ppl were wanting zeibell dropped, he clearly is carrying something with the performances he's had, tarrant was a late out and goldy isn't our number 1 ruck and the media continually were asking why pruess isn't playing - if it was any other team in the same circumstances i wouldn't make the same accusations as these journo's. In saying that i don't have the same blind hate for other teams as many poster do here, but that doesn't mean that these journo's can be lazy, do less research than a casual footy spectator and produce these bias articles.
i appreciate your 'stop bitch, moaning and complaining' attitude, but it doesn't detract from the fact that these articles are unwarranted.
How many articles have been written saying we are tanking? Wasn't it Greg Denham that first suggested it and then after that pretty much every journo (including the ex footballers) have said we are not tanking.
your last part about the winning culture is like so many posters, completely taken out of context. we may not have won many games but considering our outs we've been very competitive and we haven't rolled over and received a absolute thrashing except for the port game.the same can't be said about consistency of effort through our best seasons in the last decade in 2014/15, 71 point loss in a prelim, 77 point loss to adelaide, 60 point loss to hawthorn, 73 point loss to freo, 55 point loss to suns - we haven't won many this season but we're more consistent with effort and rolled over once. being where we're at in the rebuild it's much more promising than our last premiership tilt. If we legitimately were tanking now it would affect the culture of not bringing this effort and we'll turn out like melbourne and saints with a roller coaster ride of inconsistencies.
So you're saying we are building a culture of losing honorably? Personally I'd prefer the winning one.
You can still "tank" while bringing the effort. That's what Denham was trying to say. We aren't trying to lose, we're just making selection decisions that have more positives than winning games. ie, resting injured players, giving kids a taste of AFL and trying different combinations in the backs, mids and forwards to see what works best. The only way anyone could categorically say we are tanking is if we make very unusual moves during games because everyone knows Scott is very reluctant to do this normally.
At the end of the day, journos are paid to stir the pot and provoke conversation. On this occasion it has worked a treat, because too many of us are complaining that a bit of milk has splashed out and soiled our shoes. **** it, wipe it off and go back to the fire with a nice single malt and wait for the season to finish. Its no big deal.
Personally I think its good that despite the fact we are sitting second bottom we are still at the forefront of media attention. At least we not irrelevant like Brisbane, Melbourne, Carlton or St Kilda.