Autopsy flogged by hawks, back to game over at half time times

[Gasometer]

In clarko you trust.
At least you got ur 100th year anniversary to look forward to on Thursday night whilst providing finger food and a stand up beer for your 1975 premiership champions. I’m sure blokes in their 70s and 80s will be good standing up for 4hrs .
Surely you blokes aren’t that cheap?

#gonorf#gonorf

How’s that one Flag celebration for next year travelling?

60 years ago, you must remember it well.

(I actually heard a rumour they were getting Peter Jackson to colourise into 4k and get lip readers in to read the players lips and do voice overs.)

 

[gokangas]

Gotta love that shot of the rooms on Foxtel - team all looking so depressed. FFS. Heads hanging down. Poor boys. You all get paid - try being a long suffering supporter and tell us all why you all ran on the ground today with zero intent and effort from the start. HOW THE FUKC DOES THAT HAPPEN. ZERO!!!!!!!!!!! Most of us hurt more after a loss like this than you pretenders.

 

[Luke_sainters]

How’s that one Flag celebration for next year? 60 years ago, you must remember it well.

(I actually heard a rumour they were getting Peter Jackson to colourise into 4k and get lip readers in to read the players lips and do voice overs.)

I won 6 flags playing footy.
So in total 7

 

[Caracas]

As I said in the game day thread it was clear we do not have the mentality to beat them.

We will not have truly arrived until we do.

We lost a game I thought we would I think we have f*** all chance this coming week.

Maybe the week after.

Who knows.

Who knows, indeed? I don’t.

 

[ChopChopDigDig]

Pressure was there for the first 10 minutes and then we turned into witches hats and dropped the bundle

Mate other than LDU our midfield were flat from the first bounce. Bullshit fighting and giving downfield frees doesn’t equal pressure. They were laughing at us within minutes of the game as we did fake tough stuff and then let them chip around us.

 

[Samsquanch]

Ooh, what are you having? I’m still undecided.

Inspired by the match tonight, maybe tripe is on the menu.

 

[the_cleaner]

In clarko you trust.
At least you got ur 100th year anniversary to look forward to on Thursday night whilst providing finger food and a stand up beer for your 1975 premiership champions. I’m sure blokes in their 70s and 80s will be good standing up for 4hrs .
Surely you blokes aren’t that cheap?

#gonorf#gonorf

who tf invited this guy? let us know how that 1 measly 1 point grand final celebration goes you ****ing knob. the most pathetic club in the league with absolute **** all history and impact on the game and you’re gonna sling shit on norf. **** off back to seaford you muppet.

 

[scottywiper]

This game was a blend of horrific effort and pigheaded coaching.

LDU, Xerri, and Parker can hold their heads high. I didn’t even mind Kerch’s game — despite the turnovers, he was clearly trying, which was a rare commodity today.

Larkey competed well again, but his radar continues to be off compared to previous form. Curse that damned article.

McDonald was our best defender, which today is like being the nicest guy in prison.

I can excuse some of the rookies — Hardeman, Dawson, Hansen, FOS. I mean, look at their leaders. Can you blame them?

Even Sheezel is mortal and has the occasional mare. No hard feelings there — he's one of the few with credits in the bank.

Mitchell knew Wardlaw was the only bloke giving a yelp defensively, so he threw Nash on him — who then jumped to LDU after the concussion.

He’s also smart enough to know our midfield moves like treacle, so he used Watson in spurts through the middle. Smart footy.

We got obliterated in the guts, which exposed deeply limited blokes like Pink to the craft of Gunston — who absolutely cooked him.

Logue is a fat idiot. Outmarked by Watson, gave Chol acres of space all day, and sold out his WA buddy Fisher with zero voice.

Speaking of, aside from a sick goal, Fisher is a talentless idiot.

Caleb tries his little heart out, but the boys look for him constantly — no matter where he is — and just give it to him. If he kept it within 30 metres he’d be fine, but he thinks he’s got 50-metre lasers in him.

Simpkin’s pulling out the faux tough guy act again — shoving blokes when they’re on the ground, throwing in late cheapies, and don’t forget the early off-the-ball free for a tickle to Meek. Lay a tackle or throw a shepherd, you peanut. Parker is genuinely tough — he does the fundamentals without question. Big difference.

