Recent content by kickitolachie

I don't see the need for this change of Grundy to some sort of Giant midfielder. The distinctive feature of Grundy is that he is a ruckman who provides extra ball winning, tackling and transition handball options over and above what is normally expected of a ruckman. At the same time his...

Mumford has always been a thug. His technique of dropping his fill weight onto players on the ground has rarely been sanctioned, though it has ended a few careers.

Yep.

The club has succumbed to the negative minded people inside and out. It didn't hang tough for its president, it didn't hang tough for its players and now it hasn't hung tough for its coach. Buckley and his remaining players kept fighting, but the club has let them down. If I was Scott...

So the nay sayers have won again. We have given up a great president, some top players and now the coach. Why? Because publicity machines swayed the decision makers. I have no doubt that the decision on Buckley was rushed because of a fear that Carlton might sign the coach that the board wants...

There is a lot of hopeful talk on this thread, and isn't it wonderful. A win does amazing things. Unfortunately, when the inevitable happens, the despondent savagery that infects our supporters will resurface. I don't want to see a death or glory charge from our players. I want to see them...

No it isn't. 3 or 4 weeks? Give me strength.

Are you talking about football supporters? Any new coach would be under the hammer from day 1 and lambasted like Buckley is at the first hint of a loss. As soon as the coach sacking starts, a club finds it very hard to get off that bus. New coaches get very little leeway from fans.

Jamie Elliott has underlined the point I've been making here. Our team's two failures have been an understrength midfield (Bianco and Poulter seem to be addressing this) and a lack of good forwards. Elliott in the lineup and things look very different. McCreery looks like being a second, and...

There are a number of differences. A stark one is the end of Thomas as a small forward. In 2018 he got the ball and got enough space to have a shot. Now he does not get the ball much, and if he does get it, he doesn't get a clear shot at goal before he is tackled. He was always just there for...

We had a lot of years when the forward with the most understanding of where a key forward had to get to was Jarrod Blair.

This thread has long been at a stalemate. There is a group who blame the coach for our parlous situation and seem to believe that a change of coach will change our fortunes. There is a group that doesn't see the coach as the main cause of the malaise, but looks at the other factors that are in...

I haven't watched the second (better?) half of the Geelong game yet, but from the first half, I just cannot understand the hatred for the coach that is now so fashionable. The sad fact is that our forward players are just not good enough to get the good goal shots, or to make anything of the...

Pendlebury is past his peak, but is still a very good player. He is likely to decline slowly over the next 2 years and then retire. His disposal has been less than perfect of late, and my thought on this is that the lower ability of the players around him now means that the targets he used to...

I was not using a legal term, simply using two words in their normal English meaning. I was asking readers not to bring their prejudices to the post.