Looking forward...

[malpaso]

Apparently the boys are "looking forward to the last 9 rounds" like they were "looking forward to the last 10 rounds" a week ago.

Is CC just rattling off prescribed press statements? SOS every week win or lose, he just prattles out the same verbiage.

Oh, and he said they are going to have a real crack at it. Good Luck.

 

[Dr Ralph Dagg]

I don't have the time but I'd like to see someone drag out the press cuttings from the finals loss against Essendon. I'm sure there were comments about the boys etc would learn a big lesson from that loss and it would stand them in good stead for the future.

And then check the FFC website for CC's comments about how the boys will learn from the finals atmosphere last night.

Deja Vu.

 

[rgauci]

Think about doing a press conference every week. A couple radio interviews and media commitments. Eventually you just have a drill you go through. The fans who listen regularly always get dished the same stuff from any coach.

Look at Woosha, he doesn't even speak. 'No comment'. 'oh yeah'. 'is that right? (with stupid smirk on face)'.

The coaches who speak their mind are called martians etc.

 

[Cheetah]

Less talk , more action. I don't want to hear about how the boys are going to turn it around, I just want to see it!

 

[dugrene]

Think about doing a press conference every week. A couple radio interviews and media commitments. Eventually you just have a drill you go through. The fans who listen regularly always get dished the same stuff from any coach.

Look at Woosha, he doesn't even speak. 'No comment'. 'oh yeah'. 'is that right? (with stupid smirk on face)'.

The coaches who speak their mind are called martians etc.

CC has backed himself into corner. He had the glib tounge and sharp wit to start with. We (the supporters) mostly believed he was going to get the job done and keep us smiling on the journey. Where we are at now gives him no room to maneuver so no matter what he says he will be criticised. Tough job sounding positive when your losing.
As for the eloquent Johhny. If his team loses next we'll have to hire an interpreter to dicipher the grunts.
Looking forward to seeing the news footage tomorrow of grunt's team playing blind mans bluff. hahahahahahaha.

 

[YAKUZA]

CC has backed himself into corner. He had the glib tounge and sharp wit to start with. We (the supporters) mostly believed he was going to get the job done and keep us smiling on the journey. Where we are at now gives him no room to maneuver so no matter what he says he will be criticised. Tough job sounding positive when your losing.
As for the eloquent Johhny. If his team loses next we'll have to hire an interpreter to dicipher the grunts.
Looking forward to seeing the news footage tomorrow of grunt's team playing blind mans bluff. hahahahahahaha.

The difference between the two is obvious by the fact that one engages the brain before the mouth and the other doesn't know how and one has a team and a Club that are both professionally run and have a winning culture and the other heads up something trying to represent that.

 

[Borry]

I don't have the time but I'd like to see someone drag out the press cuttings from the finals loss against Essendon. I'm sure there were comments about the boys etc would learn a big lesson from that loss and it would stand them in good stead for the future.

And then check the FFC website for CC's comments about how the boys will learn from the finals atmosphere last night.

Deja Vu.

Lucky enough, i have a few cuttings in a scrapbook I kept from a few years ago showing a series of artivcles following the Elimination final loss and the humiliation to St Kilda in the so called 'Ali v frazier' matchup.

 

[Topdock65]

I love the spin the club are using at the moment , Weve got 6 out of 9 games at home remaining ...

Whats the spin when or if we drop some of those home games ....Geelong did`nt seem to worry about our home ground ...

 

[go team]

I can assure you Essendon wont either - we'll lose no matter where we play!

 

[Slacker]

Well his comments are getting close to farce but we can't deny that the finals are still within grasp. We need to win 6 more with our crappy %, and as has been mentioned we have 6 home games ahead of us:

R14 Fremantle vs. Essendon Subiaco Oval
R15 Collingwood vs. Fremantle M.C.G.
R16 Fremantle vs. Melbourne Subiaco Oval
R17 Carlton vs. Fremantle Telstra Dome
R18 Fremantle vs. Hawthorn Subiaco Oval
R19 Adelaide vs. Fremantle AAMI Stadium
R20 Fremantle vs. St Kilda Subiaco Oval
R21 West Coast Eagles vs. Fremantle Subiaco Oval
R22 Fremantle vs. Port Adelaide Subiaco

As we all expected the Carlton game will be absolutely crucial away game. My prediction is that we will drop a home game somewhere then end up missing the 8 on percentage. There is also a little devil's advocate voice telling me that a late collapse would have us pick up some good players from the draft - sad, I know.

