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Still worried we are flat track bullies.
I suppose that is better than the alternative where we aren't even that.
How about our mental health... Thirty years welded on to the most depressing relationship, supporting this f****d up exercise.mate, I empathise whole heartedly.
Joke coaching.
Joke list management.
Joke selections.
Joke fitness regime.
Keep wheeling out the same crap trucks who don't deliver week after week.
Same players making the same mistakes.
Supporting Carlton is an abusive relationship.
All I can offer you is perspective. People wonder why do bad things happen to people. Why do they get sick. Why do people die young.
I think this is nature (or if you are religious Gods) way of teaching everyone perspective and how we should be greatful for the good, and recognise the bad for what they are.
It's just footy.
I attended a funeral of a 49 year old woman 2 weeks ago. Her husband is a relative of mine. His mum passed away at the same age when he was still a youngster. He had the misfortune of finding his dad dead in bed a few years later. So orphaned as a pre teen/teenager, he and his older brother were effectively raised by my uncle and aunty.
If he can find the strength to continue living life in the face of adversity, then we must remember its just footy.
Whilst our players frustrate the hell out of me at times these are all young men, playing football. If some of the fan noise and yelling I hear was said to a child of mine, I don't know how I'd react.
It's just footy. It's been a hard time, but thats what made the last couple of seasons so worthwhile. Stick fat the wheel will turn.
I too am impatient, but the one thing that I learned out of 2012 was that impatience can lead to catastrophe and sometimes understanding where you're at is more important than worrying about where you aren't.
Moir makes most sense and after him I would have taken Binns before Evans, even in Evans preferred position.
To be honest I just don’t get Evans based on current VFL form (bad) or past performances (bad)
Moir barely touched the ball and Binns was average in their VFL game. Evans was excellent in the VFL in terms of the defensive pressure he applied … and that’s his job.
The forward structure is still a dog's breakfast.
Our disposal efficiency inside 50 is actually worse than last week at the moment.
A brief period of masochism. I watched the game again with a few mates. Watching us fall apart when under enthusiastic heat was revealing.. Where are our tough blokes, blokes with mental hardness, leadership and discipline? Fair dinkum,, apart from Nick Newman I cannot think of any other bloke I'd want to be in the trenches with. Yet watching the Dawks, they seemed blessed with hard at i t types. Our niceness is palpable but not a handy ingredient in a gladiatorial sport. We need an alchemist as a senior coach to give our blokes a persistent tenacious hardness/mongrel.
Play both Jack and Kemp in the backline or play Kemp as a high half forward in Elijah Hollands role because he was a good conduit last year and dont have one this year.
Moir looked good at VFL praccy today but his determination to defend and win contests goes amiss. But looks extremely classy with ball in hand.
While finals are still mathematically possible, a team like the Hawks deserves that spot way more than we do...simple as that. With 6 players likely to be missing from last weekend, there's not much left to choose from so lets have a look at Moir, Lemmey, Binns, Wilson, Carroll.....even Mirkov. He couldn't be any worse than Pittonet's been in the last month.
I don't think he will and Hewett will come in.
But then again, using logic I learnt from Vizzini the Sicilian in the "Princess Bride."
That's exactly what GWS will be thinking....that Kennedy will miss and Hewett will come in.
So, they'll prepare for Hewett.
On the other hand GWS will know that is what we think they will believe and we'll actually play Kennedy.
So they'll prepare for Kennedy.
But many of us suspect that the Kennedy recovery is too quick.
So GWS better be ready for Hewett.
I'm not averse to giving the removing the prior opportunity a go.
But I think we need to see it trialled before we make the change to determine how much of a difference it would make.
Just for a bit of fun I watched a quarter a few weeks ago and tried to 'umpire' it on the basis of get the ball and if tackled release it virtually immediately in a proper manner...no prior.
Of course it may very well have been my interpretation, but I only counted 4 occasions when it would have made a difference...when a free might have been paid.
I'm guessing it was probably a lot greater on the weekend
I wonder how much difference it would make to the game, but we won't know unless we trial it...with umpires a bit more accomplished than my good self
