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I don't think our mental and physical hardness is any longer an issue, we lost against Melbourne because Cripps was out of the game before half time and we lost last weekend because we had an average team on the park.
We played both games out until the bell, the Melbourne loss was actually a very good effort and our lack of skilled players told against Footscray.
We'll be much better with a full list but we badly need to build our depth, having to select players who clearly aren't up to it is embarassing.
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(07-18-2017, 03:10 AM)PaulP link Wrote:No doubt there are people on this planet that are impressed by this. I know they're only 13, but think of the damage done.
There was nothing untoward, unlike what happened to Lamb, and what Bugg did to Mills. Huge difference.
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(07-18-2017, 07:50 AM)laj link Wrote:There was nothing untoward, unlike what happened to Lamb, and what Bugg did to Mills. Huge difference.
We should concentrate on building our skill level, our depth, our midfield and our forward line rather than focusing on faux toughness. If Bolton thought it was such a grand idea, we'd still be doing it.
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(07-18-2017, 07:56 AM)PaulP link Wrote:We should concentrate on building our skill level, our depth, our midfield and our forward line rather than focusing on faux toughness. If Bolton thought it was such a grand idea, we'd still be doing it.
We are at times. Occasionally you know who you can target.
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(07-18-2017, 06:26 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Lewis is a more of a whack them once type player rather than niggle all day, think he is too old for that stuff ie when he clobbered Goldstein...be interested to see if Nick Robertson from Brisbane gets another job this week vs Gibbs, Murphy etc. Think he fancies himself as a tough guy , not sure our blokes have the same capabilities as Dusty to release some of that pressure...
Think he got rubbed out?
But you were right earlier - umpires will be watching him pretty closely in future.
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(07-18-2017, 08:10 AM)laj link Wrote:We are at times. Occasionally you know who you can target.
That sort of behavior turns footy into a tawdry spectacle for tawdry individuals. I pay money to see guys like Gazza play great footy, not to see a bunch of buffoonish clowns smack him for 4 quarters.
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(07-18-2017, 08:30 AM)PaulP link Wrote:That sort of behavior turns footy into a tawdry spectacle for tawdry individuals. I pay money to see guys like Gazza play great footy, not to see a bunch of buffoonish clowns smack him for 4 quarters.
Likewise, but you'd be surprised how many football supporters like a bit of biffo.
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(07-18-2017, 08:30 AM)PaulP link Wrote:That sort of behavior turns footy into a tawdry spectacle for tawdry individuals. I pay money to see guys like Gazza play great footy, not to see a bunch of buffoonish clowns smack him for 4 quarters.
No-one smacked him at all. They bumped and pushed him, tackled him extra hard, told him all about it after, and made him physically earn every kick. What was wrong with it? Nothing at all unfair. You might pay money to see play well against us but I prefer we reduced his influence so we can win.
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(07-18-2017, 08:37 AM)blue4life link Wrote:Likewise, but you'd be surprised how many football supporters like a bit of biffo.
My definition of biffo is more in the line of all in brawls, dust ups etc. This is not the same IMO. 18 against 1 is cowardly, tawdry stuff.
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(07-18-2017, 08:49 AM)laj link Wrote:No-one smacked him at all. They bumped and pushed him, tackled him extra hard, told him all about it after, and made him physically earn every kick. What was wrong with it? Nothing at all unfair. You might pay money to see play well against us but I prefer we reduced his influence so we can win.
If every single game you watched featured this sort of behaviour, you would very quickly figure out what is wrong with it.
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