Review Bad, Ugly, and Horrendous vs Hawks

[Mattrox]

The problem was, we were trying hard but we shit our pants underpressure..... almost across the board.

 

[Mike Smyth]

How many years must we persist with Campo, the same shite every year?

playing douglas and dmac is just the icing on a pathetic cake

As long as Camp damn wants.

 

[Tadpole]

Chin up guys. I reckon a couple of changes in gameplan and you’ll be firing.

As long as we’re not firing blanks.

 

[JeddaB]

Your mods have some serious cleaning up to do in here. Flogs galore. Either that or they're the most tolerant mods I've seen.

Shit game overall, a real round 1 type game. Yep we blew the cobwebs out quicker than you did, but you'll still be there come Sept, which I'm still not convinced we will be. Clarko just has a knack setting up against the Crows.

Jeez I hope Doedee is alright. Injuries like that are yuck irrespective of who you follow. Thoughts are with the young fella.

 

[Redleg Crow]

5AA saying Douglas is 4 weeks. Hugh needs to be back in now

 

[CrowBloke]

Horrendous:
Doedee. Absolutely shattered. Absolutely shattered.

Yep, terrible, terrible blow for him and the Club.
Even more horrendous
--- shocking, wasteful, fumbly ball use. Our blokes were hearing footsteps halfway through the first quarter and it lasted all game.
Bad:
--- pretty much everything. Mackay, what can I say, what can we say, what can we do?
--- dinky, pretty little floaty or grubber kicks to no-one = shit footy. Early warning sign of (unjustified) arrogance.
--- Jacobs got a flogging from McEvoy who beat him all over the ground
--- lack of i50 contested marks and poor forward pressure
Ugly:
--- Pyke sitting like a stunned mullet, uselessly inept at making changes, out-coached by Master-mongrel-coach Clarkson, again!

 

[FAITH]

Unless today is an one off, need to clean this group out and start again. Including new head coach who can actually change it up when plan A isn’t working.
Walker, Betts, Jenkins, Jacobs, Mackay all past their used by date.

i said it after the GF, you don't get over a pathetic performance like that.

i think these players are scarred.

 

[Magma]

So ummm

Brouch got through the game strongly
Jones showed a bit
Keath showed a lot
Mrouch and Laird solid enough

That's about it. I love ya Tex..... but you're done. Do we play Fog who is equally big and slow, or do we try to speed up the forward line and throw a Davis or Ned in there ?? We won't do anything, so I'm not sure why I'm bothering hypothesising.

I'm still waiting for the Gibbs that was supposedly going to win us a flag. He never was and never will.

I'll cut JJ a tiny bit of slack because he had to cover both walkers man and giving Sauce the towel after his many bathes.

Mackay did enough..... which sucks.

Sloane showed us why he's been made captain.

And then there's Tom Doedee. Getting beaten is one thing, getting beaten and losing one of your most talented players for a year is just awful.

That game was meant to answer some questions..... it answered the wrong ones. The ones we feared.

you never hire career losers to become a winner. lions were sick of being crap so they went and got hodge. speaks volumes.

 

[Scorpus]

Our club has a fundamental inability to execute under pressure.

When we aren't "on" we are complete shit. We just can't win from the very moment we are in that mindset. It means that no matter what we do, we will never be good enough. Unless we change this cultural aspect of the club that's so deeply ingrained

 

[Cap]

So we appointed Hart on the merits of his previous achievements as a coach did we?

Now see that is something i can agree on.

Our forward entries were shit

 

[hey shorty]

you never hire career losers to become a winner. lions were sick of being crap so they went and got hodge. speaks volumes.

Their coach did help with that somewhat but I do agree. Mind you Ed and Sauce have served us well.

 

[Scorpus]

5AA saying Douglas is 4 weeks. Hugh needs to be back in now

If he has a 4 week injury he should retire. We don't need him any more

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Your mods have some serious cleaning up to do in here. Flogs galore. Either that or they're the most tolerant mods I've seen.

Shit game overall, a real round 1 type game. Yep we blew the cobwebs out quicker than you did, but you'll still be there come Sept, which I'm still not convinced we will be. Clarko just has a knack setting up against the Crows.

Jeez I hope Doedee is alright. Injuries like that are yuck irrespective of who you follow. Thoughts are with the young fella.

Well played on all accounts.

Think the Hawks are the only undefeated team against us at Adelaide Oval.

 

[Messenger]

Come on mods. A few bans need to be thrown around

I’m here for you guys. A couple of miscreants having a lie down now.

 

[hey shorty]

Our club has a fundamental inability to execute under pressure.

When we aren't "on" we are complete shit. We just can't win from the very moment we are in that mindset. It means that no matter what we do, we will never be good enough. Unless we change this cultural aspect of the club that's so deeply ingrained

Mindset is the hardest thing to change.

It shouldn't be, but when the same influencers are there it is. I put Roo in that too

 

[ABAB]

Yeah you give us pick 1 & pick 19 from last year
We give you pick 2

So we get an upgrade and an extra top 20 pick.

You get a downgrade and lose a top 20 pick.

I was actually being sarcastic about that comment.....you did know that didn't you??

 

[Tadpole]

Your mods have some serious cleaning up to do in here. Flogs galore. Either that or they're the most tolerant mods I've seen.

Shit game overall, a real round 1 type game. Yep we blew the cobwebs out quicker than you did, but you'll still be there come Sept, which I'm still not convinced we will be. Clarko just has a knack setting up against the Crows.

Jeez I hope Doedee is alright. Injuries like that are yuck irrespective of who you follow. Thoughts are with the young fella.

Thanks for the sentiment. Best of luck for the rest of the season.

 

[ltdamn]

Tex and Jenkins cost us again. Carrying both of them and we’ll seriously miss McGovern’s marking ability and willingness to jump and attack the ball this year. Plus we could have used him down back when Doedee went down.

Bobmonkey no reply here, you’d rather quote this post on your own board?

 

[Cap]

This is still a major concern.

None of our forwards looked dangerous & the structures were poor

I can't remember us looking so impotent since the times on Ian Perrie.

How many times, with no pressure, did we hit up a Hawthorn player.

 

[hey shorty]

If he has a 4 week injury he should retire. We don't need him any more

He will come straight back in

 

[Mattrox]

Result aside

I hope Doedee hasn't done an ACL

Let's be realistic and not hold up false hope. He's Done his ACL. We can adjust there.

We need to get Thor and Seedsman back asap. We need drive. With our numbers, we should have been closer. It points to a number of cracks.


On the plus side EVERY team has shir games. This was a shit game. Pity is was round 1.

Hope Pyke has learned a lesson about 6,6,6 not being our advantage.

 

[Perthcrow23]

So mirrors of geelong 07 ...... its happening

 

[Tadpole]

i said it after the GF, you don't get over a pathetic performance like that.

i think these players are scarred.

As long as it doesn’t last as long as Port’s scars did after 2007.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

I can't remember us looking so impotent since the times on Ian Perrie.

How many times, with no pressure, did we hit up a Hawthorn player.

We need to change up our forward line

Gooch, Greenwood, Fog should all be options.

 

[ABAB]

Our club has a fundamental inability to execute under pressure.

When we aren't "on" we are complete shit. We just can't win from the very moment we are in that mindset. It means that no matter what we do, we will never be good enough. Unless we change this cultural aspect of the club that's so deeply ingrained

That was the whole point of practicing that short 15m kick new game plan in the preseason was to negate the in your face pressure that the Hawks has been beating us with.....where did that go?