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-Brendan McCartney just says the same thing after every loss. All positive spin.
-We had 13 players from the 2010 prelim playing on Saturday night and carlton were missing 10 out of their best 22 (is this correct)
-He is really worried about the future of the club. David Smorgon seems disinterested as he has remained quite and is hardly heard of these days.
-Had a crack at Liam Jones who can't even get a game in a battling team
-Praised Dahlhaus
So 13 players, from one of the most one sided non-contest finals I've ever seen. As I recall, the media built that game up as a total laydown misere, and it lived up. 2 years on, we have the same core group, 2 years older, but with much the cream skimmed off, and a revolving door of players under 30 games. I havn't looked at the players listed, but I'm pretty confident most those 13 would have been getting on in age in 2010. Eade was coaching for the short term and the payoff didn't come. Wow, who would have thought we'd gone backwards by 2012?
Beyond that, yes we should have won last weeks Carlton game, not because of the players fielded, but because of the way we played for 3 and half quarters and then died in the arse. That's the stuff that kills you as a supporter. I don't care how many player Carlton had out.
BMac's spin getting on everyone's nerves (including mine) because to be honest it's not what anyway wants or needs to hear. But he has a message, and he will stay on message until either the team comes good or he gets the sack. Seems to be his way, which, as I've stated elsewhere, is all about the 'long game'. I'd be very surprised if he wasn't privately livid that we didn't get the job done, but he'll stick to his guns.
Smorgon's probably got his head down because he talked up this 'refresh' line when we sacked Eade, and clearly that is not what is transpiring. What is he going to say now? "Sorry, but it turns out we actually are going to be shit for the foreseeable future and I was talking utter rot". Maybe he has lost some spark because we are back to being a poor side for the time being, and that's whole new campaign for the ol' warhorse. Maybe he's just biding his time until we actually have some runs back on the board to talk about.
Are there any real contenders for the Pres anyway? If so, please stand up and let have it out. Dimma can piss off as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps Sue Alberti, but TBH I know nothing about her. Surely Chris Grant is the heir in waiting, and Smorgo is playing out his time until Granty gets enough of a handle on things.
Oh, whilst Sheehan has supposedly retired and should stay there, if Gerard Healy sees the upside in our list, then that's the worst thing I've heard all year, because the man is prematurely senile.