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What if we win one and suddenly things seem to have clicked?
If we win the next 5+ I'll consider that the first three rounds were just a miscalculation.
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What if we win one and suddenly things seem to have clicked?
We haven't looked like winning anything under him. Absolutely staggered anyone needs more of a sample size. He has to go.
If we win the next 5+ I'll consider that the first three rounds were just a miscalculation.
Lol a month.This thread is embarrassing.
It’s what we make fun of being on “*” , Collingwood etc pages - we should be better than this.
A month of bad football and we are a rabble fan base looking for blood.
God help us if we have a Carlton, Melbourne, Saints, GC - esque season or two.
Everyone needs to pull themselves together and try and help the club through this slump!
I’m angry too but for the love of god!
A month? We've won something like 20 of our last 60 games. For better or worse, most of the gripes with Brad have been reasonably long-term, but then the current form has seen a few more fully jump on board. I mean, some of the disrespectful stuff is uncalled for, but it could certainly be reasonably argued that the general sentiment is deserved.This thread is embarrassing.
It’s what we make fun of being on “*” , Collingwood etc pages - we should be better than this.
A month of bad football and we are a rabble fan base looking for blood.
God help us if we have a Carlton, Melbourne, Saints, GC - esque season or two.
Everyone needs to pull themselves together and try and help the club through this slump!
I’m angry too but for the love of god!
This thread is embarrassing.
It’s what we make fun of being on “*” , Collingwood etc pages - we should be better than this.
A month of bad football and we are a rabble fan base looking for blood.
God help us if we have a Carlton, Melbourne, Saints, GC - esque season or two.
Everyone needs to pull themselves together and try and help the club through this slump!
I’m angry too but for the love of god!
Patience mate, patience. ..Meh. It's not really that bad a concept. It's not one month of bad football - it's closer to 2 years and the hierarchy have been there for a decade. If 10 years it not a valid sample size for a coaching team then just about every club and every sport in the world is doing it wrong.
Patience mate, patience. ..
Yes we've had a bad start, but if one thing is consistent about our side, we can expect a steely resolve that sees us charge back to 8 or 9th. s**t if we get on a roll 6th isn't even out of the question.
What more can you ask for?
I know I'm selfish like that sometimes too.Next I'll be wanting more home games played in Melbourne like the greedy bastard I am.
I know I'm selfish like that sometimes too.
My goal for the next decade is "expect less".
This is what I find so staggering, and maybe even hypocritical, about the Archer tweet. Surely without criticism in 2007, we'd be currently playing in Maccas chip packets on that soulless stretch of beach up North.I'm just glad all the "just trust the club" crew weren't influential in 2007.
I think the 2007 situation and the current situation are vastly different affairs.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. The stakes are much different, but even though they are different scales, the point around the value of criticism stands imo.I think the 2007 situation and the current situation are vastly different affairs.
I think the 2007 situation and the current situation are vastly different affairs.
A month? We've won something like 20 of our last 60 games. For better or worse, most of the gripes with Brad have been reasonably long-term, but then the current form has seen a few more fully jump on board. I mean, some of the disrespectful stuff is uncalled for, but it could certainly be reasonably argued that the general sentiment is deserved.
The reason it feels different now, at least from my perspective, is due to the direction the club took over the trade period. We made a clear move to bring in experience and move up the ladder. I think most of us enjoyed season 2018 - we played some really good football in the first half of the season. Football that was actually good to watch, with intense pressure, sometimes for 4 entire quarters! Multiple weeks in a row! 2017 and 2018 were genuinely different than the previous seasons under Brad - we cut back the list, went to the draft, and started playing some new players.
We brought in several 100+ game players - Polec and Hall looked like additions we badly needed, Pittard and Tyson looked like depth. It raised some questions about what we were planning, but no real problem if we keep seeing the same good signs from 2017-18.
Then round 1 2019, all the new players are in the side, and we get absolutely flogged for 3.5 quarters of football. No tackling, no answers, completely uncompetitive. It just convinced me, and I think a lot of us, that the new era looked a lot like the last era. All this personnel change and yet the same problems we've seen before.
We all know we'll improve, we all know we'll be mid-table, we all know we'll snag some good wins. But we'll never go beyond that unless something changes in the football department. I think it is time for a new coach, but at the very least it is time for a full review and restructure because what we are doing is not getting us the result we all want.