Review The Bad, Sad and the Ugly v Port Power 2020...

Sep 10, 2004
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Our current situation is the result of repeated seasons - in fact, a solid decade - of "clinging on" to W/L results every season, rather than continually rejuvinating the list and exposing youth for extended periods of time and trading aggressively even when playing well. Most other clubs do this, particularly the successful ones.

The club is in a very deep hole. We've had bad seasons in the past but had a relatively strong core of players to get us out of it, albeit briefly. We don't have that here at all.

Ultimately we'll get Pick 1 or 2 for the first time and it will probably be largely ineffective to us because we don't have the culture or coaching to benefit.

The club deserves everything that is coming.
 
Aug 4, 2004
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Our current situation is the result of repeated seasons - in fact, a solid decade - of "clinging on" to W/L results every season, rather than continually rejuvinating the list and exposing youth for extended periods of time and trading aggressively even when playing well. Most other clubs do this, particularly the successful ones.

The club is in a very deep hole. We've had bad seasons in the past but had a relatively strong core of players to get us out of it, albeit briefly. We don't have that here at all.

Ultimately we'll get Pick 1 or 2 for the first time and it will probably be largely ineffective to us because we don't have the culture or coaching to benefit.

The club deserves everything that is coming.
The club does yes. Unfortunately, the young players don't and they are the ones who are going to suffer most.
 
I'm going to ignore all the young guys. Tough game for them.

Lynch - abysmal. Time to move on from him. Horrible in all facets

Atkins - invisible in another tough match. When will the club learn?

Laird - a hack these days. Unaccountable. Hack kicks, hospital handballs galore

Seedsman - s**t. Need to move past him

Smith - horrible. Really, really horrible. Seems to be running around on reputation.

Crouch brothers - nowhere near good enough to be the best 2 mids in the team

Walker - had no influence

Milera - disinterested. Wasting his talent.

Brown - not the best small defender in the league

Need to make some tough calls on this bunch. Most aren't the future. A few like Milera need a huge course correction
 
Jun 7, 2011
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Our current situation is the result of repeated seasons - in fact, a solid decade - of "clinging on" to W/L results every season, rather than continually rejuvinating the list and exposing youth for extended periods of time and trading aggressively even when playing well. Most other clubs do this, particularly the successful ones.

The club is in a very deep hole. We've had bad seasons in the past but had a relatively strong core of players to get us out of it, albeit briefly. We don't have that here at all.

Ultimately we'll get Pick 1 or 2 for the first time and it will probably be largely ineffective to us because we don't have the culture or coaching to benefit.

The club deserves everything that is coming.

the players don’t, but the club certainly does.
 

bates121

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There wasn't a single positive from that game. Sure ROB was great but he is hardly going to be a Gawn or Grundy he just has a absolute crack every game. (by no means a bad thing). All our draft picks from however long back look avg at best.
Port would have ten plus recent draftees that would be first choice over any of ours.
Insipid club.
 
Jan 31, 2009
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Grim.

Something smells within the walls of this club.

Pick 1.
Let Brad Crouch walk via Free Agency. Pick 2.
GWS first.
Luke Edwards father son.
Possibly trade our 2021 first for another top 5 pick this year.
Tariek Newchurch and possibly James Borlase NGA.
Get more senior coaches to help Nick's.

Then we may see improvement in 2021.
 

Tex200

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Dec 24, 2008
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I'm going to ignore all the young guys. Tough game for them.

Lynch - abysmal. Time to move on from him. Horrible in all facets

Atkins - invisible in another tough match. When will the club learn?

Laird - a hack these days. Unaccountable. Hack kicks, hospital handballs galore

Seedsman - s**t. Need to move past him

Smith - horrible. Really, really horrible. Seems to be running around on reputation.

Crouch brothers - nowhere near good enough to be the best 2 mids in the team

Walker - had no influence

Milera - disinterested. Wasting his talent.

Brown - not the best small defender in the league

Need to make some tough calls on this bunch. Most aren't the future. A few like Milera need a huge course correction
I think that’s right

We need to flush most of those over the next few years. They’ve all been very ordinary since 2017.
 
Apr 22, 2007
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The difference was Port cared, they wanted to win for their club and their fans we couldn't give two shits about our own teammates let alone anything else

ROB was great
Ned was in and under and pretty good 1st up game
Doedee made it through unscathed

Midfield is complete trash they offer nothing either side of the stoppage, our structure is non existent. We go to water under the least amount of pressure and just bomb it constantly. We are a bad football team at the moment, we need to come to terms with that before we can fix it.
 
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