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On the day no, but I still think we were the better team for the vast majority of that season. Obviously that means SFA when it’s all said and doneWe weren’t the better team.
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On the day no, but I still think we were the better team for the vast majority of that season. Obviously that means SFA when it’s all said and doneWe weren’t the better team.
What’s your point GC?
On the day no, but I still think we were the better team for the vast majority of that season. Obviously that means SFA when it’s all said and done
It's good to see you have the passion, but the passion is misdirected somewhat due to an illogic that I can see from your repeated responses. Your logic goes something like this "you can't be a great coach/player unless you win a premiership".Ultimately that is the situation that we're in though. Nothing other than winning the big one can redeem. Nothing done now will fix that.
That's precisely why we should be selective with our praise at this point. It's not earned.
As far as blaming the fans goes- the no performance necessary at our club starts with those that think that bestowing unearned praise is somehow virtuous. It's every bit a part of it.
1) Or, we could simply assess people on their results when it matters 2) rather than frothing over their minor round performances.
3) This is precisely why we never change anything.
Sure if you paid no attention to their season, and particularly the last 1/3rd then I can see how you’d think that.
They were the form team coming into finals and they swept all before them including us
The blueprint? Again?I thought it was a pretty obvious pattern last year, and was essentially the ‘blueprint’ of how to beat us.
Quoted for emphasis. We stuck it up them good and proper, and now it's time to have a good season, win a premiership and really show them.The Hardwick thing and Fog getting reported are the Vic boys club having a sook. They want to give us a whack for beating Richmond when we were supposed to implode and give them more media fodder to feast on. They can get f*****
Disagree, we were the form team but we were hit with some key injuries at the worst time whereas they had basically a clean bill of health for their best 22.
The blueprint? Again?
A blueprint is an exact plan which, when followed, creates a desired result as planned ie usually what they intended to build. When followed as planned, a blueprint is faultless. Don't you see that if there was a "blueprint" we'd have lost so many more games to the teams that used it? We only lost 6 games and while their were some common causes (eg hard tag on Sloane, losing contested possession count), the opposition won for many different reasons.
What NM and Melb. did in Rounds 7 and 8 were completely different. NM played to the ground and the gale that was blowing. That day the Crows played dumb, schoolboy-level, windy-wet-weather footy. Geelong beat us at the Cattery where their winning record is ridiculously good. Why didn't they just roll out "the blueprint" to beat us at home later and in the PF?
What counted on Thursday night was how much better the Crows played than against Essendon the week before. It was coincidence our opponent was Richmond --- no matter who we played, we had to play better, and win.
I care.
If the players had enacted the game plan and not been so disunited the GF result might have been different.
Having lost that match, what's Pyke supposed to do? Give up, and whinge about losing the GF like you are 6 months later?
No.
To his credit he formulated a plan to beat Richmond on Thursday night which included toughness, winning the contested ball and high possession execution, none of which the players used on GF day.
We lost the 2017 GF. Get over it, since no amount of bleating will change the result.
What was wrong with the comment ??Exhibit a.
What was wrong with the comment ??
If we do as you are, and continue to look back at failures we will never win anything. It's the exact reason Collywobbles became a thing
I'm sure they didn't ignore it, and to an extent nor did most supporters. Unlike them however, we have no control over what the team does this year.The club plainly didnt agree, given the much publicised pre-season.
Ignore it, rock up the next year with the same people, and hope the results last time we failed were an outlier is what we've been doing for 20 years. It doesnt work.
For what? Common sense and reasonable posting?Exhibit a.
I'm sure they didn't ignore it, and to an extent nor did most supporters. Unlike them however, we have no control over what the team does this year.
The team failed on the big day for sure, but what that has to do with the last 20 years I don't know what you're getting at
For what? Common sense and reasonable posting?
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""We never change anything""
To your credit, you've not tried to defend that.
Not sure anyone in the club overpraised the minor round. We belted 2 sides in 2 finals, 1 in particular who has had the wood over us for years. We went into a GF without a key member of our running brigade on the largest ground against a running side. We also had no fit player on the bench in the 2nd half.You know exactly what I'm getting at. The culture of overpraising minor round performances and entirely ignoring big game failures pervades our club.
I mean, we've got great minds in this thread telling us it was all the players fault- who got banished? Who didnt end up in round one team who failed other than as the result of injury?
Not sure anyone in the club overpraised the minor round. We belted 2 sides in 2 finals, 1 in particular who has had the wood over us for years. We went into a GF without a key member of our running brigade on the largest ground against a running side. We also had no fit player on the bench in the 2nd half.
Of course we analyse that, but we can't ignore the fact that we are a good side who chose the worst day to have our worst day.
Darwin's theory suggests the stupid pigeon should die...Skyscrapers don't take defensive action when a pigeon flies into them.
LOLSkyscrapers don't take defensive action when a pigeon flies into them.
Good post overall. I see what you meant.but if there is high pressure on the ball carrier and we bomb away we don’t score frequently enough. It ain’t something new.