Meltdowns

[Gen Y]

Immediately after the game I took myself to the gym, punched a bag for 15 min or so, a little core and lower back and I'm back and not even that angry any more.

Trust the coaching staff to fix the problems. I see signs of the side doing well in the future, we dominated big sections of that game. Should never have been close.

 

[sutcliffe's hotel]

mate **** it.........the club that we all put our money into, deliver that to us the hardcore fans the ones who are paid up members...

today the gloves are off

i will be ringing the club for a ****ing explanation.........

I've done it before and its time again EUGENE get on here and enlightn us with something anything?????????

No problems with any of that - but if the Gold Coast nightmare had happened you would not even have a real club to ring up and vent.

 

[Joshen]

Take one little step back.

Realise that this is all over chasing a small piece of pigskin on a lawned area for two hours, there are bigger things in life.

Float calmly, like an autumn leaf, down a quiet stream.

This is what I keep reminding myself.

 

[Josh Barnstable]

It sucks to be a teenager in a loss like this. Going to school on Monday is going to be hell.

 

[Chron]

It sucks to be a teenager in a loss like this. Going to school on Monday is going to be hell.

+ 1

God help us Josh

 

[HARPSichord]

Spirit, One and All my arse.

 

[AGC]

My friends i'd argue are quite stupid, and often bring up the \

"NORTH SHOULD MERGE WITH MELBOURNE HAHAHA" argument.

I always dismiss them, mainly on the basis that I love the club and never want to see it polluted with the culture of Melbourne FC (if you need an example have a gander at Fox504 atm) - and I respond thusly.

Now after the last 5 weeks, I'm not even sure if I have a leg to stand on (I can even see players in the Melbourne team that would make ours)

I'm happy to see us win, accepting of losses if we give it a real good go. Last year, (whilst we copped shit for being uncompetitive) - was heartened to see us at least get close to some good teams (Hawks, Blues etc), but at least we seemed like we were having a crack. Upgraded my membership, contributed to Box On, and really bought into what the club was feeding me.
Just sucked in.

Next week, i'll front up, go to the Lions match, watch us probably win by 5 points in a turgid affair, with Bryce Retzlaff and Aaron Cornelius kicked 20 between them, and have BS spin some shit about how we won every KPI and we're tracking forwards.

Sick of it. We're unaccountable and it's starting from the top

/endrant

 

[Blue Heart]

Probably the most gutless performance of any team this year.

Good on Port for capitalizing on us. What the %!@# is going on down there

No sorry mate, that "honour" belongs to the Blues last V. St. Kilda !!!

 

[R00StaR]

Lost the game at the selection table I think.
You can't have Luke Delaney, Cam Delaney, Pederson, Grima, Thompson all in the same team.

Add in Spud too, stupid selections really particularly since we've been playing small all year. I know after last week we had to swing the axe, but to change the structure so much?

Those questioning Anthony, well he had to be dropped really. Squibs too many contests, the message had to be sent.

Edwards was fair enough, too many turnovers when he moves up the ground, dropped marks and loses his feet to often. So Milky was the obvious choice given his form, sadly he too dropped marks grrr.

Our midfield is very young still and Harvey just too easily tagged out (plus his zero defensive efforts). Poor selection no doubt, but not about to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

 

[jacko57]

Trust the coaching staff to fix the problems. I see signs of the side doing well in the future, we dominated big sections of that game. Should never have been close.

Fair enough, they have to be responsible for creating most of them.

 

[Jonnoo]

gotta wonder if Basti will re sign after that trollop today.

 

[ClintEastwood]

wtf just happened how did we just forfeit a 5 goal lead to this bunch of hacks. Dont know what to say

Sorry to intrude, and commiserations (believe me, I know something about misery this year, and last).

The thing is, the gap between Port's worst football and best football is quite large. When we are bad, we are worse than "hacks", as someone above said. Oh god, don't get me started. Your boys allowed us to be in vague striking distance by the last and then (tiredness?) allowed us to let our best footy come out for a quarter.

Port's had the the same thing done to us a few times this year and yes, it's soul-destroying.

Good luck from here on in.

 

[Engimal]

Weeeeeeeee areeeeeeeeeeee soooooooooooo f*******!!!!!

 

[Old Skool]

I'll keep my rants for the overwhelmingly deserving criticism threads.

 

[Harris 10]

No meltdown from me I expeceted to lose and in a funny way I'm actually glad we did.

Time has come for some hard decisions. Actually they're not that hard but do they have the balls to make them.

