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We had Ramps the entire Port game
Autopsy Rd 8 bad kicking is bad footy = Bloods
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We had Ramps the entire Port game
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Seeing we are talking about leaders.
Watching the Toby Greene goal last week it struck me that IMO it wouldn't have happened if Brett Kirk was still the captain (and yes I realise he might be getting on a bit now).
In the 2000s we've had skippers that carried the team on its back (Kelly/JPK), organisers (McVeigh) and probably on field motivators as well, but Kirk could do all three equally well.
We still talk about the Bloods Culture.
Stewie Maxfield, Kirk, Roos all helped develop the characteristics that was encompassed in that culture.
Might be time for Brett to have a players only chat with our current group.
Watching the Toby Greene goal last week it struck me that IMO it wouldn't have happened if Brett Kirk was still the captain (and yes I realise he might be getting on a bit now).
In the 2000s we've had skippers that carried the team on its back (Kelly/JPK), organisers (McVeigh) and probably on field motivators as well, but Kirk could do all three equally well.
We still talk about the Bloods Culture.
Stewie Maxfield, Kirk, Roos all helped develop the characteristics that was encompassed in that culture.
Might be time for Brett to have a players only chat with our current group.
Pretty sure it was Papley that did it. Stevic blew the whistle straight away. The issue I have with it is 10 seconds earlier, a Collingwood player ran from the goal square to charge into the back of Paps, dropped him to the ground 5 meters in front of Stevic who watched the whole thing happen and let it go. If you let someone charge into anothers back, don't then pay a soft as s**t elbow to the back. I am convinced the bloke is a cheat.
I noticed that there and was so surprised we didn't get a free kick
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Rampe is a leader.
Sitting behind the goals watching him through the game, you can’t help but admire him immensely.
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My apology , but we did lose others that night
Stevic , what a #### and Williamson will be the same
The King!
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Ditto Fosdike.
The King!
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No it wouldn't have. It didn't negatively impact one of the darling Victorian clubs so nothing gets said. I keep saying it. There is no coincidence that the week after Collingwood got a bad run, they got favoured. It is not a coincidence that the week Collingwood get an absolute free ride, the AFL had released a memo to clubs saying shut your mouth about the umpiring. They knew it was coming.
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We played uncontested footy the entire game.
Of course we didnt get free kicks.
Of course we didnt get free kicks.
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Great post.
It looks to me that the team is struggling with the weight of expectation this year. I think they, and also us fans, think they ‘should’ be contending again this year.
I think in reality we had a fortunate run late last year, and other teams were still trying to figure out our fresh approach. The confidence inevitably takes a hit when things do not go as well (eg. Our injuries).
I think it is really important to try to find some he positives at times like these. We pushed the top of the ladder team to its limits for three quarters with multiple key position players still missing, and playing below form. There is a lot of latent potential in this team.
We, and they, just need to be patient until it all clicks again.
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Yup. Self-confidence - when the outcomes are so public, and so dissected, such as in elite professional sport - is such a capricious thing.
It can come out of nowhere.
And it can stay and stay and build.
Or it can vanish.
And it can come back.
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Relevant to my previous post, a lot of people on here saying we just need to fix our goal kicking.
If only it were that simple. Just fix our goal kicking.
The elephant in the room is that no-one, in any team, in any sport, in anywhere in the world, knows how to fix the yips.
Or if they do, you can bet they’re charging millions.
If only it were that simple. Just fix our goal kicking.
The elephant in the room is that no-one, in any team, in any sport, in anywhere in the world, knows how to fix the yips.
Or if they do, you can bet they’re charging millions.
21 to 7 in the midfield
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True. I was an early fan of Robert Allenby. Before he moved to the US his game included a pure putting stroke. Somewhere along the line he got the yips and never managed to recover that pure putting stroke. He had a wonderful career but the yips probably denied him a major.
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I''ve been repeating the same thing for weeks but Horse is not reading my posts.
1. Ladhams is a liability
2. We can't hit a player inside 50
3. We c,an't hit a player outside 50
4. We can't kick set shots.
5. We fumble, we miss tackles and miss targets by hand and foot.
6. We make unpressured errors (clangers) - see 2, 3 and 5.
If I hear one more commentator pump up the kicking of a Swans player or the team as a whole, I will go postal. I will jump onto the big Fox desk and shove the microphones so far down the throats of every one of those smug has-beens that they willl be literally talking out of their butts, rather than just figuratively - For those tragics who constantly use literally when they mean figuratively, that is a literal example of how you differentiate between when to use literally and when to use figuratively. You have figuratively had your asses spanked.
Back to the game, this week we can add a 24:10 free kick ratio to our woes. The VFL really carries a long grudge against Sydney and Franklin. I guess the sting of betrayal still hurts. "Hell hath no fury like a footy league scorned"
So what's the solution, short of forming a Northern states only AFL League.
The solution is certainly not Francis! Here's a bloke who couldn't kick his slippers off in front of a warm fire, without landing the left one in the fire and hitting the old family labrador in the face with the other, knocking out her last remaining teeth and sending her big sad eyes off to doggy heaven.
Was Francis recruited by the work experience kid? The same dude who thought Ladhams would help?
