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And the move to put williams in defence after looking settled in the F50 is yet another brain fart from the coaching group

Quote from: shawny – on March 05, 2026, 10:53:41 pm

And the move to put williams in defence after looking settled in the F50 is yet another brain fart from the coaching group

i really dont understand this - he was really good last year, and seemed to have found his spot.  creative, good finisher.   i know ainsworth, Lij and Haywood have all come in, but surely we could still find room for him up forward.  guys who can kick goals dont grow on trees

Quote from: Milhanna13 – on March 09, 2026, 11:26:27 am

i really dont understand this - he was really good last year, and seemed to have found his spot.  creative, good finisher.   i know ainsworth, Lij and Haywood have all come in, but surely we could still find room for him up forward.  guys who can kick goals dont grow on trees

Agree..Its the only place Williams can play imo and I would have thought the idea would be to use Ainsworth a bit more in the midfield given his good kicking skills and the fact we got slaughtered there after half time. We need goals out of Williams and Ainsworth touching the ball more than 15-16 times a game imho.

Gulden got leather poisoning and no one went near him. Heeney found space at easy. Warner broke away every time he got the ball. Grundy got on top of our rucks. That was essentially the ball game.

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on March 09, 2026, 07:27:01 pm

Gulden got leather poisoning and no one went near him. Heeney found space at easy. Warner broke away every time he got the ball. Grundy got on top of our rucks. That was essentially the ball game.

Gulden's 1/2-game effort as the best I've seen in a long time, I notice the coaches thought otherwise, but I suspect Gulden will get 3 Brownlow votes.

Garry and Gerard were very good in summing us up on 360. Lyon said it was due to the gap in the number of A graders between the two sides.
Gerard said the "hyperventilating over Carlton" was nonsense. He said when the fixture came out, you would have had us at L W W W. Judge us after our next three not the the first one. GW said we should win the next 3 and we will be able to see what we have been working on. They talked about how we have sold off some high end talent to get in Harry this year, Cody next year and couple with Jagga, that's where the future lies.
I thought they were very measured and sensible, worth watching If you can.
As opposed to bozo's like Damo,  Lloyd and McClure on FC, absolute pee brains.

Alistar Clarkson recently came out and said how to tough it is to drag a struggling team off the deck and how bottoming out will be a think of the past:
Interesting comments on StKilda:
"The game is as tough as it has ever been. You only need to go to Essendon, Richmond, West Coast, North Melbourne, a couple of others perhaps to see that. You see what's happened with St Kilda, it's nearly like you've got to do something absolutely out of the box radical to break this mould of getting yourself out of the bottom eight or 10 sides in the competition and give yourself a chance to get into the top part.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/1471514/whats-realistic-in-a-rebuild-why-north-melbourne-kangaroos-coach-alastair-clarkson-says-bottoming-out-will-never-happen-again

Alistar Clarkson recently came out and said how to tough it is to drag a struggling team off the deck and how bottoming out will be a think of the past:
Interesting comments on StKilda:
"The game is as tough as it has ever been. You only need to go to Essendon, Richmond, West Coast, North Melbourne, a couple of others perhaps to see that. You see what's happened with St Kilda, it's nearly like you've got to do something absolutely out of the box radical to break this mould of getting yourself out of the bottom eight or 10 sides in the competition and give yourself a chance to get into the top part.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/1471514/whats-realistic-in-a-rebuild-why-north-melbourne-kangaroos-coach-alastair-clarkson-says-bottoming-out-will-never-happen-again

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Not the AFL's fault that Melbourne has become a place that is not that desirable to live in anymore.  Between the traffic, the volume of works, and sheer annoyance at all the reducing speed limits, parking times, and how much harder it is to get anything completed, its no surprise AFL players who have the means and the motivation to flee are. 

This is where the clubs need to work hard to keep their players happy, and COVID did a number on Melbourne that it hasnt recovered from.

I do love where I live, but I dont live in inner city melbourne, and stay away from the city as much as possible.  Perhaps thats why Hawthorn, St. Kilda, and Footscray are having a better time of attracting people lately. 

Quote from: Thryleon – on Today at 01:38:52 pm

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Not the AFL's fault that Melbourne has become a place that is not that desirable to live in anymore.  Between the traffic, the volume of works, and sheer annoyance at all the reducing speed limits, parking times, and how much harder it is to get anything completed, its no surprise AFL players who have the means and the motivation to flee are. 

This is where the clubs need to work hard to keep their players happy, and COVID did a number on Melbourne that it hasnt recovered from.

I do love where I live, but I dont live in inner city melbourne, and stay away from the city as much as possible.  Perhaps thats why Hawthorn, St. Kilda, and Footscray are having a better time of attracting people lately. 

Off topic but I went to Syd on the weekend, from a tourists point of view, it craps on Melb in every way (cleanliness, lack of graffiti, rough sleepers, drug affected people in the CBD, ease/availability of public transport). Im talking about the CBD of course, our CBD is a dive by comparison). You listening Mayor Reece?

Quote from: Macca37 – on March 08, 2026, 11:00:31 am

There is always some humidity in Sydney and the same applies in Brisbane.  The Dogs were able to handle the conditions well enough to win.  Just what is our problem?  When the Tassie side enters the competition, will we be blaming the cold conditions in Hobart for any loss we have there?

we are just unprofessional is my summation.  Can't play for the club, cant play for the team, worried about individual performances rather than doing the team things i reckon.  Then you get slippery, cold, wet, hot excuses.