 

[Old Skool]

No meltdown from me I expeceted to lose and in a funny way I'm actually glad we did.

Time has come for some hard decisions. Actually they're not that hard but do they have the balls to make them.

Do they have the capability to make hard decisions?

Are there too many sycophantic "yes men" at the NMFC?

Is there an entrenched self serving clique running the place?

 

[Mav]

No meltdown from me I expeceted to lose and in a funny way I'm actually glad we did.

Time has come for some hard decisions. Actually they're not that hard but do they have the balls to make them.

what are they?

 

[the big lebowski]

gotta wonder if Basti will re sign after that trollop today.

Well I certainly wouldn't be paying top dollar to keep him.

 

[Marstermind]

Words can't describe how deflated I feel. Another year shot to pieces before the end of May. Another season to 'develop' and 'build'. More games that don't matter. Wins that don't mean anything for the overall competition. Losses that don't matter either. We are irrelevant once again. More promises of getting better - without ever getting better. A club that started at nothing when Scotty got there and still going nowhere. Recruits come in who can't develop beyond average and even then do it so slowly. The same experienced players who make the same mistakes every week. We could sack the coach. We could overhaul the team. But there are no quick fixes - we are either anchored in mediocrity for another few years or having to head backwards again and and wait even longer.

We are nowhere. We are nothing.

 

[tazaa]

13 May 2012, 22:31
Re: Pick the fringe player...

Port will beat us in a close one.
Its gonna be a shit day at AAMI, Im telling ya.
Our group has a lot of issues to deal with, we just cant see it.

Cant believe i got this one right.


15 May 2012, 11:35
Re: Time to move on: North V Port

I actually think Port will win. They are not going to be a walkover.
We havnt had the best record over there recently.
Wouldnt be at all surprised if we kick ourselves out of it and get done by a late burst to be honest.
The Dogs loss has rocketed the group. Not sure if we are mature enough to adress it and move on in a week.

15 May 2012, 19:36
Re: !!Port are F%*#ED this week!!

Were not mentally tough.
No body fears us.
No one thinks gee its going to be a hard game against North.
No one is scared of of our players having a day out against them.
Ziebell doesnt have the fear factor of a Martin. Yet.
Wells is still getting into rhythm.
Swallow is a danger but is lacking serious quality support.
LTs yips mean he has to have a a heaven on earth day to kick 6.0 instead of 3.2.
Petrie had fear factor but is out of form.
Boomer is 34 and if tagged heavily is a non factor.
Its why we dont dominate or intimidate sides like the top 4.
And its why sides stay with us early on in games and match it.
We give anyone and everyone a sniff and it turns into confidence.
This is where the meat grinder was meant to come into play but Brad Scotts killed that off.
Westhoff Ebert Pearce Schulz are licking their lips. We know it and they know it. Makes me sick.

Again

 

[ThePezDispenser]

gotta wonder if Basti will re sign after that trollop today.

He didn't actually do anything to help the situation!

 

[shintemaster]

gotta wonder if Basti will re sign after that trollop today.

He's not playing well enough to be worried about that.

 

[HoTPowER]

good luck with the rest of the year kangas.

 

[Ashley B]

Its a funny game Footy we have stolen a few games off Port over the yrs and as luck would have it they did it to us today. Sucks for us North people, but thats what happens.

 

[SnowRoo]

Things im sick of hearing,

Kids will be inconsistant, well no out performance has been consistantly bad for a while now.

KPIs say, blah blah there are 2 KPIs being severley overlooked one is customer satisfaction, our membership will suffer if this continues. The second is that irrelivent thing called a ladder, it is THE kpi and it indicates we have gone backwards compared to the rest of the league.

We have a wealth of KPP at North. We have a stock of underpreformed tall players not progressing to the next level, a 190+ failure is not a KPP.

A 10 min lapse in concentration lost the game, no we NEVER took that game away from them, we had chances all day to blow the game away and didnt do it.

We will address this during the week, what if the dyke has more holes than we have fingers.

Teams have worked out how to beat our gameplan, so ummm no we wont change just deal better with it. So all in all plan B is do plan A better BRILLIANT.

North has become the land of excusses and the more we accept them the softer we will become. Dont give us the development BS, dont give us KPIs, dont give us we ran it out fine. Be straight with supporters and yourself, this gameplan with this list is not top 8 AFL material.

We are all to comfortable at North these days, the club needs a shake and wakeup call from the top down. We look in such an insular mannor that the truth is being lost to what we want to believe.