Are we really that bad?? We lost a game to an ordinary team in St-Kilda and we have Brisbane next week. Not looking forward to this game but will watch. Like some comments, has the club decided to put the cue in the rack so we are not paying up for Cody Walker? Was watching the game with a Footscray support and when the game was over he turned to me and said smuggle, well that was a waste of his time. That sums up our club.
Crossing the line i think. Put a toe on the line and its a free kick. Seems fair and reasonable given how huge of an advantage that is.
Apparently you cannot cross the line until the ball is touch. The StKilda ruckmen would not contest and our ruckmen would step ovet the the line. Like you said big advantage.
So based on the comments we are not happy with team selection. Young has been named as an emergency and if the weather is that bad maybe a late out??? Anyway i don't think it will matter, we not winning this game or any games soon and the insane thing is I will be glued to the TV and listening to my beloved saying why are you watching when you know they are going to lose. Go Blues
Was at the game. Tw things had me smiling maybe three. 1) The teams first qrt. 2) I had sitting behind me Talor Byrne Uncle and Aunt. Jumping for joy when he marked and kicked his goal. 3) I thought as others have mentioned, that Louie's game was the best for the club. He gave the Van waht every his name is a bath.
As for the rest of the day rinse and repeat.
I am not sure that MV told Pitto to win the ball in the centre an then hand it back to Melb. TWICE I am not sure that MV told the backline, when taking saving marks, please kick it back to a Melb player or find Gawn to kick it to. PLENTLY TIMES.
I am not sure if MV stays or goes but is there not like 7 other coaches sitting in a box watching the game? What are the seeing? What are they reporting (if anything) back to MV. I have come to accept that this season is gone (yes even after 3 games).
The only good thing coming out of this year will be not selling the farm for CW
I would say bring on next week but i have been scarred to the point of being numb and not caring.
I remember when we used to be a great / feared club and we would win these ugly games everyone was relived and happy. Now that we are irrelevant and kind of a joke amongst the AFL, we are now complaining about winning. Not sure what to take away from last night except for that we will not be selling the farm to get Cody Walker.
We had some players show what they have for the future, others showed why they should be shown the door.
It could have been the mother of all shellackings but we extracted the digit in the last and if not for a few goof off's, we nearly could have pinched that one.
Still, there was a big difference in class when it really mattered.
And don't start me on Fogarty and his goal-kicking, I'll spew up !!
He only had one job to do. Not once but twice and the first he missed they key 3 (two from 50 meter penalties)
watching the first half, i text my brother had asked who was that team playing and then the second half started and went ahhh their back. How do this team just stop and think well we played well fro 2 qrts tools down.
One theory i have, which stems from a quote originally raised by Adam Simpson, is that we are "Too easy to play against".
We've said how we want to play. Contest contest contest. Beat us at the contest and we've got no plan B.
Now i'm sure there are some subtle tweaks around that. Some tweaks allow us to have a dominant quarter, or even a half.
Then.....the opposition work out where they are losing and why, implement some changes and 'hey presto' we do our disappearing act as a result.
Yep, it was lets put a player on Georgie boy and see what happens and it did. We lost our drive when Jager sat on George
watching the first half, i text my brother had asked who was that team playing and then the second half started and went ahhh their back. How do this team just stop and think well we played well fro 2 qrts tools down.
We got a lot of frees, but we should have got a lot more. I didn't even see the whole game and I saw so many marks that weren't paid to us and frees that weren't either. As for 50 m penalties, any number of Hawks could stand as close as they liked without being penalized. Amazing!
Just on the umpires and the free's how does a player with a bloody nose and blood on his arm is allowed to stay on the ground. How? yes the player is a Hawthorn player
Maybe the wrong place fro this but after tge game, the next day scrolling through Insta trying to block the world out while the pain was slowly disappearing, i came across some Bristol City Soccer fans chants.. I started thinking my be we supports should be a little up beat and sing stuff like: We lose every week, we lose ever week, you nothing speacial we lose every week. Anyway have a look it might bring a smile to your face.
To finish Moir was good, Carroll was good, Cowan was good, poor Harry was feed to the lions. BUT keep playing these kids for the rest of the year. Lets find out what we have.
Trying to read all the posts. Some great insight by this forum and we can go on and on but do we really understand what is happening behind those 4 walls? probably not. All i can add is, i was at the game and Oh Dear Oh my. I want our club to be a great club again but i just cant see this happening. Is it because the power brokers at Carlton still believed that after our salary cap punishment the club could out out and do what the did in the 80s for success? It took the club during the Malthouse days to relies that we needed to play by the AFL drafting rules to become relevant again and we did but still have not got this right. This year has been a complete disaster, maybe we dont relies what those one or two or three injured players (no not the young kid. we know nothing about him yet) that we are missing, are leaving a gapping hole in the planning. Maybe when the club sent Kennedy away some players spat the dummy and still maybe spitting. Like i said earlier we have no idea what is going on behind those 4 walls. Anyway on to Port. Still my club and always will be GO Blues
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