Re: RD 11 - BLUES Lose To Lions (Embarrassment & Dispair)
Reply #105 –
I just hope Malthouse has made the decision that this group of players have embarrassed this club for the last time.
I really don't care who gets traded or delisted at seasons end. All I am sure of is that there needs to be major changes made to the list.
I am sick of this group of players and people should cease making excuses for them. No more excuses, it's time for action.
Thank you, SpannerMan. Thank you.
To me last night's loss, as I have already said, was the worst under MMs tenure. Losing to the bottom side is beyond explanation or excuse. That loss had nothing to do with the weather, running out of legs, individual stuff-ups or umpiring - that is little stuff. That loss came down to culture/leadership and f*ck all else. The severe and embarrassing lack of culture & leadership. Big stuff like discipline, leadership, mongrel, accountability & effective aggott use seem to elude this group, consistently. We show glimpses of bona fide dominance - but so does just about every other f*cking club from time to time. Means f*ck all to be spasmodically brilliant. Ws & Ls is what it is about and what it takes to achieve that - with ruthless consistency and ruthless persistence.
I think MM now knows this which is why his media conference amounted to zero information.
As I mentioned previously though Baggers the problem we have is...... some our most inconsistent in terms of attitude are our most talented and some of our less talented or younger group (Buckley etc) are the ones that put in.
So who do you cull?
Naturally you keep the youth... but where do you go from there
Absolutely Principal LODS, absolutely. And this is what has me believing (maybe hoping) that MM is aware of this hence the calibre of blokes we recruited last year - a complete departure. Doc, Andre and even early indicators suggest Cripps, show that we are addressing our between the ears/sustained leadership weaknesses. PLUS... too many of our senior blokes went through those confidence sapping/undermining years and the scars remain! And that's your Murphys', Waites', Gibbs'... only Simmo seems to have emerged from that era 'intact'... maybe also Carrazzo. Sadly, from our older leaders some of our younger blokes seem to have caught the 'self-doubt/inconsistent/low-self esteem' bug from the experienced blokes - eg Yazz, Robbo, Menzel (where does he go for 2 quarters each game!!! When not wearing the vest), Jeffy, Meat, Zackary... for whatever reason, we sure do have too many blokes who just can't sustain. Introversion, to me, is only part of the problem.
So what do you do? Fortunately some will likely retire real soon and we will be forced to fill the breaches younger, mentally tougher, unscarred blokes. Have to be another strong cull at year's end. We might have to trade a Yazz or Gibbs for their good and our own. Either of those two would likely flourish in a highly successful environment. Just thoughts.
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