I think BB will be extra keen to win this one imo., losing is starting to get to him. That may mean going for a slightly more mature line up and not bringing in more as yet untried guys.
He's won one game from his last 14 (not including 0-3 in the preseason!) so i'm not surprised losing is getting to him.
So this was a game I pencilled us in for a possible win, I still stand by that. I dont rate these cheating fecks just yet and I have not seen anything diabolical from our mob to suggest we are no chance. I would love nothing more than to burst their bubble. Blues by 12 pts
Didn't you pencil in the first 2 games as wins too? Or am i thinking of someone else?!
I didn't mean to imply that you were finding fault G2C.
It's just that some folk apparently don't watch our games, have unrealistic expectations, or just want something to bitch about.
We know you do. Its not like taking something out of context to further push a grudge you have.
FYI, The greatest players of all time, ALL have an attribute that is rated last. That is not a negative, it is a fact of life. It doesn't make them any less of a player either. For the record, i would have Judds kicking as his 2nd worst attribute, marking last.
The point i was making is that Cripps does many things elite, kicking is not one of them. Yes, along with pace, it would be in my bottom 2 in terms of his attributes.
And on Cripps kicking, anyone who suggests its poor should look at the delivery to SPS who subsequently kicked his first goal of his career. It was Diesel like.
His vision is diesel like. His kicking is not. That doesn't mean he is incapable of good kicks, but it does mean he is more prone to poor ones.
If you were listing his strengths, in order, kicking might be last.
Daisy gets games because of something that he brings every week. 2Nd, 3Rd and 4th efforts.
I know that's not enough for some people but if that rubs off on other players that's fine by me.
I think the problem is, your average punter watches the ball. Makes sense.
However, the best players in the league are the best because of what they do when they don't have the ball. Nick Riewoldt used to cop a lot of flak for his poor kicking. That's what people saw. However, what people ignored was the 200m sprints he did in order to get the ball, lead + back, lead + back, lead again. By the time he got the ball, he had jelly legs and it affected his kicking.
Hard running is underrated by your average punter. It happens to be one of Daisys strengths. There is a reason he gets the 'joe the gooses' over the top.
Was impressed with the endeavor and heart today. Melbourne took till 20 mins into the last to put the game in the bag. Many on here predicted this mob will definitely play finals and made a good outfit look poor last week.
I know it's difficult to be positive when you have a loss but we must remember we had SOJ, C Curnow, Marchbank, SPS, mcCredie and Pickett all in today and curnow aside thought the rest were very serviceable. SOJ is the veteran of this list with 10games!!!
Hard to win with 6 players under 10 games.
Add in Weitering, plowman and cripps as more young players yet to notch 50 games and that's a very young team today.
While I'm disappointed with some of the costly errors from senior players and to lose yet again but I saw enough today to say we are tracking ahead of where I thought we would be.
I'm happy with the kids progress.
A bit of perspective needed folks.
Been preaching that all pre-season.
Reckon all in all, we did ok. We ran out of legs late, but its to be expected with the kids we have.
A few blokes need a rest. Curnowfides needs to recharge his batteries a bit and boost the confidence. I'd give Pickett and SPS at least another week to get better used to the speed of it, then i'd send them back to get a confidence boost as well. Macreadie looks to be coping ok so far.
Amen. I'd go as far to say Daisy would have the opposite effect - players get disgruntled where they see a highly paid dud (and that's certainly what he has become based on onfield performance) delivering little but getting selected week in, week out.
After Daisy took that mark, and found a teammate who converted, how many blokes ran to daisy to congratulate him? Despite it being very deep in the forward pocket, there was at least 10 blokes who made the effort to get to him.
Does that seem like Daisy has players disgruntled at his salary? Seems to me that this was, yet again, a case of 'lets lose our minds over daisy and make things up to suit our arguments'.
DJC sees what I see, and I ain't drinking the "he provides awesome leadership Kool-Aid".
People's tolerance of Daisy's limited output is over, that's why he is the whipping boy. We - and let's face it we all did - expected so much more and we have due to circumstances received a sub-par result. 3 and a bit season of ... what? How many games have you seen where he was clearly in the best three players....
Then, trying to justify the deal with his supposed leadership prowess is, IMHO, verging on self-delusion.
There is a difference between trying to justify the deal, and pointing out that he provides leadership. They are not one and the same.
Who is drinking the kool-aid? The ones who point out reasons why he gets picked each week? The ones who ignore the fact that he is picked every week, thus thinking they know better than the coach and MC, and talk of self delusion?
