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We could 2 years ago when he was near enough the best player in the comp.I'd have been right there with you. Unfortunately that was a long time ago. We are way too easy to play against.
And one other thing, in pre-empting the Murphy hate, if anyone can enlighten me as to how Murph may have impacted/caused todays poor result, I'm keen to hear it. Should make for interesting reading.
Very harsh.
No doubt he has his limitations but his strength is in winning contested ball and he is that good at it that every single team in the comp would love having him in their midfield group playing that exact role which considering where we are says enough to suggest he is far from a problem in our team.
The issue with our club is Cripps weakness is highlighted in every loss by the lack of defensive cover from the remaining midfield group who overall apart from Walsh are plodders at best. Its a simplistic approach to suggest Cripps lack of defensive running is a major reason we get slaughter in the midfield most weeks. The lack of running midfielders depth wise we have is alarming and until we get adequate support in there nothing will change. Kennedy, Dow and Setterfield are not the answer.
Do you think Dusty Martin has ever been a hard 2 way runner? Judd at his best looked lazy defensively at times. The very best mids usually have this as a weaknesses - its just that the better teams have the players in that area that provide the cover to stop their champs being exploited.
We dont have that luxury.
Been going on for a while, think Nathan Buckley started it a while back, rather than trying to stop Cripps you run a good player off him and hope he can cause more damage because Cripps is incapable of manning up on anyone as he is too slow. Cripps needs to learn how to play forward more so we can rotate more mids who can stop that ploy.
Way too many hacks out thereYou watch the way the brownlow goes this year, the opposition's most dominant player is almost exclusively opposed to Cripps EVERY SINGLE WEEK. He gets murdered on transition and in general play.
The issue?
VFL at most clubs = Newnes, Plowman, Newman, LOB
Plus Fisher was putrid, Betts putrid, Dow putrid, Kennedy poor, etc etc the latter two too inconsistent
Plus our Captain won’t run back, Jack Martin can’t keep his feet and C Curnow can’t jump
50% of the starting 22. No hope.
All over for another year
This is simply a rotten club. They show what they can do when they have a crack in the rare times they put in. Sadly they don't do it enough on a weekly basis.
Teague isn't going to survive that, like Ratten wasn't in 2012. Best we start looking I suppose so we get in ahead of Collingwood. Start at Don Pyke. Let's see if we can kill his career off.
I actually can’t believe what I’m watchingWe were OK, the saints were fcking appalling. They allowed us to play on our terms.
After last weeks efforts this is the most PUTRID F******* display I have witnessed and I am beyond pissed off!
We would’ve been 9th!!!!!! Now where who cares another nothing fcking season seeya later
Same old, same old folks... and Dew knew it, apply real pressure to this CFC mob and they'll go to mush.Spot on. Apply any pressure and we disintegrate immediately. No resilience, spineless.
As of this minute we are the most unmotivated, undisciplined side in the AFL... save, maybe for the Crows.
Injuries haven't been that unkind?Harry missed one game where structurally we fell to pieces.
2 games ago we didn't have a key forward on the park, and we are playing jack silvagni as relief ruck for at least 4 matches now.
Our list might be smaller than it was last week, but that doesn't mean we haven't 17 names on it less than 2 weeks ago, even if some of them did play last week. Harry wasn't exactly running last week whilst on the park.
16? A bit of mayo on that number.
Eddie Betts Named
1 Jordan Boyd Knee "We won't see him for at least a month." Update: 6 July
Levi Casboult Named
2 David Cuningham Knee Out for remainder of season.
Tom De Koning Named
3 Sam Docherty Ankle "He won't play again in the home-and-away season." Update: 26 July
4 Michael Gibbons Hamstring Out for remainder of season. Update: 26 July
5 Caleb Marchbank Knee Out for remainder of season.
6 Oscar McDonald Back "We think he needs a couple of weeks of full training to get back to playing but it’s looking like we’ll see him again this year, which is really exciting." Update: 20 July
Mitch McGovern Named
7 Alex Mirkov Knee "We're getting him in shape to play: whether he plays this year remains to be seen." Update: 13 July
8 Sam Philp Groin Out for remainder of season.
9 Marc Pittonet Ankle Returning to running this week: chance to return in final weeks of season. Update: 26 July
10 Will Setterfield Groin Experiencing low-grade groin soreness. Unavailable this weekend. Update: 26 July
11 Zac Williams Hamstring Low-grade hamstring. Expected to miss 2-3 weeks. Update: 26 July