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60 plus years of continuous membership and today is as embarrassed as I have been for many years by our club. 5 years of garbage and we can't get pumped for our biggest game of the year? Really? The club is in crisis. A crop of high draft picks, best available coach - what's left?Today we get thrashed by a team whose coach was gonna be sacked if they lost.

We are in a crisis. Please, tell me how we fix this shambles. Who takes responsibility?
 

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Couldnt watch after quarter time, looks like a validated decision.

We are genuine frauds.

Larkey on the media going on about us not wanting to be lauching stocks then after taking a rare contested mark plays on from point blank and misses.

Zurhaar bust's forward under no pressure puts it on a defenders tit.

Same old same old.
 
How many new threads do we need to say we are shit?

Not everyone needs their own thread.

We have the rock bottom thread, the failed rebuild thread, the autopsy thread, the Rawlings thread, the clarko thread...
 
60 plus years of continuous membership and today is as embarrassed as I have been for many years by our club. 5 years of garbage and we can't get pumped for our biggest game of the year? Really? The club is in crisis. A crop of high draft picks, best available coach - what's left?Today we get thrashed by a team whose coach was gonna be sacked if they lost.

We are in a crisis. Please, tell me how we fix this shambles. Who takes responsibility?
30 something years continuous membership. A few of those years when I really didn't have the money but did it anyway. Still paid up while we continually got screwed in Docklands seating deals and we put teams of sub VFL players on the field. Put the hand in the pocket in 2007. Wrote letters to the Age requesting a right of reply to their anti North agenda lead by their former chief writer. Gave a shit.

Today was just embarrassing. If that's what gets served up, they can give me a call in 2026 and ask why I haven't renewed. And by "they", I mean Sonia, Clarkson or Brady, not the work experience kid.

Pathetic.
 
How many new threads do we need to say we are shit?

Not everyone needs their own thread.

We have the rock bottom thread, the failed rebuild thread, the autopsy thread, the Rawlings thread, the clarko thread...
Its a sign of the times about how bad we are with no light at the end of the tunnel. Embarrassing.
 
60 plus years of continuous membership and today is as embarrassed as I have been for many years by our club. 5 years of garbage and we can't get pumped for our biggest game of the year? Really? The club is in crisis. A crop of high draft picks, best available coach - what's left?Today we get thrashed by a team whose coach was gonna be sacked if they lost.

We are in a crisis. Please, tell me how we fix this shambles. Who takes responsibility?
Defence.

Everything we do, from now until the end of the year, should be based on defence.

And if you don’t defend, you get dropped. Simple.

I remember when Ross Lyon dropped Dal Santo and Milne (and a few others) in 2008. At the time, everyone thought the Saints were doomed and needed a complete rebuild. Turned out they beat us the following week at Carrara and became serious footy team after that.

We need to do the same. Every single player should be on notice that they are on thin ice. If you defend, you stay in the team. If not, you’re dropped.

No favourites - just basic standards
 
Defence.

Everything we do, from now until the end of the year, should be based on defence.

And if you don’t defend, you get dropped. Simple.

I remember when Ross Lyon dropped Dal Santo and Milne (and a few others) in 2008. At the time, everyone thought the Saints were doomed and needed a complete rebuild. Turned out they beat us the following week at Carrara and became serious footy team after that.

We need to do the same. Every single player should be on notice that they are on thin ice. If you defend, you stay in the team. If not, you’re dropped.

No favourites - just basic standards
I think we have been sold the magic beans.

Clarkson couldn’t run a chook raffle at the moment. We either have the most epically stupid defenders to ever play the game or Clarkson is setting them up to fail?

Pick one, but either way it’s a shitshow.
 

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I think we have been sold the magic beans.

Clarkson couldn’t run a chook raffle at the moment. We either have the most epically stupid defenders to ever play the game or Clarkson is setting them up to fail?

Pick one, but either way it’s a shitshow.

Clarko players kickers instead of defenders or footballers being the ball.

He's lost it.
 
I think we have been sold the magic beans.

Clarkson couldn’t run a chook raffle at the moment. We either have the most epically stupid defenders to ever play the game or Clarkson is setting them up to fail?

Pick one, but either way it’s a shitshow.

It starts in the middle. I don’t give a **** right now if we kick a winning score. We need to get ugly and start ****ing up our opposition.

If our opponents get 12 goals or more, then it’s a failure.

Less than 12 goals and it’s a win.

We need to get the foundations right. And the foundation of any good team is defence.
 

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I wonder what the guys coming from successful clubs like Parker and Daniel make of the dumpster fire North currently is. They’d be in a unique position to identify whatever it is that we are lacking.
My theory: ahem. We’ve recruited a lot of really immature players onto our list. Not just young, but too immature for the rigours of AFL. They might come good but it will take them years.
 

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