Hardwick's press conference - May 14 / Deledio in doubt to play this week

[Yeahright]

Not sure if Dimma gets this but games go for 4 quarters. If you play a bad quarter and lose the game, you've played a poor game.

[WilliamPowell]

Sure but the whole game style is insipid not just a rubbish 5-20 minute period.
Wasn't it 15 minutes before? Seems to have become 20.
That's basically one whole quarter.
He says they've been doing it all year
He's a stuffwit.
Admit it.

Not disputing your point, just think these 15-20 minute lapses are a massive problem. They are the icing on the putrid game style cake if you like

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Well, that goes without saying, tiger. Lmao

[Smokey]

Not disputing your point, just think these 15-20 minute lapses are a massive problem. They are the icing on the putrid game style cake if you like

Exactly what it is.

[🏅Dooks]

It is putrid. That's a good word to describe it.

If I can open up for a moment, I really don't like it. It's not necessary and it's not effective.

[Lozza]

The weekly routine is all becoming a bit blah. We lose, we try to explain why we lost even though it's obvious to everyone, we say a lot of warm and fuzzy things about lifting our game, drawing lines in the sand and other cliches we can find..  we lose again. It's  become so predictable you could almost be locked away from the world for a week,  come back and still know what happened without having read a single thread on this forum, football is so boring at the minute 

[WilliamPowell]

It is putrid. That's a good word to describe it.

If I can open up for a moment, I really don't like it. It's not necessary and it's not effective.

Saddest thing is that when they play the other game style, the fast run and carry through the corridor which we usually get fleeting glimpses of each week in short blink and you will miss it bursrt we actually look good. It's a good style but right now it like Ty Vickery; a cameo king

[🏅Dooks]

It is putrid. That's a good word to describe it.

If I can open up for a moment, I really don't like it. It's not necessary and it's not effective.

Saddest thing is that when they play the other game style, the fast run and carry through the corridor which we usually get fleeting glimpses of each week in short blink and you will miss it bursrt we actually look good. It's a good style but right now it like Ty Vickery; a cameo king

Yep. 

[Chuck17]

The weekly routine is all becoming a bit blah. We lose, we try to explain why we lost even though it's obvious to everyone, we say a lot of warm and fuzzy things about lifting our game, drawing lines in the sand and other cliches we can find..  we lose again. It's  become so predictable you could almost be locked away from the world for a week,  come back and still know what happened without having read a single thread on this forum, football is so boring at the minute 

It's all about media repsonsibilities that the club have

Best thing is to just ignore it as you know it's all crap blah crap

[Yeahright]

It is putrid. That's a good word to describe it.

If I can open up for a moment, I really don't like it. It's not necessary and it's not effective.

Saddest thing is that when they play the other game style, the fast run and carry through the corridor which we usually get fleeting glimpses of each week in short blink and you will miss it bursrt we actually look good. It's a good style but right now it like Ty Vickery; a cameo king

And a lot of the time it gets ruined by a dinky 1 meter handball

[Gigantor]

one metre handball???most are far shorter than that

[Penelope]

the difference between when we look good and when we dont is not anything we do ( not so much anyway) but more to do with what the opposition do. we are still playing pretty much the same way.

those dinky dangerous handballs are still there, but the pressure from the opposition isnt.

I watch with my heart in my mouths at times, about to explode in a tirade of expleteives as i see a series of these handballs... and it actually comes off, but often then only just, but it creates run and breaks the lines. Soon enough though, if the oppostion can keep the pressure on the cracks appear, turnovers happen, the players start to doubt and panic, then it just deteriorates into a god almighty rabble.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

It is putrid. That's a good word to describe it.

If I can open up for a moment, I really don't like it. It's not necessary and it's not effective.

Saddest thing is that when they play the other game style, the fast run and carry through the corridor which we usually get fleeting glimpses of each week in short blink and you will miss it bursrt we actually look good. It's a good style but right now it like Ty Vickery; a cameo king

Surely you teach, drill, inspire build confidence into the way you play which makes it repeatable. Doing it for 100 minutes or 80 minutes - particularly when on field leaders go missing - is also a coaching thing. 6 years to teach players to concentrate for 100 minutes. Surely a KPI of the coach? Finally, Al while I agree with your point on pressure when our players are executing the game plan properly and don't go missing for 20 minutes we've beaten or pushed the best pressure team in the AFL / Freo a number of times. 

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Interestingly Clarko talked about consistency of effort last night - not being a "sometimes team". He's a coach that has a hugely talented team and demands 100% in the application of that talent. There is no way he'd play a Tyrone Vickery given this kids a repeat offender in the "lack of application" department.
Yet a coach in his 6th year compromises a basic standard in hope.....

[Francois Jackson]

 half the problem HRT is the development of these players. Clarkson would have a different vickery than we have and his old man wouldn't be on the payroll