Mark Robertson: Fat,Bald, Impotent, Victorian Whinger

[crows_4_life]

anyone see him having a cry on "Before the Bounce" about our game plan??

Dunstall, Wallace and Frawley shot him down in flames, particually JD saying "Robbo, you just said it yourself, its effective"

Robertson = ****er

 

[Dandy_GO]

I get ****ing sick of these bullshit arguments anyway. We may slow it down for 3 minutes a game, but is there a more attractive sight in football than watching McLeod charge down the wing, with 2 or 3 crows in support?
We play tough, hard, contested footy when the opposition has the ball, and break quickly when we have it. It's the best of both worlds, as far as I'm concerned. Plus it wins games.
The Sydney game may not have been the prettiest game ever, but generally our attacking gameplan isn't a hell of a lot different from the Bulldogs, who are apparently one of the more attractive sides in the competition. Both rely on hurting the opposition on the counter attack, with plenty of run off half back. The only differences are that we're better than them at it, and we actually have more than one plan to fall back on.
Robertson probably doesn't even watch our games.

 

[RoosterLad]

Yep we play shit football and never kick goals. It's so boring we might as well not turn up to play football. If the other teams were so sexy and exciting why don't they kick more goals than us? The fact is, they don't. We kick more than them, we win, sensational stuff Mr Craig.

Sydney play a similar style, we played the game better, we won.

We took the Bulldogs on, attacked and played on at all costs, slowed it down when they made a slight run to try and take the 'sting' out of the game' OMG WE WON AGAIN.

We were one of the highest scoring teams last season, despite having no forward-line and playing the most boring football in aussie rules history. Go figure.

 

[Dandy_GO]

Just goes to show the low standard of journalism in this industry.

 

[King Elvis]

We run hard, and we run in numbers... isn't that what Football is about? Running yourself into the ground and supporting your teammates?

Forgetting Bulldogs, show me a Victorian team that plays exciting football.

Personally, I like watching the Crows, West Coast, Bulldogs and probably St Kilda & Sydney the most.

A game doesn't have to be open and flowing to be a good game, tough, in-close and hard fought can be great too.

 

[jenny61_99]

The guys entitled to his opinion though surely?? Whilst I disagree with him some of the times, there are times in a game where I completely loathe our style of play. I understand there is is reasoning behind it, doesn't make it pretty to watch though.

 

[fach]

i think the adelaide v sydney game was brilliant...it really shows the strengths of each coach and thats the beauty of our game...you can have all sorts of game plans. whatever style of game we re playing i dont care as long as we re winning...craigy knows what hes doing...he has the plan

 

[tribey]

anyone see him having a cry on "Before the Bounce" about our game plan??

A few of them over there love sinking their boots into the interstate tilt to make up for Victoria's obvious shortcomings since 2000.

Be it Sydney and Brisbane's salary cap advantage and supposed rorted Premierships, our gameplan and supposed fluked Premierships, Port's unofficial status as second-class citizens due to the battles over history and heritage or West Coast's repeated indiscretions, the knives are never far away from coming out.

It's what Victorian footy has been reduced to - the recent claims from some that the ANZAC Day game is 'bigger than the Grand Final' just the latest LOLworthy spin.

"I definitely think it is, because the crowd is split 50/50, unlike the Grand Final where the majority are neutrals".

Sure...

 

[rayven]

Was surprised about frawley getting stuck into him tonight over the comments.

Frawley has shown some ignorance before towards us.

Wallace has personality issues with us but Dunstall was a shining light on Fox Footy last year for his abilty to be objective to any Club.

The stupid thing is most sides tried to shut us down last year with Negative tactics. This year we are abit more defensive but I ponder our lists injury count has abit to do with that.

The bulldogs get press going on about how attacking they are. yet we were givin credit for beating them with attacking football yet we are the most boring.

Its a national comp. the national show had 4 victorians on it yet they put a feral one on. have to question the producers policy towards the national game.

 

[bus24]

"Yap Yap Yap I love Victoria Yap Yap Yap Bring back the VFL Yap Yap Yap sides out of Victoria are cheats Yap Yap Yap"

 

[-VC-]

The guys entitled to his opinion though surely??

He should be revoked of his media accreditation for being crap. That would at least remove the large forum he has for his opinion. It would at least mean we don't have to listen to it.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

I was going to start a seperate thread on this but what the heck ......

Football talk back callers for many years have moaned the demise of competitive footy ......you know the old fashioned one on one stuff.

