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I reckon the hype generated in the first half of last season is catching up to us. To me it looks like the is no intensity or urgency as the players have been told by people patting them on the back that they will make the finals. While we lost a few close games in the second half of last season since the bye round last year we appear to just going through the motions. As I said before the Richmond game if we are still relying on players such as Ed Curnow we are in trouble. When I look at our list containing cloggers like Boyd, Fogarty, S.Durdin etc who couldn’t get a game at their original clubs but we think are going to make a difference when they play for us I think all of us are caught up in the hype. Our list isn’t deep enough yet to challenge consistently with injuries.
Sick of playing blokes like O’Brien who have no heart or fierce competitiveness to attack the ball. If a few of our guys are having a bad day they put up the white flag with no desire to fight on crack in or even do the one percenters that might make it hard for the opposition.
We are playing with no heart
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We are not switched on like last year. Work rate is incomparable. Disposal inefficiency is a symptom of that as there is a lack of care.
Hope it isn't the same as with previous coaches. Play our best football under them year 1 them gets worse from there as the intensity and "want" drops off. Malthouse through to Teague have been the same. St.Kilda have been the same. Last year we were the most exciting to watch, ripping it out of stoppages, playing with dare and setting ourselves up. Our turnover game was much better last year. We're not even close to that this year.
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(04-23-2023, 11:04 PM)laj link Wrote:We are not switched on like last year. Work rate is incomparable. Disposal inefficiency is a symptom of that as there is a lack of care.
Hope it isn't the same as with previous coaches. Play our best football under them year 1 them gets worse from there as the intensity and "want" drops off. Malthouse through to Teague have been the same. St.Kilda have been the same. Last year we were the most exciting to watch, ripping it out of stoppages, playing with dare and setting ourselves up. Our turnover game was much better last year. We're not even close to that this year.
Yep. There seems to be some kind of systemic malaise affecting the club that gets a hold on everyone who enters the gates. Looks like another very mediocre year in the offing unfortunately.
Reality always wins in the end.
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We worked our butts off yesterday. We were outplayed/outsmarted. The players can't give anymore. Blaming the lowest possession players on the ground and the substitute is primary school stuff.
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Problem will be with West Coast being so poor is we will probably see an artificial improvement this week that will mask the problems we have until we play another decent team where we will get exposed again..
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(04-23-2023, 01:26 PM)Lods link Wrote:Small forwards aren't giving us enough...but I reckon we could also do with a Brad Pearce type fast leading medium sized forward to act as a foil to the Curnow/ McKay combination.
(One that isn't always injured. 
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We would kick it over his head or at this feet.
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Brand. What is ours? For the first 2 qtrs I think we saw it against the Aints. Well on top of a very good, in form, opponent. However...
...our forward line was inefficient and apart from H & Charlies, and occasionally JSOS, no-one presented other leading options for blokes up the field. Too much left to too few. As the game progressed this became more apparent. And when the heat came in the second half, it was only our two talls. JSOS lapsed into errors, critical errors that should not occur at this level and our small forwards, vanished. When that inevitable heat came later in the game (tiredness… more on that below), Fisher, small Durds & Mots failed to impose and create, but rather shrank. So, any wonder blokes up the field resorted to high kicks to our talls.
Had we been more efficient, nailing simple shots on goal, it would have provided scoreboard pressure and very importantly, confidence for all. Missed sitters sap confidence.
When I hear our coaching group and players talk, humility, empathy and mindfulness are often mentioned – all sound psychological ingredients. However, we must remember that our blokes, when it’s all boiled down, are warriors going into battle and should and must have fight and competitiveness addressed and implemented at an ‘above the shoulders’ level. We risk too much ‘nice’ when the before mentioned psychological ingredients become foremost. 120 minutes of a hunger for ruthless persistence in every contest must be the foremost to handle and want heat. We can’t and don’t hunger for heat. Too many shrink in the heat (e.g., Fisher, JSOS, small forwards) and errors ensue.
Cliques. Groups within groups. This results in out of form and even ‘not up to it’ blokes getting automatic selection based on reputation and/or being popular off field within one of these favoured groups or cliques.
Diet. Are our blokes too ‘carbed up?’ Latest research on carbs/sugars suggest strongly that this is not what it was once believed to be. When you have to pop caffeine tablets to get a lift (counter the tiredness brought on by sugars), you’re in trouble. Not to mention the long-term effects of caffeine on the body, but that’s a discussion for another day. For many folks meat and veggies (complex carbs, much better for the human body) work a treat. Some can handle high carbs but many can’t.
Just thoughts.
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(04-23-2023, 11:17 PM)madbluboy link Wrote:We worked our butts off yesterday. We were outplayed/outsmarted. The players can't give anymore. Blaming the lowest possession players on the ground and the substitute is primary school stuff.
Its not about possession numbers, we blew StK out of the water in that regard, it was the poor quality of last kick into the fwd 50 that killed us....again.
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2020-dare to dream? 11th is better than last I suppose
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time
