My soap box

Cleric

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I am really diss appointed with this year. I expected us to not reach the same levels we did last year but I thought we would be around 6-4th. What we have seen this year is scary. There are some players who are out of form, namely Jacobs, Wright, Vince, McKay, Porps, Johncock, Callanan, Pets, Reily, and more. We have had some bright lights in Brown, Jenkins etc and we do have some good performers in the SANFL. We don't have enough to take up the slack from the first side players who are out of form.
This all in my mind stems from the Tippett saga and the piss weak, inept attitude of our administration in Chapman and Triggy. I am also angry at the old SANFL boys club that dominate our media (Cornsey, Rowie, McDemott, Wildy, and the arrogant wanker Kym Dillion. The way they defended the shit with Tippett and stuck up for Triggy claiming he did nothing wrong and even claiming that the draft picks we lost couldn't of happened to us at a better time. Well still think that Studley you tosser?
We lost out assistant coach because of something that happened at another club ( oh yeah we paid some of Melbournes penalty) and our club were weak and inept in fighting it.
We need a clean out. I am loosing faith in my club, and it's not just about win loss.
We are not in a premiership window. We are not a top 4 side. We are middle of the road and in the next two years we will be rebuilding. Johncock, Reily, Thompson, Truck, Vince, Callanan, Porps will be moving on and need to be replaced.
Last year was a terrible drafting and trading period for us, incompetant is the word I would use. We need to make changes there. We need to replace Rendell but haven't.
We needed to draft Giles to run two rucks with Giles in the forward line as well. Giles is a better ruck an than Sauce and he was ours to have until our terrible recruiters pissed him off. We had a gift given to us by been able to draft Garlett, who we really need his type. But no, we didn't take him. As far as I am concerned Atkins is not going to be the player Garlett will be nor is Joyce.
It scares me what our off field is like and it is hurting us big time.
But it won't change. It won't be allowed to change.
 

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mcday

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tl;dr a long whine about how the club should have seen Jacobs decline before it happened, pretending what the media says about Tippettgate matters at all, we should have convinced Giles that he should have come to the club to play SANFL instead of leading the ruck at GWS, how we should have drafted a complete wanker in Garlett despite clear overwhelming character issues (he would have pissed off back to WA first chance anyway) and the usual blame Trigg/administration complaint. Stupid pointless thread :thumbsu:
 
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