Thompson has to have had his last year. Wouldn't mind Rockliff, and we need B Crouch to really take the reins next year.
Review Adelaide v Sydney - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
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Mackay - found wanting under pressure yet again
JJ - should not have played, selectors are piss weak and bereft of ideas
Thommo - cooked, ok, we carried you to the end of the year, you don't deserve anything at all, let alone $300k. Club defining moment coming up that we'll prove we're a middling club not capable of taking the next step.
Dougie - has been s**t all year apart from patches here and there, weak from the selectors again. Shocked he couldn't turn it around when it mattered.
Pyke - you're not displaying any differences between yourself and Craigy yet. Selection and in-game is straight out of his play book. Playing out of form seniors gets you nowhere.
Campo - how many years do we need to see our opposition kill us between the arcs
Clarke - any chance we can run and handball out of stoppages and close down our opposition as they do us.
JJ - should not have played, selectors are piss weak and bereft of ideas
Thommo - cooked, ok, we carried you to the end of the year, you don't deserve anything at all, let alone $300k. Club defining moment coming up that we'll prove we're a middling club not capable of taking the next step.
Dougie - has been s**t all year apart from patches here and there, weak from the selectors again. Shocked he couldn't turn it around when it mattered.
Pyke - you're not displaying any differences between yourself and Craigy yet. Selection and in-game is straight out of his play book. Playing out of form seniors gets you nowhere.
Campo - how many years do we need to see our opposition kill us between the arcs
Clarke - any chance we can run and handball out of stoppages and close down our opposition as they do us.
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Harsh on Gov in his first full year at AFL level. The rest I can agree with.
Good: cameron and matt crouch. Both made mistakes but both were brilliant in a final.
Bad: our inability to match a team that wanted it more.
Ugly: jacobs, jenkins, mackay, brown, lynch, smith, douglas. Our last quarter.
NOT ENOUGH campaigner IN EM.
Bad: our inability to match a team that wanted it more.
Ugly: jacobs, jenkins, mackay, brown, lynch, smith, douglas. Our last quarter.
NOT ENOUGH campaigner IN EM.
I'm hoping for a 22 game suspension.
Not a lot of good. Plenty of bad. Quite a bit of ugly.
Not going to get to down though. We have some glaring problems, but have some quality coming through and some currency at the trade table this summer. We need to turn the page on a few senior players, trade out a few out and bring in some speed.
We have a good coach. We need to give him time.
Not going to get to down though. We have some glaring problems, but have some quality coming through and some currency at the trade table this summer. We need to turn the page on a few senior players, trade out a few out and bring in some speed.
We have a good coach. We need to give him time.
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Im going to try to take the night off from what i expect will be a lot of venting on here. I will say this though, I owe Cameron an apology, I used to think he was too small to play AFL, turns out hes bigger than I gave him credit for.
Last 2 months were lost at selection. After the midseason bye we really needed to start rotating in players who were performing in the SANFL and weeding out the guys who were coasting along in big wins.
Poor, poor player management AFC
Poor, poor player management AFC
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This thread is going to get ugly 
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Well chooks come home to roost as expectes.
Interesting comment from someone on the commentry team regarding how many players each side had debuted this year.
To all you muppets who carried on about continuity, not upsetting the structure, 2nds players not doing enough to earn their way over the usual plodders, well guys this game is for you, because the 22 we put our on the park had absolutely zero need to put their physical arse on the line as we as a club have pretty much done all we can to appease your severly uneducated and naieve perspective of the game and what it takes to be a true contender in this league. Im used to it.We should all get used to it.
Gift undeserving names games for season on end and breed a soft, complacent culture which shines come finals time when the pressure is on.
Well done to Guys like Cameron, Laird,Lever,Mrouch etc whose careers werent born into this culture and who actually threw it all at them. To the rest of the side, think yourselves lucky that you can rest assured tour positions are secured so long as the puppet masters currently in place stay in place.
Kudos to Sanders whos remarks over the JJ recontracting period were pretty much spot on.
Interesting comment from someone on the commentry team regarding how many players each side had debuted this year.
To all you muppets who carried on about continuity, not upsetting the structure, 2nds players not doing enough to earn their way over the usual plodders, well guys this game is for you, because the 22 we put our on the park had absolutely zero need to put their physical arse on the line as we as a club have pretty much done all we can to appease your severly uneducated and naieve perspective of the game and what it takes to be a true contender in this league. Im used to it.We should all get used to it.
Gift undeserving names games for season on end and breed a soft, complacent culture which shines come finals time when the pressure is on.
