Will North rise above 18th?

[Psicosis]

Should just make a Norf thread where posters can fling s*** at a rebuilding side down the bottom.

- Tassie relocation
- “Blockbuster” poor crowds
- Phillips over Mcdonald
- Winless season

Anything else you all want to get out of your system?

 

[The Nostradamus]

Answer is no

But essendon and crows won’t be ahead by much

 

[fusion]

How bad do we need to be to get a priority pick?
If we win less than 4 games, coupled with finishing 17th last year on 3 wins, and just percentage from winning the spoon, is that a reasonable option?

Would love to the the #1 and #2 pick next year, as we have (deliberately) lost a lot of depth by getting rid of so many players, and look like we will struggle for some time.

 

[maskmcgee]

Was the port of 2011 who lost to gold coast and lost 3 games in a row by 130+ and was on the verge of folding better than this North side?

 

[StonesThrow]

Crows 2020 also in this category.

Just realised last year north only finished above us on %!

 

[Nostradumbass]

Maybe.

 

[RUNVS]

2013 Melbourne deserves to be in this discussion too.

 

[RUNVS]

In all honesty though what killed North was a few years ago when Brad Scott thought North were a premiership chance and they focused on topping up with experienced players and ignored the youth. Not knowing where you are as a club has made a lot of clubs to make really bad decisions.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Poor North

 

[chiwigi]

Was the port of 2011 who lost to gold coast and lost 3 games in a row by 130+ and was on the verge of folding better than this North side?

Ports issues were the SANFL controlling them.
North are architects of their own demise.

 

[Young Gun #6]

if Josh Bruce

17

Josh Bruce

Age

31

Ht

198cm

Wt

97kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.2

3star

K

6.6

3star

HB

4.6

3star

M

4.5

4star

T

2.1

4star

MG

90.4

1star

D

8.9

2star

K

3.5

1star

HB

5.4

3star

M

2.5

3star

T

1.3

2star

MG

90.4

2star

D

11.2

3star

K

5.6

3star

HB

5.6

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

0.8

3star

kicks 10 goals on your team you should be automatically banished from the league.

 

[RUNVS]

if Josh Bruce kicks 10 goals on your team you should be automatically banished from the league.

Agreed. Bruce is a handy forward to have, but if he kicks 3 goals in a game that is a very good game for him.

 

[sobrave]

Was the port of 2011 who lost to gold coast and lost 3 games in a row by 130+ and was on the verge of folding better than this North side?

Why us? We didn't even get the spoon that year.

Also Melbourne 186

 

[dumb]

In all honesty though what killed North was a few years ago when Brad Scott thought North were a premiership chance and they focused on topping up with experienced players and ignored the youth. Not knowing where you are as a club has made a lot of clubs to make really bad decisions.

Geelong has the same strategy and there's similarities in that some of the youth are unsighted but remains to be seen if they fall off the cliff. The Sean Higgins effect.

 

[BF Tiger]

% of 37 after round 3. Is this a record low?

I expect Carlton to win against Freo but GWS and Essendon to remain winless. With % so low the Roos can probably only climb off the bottom by notching (fluking?) a win before those two.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

North v dons game shapes as the decider for the spoon.

Essendon are several goals better than North.

 

[Beutbrute]

Fitzroy 1996 seems a closer match

 

[Sweet Jesus]

How bad do we need to be to get a priority pick?

This will inevitably become the question.

I think North are probably in bad enough shape to justify a PP at the end of the first round.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

FFS North, I want that pick 1

 

[RUNVS]

Seems like a good time to bring back this great video

 

[LeverPuller]

Why us? We didn't even get the spoon that year.

Also Melbourne 186

186 Melbourne would have beaten 2013 Melbourne by 15 goals.

2013 Melbourne is the comparison for modern shitness.

 

[RudyBlue]

2018 Carlton anyone?

 

[blitzer]

This will inevitably become the question.

I think North are probably in bad enough shape to justify a PP at the end of the first round.

If you knowingly gut your own list by forcing out all the mature players you can't then turn around and plead for a PP. Its also ludicrous to even suggest it at round 3.

Its a long season and we saw a team like Adelaide winless for nearly all of last year before they won 3 later on and this year they are looking competitive early.

 

[RUNVS]

186 Melbourne would have beaten 2013 Melbourne by 15 goals.

2013 Melbourne is the comparison for modern shitness.

Agreed. I felt genuinely sorry for Melbourne supporters that year. Melbourne are not exactly a dominant club in 2021 but at least they are no longer a laughing stock.

 

[maskmcgee]

A discrace to sport itself. The AFL need to permernantly ban them from the game tonight.