 

[dugrene]

I did a ladder predictor with us winning 12 games. Tried to be as objective as possible by giving most of the other teams reasonable win loss on current form. What was scarey was if Essendon dont win anymore games and hawthorn keep losing we didnt make the 8 on percentage with 12 wins.

Just to keep predictors in perspective I did another one were we have one more win than most of us would believe possible (ie. 8 from 9) and finished above the slime.

 

[dugrene]

The difference between the two is obvious by the fact that one engages the brain before the mouth and the other doesn't know how and one has a team and a Club that are both professionally run and have a winning culture and the other heads up something trying to represent that.

You've been circling for a fair while now YAk man. The carcas of CC is almost ready for picking. The Fremantle Football Club might have to perform the last rites and do some more soul searching. From my perspective I hope CC hangs on. I hope we make the finals and do all the things the circling buzzards would dispair at.
It's a bit like Cool Runnings or anyone of those hollywood feelgood movies if it happens the goodguys will be smiling and the scrooges of this world can go back to where they came from.

 

[malpaso]

There will be no finals this year.

6 out of our last 9 is not possible. Here are the losses.

Collingwood away
Melbourne at home
Adelaide away
West Coast away

that's at best 5 wins.

Cya CC.

 

[Ripper]

There will be no finals this year.

6 out of our last 9 is not possible. Here are the losses.

Collingwood away
Melbourne at home
Adelaide away
West Coast away

that's at best 5 wins.

Cya CC.

We could win them all or lose them all. Depends on whether JLo & Sandi are available.

 

[Kapow!!!]

We could win them all or lose them all. Depends on whether JLo & Sandi are available.

You're getting far too optimistic to believe Rip. I'd have us as a win over Melbourne but our percentage is sub-par at best not going to get us finals. Collingwood write off now, Derby write off, Adelaide write off, Question mark Essendon, Hell you could almost question mark all of them. I can guarantee we aren't going to make Finals. But we'll give it one hell of a shot nonetheless, fall short and spend another summer being ridiculed into submission.

Nothing changes

 

[FreoFury]

There will have to be a major improvement for us to make the finals, which personally I cant see happening. Something seems a little stagnant down at the Port. I'm picking 4 more wins for the year possibly 5. Hopefully I'm wrong but based on the evidence before me ...

For better or for worse CC will be packing his bags and the new coach will have slightly better draft picks to play with than we expected. Every cloud has a silver lining .

 

[Rob]

You're getting far too optimistic to believe Rip. I'd have us as a win over Melbourne but our percentage is sub-par at best not going to get us finals.

I'm not sure about that....look at the 2 teams we're likely to be competing with come round 22. Richmond - their percentage is worse than ours, and Port - we're only a big win away from catching their percentage.

Yes, our percentage is sh*t, but it's only relevant if we finish level on points with another team. And the 2 teams with a sh*t percentage as well are the ones favourites to be level on points.

 

[wehavethepassion]

There will have to be a major improvement for us to make the finals, which personally I cant see happening. Something seems a little stagnant down at the Port. I'm picking 4 more wins for the year possibly 5. Hopefully I'm wrong but based on the evidence before me ...

For better or for worse CC will be packing his bags and the new coach will have slightly better draft picks to play with than we expected. Every cloud has a silver lining .

I keep asking it maybe Ripper can answer it. who is going to ask Connolly to leave?

we can lose the nexst 9 games he'll still be there.

 

[Ripper]

I keep asking it maybe Ripper can answer it. who is going to ask Connolly to leave?

we can lose the nexst 9 games he'll still be there.

We might win the next nine. Certainly no one can accuse us of peaking too early.

With something approaching a full list we will be well placed to "make and win a final" which is the stated objective of everyone at the club.

I have just watched the Sydney game again and we were very very good apart from a five minute spell at the start of the last QTR .

It reminded me of the Adelaide game last year where we lost but got on a bit of a roll.

Worry about it round 22 and stop trying to depress me.

FWIW we turned last year at round 15, 6-9 and came home strongly apart from the derby hiccup which has steeled the crew to beat them every time since.

 

[Cameron_K]

You're getting far too optimistic to believe Rip. I'd have us as a win over Melbourne but our percentage is sub-par at best not going to get us finals. Collingwood write off now, Derby write off, Adelaide write off, Question mark Essendon, Hell you could almost question mark all of them. I can guarantee we aren't going to make Finals. But we'll give it one hell of a shot nonetheless, fall short and spend another summer being ridiculed into submission.

Nothing changes

Why is the derby a write off? After the way they have played over the last month I would be more confident playing the eagles than Melbourne.