Well done to Guys like Cameron, Laird,Lever,Mrouch etc whose careers werent born into this culture and who actually threw it all at them. To the rest of the side, think yourselves lucky that you can rest assured tour positions are secured so long as the puppet masters currently in place stay in place.
Kudos to Sanders whos remarks over the JJ recontracting period were pretty much spot on.
Please retire Thommo. Please.
And please retire Mackay. Please.
And please retire Douglas. Please.
And please request to be traded to Brisbane Jenkins. Please.
And please retire Mackay. Please.
And please retire Douglas. Please.
And please request to be traded to Brisbane Jenkins. Please.
Good:
Sloan
Cameron
Hartigan
Bad
The Don
Everone else not in good or ugly
Ugly
Selection committee
JJ
Thommo
Mackay
Douglas
Piss weak performance but the AFC, Don you had better learn from the multiple mistakes you made this year or you will have a short coaching career.
Sloan
Cameron
Hartigan
Bad
The Don
Everone else not in good or ugly
Ugly
Selection committee
JJ
Thommo
Mackay
Douglas
Piss weak performance but the AFC, Don you had better learn from the multiple mistakes you made this year or you will have a short coaching career.
Absolutely disgusting performance. Skills were horrible, decision making was pathetic and execution was amateur.
Charlie Cameron is the only guy who can hold his head high, great game.
Change is needed.
See ya Lyons, Brown, Mackay, Douglas, Thompson.
Shocking effort from Jenkins and Jacobs.
I'm so disappointed how the season has ended.
Charlie Cameron is the only guy who can hold his head high, great game.
Change is needed.
See ya Lyons, Brown, Mackay, Douglas, Thompson.
Shocking effort from Jenkins and Jacobs.
I'm so disappointed how the season has ended.
Charlie Cameron deserves the pay cheque of every other single player on the field tonight. Was epic, his intent is great and while he may lack that little bit of polish right now he's gonna be some sort of player.
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Did we ever get an update on Levers injury and its severity?
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Been injured for a month, selectors fault not his.
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We should have left it to the end of the season to re-sign Jenkins and saved 150K.
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Sauce has quickly become a complete spud. Beaten by Giles two games ago, now had his colours lowered by a few no names.
Mat Crouch is the better of the two Crouch brothers. Get used to it.
Charlie - sublime. Why did we have to wait until a final that was already lost before Pyle shifted him to a wing?
Mat Crouch is the better of the two Crouch brothers. Get used to it.
Charlie - sublime. Why did we have to wait until a final that was already lost before Pyle shifted him to a wing?
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Lindy first cab off the rank in the FiveAA post game calls and in tears.........me too almost
Rowey - "I'm as flat as a bush biscuit too, love". Me too
Rowey - "I'm as flat as a bush biscuit too, love". Me too
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No mention of captain invisible. Tex has the potential to be an out and out superstar, but isn't. Dropped sitter marks at crucial times tonight. Had no impact tonight and hardly any all year. I reckon he'd be better off not being captain.
Contrary to popular opinion, I don't think we were actually that bad for most of the game.
Our start was horrible, giving away a 4 goal start to sydney is never going to end well, but we've been starting poorly all year. That must be corrected.
Otherwise, we matched Sydney, who were playing well, on their home turf, from half way through the first to the final change, but when they kicked the first two of the last quarter, we needed to kick 7 straight to win. That's a bridge far too far, and the cue went in the rack.
Basically, I thought we were well and truly in that game until the first 5 mins of the last.
Not to say we don't have deficiencies; our midfield desperately needs improvement, particularly from Brad Crouch, and we need to target a big name.
I didn't think Douglas was that bad, particularly when he rotated through the middle.
Mackay did some good things, I thought his game was better than his average (not that that's particularly high).
Sydney were very good, and we gave them too much of a head start, otherwise I thought we played ok. We certainly weren't as bad as either of the Geelong games or against West Coast.
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Our start was horrible, giving away a 4 goal start to sydney is never going to end well, but we've been starting poorly all year. That must be corrected.
Otherwise, we matched Sydney, who were playing well, on their home turf, from half way through the first to the final change, but when they kicked the first two of the last quarter, we needed to kick 7 straight to win. That's a bridge far too far, and the cue went in the rack.
Basically, I thought we were well and truly in that game until the first 5 mins of the last.
Not to say we don't have deficiencies; our midfield desperately needs improvement, particularly from Brad Crouch, and we need to target a big name.
I didn't think Douglas was that bad, particularly when he rotated through the middle.
Mackay did some good things, I thought his game was better than his average (not that that's particularly high).
Sydney were very good, and we gave them too much of a head start, otherwise I thought we played ok. We certainly weren't as bad as either of the Geelong games or against West Coast.
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