy any bit of light at the end of the tunnel that comes through.

At the end of the day, we all want the same thing and see us up the ladder again. We just have different ways of dealing with the deep hole we're trying to dig out of.

 

[Passmore]

Nah it’s fine man, just having a hot minute stuck at work, was watching the scores relatively happy until the third quarter when the inevitable barrage of opposition goals followed by excuses came rushing in.

I just get a bit sick of it sometimes. It’d be nice if we could chase premierships instead of mere “bravery” against a fellow minnow club that ain’t even assured of being top 8 this year.

You at least agree don’t you, it’s always something that could’ve, should’ve or didn’t happen as an excuse? Do you get a bit tired of it?

Yeah I get the frustration.

Following North is ****ing hard work. Two good eras and 80 years of shit.

But it's in our blood. We'll ****ing get through this.

 

[hcd199]

Some good moments, some bad moments, probably lands about where we'd expect a game like this is going to land given where both clubs are at currently. Considering the injured outs + LDU concussion + Larkey hobbled early, leading to us relying on a younger group where the balance tips too far in favour of not going hard enough at the ball/player, coming off a shorter break than our more fancied opposition, I don't think we were disgraced tonight - treading water a bit, sure, but in the circumstances that's not disastrous. It was a bit of a damp result for a celebratory night, though, whatever the expectations, and another match where we were in it for more than half the game only to lose by a pretty wide margin.

And what better snapshot of our 100 years in the VFL/AFL could you get than battling against a barrage of adversity, including everything the league's appointed officials care to set against us? Front-on contact with the Sherrin is apparently not allowed but all-angles contact with Zurhaar's head is - it's holding the ball when there's no prior, one arm is pinned and the player is on the ground with the legs they're supposedly not genuinely attempting to use to kick the ball are folded underneath the tackler's, but not holding the ball to take evasive action, get caught, and allow the ball to 'spill free' seconds later - protected area becomes the latest rule usually only notionally in the rulebook to selectively be enforced against us - Dogs player get called to 'stand' 3m ahead of the mark rather than called back - and apparently any North player near the boundary when the ball crosses it must be showing 'insufficient intent'... these kinds of displays don't have to be the difference between winning and losing for them to feed into the club-wide demoralisation we're still struggling to shake; enough has been wrong for us here not to need extra battles to fight with the umpiring as well.

Next two weeks against lower-ranked sides probably the more telling games than this one. I felt we'd shown a significant improvement, and positive trajectory, in reducing the extent to which opposition teams were able to hurt us on turnover, and just playing a more defensively accountable team game in general, but that hasn't been the case across the last two matches - it's one thing for finals contenders to find a way to break us down, I'll be more worried if the likes of Melbourne and Sydney are doing the same.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Do we have another quality ruckman to take Xerris place...We have CCJ or Teakle. Max Gawn will have a field day next week. No Xerri, Ldu, and Wardlaw wont be back with no word on Comben or McDonald...God help us!

very few teams have "another quality ruckman" on their list.

Teakle is an option, however, and this might be an unpopular opinion, but I wouldn't be against giving Goad a run. He's been our best performing ruck in the VFL this year.

 

[scottywiper]

very few teams have "another quality ruckman" on their list.

Teakle is an option, however, and this might be an unpopular opinion, but I wouldn't be against giving Goad a run. He's been our best performing ruck in the VFL this year.

He would get monstered. Yuck.

 

[hilly]

very few teams have "another quality ruckman" on their list.

Teakle is an option, however, and this might be an unpopular opinion, but I wouldn't be against giving Goad a run. He's been our best performing ruck in the VFL this year.

C'mon Rod, Gawn would break him in half.

 

[Rollmop]

what is it with this trade Phillips nonsense? no one is going to give up a draft pick for him. No one wanted him last year and he's shown nothing this year on a one year contract.

Exactly. Will be delisted at year end. Sick of hearing on socials about that one time when he played on Daicos and kept him quiet for a half of footy before he died on his feet and had to be subbed. And how badly he’s been treated by the club. Aha. Was the same thing with Lazarro last year. Both just VFL level footballers. Was hoping he might have shown something tonight but nope. How far out was he when he had that shot on goal that didn’t make the distance?

 

[Spud11]

Expectation for 100 year anniversary: heroic efforts, clutch moments, our superstars deliver, win by 20, club back on track, smiles and celebrations all around.

Really: good for 2 quarters, don’t know if captain is even playing, x injured, Larkey good but then hurts leg, umpires destroy us, bulldogs get off the chain, oh well we will be good one day.

Will we? Or will we always make excuses?

Geelong don’t need to bottom out and certainly don’t make excuses. They could be down to no bench and make it happen on their centenary night. That’s the difference.

I’d say “it’s been a long 6 years” but let’s be honest, when since the year 2000 or so has anyone felt like we’ve been a realistic chance of actually contending?
Our prelims since then we were making up numbers, always felt like our heads were just above water and bottoming out/rebuilding is an absolute cop-out.

I just want to see a few wins that matter, an ongoing high performance culture and I want some friggen hope for the future.

 

[LB2Snake]

Side aiming for the top four vs a side struggling to get out of the bottom four.

There was a lot to like and a lot to dislike.

I'm more interested in how we go against Melbourne next week, tbh.

