The King!
Chosen One
Maybe it’s not thread worthy, but I don’t start threads often.
What the **** is going on mentally here, I accept there are injuries and inconsistencies in the lineup , that’s fine. But since the 22 loss this has been happening , 23 down at Geelong for instance, and games where pressure is applied and we go to water.
2024 we lifted and were awesome but even when winning effort and intensity became a negotiable , and we would win in bursts, it looked good, but the team was basically fit bar the skipper.
then we lost to freo ,and we had the Port debacle, the Dogs debacle that should have been 100, even the Pies win was only the last quarter or so we woke up, then of course the Granny and now this year it’s gone from at best massive lapses or just nothing to now full games , the last 2 weeks are non competitive.
If I look at tonight, most of the team are somewhat proven decent players, someone like Mitchell who knows, but there is at least 15-16 who have played reasonably decent footy. To just get outshone now at home , by this much.
We don’t have a forward line, but we also aren’t getting the ball down there, we don’t run hard, we don’t chase, we get outnumbered at contest after contest or we get beaten when we do have the numbers.
The other thing is the general footy and discipline stuff
- we tackle but they never stick, ranking went through 3 different tackles in one play for instance
The other one is our attitude to the umpiring, complain more than I do on here, Warner was going to ground and literally arguing at the same time in the second, Blakey stops for frees a lot, we argue, Rampe got sucked in by Rachelle, we give away the ticky touch wood frees so often, dumb 50s so many
All of this lack of discipline often by senior guys and negotiated effort points to an angry clueless side that is mentally ****ed, or mentally checked out, and when it’s hard not one player seems to stand up or do anything.
The coaching lacks a plan at times, then off the field we just talk shit, we post all the crap , games don’t define us, play a few tunes, I don’t even know how to describe it, but it’s like we don’t want to put the pressure on the group that losing matters or is an issue, we want to go softly softly.
We put an untried coach in at the last minute
Everyone’s on long deals, there’s so much security, we overpay to keep our own, our drafting apart from academy picks is ordinaryish, we trade/sign for other teams dregs, we barely drop anyone, we don’t manage players when we could
Sorry this got a bit rambling, but this isn’t just tonight and the problem is on the other hand the club wins more than it does and maybe we get a few back and this is a blip
But we need to decide what direction this club is going, what’s going on mentally, have we just got too many scars and it’s going to take a massive chunk of change on and off the field?
Mods feel free to delete, but the lack of discipline and thought shits me on and off the field
What the **** is going on mentally here, I accept there are injuries and inconsistencies in the lineup , that’s fine. But since the 22 loss this has been happening , 23 down at Geelong for instance, and games where pressure is applied and we go to water.
2024 we lifted and were awesome but even when winning effort and intensity became a negotiable , and we would win in bursts, it looked good, but the team was basically fit bar the skipper.
then we lost to freo ,and we had the Port debacle, the Dogs debacle that should have been 100, even the Pies win was only the last quarter or so we woke up, then of course the Granny and now this year it’s gone from at best massive lapses or just nothing to now full games , the last 2 weeks are non competitive.
If I look at tonight, most of the team are somewhat proven decent players, someone like Mitchell who knows, but there is at least 15-16 who have played reasonably decent footy. To just get outshone now at home , by this much.
We don’t have a forward line, but we also aren’t getting the ball down there, we don’t run hard, we don’t chase, we get outnumbered at contest after contest or we get beaten when we do have the numbers.
The other thing is the general footy and discipline stuff
- other team goals on the line that rolled through, so many this year
- not paying attention on the mark- opposition plays on.
- not 15 why can’t we adapt to this rule, maybe it’s sometimes called like shit, but we don’t make adjustments, we call for the ball in that spot
- we tackle but they never stick, ranking went through 3 different tackles in one play for instance
The other one is our attitude to the umpiring, complain more than I do on here, Warner was going to ground and literally arguing at the same time in the second, Blakey stops for frees a lot, we argue, Rampe got sucked in by Rachelle, we give away the ticky touch wood frees so often, dumb 50s so many
All of this lack of discipline often by senior guys and negotiated effort points to an angry clueless side that is mentally ****ed, or mentally checked out, and when it’s hard not one player seems to stand up or do anything.
The coaching lacks a plan at times, then off the field we just talk shit, we post all the crap , games don’t define us, play a few tunes, I don’t even know how to describe it, but it’s like we don’t want to put the pressure on the group that losing matters or is an issue, we want to go softly softly.
We put an untried coach in at the last minute
Everyone’s on long deals, there’s so much security, we overpay to keep our own, our drafting apart from academy picks is ordinaryish, we trade/sign for other teams dregs, we barely drop anyone, we don’t manage players when we could
Sorry this got a bit rambling, but this isn’t just tonight and the problem is on the other hand the club wins more than it does and maybe we get a few back and this is a blip
But we need to decide what direction this club is going, what’s going on mentally, have we just got too many scars and it’s going to take a massive chunk of change on and off the field?
Mods feel free to delete, but the lack of discipline and thought shits me on and off the field
