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Gibbs has bucketloads of talent but is soft as butter.. Murphy just doesn't have the strength or physicality to be a force in a struggling line up. Both give it up way too easily for senior blokes that the whole team revolves around. They are the problem, make no mistake.

On Gibbs : his softness has been discussed / debated ad nauseam on here and elsewhere. References abound to him looking for easy receives, following the pack, picking and choosing when to go etc.

My possibly stupid question is this :

he's had Pagan, Ratts, Malthouse and Bolton as senior coaches. Included in these coaching changes are also a couple of changes in the senior admin, board etc. of the club. If his various issues are reported accurately here and elsewhere, how is it that he is still on our list ? And not only still there, but one of our highest paid players ? How is it possible that he has managed to flim flam one coach and admin after another ?

Are there mitigating circumstances, or is it possible that our analyses are either inaccurate or one sided ?

I agree on Gibbs but Murphy gets this free pass with this physical strength excuse. He's our captain, he has to be strong, he has to be able to tackle. There are smaller guys than him in the comp who have no problems sticking a tackle, Hannebery embarrassed him yesterday. Last week against the tigers he was our best player but there were a couple of time when he cost us goals from feeble attempts to tackle.

With Murph and Gibbsy and who ever else is not as hard as we want and with what BB is thinking.
Just think would that player be of the Hawthorn mould? With that thought you would get an idea whether BB wants them in his team.

Was talking to a mate who was at the game, reckons Gibbs and Everitt looked particular bad (in terms of effort and hardness) live. I saw one passage of play where Gibbs bullocked his way through two tacklers just fwd of centre and got the ball out to someone who kicked a goal. I thought to myself thats the first time I have ever seen (or at least recalled) Gibbs do that since he started at our Club. I am growing very tired of him to be honest. He is what I call a coach killer or uncoachable. I don't believe he can be coached into the player we (and others) want him to be. BB has come from the Clarkson school, I don't reckon he can coach Gibbs to be the type of player he want, I don't think any one can. I may be wrong and may be proven wrong, but at this stage thats what I think. I also think he will be traded at the first available opportunity. We cannot continue to carry blokes like him any longer. Senior experienced blokes like Gibbs, Murphy, Everitt, Jamo, Simpson, Rowe et al should be taking games by the scruff of the neck and bringing the young kids with them. Not one of those blokes is capable of doing it. Murphy maybe if he rekindled some of the early career form. The rest, pfffft.