Melbourne will be up and about after the earlier game in the year.

 

[LB2Snake]

I'm a big fan of WillFill but he is just not quick enough for AFL, Definatly trade as seasons end.

We need a better strategy to break the press coming out of the D50. Daniels should not be taking the Kick ins, he just makes far to many poor decisions.

The same bloke has been involved in getting both those 2 to the club. He’s just going to pick another player, or players, with some caveat attached to them.

 

[Woolly Mammoth]

Whats funny campaigner? Not once but twice

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I could live with that, Logue is a dim sim fuelled, injury prone, state league level hack, he is expendable. The real problem is Simpkin was also laughing. Our 'captain' apparently.

 

[LB2Snake]

Some good moments, some bad moments, probably lands about where we'd expect a game like this is going to land given where both clubs are at currently. Considering the injured outs + LDU concussion + Larkey hobbled early, leading to us relying on a younger group where the balance tips too far in favour of not going hard enough at the ball/player, coming off a shorter break than our more fancied opposition, I don't think we were disgraced tonight - treading water a bit, sure, but in the circumstances that's not disastrous. It was a bit of a damp result for a celebratory night, though, whatever the expectations, and another match where we were in it for more than half the game only to lose by a pretty wide margin.

And what better snapshot of our 100 years in the VFL/AFL could you get than battling against a barrage of adversity, including everything the league's appointed officials care to set against us? Front-on contact with the Sherrin is apparently not allowed but all-angles contact with Zurhaar's head is - it's holding the ball when there's no prior, one arm is pinned and the player is on the ground with the legs they're supposedly not genuinely attempting to use to kick the ball are folded underneath the tackler's, but not holding the ball to take evasive action, get caught, and allow the ball to 'spill free' seconds later - protected area becomes the latest rule usually only notionally in the rulebook to selectively be enforced against us - Dogs player get called to 'stand' 3m ahead of the mark rather than called back - and apparently any North player near the boundary when the ball crosses it must be showing 'insufficient intent'... these kinds of displays don't have to be the difference between winning and losing for them to feed into the club-wide demoralisation we're still struggling to shake; enough has been wrong for us here not to need extra battles to fight with the umpiring as well.

Next two weeks against lower-ranked sides probably the more telling games than this one. I felt we'd shown a significant improvement, and positive trajectory, in reducing the extent to which opposition teams were able to hurt us on turnover, and just playing a more defensively accountable team game in general, but that hasn't been the case across the last two matches - it's one thing for finals contenders to find a way to break us down, I'll be more worried if the likes of Melbourne and Sydney are doing the same.

Currently OS so have seen not one minute of the game, but we continuously give EVERY oppo team we play at least one quarter of 10 shots at goal, or more. Carlton, Richmond and WC couldn’t hurt us, but any decent team will murder you when you allow that.
WTAF does this change? Is the defensive plan just that shithouse? Seems to be.

 

[Woolly Mammoth]

Last day of term is a farce anyway, to be fair. I'm sure your kids could've had a post-match sesh at Crown and been as good as gold

Honestly the crowd figure was surprising, not the once in a lifetime horror I was expecting. The Dogs turnout was GWS level, maximum 5k, so 20k odd on cold shitty Thursday with the garbage we dished up last week and everyone expecting a merciless drubbing isn't end times.

You're right though, kids these days don't seem interested in staying up to ungodly hours, sneaking sips of beer from their dads mates, playing mailbox baseball or setting things in fire. Truly a lost generation.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

How awesome to have to catch a replacement bus from Parliament all the way back to the far northern suburbs, on a Thursday night.

I've just got home at 2.45am.

****ing roadworks and fog

 

[roospur]

Passmore keep laughing mate. Laugh like Griffey Logue. I hope you’re having a ball, 26 years since our last flag and further away from one than the noble years.

Nice melt

 

[Gasometer]

Ok there was quite a few laughing including legends and current players

 

[TruRoo]

I feel like Sheezel is carrying an injury, his kicking has absolutely zero penetration this season.

Hasn’t been managed well if he has. Just throw him around and let him cop criticism for a lack of impact.

 

[kingcarey1]

I feel like Sheezel is carrying an injury, his kicking has absolutely zero penetration this season.

Agree. His kicking has gone backwards rapidly.

 

[DuckYeah]

Flawed Genius After perusing your posts, I see you thoroughly enjoyed that game. Worth it?

 

[Reagan Smash]

David King is a shithouse game day commentator.

Stick to stats and making up new terms like ‘leg drivers’ and ‘quarterback’

 

[DuckYeah]

Ok there was quite a few laughing including legends and current players

Carey was laughing at the current players being called soft

 

[DuckYeah]

Clarko surely has to see some of the weeds by now

You should identify the weeds in a few months. Its been 3 years, look, i’ll go easy. 2 years.

Im on the wagon that he has no plan B. I used to call out Brad for that shit, this guy is a one trick pony. There is little no changes made in game and certainly zero changes to offensive structure.

 

[Gasometer]

Carey was laughing at the current players being called soft

It came before that. Horse. Blighty. There’s pics in the Hun today.

Simple solution was to have it in the change rooms if it was serious

But nah, our Club turns it into a entertainment spectacle that’s aroused an unwanted debate this morning