Powell should be so much more. He’s got phenomenal tools and flashes them occasionally, but consistency of effort is his biggest weakness. Get angry, mate. Worst on ground when you factor in what he’s capable of.

Zurhaar did zip while our midfield got smashed, yet no one thought to give him a run in the guts. He might’ve been shit there too, but at least give it a try.

Curtis, who’s been great this year, forgot all about playing football and spent all his energy trying to ‘get even’ with the defenders wrecking him.

Get a psychologist. Get a witch doctor. Get the ghost of Christmas ****ing past. I don’t care — just get someone in to fix this bloody mess.

Just give bonehead Brady a couple more years. He's due

 

[Roosurgence]

As I said in the game day thread it was clear we do not have the mentality to beat them.

We will not have truly arrived until we do.

We lost a game I thought we would I think we have f*** all chance this coming week.

Maybe the week after.

Who knows.

To beat them you need to run hard.

We wave the white flag before the ball is bounced because these guys don’t want to run hard both ways.

It’s a carbon copy every time we play them.

Not one defensive midfielder in that whole group.

Against a running team Powell is a liability.

 

[Ball Dont Lie]

This game was fatal to the, “look at our % improvement” cheerleaders to justify improvement.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Club is mentally weak.
These types of games need to cease.

 

[Disco Dew]

Parma?

Or after watching the game tonight, dimmies?

Parma for me

 

[Samsquanch]

Hoj thinks, meh, this was expected sadly

Maybe turn this off, have dinner and watch a good game tonight. Checks the fixture;
Pies v Wet Toast at Marvel.

May need to wash hair tonight.

Lock the scissors away.

 

[chickenonachain]

You get your hopes up and then they drag you down again. The life of a North supporter

 

[archereleven]

****ing pathetic.

Wish I could simply ditch this loser club but I have 45 years invested into it.

Getting closer every year though, that's for sure.

 

[speedy]

Haven’t watched any of the game and don’t intend to.
No further comments

Be thankful for little blessings.

 

[zoomba23]

The good: That doesn't hurt, because as a resident doomer, I'm always at least half expecting a result like that

The bad: Everything else. Chance to step forward... for good. Gone begging. Now back to the stage of not knowing whether we'll actually step forward. Next week a chance for some eerie deja vu, just in reverse order

 

[Caracas]

39 points improvement on R23. Scant comfort.

 

[bennymate]

Just waiting for the “ImPRoveMenT from LaST yEaRs rEsULt” comments.

And you taking them seriously is equally as funny

 

[William Caresser]

Just a completely unprofessional effort that all started from a pathetic, relapse performance from the midfield - every single one of them.

Parker and LDU's 28 touches don't change that. 7 pressure acts and 1 tackle from Parker and 14 and 1 from LDU - disgraceful.

Absolutely smashed at clearances, not so much the 43-30 loss, more how pathetic defensively the entire midfield was at them.

Midfields largely determine a side's success or failure and we're 16th for a reason. They are so unreliable defensively, so flakey. Their worst is worse than any other midfield in the competition.

At what stage will Clarko and the selectors do something? It's sickening.

 

[Caracas]

After I switched off, we won 3-1. I should have done it a quarter time. We might have won.

 

[Roos92]

Half the players on the list are just content doing OK that's a big part of the problem. Win a game and put the feet up lads. Job here is done.

 

[William Caresser]

Absolutely ****ing pathetic by our mids outside of LDU

Even he had one tackle and just 14 pressure acts.

 

[Cyber_punk]

Are people really surprised by this result? Really?

They have been doing this since 2023 in the middle of the year - a few good weeks usually of honorable/close performances where the media says we're finally coming, followed by the players thinking "that'll do" and crashing out again.

I don't how or why people keep falling for it

 

[zoomba23]

Are people really surprised by this result? Really?

They have been doing this since 2023 in the middle of the year - a few good weeks usually of honorable/close performances where the media says we're finally coming, followed by the players thinking "that'll do" and crashing out again.

I don't how or why people keep falling for it

Don't think anyone's surprised bar the happiest of happy clappers. It's fair enough to be disappointed though. This isn't actually the cycle that footy teams are supposed to be stuck in. You're supposed to be able to compete for a whole year. The best we can muster is a month and a bit. That's a rather perturbing thing to be unable to change