 

[332docker]

Q. Where did Pav play in '03 when we made the finals?
A. Midfield

Get him back in the middle. Look at our For stat we are just not scoring enough and that is with PAV up forward most of the time. He scored 37 goals running in the midfield in 2003!!!!!!! He is a bloody accurate kick and has a cool head and reads the play well.

Teams that score well and win matches win the midfield battle. We need our best players playing in the midfield!!!!!!!

Bell,Medhurst,Farmer,Murphy,Longmuir and Headland would make a potent enough forward line if they have some quality ball coming in from the midfield!

This is a team sport and players need to play where the team will benifit from their ability the most PAV must go back into the middle if we are to make finals this year!!!!!!(McPharlin and Polak must go down back!!)

Cheersandbeers 332docker

 

[Dr Ralph Dagg]

Worry about it round 22 and stop trying to depress me.

At the last AFL Fan Irrepressibility Championships we heard you were a creditable 3rd behind two Carlton supporters. It just not a medical possibility you could be depressed so stop jiving us.

FWIW we turned last year at round 15, 6-9 and came home strongly apart from the derby hiccup which has steeled the crew to beat them every time since.

There was also the small hiccup of a trouncing by Port Adelaide in Round 22 -- with a finals berth on the line -- in exactly the same way Sydney beat us last Saturday.

 

[Alfonz]

We might win the next nine. Certainly no one can accuse us of peaking too early.

With something approaching a full list we will be well placed to "make and win a final" which is the stated objective of everyone at the club.

I have just watched the Sydney game again and we were very very good apart from a five minute spell at the start of the last QTR .

It reminded me of the Adelaide game last year where we lost but got on a bit of a roll.

Worry about it round 22 and stop trying to depress me.

FWIW we turned last year at round 15, 6-9 and came home strongly apart from the derby hiccup which has steeled the crew to beat them every time since.

I admire your optimisim, I wish I could agree but I can't. I thought we were pretty average against Sydney, who haven't been playing well lately. Our endeavour was there, which is great, but the skills were still average. We were lucky Sydney didn't kick straight, or they would have won by 10 goals. We played very well to kick the first 3, after that we were well beaten around the ground for most of the game.

Plenty of people often bring the end of last year up. Adelaide absolutely smashed us for 3 quarters and then went to sleep. We defeated Carlton, Coll, Rich, who were down the bottom and were playing sh*te. The dogs had heaps of injuries. Melb were in the middle of a woeful form slump. We got belted by WC and Port. Those games were not hiccups, they were reality checks. We played one sort of good game against decent opposition in St Kilda, but on the night they were absolutely decimated by injury to key players. We played largely average football through to the end of last year, and we have continued to play the same football this year.

 

[tico]

FWIW we turned last year at round 15, 6-9 and came home strongly apart from the derby hiccup which has steeled the crew to beat them every time since.

Then must you ask yourself why are we in the same boat again to have to try and do this( 6 from 9 wins), where is the improvement from last year? Ripper your loyalty is commendable and that big bucket you are using to empty out the water on a leaking ship is too small to use anymore.
Just promise me one thing. Don't become a Shane and start dictating what people can post, im not saying you have done this just keep a neutral opinion. Not everything has to have a positive spin if its not worthy, i suppose this is how Dockerland moderator started is all.

 

[Ripper]

I admire your optimisim, I wish I could agree but I can't. I thought we were pretty average against Sydney, who haven't been playing well lately. Our endeavour was there, which is great, but the skills were still average. We were lucky Sydney didn't kick straight, or they would have won by 10 goals. We played very well to kick the first 3, after that we were well beaten around the ground for most of the game.

Plenty of people often bring the end of last year up. Adelaide absolutely smashed us for 3 quarters and then went to sleep. We defeated Carlton, Coll, Rich, who were down the bottom and were playing sh*te. The dogs had heaps of injuries. Melb were in the middle of a woeful form slump. We got belted by WC and Port. Those games were not hiccups, they were reality checks. We played one sort of good game against decent opposition in St Kilda, but on the night they were absolutely decimated by injury to key players. We played largely average football through to the end of last year, and we have continued to play the same football this year.

Who needs toast fans when we can talk our owm acheivements down so well.

Fact of the matter was that the Pies really wanted to win for Buck's 250th , The tigers were level with us pushing for a top four spot and the Dee's went on the make the finals.

As it stands we have used 35 players so far this year, only behind Brisbane & the Tigers who have used 36.

The injury ravaged Bulldogs have used 28 players.

It stands to reason that as players come back from injury we will get back to the form or better than we displayed early in the season.