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@BigJack

You are right, the midfield is our rotten core. Just not up to the job and needs clearing out. Just does not have the skills needed for today's footy, and it's not very smart. Very exposed tonight and was a complete embarrassment with its blundering and turnovers.

Quote from: cookie2 – on April 06, 2014, 10:24:05 pm

@BigJack

You are right, the midfield is our rotten core. Just not up to the job and needs clearing out. Just does not have the skills needed for today's footy, and it's not very smart. Very exposed tonight and was a complete embarrassment with its blundering and turnovers.

Midfield is were it the sh1t flows from.

We have not enough with heart / toughness / determination / skill to take the game on. (Well except Judd, but he is on the wrong side of 30).

Tonight too many stood flat footed, not enough are skilled enough to keep the footy , not enough applied pressure for 5 minutes let alone four quarters , no one was willing take the game by the scruff and give it good old shake, the ruck stocks seriously look seriously stupid. 

I look at the competition and I am gob smacked by our ability to still draft one way skirts. 

Melbourne will give themselves a chance next week, as I reckon we'd just be able to roll Peel Thunder right now ..

We are still the same one way lazy river.
With dead branches, the ilk of : Warnock Kreuzer Murphy Walker Robinson Curnow Gibbs Garlett Ellard Carrazzo floating aimlessly downstream.

Ok, seems for one final time the lesson has been learnt. Once coaches start pushing 60 they can't keep up with the game anymore. Malthouse, Sheedy, Matthews etc....

Melbourne will give themselves a chance next week, as I reckon we'd just be able to roll Peel Thunder right now ..

Bruce said it.....when they're good, they're very good (irresistible).....when they're bad they're pathetic.
....and that makes it largely an application issue.
and the folk responsible for that side of things are the coaching group.

Quote from: Lods – on April 06, 2014, 10:41:36 pm

Bruce said it.....when they're good, they're very good (irresistible).....when they're bad they're pathetic.
....and that makes it largely an application issue.
and the folk responsible for that side of things are the coaching group.

It' been happening for too long  Lods. If MM is a quality coach he should have identified the problems and addressed them by now, yet he seems just as bewildered. Not good enough.

Quote from: BigJack – on April 06, 2014, 10:36:02 pm

Melbourne will give themselves a chance next week, as I reckon we'd just be able to roll Peel Thunder right now ..

Yep, as they say on here sometimes.....Danger Game.

I don't think it's a list issue.
This is essentially the same group that contested finals in recent years.
Even allowing for the fact other teams might go past them it doesn't make them lesser footballers than they were in finals years.
There was a very brief point in this game where we more than matched them.
Same happened in the first two games.
When the team is on they can do the job.

A few of our players are  suffering from injury interrupted pre-seasons and some are just dreadfully out of form but......
They look disinterested and unmotivated for long periods, yet they can turn on a good period for ten minutes or so and look great.
Skills and decision making are terrible at times, yet at other times they do the freakish.

Bruce said it.....when they're good, they're very good (irresistible).....when they're bad they're pathetic.
....and that makes it largely an application issue.
and the folk responsible for that side of things are the coaching group.

Quote from: Juddkreuzer – on April 06, 2014, 10:47:58 pm

Quote from: Lods – on April 06, 2014, 10:41:36 pm

Bruce said it.....when they're good, they're very good (irresistible).....when they're bad they're pathetic.
....and that makes it largely an application issue.
and the folk responsible for that side of things are the coaching group.

It' been happening for too long  Lods. If MM is a quality coach he should have identified the problems and addressed them by now, yet he seems just as bewildered. Not good enough.

It'll be very telling as to how both MM and the players selected next week respond to this. However, even if we come out and belt the daylights out of the Dees, we could just as easily fall in a hole the game after.