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(05-22-2015, 01:28 PM)kruddler link Wrote:The supporters are voting with their feet because THE PLAYERS are not putting in EFFORT.
I was at the game last week and it was ridiculous how little effort we showed.
I was asked by 2 seperate Geelong supporters to go tonight. I said no chance after what happened last week, the same will happen again tonight. It did.
Put in effort and i'll turn up. I'm a paid up member anyway, so whether i turn up or not doesn't make a difference to the bottom line anyway.
Yes Kruds, it's the players. :  :o ;D
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(05-22-2015, 02:08 PM)cimm1979 link Wrote:Yes Kruds, it's the players. : :o ;D
How many kicks did the coach get?
How many tackles?
The coach is not out on the ground the players are.
I don't' care if they are 1-armed 75 year old women....while you are out on the ground, wearing that jumper you put in effort. I don't care if Hitler himself is your coach, you put in effort.
THE PLAYERS are not doing that and until they do, i wont be going to another game this year....or next...regardless of who is coaching us.
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Krud. In over so many years of football at VFL or AFL level, there have never been one armed or 75 year old women play for the Carlton football club. Especially one armed 75 year old women. While the coach is always questioned, the first problem always falls at the feet of the players. No coach states 35 tackles in a match is an O.K. result. The problem is that you can't sack 40 players and get 40 new players for the coach to work with in one season. We have a mess on so many levels, we don't even know where to start. I hope SOS is the start of a better path to follow in the future. I really do.
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(05-22-2015, 02:12 PM)kruddler link Wrote:How many kicks did the coach get?
How many tackles?
The coach is not out on the ground the players are.
I don't' care if they are 1-armed 75 year old women....while you are out on the ground, wearing that jumper you put in effort. I don't care if Hitler himself is your coach, you put in effort.
THE PLAYERS are not doing that and until they do, i wont be going to another game this year....or next...regardless of who is coaching us.
Well u r a fair weather supporter...
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Great post Lods. Sums up well the frustration and anger. Just imagine working at the club at the moment. The failure would hang over all like a gloom.
Takes some real courage to work through this, hope the people there are up to it.
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I went. I had little expectation and was surprised that we actually had a fair number of supporters go. 32000 at Etihad isn't a terrible number. It's not great, but it wasn't our home game anyway.
I got medallion ticket. I had a few beers. I got some down time from our renovation, and I got some free popcorn.
You cannot tell me our players are in good nick. I estimate most are carrying a niggle and most have had poor pre season.
They actually tried tonight. Only for it to come undone in the execution.
For those of you who tell me we are better than what we are seeing, I'm not so sure. We exexcute basics poorly. We make bad decisions with ball in hand. Few genuinely show confidence. We don't create scoring opportunities and when our opponents make errors we fail to capitalise.
We are undersized, understrength, undermanned and still can't seem to form a spine of a team.
We have some good ingredients but it falls over too easily.
It's easy to point the finger at one, but we appear to suffer from a lack of familiarity with each others strengths and this is hindering our ability to play good footy.
Give it time, we'll improve.
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Thry, can I ask you one question? With very minimal positive besides we did try tonight, and all the negatives of we are undersized, understrength, undermanned and still can't seem to find a spine, how do you see we will improve? By getting players in that will solve this situation? Or by the players getting better with what they are doing? Or is it a case that we can't get any worse and have to get better? Geelong were not that great tonight. Not even a top 8 side in my opinion. They have become another Ninthmond from what I watched. Let me know what you saw that we didn't see on the TV. 
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We do things at times in terms of structure which makes you say we are on here and the next kick is too long, too short, the wrong option or a miskick.
You can see it unfold before it happens.
Players free on the fat side of the ground but the ball gets cut off in transition over there. Players playing on top of each other and then running to the right position. We are contesting and getting little reward for effort.
Communication can and should improve.
Execution can and should improve.
Our team balance should improve.
Personnel give us Henderson and Jamison and things will improve.
Fitness will improve.
Our players are trying to kick long but can barely clear forty metres whilst our opponents do it easily. We are not in good nick. Our preseason can't have been good, because our players look like they are struggling to cover the ground with a few exceptions. Yarran, Tuohy, bell, Jones, Curnow.
Everyone else looks flat.
I think as they get used to each other they can fix 90% of the above.
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(05-22-2015, 02:54 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:We do things at times in terms of structure which makes you say we are on here and the next kick is too long, too short, the wrong option or a miskick.
You can see it unfold before it happens.
Players free on the fat side of the ground but the ball gets cut off in transition over there. Players playing on top of each other and then running to the right position. We are contesting and getting little reward for effort.
Communication can and should improve.
Execution can and should improve.
Our team balance should improve.
Personnel give us Henderson and Jamison and things will improve.
Fitness will improve.
Our players are trying to kick long but can barely clear forty metres whilst our opponents do it easily. We are not in good nick. Our preseason can't have been good, because our players look like they are struggling to cover the ground with a few exceptions. Yarran, Tuohy, bell, Jones, Curnow.
Everyone else looks flat.
I think as they get used to each other they can fix 90% of the above.
A new coach should fix 90% of that.
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Yup, the only thing that's fat around our club is Mick's paycheque! And let's not forget his son Fail Thomas as well.
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