The captain couldn't get a kick, couldn't run out a game, couldn't lay a tackle under Voss, wouldn't commit to the club but suddenly is in brownlow form under Fraser? Weitering has played crape all year, Hewett dropped.
Walsh and Cripps, effectively our two most senior players, are 1st and 2nd in the Jim Park!
Now I realise that is consensus and the overall rating might not indicate how you have voted, but I'm sure Cripps didn't get to 2nd place off the back of not firing a shot!
I'm expecting the opposite with Hird. Media pumping up his tyres, largely,
Not that I trust them, but the media pumping up Hird sort of makes sense if what Caro and Cornes report is true.
Caro and Cornes asserted Hird had been labelled by The Big House as never to coach again, and that would automatically put the media on the side of being Hird boosters because it brings controversy and conflict and that is profitable.
The AFL bang on about integrity, ............................., the media do not care about it!
It's pretty despicable by the media to cause trouble by framing a negative narrative around Voss, then once he's gone they pivot and give him considerable credit. Shameful.
They earn maximum money from controversy and conflict, why would they oppose a war with any genuine evidence to the contrary?
It was obvious the team was on the improve way before Voss resigned.
I'll say it again, we blinked, and I fear in the process our club will eventually undo all or a lot of the progress that was being made in changing our game style, simply due to impatience, fear and uncertainty.
I have no idea what games some people are watching, or what they see when they watch, but it was clear our game style was changing but failing in execution, we could not do it for long enough or well enough. Maybe Voss resigning was the pressure release, but the game style has not changed even a miniscule over the last couple of weeks! They just got better at it which has enabled the team to execute it for longer.
It's obvious the club panicked, and it's not the first time!
Even if we finish 2026 strongly I expect the next coach to wipe the board sending us back to square one, after another 3 or 4 years we'll panic again and give them the ar5e, because that is what we've been doing for 20 years.
In the meantime, the AFL media and Commentary will probably just keep laughing at us, and we deserve it!
Point 3. Players are being given time to dispose of the ball now which helps us.
That seems to be more of an umpiring issue than anything else, which from what I can tell is an AFL reaction to recent commentary coming from the various blessed ones about the unsustainable nature of the current season.
I've think silver goes much better with navy blue.
I thought Pendles jumper number was polished brass or copper, straight from the Smith St recyclers, anyone working as a plumber or electrician in Collingwood will know exactly what I mean!
There's a level of equivocation and contradiction in a piece like this that really gives me the s h i t s :
Fans think the people writing that media gibberish actually watch the game, the reader and listener see and hear what they want to see and hear.
I'm seeing the same as I have seen since Rnd 1, the difference is the percentage of game time we execute the plan, doing it longer with less waste and more sacrifice than we had in previous games. The reality is, the less waste the greater the longevity of the tactic. When we struggled it's a negative feedback loop, when we succeed it's a positive feedback loop, the tipping point is measured in a few percent one way or the other.
For some if things turn sour next week, the same critics will be claiming the potential appointment of Fraser would be a failure of due diligence.
The big change for me has been Cripps form , suddenly he has 4th quarter energy and is back to brownlow form?
It's amazing how blokes playing for career survival can suddenly find the energy and effort to give the captain a chop-out!
Cripps is getting to the end of games fresher, because all of a sudden those around him are making an effort.
Also last night we saw what happened when "team defense happened", in the absence of our usual reliance on Weitering to mop up the crap we normally dish up!
This group will go nowhere, because it proves that Voss was put to the sword by selfishness, now that they fear for their own future they have suddenly become selfless. Except for Flynn Young, he should be kyboshed to the VFL for eternity as a warning to others who think about burning the squad for self-benefit.
Politicians make the laws, courts and police are entrusted to enforce them and hand out justice.
In Australia we have the separation of powers, so that people facing court after being charged by police cannot become a victim of political will. It also stops Australian policians rigging the result to award themself billion$ in damages while the average person can't afford eggs.
