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So your telling us he may be playing
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Why do we think people are carrying injuries???
FFS, they've rested players who had niggles. Why are they resting them and not others??
People have just played shit. It's not invented injuries.
FFS, they've rested players who had niggles. Why are they resting them and not others??
People have just played shit. It's not invented injuries.
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True, but we absorbed it and kept them within arms reach without completely going into our shells or capitulating. Same with Port, Hawks and GWS.
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Has Charlie even played on the wing since he's been "shit"?
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Some like to make excuses for certain players my favourite player is one in form don't care who Mackay Menzel Sloane JJ as long as they are playing well which gives us more chance of winning
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Well, I'm going to the Gabba this weekend, so I wont be putting up with any similar rubbish like the last 2 weeks. Lions have 3 of their best out, so really, I expect us to hammer them. In saying that, we are expecting a months worth of rain up here over Friday and Saturday.
Yay
Of ****ing course!
Reduces the chance of us winning by a blow out margin if indeed we win it. Gives a sucker a chance.
booooo! Where's the roof?
I don't mind it. There's no chance of them steamrolling over Brisbane in the wet, they'll have to get in and be hard and win the pill all game.Of ****ing course!
booooo! Where's the roof?
Please do not taunt or tease me with such salacious offerings.
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Ive been rewatching some games from last year (at regular speed not 3x). Last night i watched the last half of the sydney game in round 4. Mostly the same personnel as now yet they were playing a much harder brand of football in general. None of them were shirking contests. They were all hard at the ball with and tackling hard also. Putting their bodies on the line without issue, as it should be. Even jenkins managed to not look completely soft.
I think they are capable of playing hard brand of footy if not unsociable. For some reason now the toughness and pressure has totally gone. At the moment most of them are playing like they are worried they might get injured and dont want to get dirty on the ground so they just stand there waiting for someone else to get in there. Meanwhile the oppo are diving in head first to get the ball like their lives depended on it.
Even after the north debacle they didnt look revved up. Who knows what can motivate this team. I think only the axe could do it. Worked out alright for the dogs...
Every team carries injuries - let's just get on with it
Just had a look at the new forecast, all the rain expected Friday and Saturday morning. Should be over with by game time 
we certainly have to be harder and more physical, but I'm with Browny that it's all in our head.
we've demonstrated the mental application required at times before, but we got the shit kicked out of us down in Tassie and the boys are rattled big time.
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The fact that we don't select new players ever unless there's 12 injuries explains why we didn't select any last week. Because they're not experienced enough you see.
I mean seriously, this is just so laughable. Don't try to rationalise it! "Well we've never played these guys before, so we can't start now! Better bring back Menzel and keep Hampton and Mackay in, we know they're shit so let's go with the known quantity rather than taking a punt". Yayyy.
Greenwood should have played last week in place of one of Hampton or Mackay at the very least, that is undeniable.
I agree that nobody else is banging the door down (although Beech was earlier in the season and we refused to select him, instead opting for Troy "4 possessions" Menzel against the Suns I believe it was), but when you've got guys putting out putrid displays, they shouldn't need to be banging it down per se.
We should not be sitting here on the eve of Round 9 2017, with none of Wigg, Greenwood or Beech having ever debuted. There's no defence for it.
The best clubs make statements on selection night and drop underperforming veterans. The best clubs trial their young talent and get them AFL game time before they turn 21. The best clubs respond to criticism about their toughness by making a statement on the field the following week. The best clubs protect their best players when they are tagged.
Until we start taking a page out of that book, we won't be one of the best clubs.
this is so obvious it hurts.
conclusion: we don't want to be one of the best clubs - happy to look after the boys and ward off any major criticism by making up the numbers in the finals.
When two of your clubs selection philosophies are "dont change a winning team" and "back the players in after a loss" there's not a lot of wiggle room to make moves.
Lets hope for a draw against brisbane so we can make some changes.
Lets hope for a draw against brisbane so we can make some changes.
In: Ronnie Burns
Out: Menzel
Out: Menzel
The "back the players in to respond" one is kind of annoying to me. At what point do we stop looking at each instance in isolation and start looking at those performances as a whole and examining who it is that continually underperforms when the going gets tough. Both attitudes kind of stink though, you should always be looking to improve your squad, regardless of a win or a loss.
The biggest worry of course is we win in Brisbane and then they use that as motivation to continue on the same path with the same 25 key blokes again.
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Can't be good for the morale of the squad either. In time it will only generate a dichotomy between favourites and those on the outer.
The favourites will become secure/lazy and those on the outer will see less and less point when they are never rewarded and see the favorites skipping through on mediocre performances.
It's all well and good to pay lip service to "pressure for spots" but unless you reward it it will die and so will the effect it has on driving those in the 22 to put in their best efforts
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You've summed up our last decade there
We've behaved like a multi-premiership winning unit, cruising along season after season, dripping with undropable legends.
Next minute......comes in for Milera. While Mckay and Hampton are untouched. Bigfooty explodes.
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Well, I'm going to the Gabba this weekend, so I wont be putting up with any similar rubbish like the last 2 weeks. Lions have 3 of their best out, so really, I expect us to hammer them. In saying that, we are expecting a months worth of rain up here over Friday and Saturday.
Yay
Hope there wrong with the weather.
My first game for the year and I'm flying Tiger doesn't get in till 5:35 pm.
Hope I'm not in a holding pattern for the whole game.
Chillax only showers rain friday
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