I mean, what kind of a nonce spends most of the first quarter whining over a sore arm (waah, mummy, kiss it better) then still has just enough time to give away a 50m penalty when he fails to see a player standing right next to him asking for the ball. (I'd hate to see a beggar asking Ladhams for change. He'd probably dish out a $1 coin and throw it into a storm drain. "What?" "What?") How much longer can his one lonely brain cell hold out in solitary confinement? Then when he actually managed to take a rare contested hero mark, he misses the shot on goal from right on the bloody goal line, confirming his status as the team goat (no caps). Crikey, even Isaac (Twanger) Heeney could have kicked that one.
Has anyone tested to see if Ladhams' eyes are actually connected? Do his optic nerves go to his one remaining brain cell or do they just sort of hang down the back of his throat like a couple of lengths of cold spaghetti, left over from last Tuesday's dinner?
Seriously recruiters. I don't get why we'd let go of a couple of half decent players, with maybe some upside, just to scoop up a couple of big steamy floaters from the Port and Essendon change room toliets, dress them in a Swans jumper and waste a chunk of salary cap for a laugh. A turd in a Swans jumper is still a turd. It stiill plays like shite and stinks like it.
And while we're talking Swans bring-your-child-to-work-day, our forwards coach and midfield coach need to get their heads together. "No, no, not like that". I mean get on the same page, talk to each other. Don't just smash heads like a couple of horny ibexes in springtime.
Oh fruit! Roll on 2024 or can we at least get Reid, Hickey and Amartey back? I can't believe Reid used to get chastised for missing the odd set shot. He'd be a dead-eye in this team. He could also take a contested mark, bring the ball to ground and apply forward 50 pressure. Remember those things?
What about the positives? I hear you holler. Surely there must be some positives to take out of this collapse.
Sure. We're consistent. Once again we played less than a half of footy yet we still blew the opposition away in the clanger count. No-one clangs like we can clang.
Rubbaduck out.
1. Ladhams is a liability
2. We can't hit a player inside 50
3. We c,an't hit a player outside 50
4. We can't kick set shots.
5. We fumble, we miss tackles and miss targets by hand and foot.
6. We make unpressured errors (clangers) - see 2, 3 and 5.
If I hear one more commentator pump up the kicking of a Swans player or the team as a whole, I will go postal. I will jump onto the big Fox desk and shove the microphones so far down the throats of every one of those smug has-beens that they willl be literally talking out of their butts, rather than just figuratively - For those tragics who constantly use literally when they mean figuratively, that is a literal example of how you differentiate between when to use literally and when to use figuratively. You have figuratively had your asses spanked.
Back to the game, this week we can add a 24:10 free kick ratio to our woes. The VFL really carries a long grudge against Sydney and Franklin. I guess the sting of betrayal still hurts. "Hell hath no fury like a footy league scorned"
So what's the solution, short of forming a Northern states only AFL League.
The solution is certainly not Francis! Here's a bloke who couldn't kick his slippers off in front of a warm fire, without landing the left one in the fire and hitting the old family labrador in the face with the other, knocking out her last remaining teeth and sending her big sad eyes off to doggy heaven.
Was Francis recruited by the work experience kid? The same dude who thought Ladhams would help?
I mean, what kind of a nonce spends most of the first quarter whining over a sore arm (waah, mummy, kiss it better) then still has just enough time to give away a 50m penalty when he fails to see a player standing right next to him asking for the ball. (I'd hate to see a beggar asking Ladhams for change. He'd probably dish out a $1 coin and throw it into a storm drain. "What?" "What?") How much longer can his one lonely brain cell hold out in solitary confinement? Then when he actually managed to take a rare contested hero mark, he misses the shot on goal from right on the bloody goal line, confirming his status as the team goat (no caps). Crikey, even Isaac (Twanger) Heeney could have kicked that one.
Has anyone tested to see if Ladhams' eyes are actually connected? Do his optic nerves go to his one remaining brain cell or do they just sort of hang down the back of his throat like a couple of lengths of cold spaghetti, left over from last Tuesday's dinner?
Seriously recruiters. I don't get why we'd let go of a couple of half decent players, with maybe some upside, just to scoop up a couple of big steamy floaters from the Port and Essendon change room toliets, dress them in a Swans jumper and waste a chunk of salary cap for a laugh. A turd in a Swans jumper is still a turd. It stiill plays like shite and stinks like it.
And while we're talking Swans bring-your-child-to-work-day, our forwards coach and midfield coach need to get their heads together. "No, no, not like that". I mean get on the same page, talk to each other. Don't just smash heads like a couple of horny ibexes in springtime.
Oh fruit! Roll on 2024 or can we at least get Reid, Hickey and Amartey back? I can't believe Reid used to get chastised for missing the odd set shot. He'd be a dead-eye in this team. He could also take a contested mark, bring the ball to ground and apply forward 50 pressure. Remember those things?
What about the positives? I hear you holler. Surely there must be some positives to take out of this collapse.
Sure. We're consistent. Once again we played less than a half of footy yet we still blew the opposition away in the clanger count. No-one clangs like we can clang.
Rubbaduck out.
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After half time we kicked one goal for every one of Ladhams' brain cell(s). They won the 2nd haf by 37 points.
We didn't push Collingwood in any sense of the word "push". We again played one quarter of good footy, just enough to remind fans what we used to do.
I'm no statistician but I believe there are four quarters in a game. Could someone esle confirm that? Yes? Does our team know that?
Swans stuck it to ‘em. Can’t fault the endeavour. Just not fit enough. Mentally and physically
We pretty much matched them in contested possessions and tackles. That argument doesn't stack up.
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Ladhams is soft
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