Roast Older Players

[BEEG]

Never thought i would say this.

Some real selfish entitlement going through the list with the older players.

Pendles - Chasing records and knew in the warm up the calf was cooked and still decided to play.

Howe - Pushing the case for 2 weeks that he is a good healer, we all knew he wasn't ready to go.

Mihocek - Playing for a contract and has been awful for a while, couldn't train during week and shouldn't have played.

The club can't have this happening in 2026 or beyond.

Thoughts?

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

Can't argue with any of that.

 

[frizzle]

My thoughts are you should have waited a day or 2 for the pain to ease before posting. Terrible take in my opinion.

 

[Bianconeri]

At the time I though the no.35 going to every first draft pick was doing too much to praise Presti but in hindsight the honour was definitely deserved.

 

[JLC]

Never thought i would say this.

Some real selfish entitlement going through the list with the older players.

Pendles - Chasing records and knew in the warm up the calf was cooked and still decided to play.

Howe - Pushing the case for 2 weeks that he is a good healer, we all knew he wasn't ready to go.

Mihocek - Playing for a contract and has been awful for a while, couldn't train during week and shouldn't have played.

The club can't have this happening in 2026 or beyond.

Thoughts?

Not sure what transpired with Pendlebury, Who was on standby?

Agree with Checkers,

Howe was the risk I did not mind taking,

 

[BEEG]

My thoughts are you should have waited a day or 2 for the pain to ease before posting. Terrible take in my opinion.

So all that's wrong?

 

[BEEG]

Not sure what transpired with Pendlebury, Who was on standby?

Agree with Checkers,

Howe was the risk I did not mind taking,

The risk to take was Hill.

Club says Hill isn't match ready and Howe is.

 

[Kappa]

I think we're in massive trouble in 2026, once the calves/groins start going on guys in their mid 30's they never come back.

Pendles pulling out of the game 2 minutes in is utterly bizarre and the club should clear up to the members how that happened

 

[BEEG]

Also the last 6 weeks all we have heard out of the club is players chasing contracts.

 

[frizzle]

So all that's wrong?

Yes in my opinion. Fly said Pendles did his calf in the opening minutes. I take that on face value. Pendles isn’t selfish. Has had a very good year.

Checkers came into the game on pain killers to get through. Is that his fault or the Physio’s & selection committee? Easy answer.

Howe was up against it & again it was the selection committee’s decision. Howe playing or not did not cost us the game.

 

[jathanas]

Never thought i would say this.

Some real selfish entitlement going through the list with the older players.

Pendles - Chasing records and knew in the warm up the calf was cooked and still decided to play.

Howe - Pushing the case for 2 weeks that he is a good healer, we all knew he wasn't ready to go.

Mihocek - Playing for a contract and has been awful for a while, couldn't train during week and shouldn't have played.

The club can't have this happening in 2026 or beyond.

Thoughts?

Mate, we're all pissed off.

The players who become champions will always back themselves to get a result, even when they're not 100%.

The 3 you've mentioned have given the club outstanding service, and in the end, the selectors have the final call.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

 

[jmac70]

Never thought i would say this.

Some real selfish entitlement going through the list with the older players.

Pendles - Chasing records and knew in the warm up the calf was cooked and still decided to play.

Howe - Pushing the case for 2 weeks that he is a good healer, we all knew he wasn't ready to go.

Mihocek - Playing for a contract and has been awful for a while, couldn't train during week and shouldn't have played.

The club can't have this happening in 2026 or beyond.

Thoughts?

I think you’ve really spat the dummy.

 

[Kes1984]

Also the last 6 weeks all we have heard out of the club is players chasing contracts.

Feels a bit like off-field dramas infected on-field performance in the back half of this season.

 

[jmac70]

Feels a bit like off-field dramas infected on-field performance in the back half of this season.

Nah.

 

[Matt_352]

Never thought i would say this.

Some real selfish entitlement going through the list with the older players.

Pendles - Chasing records and knew in the warm up the calf was cooked and still decided to play.

Howe - Pushing the case for 2 weeks that he is a good healer, we all knew he wasn't ready to go.

Mihocek - Playing for a contract and has been awful for a while, couldn't train during week and shouldn't have played.

The club can't have this happening in 2026 or beyond.

Thoughts?

Yep agree with all of that. McStay and Parker should have played instead of Mihocek and Howe. Should of taken the risk on Bobby. Pendles should of been a late out. Fit to perform my a$$! Furious.

 

[manicpie]

They'll be fine. We'll just give them a Bex and a hot cocao after every training session. Now let's talk about beefing up our midfield

 

[Run n Spread]

Let's everyone calm the **** down.
They are all selfish. But that's a big difference with been self centred.
Who who've any of you would knock back a gf spot? Or anything? Honestly?
But the coaches are the ones that need to be ruthless

 

[rand corp]

There is an old adage that 'you don't take risks on injured players in finals': with Howe and Checkers, it burnt us badly yesterday.

Parker and McStay may not have been the first choices on form, but surely they would have been the better selections on fitness.

Pendles not pulling himself out whilst there was still time to replace him seems -at a distance- a selfish option.

 

[AmericanMustard]

Let's everyone calm the **** down.
They are all selfish. But that's a big difference with been self centred.
Who who've any of you would knock back a gf spot? Or anything? Honestly?
But the coaches are the ones that need to be ruthless

We didn’t get the opportunity to play in a Granny because we potentially took 3 passengers. Nothing outdoes their commitment to the club but it’s valid criticism.

 

[Jelly Bean]

At the time I though the no.35 going to every first draft pick was doing too much to praise Presti but in hindsight the honour was definitely deserved.

Why didn't we do the same for Beams when he pulled himself out the following year after passing the final test?

The 35 to first draft pick was put in place to keep the number available in case Josh wanted it - let's be honest about that.

 

[Jonno94]

McRae has given the older players and leaders too much power at the club, hard to see us making another grand final for a while. Successful teams in other sports like Belichick’s patriots or Bellamy’s storm never employed this kind of setup.

 

[gouki88]

The Pendles one is pretty funny. Do you really think he would do that?

 

[OniAu]

Just tar every player with the same brush. Not exceptions to some and harsh marker to others

McStay dropped to down on form & healthy . Checkers down on form and still plays injured

Howe im ok with. As our backline required something more. Despite our backline probably having their best game this season against the crows. So maybe we didnt need to change it.

Maybe the Hill up forward addition was what we needed. Both Howe and Hill were on limited game time in last few months.

For Pendlebury, an injury in opening minutes isn't foreseeable, thats just unlucky

Admin bungled the contract negotiations by the sounds of it to let them drag so much towards the finals

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

The Pendles one is pretty funny. Do you really think he would do that?

You would think no. But word is, he felt something not right in his calf and proceeded to play, only for his calf to pop within 90 seconds of the opening bounce.

 

[gouki88]

You would think no. But word is, he felt something not right in his calf and proceeded to play, only for his calf to pop within 90 seconds of the opening bounce.

Where?