Modern footy MANY complain is about chip, chip chip with lots of uncontested possessions, and basically circle work ...........one team brings it up one side of the ground, and the other side switches play and brings down the other side.

"What can the rules committee do to get more contested marks, more contested footy" ...........you hear it wek after week after week.

So what happens when two teams give all these pundits both general public and commentators what they want .........negative criticism

Last weeks game had everything ........one on one hard stuff, contested footy all over the ground ......no free wheeling footy here folks ........I LOVED IT

I just get very angry at the contradictory comments made .....yes particularly in the games homeland .......it's as if from week to week the game is never right

So what exactly is the PERFECT gamestyle that all these so called experts want

Are these the same experts that said the quick kick in after a point, the hands in the back, the no touching an opponent after a mark/free kick ...would bring the game into ruination

If the Crows keep playing this tight footy with quick breaking counter attacks then that is FANTASTIC

 

[jenny61_99]

He should be revoked of his media accreditation for being crap. That would at least remove the large forum he has for his opinion. It would at least mean we don't have to listen to it.

Look at it from an "outsider's" perspective. We all LOVE the Crows game plan (actually, personally - like I said above - sometimes it bores ME to tears but I know there's a reason for it) but to those who couldn't give the preverbial about the club the game plan IS boring sometimes. Why is it when people criticize what we do, we all tear strips off them? God forbid they be from Port OR Victoria (which almost equates to the same thing from what I can see)!

 

[-VC-]

Look at it from an "outsider's" perspective. We all LOVE the Crows game plan (actually, personally - like I said above - sometimes it bores ME to tears but I know there's a reason for it) but to those who couldn't give the preverbial about the club the game plan IS boring sometimes. Why is it when people criticize what we do, we all tear strips off them? God forbid they be from Port OR Victoria (which almost equates to the same thing from what I can see)!

Oh, I was speaking on a wider scale about the work of Mark "Robbo" Robertson. He is a clown. This rant didn't bother me as he was shown up by his co-panellists and made to look stupid.

 

[King Elvis]

Look at it from an "outsider's" perspective. We all LOVE the Crows game plan (actually, personally - like I said above - sometimes it bores ME to tears but I know there's a reason for it) but to those who couldn't give the preverbial about the club the game plan IS boring sometimes. Why is it when people criticize what we do, we all tear strips off them? God forbid they be from Port OR Victoria (which almost equates to the same thing from what I can see)!

It wasn't boring through the middle of last season though; we were destroying everybody with hard running, fast moving football.

People criticising our gameplan often forget one thing; most teams in the Comp fear us, and they think that to beat us they have to lock it down and stop our fast movement, we then react and slow the game up. THEN WE GET BLAMED.

 

[Stiffy_18]

I was going to start a seperate thread on this but what the heck ......

Football talk back callers for many years have moaned the demise of competitive footy ......you know the old fashioned one on one stuff.

Modern footy MANY complain is about chip, chip chip with lots of uncontested possessions, and basically circle work ...........one team brings it up one side of the ground, and the other side switches play and brings down the other side.

"What can the rules committee do to get more contested marks, more contested footy" ...........you hear it wek after week after week.

So what happens when two teams give all these pundits both general public and commentators what they want .........negative criticism

Last weeks game had everything ........one on one hard stuff, contested footy all over the ground ......no free wheeling footy here folks ........I LOVED IT

I just get very angry at the contradictory comments made .....yes particularly in the games homeland .......it's as if from week to week the game is never right

So what exactly is the PERFECT gamestyle that all these so called experts want

Are these the same experts that said the quick kick in after a point, the hands in the back, the no touching an opponent after a mark/free kick ...would bring the game into ruination

If the Crows keep playing this tight footy with quick breaking counter attacks then that is FANTASTIC

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Everyone talls about the good old days yet when two teams put up a great game of one on one contested footy, people cry foul.

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a game as much as the Adelaide Vs Sydney on the weekend. It was one for the purists. Anyone who didn't like THAT game should go and watch Gealic Football.

We play one of the best styles of football around. We pride ourselves on hard inside football with quick breakaways from the contest. The only reason these moffos are complaining is because we are smart enough to adapt our game to the opposition. As King Elvis said, if the teams come out and want to slow the game down, we adapt and its our fault. What a load of crap!

 

[rayven]

Out of interest.

Adelaide have one of the better modern Subiaco records.

Adelaide pretty well has the best modern away record.

Freo lost twice at home this year and only beat a rabble like Melbourne this season.

We have had 3 quality wins in a row.

We are proven to combat sides like Freo's style.

Only Frawley on this show the threads about tipped Adelaide.