Our first win

[Lach72]

Well it's certainly not going to be next week.

We're now in our equal fourth longest losing streak. Lose next week, and it's our equal third.

We're in Damien Drum territory. And, given the age of our squad, it's only going to get worse.

There's somethings that are clicking...some patently aren't.

The efficiency in the forward line is killing us.
Weller did some stuff but mostly meh.

Alex Pearce is the plank to build on. Kid is a jet

 

[TheLoris]

Well it's certainly not going to be next week.

We're now in our equal fourth longest losing streak. Lose next week, and it's our equal third.

We're in Damien Drum territory. And, given the age of our squad, it's only going to get worse.

Yeah we are fkd, time to clean out those at the top who have guided to one of the worst lists in the league.

Don't worry Clay get on board the Foxes train...3 hours and we are having the party of all Parties!!

 

[free tara brown]

There's somethings that are clicking...some patently aren't.

The efficiency in the forward line is killing us.

Has been for years. Everything is too similar to what has gone before to believe that something has changed at the coaching level.

Weller did some stuff but mostly meh.

Alex Pearce is the plank to build on. Kid is a jet

There's some hope for the future, but that future is a few years away.

 

[Lach72]

Has been for years.

There's hope for the future, but that future is a few years away.

Yeah i dunno. the kids are all showing stuff in parts

Fyfe, Sandi and Bennell in there today and we roll over the top of them.

 

[Sweetback]

We've kept close to two very good teams the past couple of weeks and would have won them if not for errant kicking. We're our own worst enemy at the moment. Just need one clinical iceman who can lead the forwards.

 

[free tara brown]

Yeah i dunno. the kids are all showing stuff in parts

Fyfe, Sandi and Bennell in there today and we roll over the top of them.

Of course, but I saw Hawks annihilate Richmond in a quarter without Hodge, Mitchell, Frawley and Roughead.

GWS obviously much better than Richmond but we are struggling hard. We lost to Carlton FFS. I can't see us winning more than six games, most of them at home, against similar bottom four clubs.

 

[free tara brown]

We've kept close to two very good teams the past couple of weeks and would have won them if not for errant kicking. We're our own worst enemy at the moment. Just need one clinical iceman who can lead the forwards.

Isn't this what we've needed since 2013?

 

[Lach72]

Of course, but I saw Hawks annihilate Richmond in a quarter without Hodge, Mitchell, Frawley and Roughead.

GWS obviously much better than Richmond but we are struggling hard. We lost to Carlton FFS. I can't see us winning more than six games, most of them at home, against similar bottom four clubs.

Probably right.
We've played some good footy in parts. Can't string enough together.

Pav, Walters, Sutcliffe, Ballantyne butchering the ball in front...not the kids, the experience.

Someone needs to get Walters by the throat and cut that lairising bull shit out of his game...

 

[Lach72]

Isn't this what we've needed since 2013?

He's out for 6-8 with a calf.
And Walters had pillows on his feet tonight

 

[Sweetback]

Isn't this what we've needed since 2013?

Yep, and we tried to get them but they either didn't want to join us or were duds or were made an example of.

 

[Kram]

Just can't execute, we're cooked atm.

 

[andrew99]

Yeah we are fkd, time to clean out those at the top who have guided to one of the worst lists in the league.

Don't worry Clay get on board the Foxes train...3 hours and we are having the party of all Parties!!

Agree.

Our list looks utterly ridiculous. And it's only going to get worse: in 2 years time A. Pearce maybe the only AFL quality tall on our list.

"Best available list strategy doesn't work", at least for us - we've never been a destination club who can attract talent to fill the holes our recruitment decisions leave in the list.

 

[andrew99]

Yep, and we tried to get them but they either didn't want to join us or were duds or were made an example of.

So in other words our list strategy has failed.
Now we're in deep s***

"Best available" sounds good on paper but in our context it was always a risky approach - there's not many players who've historically wanted to move West, so I don't know why Bond and co. thought we could lure all these ready-made talls over to cover up the cracks they've left in the list.

Each year we get more and more desperate and I think the other AFL clubs know it in their dealings with us - that's probably while they play hard ball, and why wouldn't they -- we won't get McCarthy cheap, esp. if Pav retires that could really force our hand.

 

[The Anchorite]

And Walters had pillows on his feet tonight

I blame Ballantyne for one of those. But yeah.

 

[Sweetback]

So in other words our list strategy has failed.
Now we're in deep s***

"Best available" sounds good on paper but in our context it was always a risky approach - there's not many players who've historically wanted to move West, so I don't know why Bond and co. thought we could lure all these ready-made talls over to cover up the cracks they've left in the list.

Each year we get more and more desperate and I think the other AFL clubs know it in their dealings with us - that's probably while they play hard ball, and why wouldn't they -- we won't get McCarthy cheap, esp. if Pav retires that could really force our hand.

Yeah, sticking to 'best available' so rigidly has unbalanced the list, in hindsight. I don't think Ross has ever believed in it. The first couple of years he was at the club I remember he said that was our approach, he never sounded committed to it. We need to go to the next couple of drafts with a 'best available for the positions we need the most'. I'm happy to spend two years in the wilderness as long as the club can draft the players we need with better picks.

 

[Geoff]

Can't see one on our current efforts.


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[Freomaniac]

We will beat the tigers in round 9. Trust me

 

[Seppo]

You can all blame me. We wont win until I'm back in Australia. Stepped out the country to go on holidays and I'm not back until round 7.
Some players have gone on holidays with me.

Alright guys, i got back late last night just missing the game.

We will beat the Hawks in Tassie. Bookmark this....

 

[Reginald Perrin]

Alright guys, i got back late last night just missing the game.

We will beat the Hawks in Tassie. Bookmark this....

I hope so. I'm putting in over 4,500 km to be there.

 

[meima]

Alright guys, i got back late last night just missing the game.

We will beat the Hawks in Tassie. Bookmark this....

Can I put all my saving into freo in Tassie.

 

[Steinfreo]

I hope so. I'm putting in over 4,500 km to be there.

ummmm why? Go enjoy the rest of the lovely place man. give the footy a miss youll have more fun

 

[meima]

I hope so. I'm putting in over 4,500 km to be there.

Just to get a glimpse of d.Pearce .

 

[Paracleet]

Alright guys, i got back late last night just missing the game.

We will beat the Hawks in Tassie. Bookmark this....

Gotta get a win down there again them eventually right? May as well be when it doesn't matter.

 

[meima]

Lyon said play more kids I smell collins and Smith.

 

[PREETY_FLY]

Gold Coast will be loving this. They get our second round pick this season.

We have enough worries on our plate. Feel for you guys too