sick of honorable losses, sick of them

[WilliamPowell]

MEMO SELECTORS!!!   PLAY VICKERY

Having watched Coburg on Saturday my answer to that would be resounding NO.

Player of the future yes but not ready at all. Against bigger bodies he is found wanting, looked lost a number of times on Saturday

Our forward line lost us the game today

Agree....the majority of them

[Stripes]

I find it interesting when people say play the kids. Most of our team are kids! Apart from Richo and Bowden, the majority of the todays players were under 23. There aren't many young players we haven't given a chance or aren't in the team already - Vickery, Post and Putt are the only players that we haven't and they are first year draftees and/or ruck/KPP who need further developing.

Next year over half our 30+ players will retire or be moved on so players such as Vickery and Post will get their chance.

Stripes

[Francois Jackson]

I find it interesting when people say play the kids. Most of our team are kids! Apart from Richo and Bowden, the majority of the todays players were under 23. There aren't many young players we haven't given a chance or aren't in the team already - Vickery, Post and Putt are the only players that we haven't and they are first year draftees and/or ruck/KPP who need further developing.

Next year over half our 30+ players will retire or be moved on so players such as Vickery and Post will get their chance.

Stripes

i find it very interesting when people are happy to not to take a punt for once

READ VERY SLOWLY MY FRIEND, WE LOST THE GAME BECAUSE OF OUR FORWARD LINE.

my point was i would rather have seen a young Vickery today and not a 5% Fit Richo who is NOT our future.

if you cant see that then thats your problem

[Smokey]

We haven't played 4 quarters of footy all year. It was 10 mins against Carlton, 1.5 quarters against Geelong, 1 quarter vs Dogs and Melbourne, 3.5 vs North (win) and 2 quarters today. You're not going to win too many games on that form. We were inconsistent last year as well but when we were "on" we would score heavily. This year we are struggling to score when we have the momentum and so we are not getting the reward for our dominant patches. Today we were all over the Swans after half-time but still only kicked one more goal than we did before half-time when the Swans were on top  . We're simply not good enough and our forward line's lack of potency is killing us. We need another quality key forward to straighten us up. It just so happens one of the top 3 picks this year is a quality key forward  .

Exactly MT.  And let's look at the one major thing that has changed from last year.  Hhhmmmm.  Ah yes, that's it.  Richo is back in the forward line permanently.  The proof that was the second half of last season obviously wasn't enough.  We have only hit our collective heads against the brickwall about 50 times - it obviously needs to be at least 100 times or so before the OBVIOUS TO THE WHOLE FOOTBALL-FOLLOWING COMMUNITY sinks in to our football department.  As Graham Kennedy would say ........aaaaaaaaarrrrrrkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
(Here's another 10 times - just to help us get to the 100 times a bit quicker)

[wayne]

We haven't played 4 quarters of footy all year.

Our game plan seems to rely on the sting going out the game before it starts to work. The longer a team can keep up the intensity against us, the further behind we get. Then we get back into it, outplay them, still have no proper forward structure and waste all of our hard work getting the ball by not scoring enough. 

[wayne]

Exactly MT.  And let's look at the one major thing that has changed from last year.  Hhhmmmm.  Ah yes, that's it.  Richo is back in the forward line permanently. 

Yes, and he can hardly move, yet the ball is kicked to him 90% of the time when he's got 3 men on him!!!

Dumb football!

Dumb team selection when Richo obviously wasn't fit!

[mightytiges]

We haven't played 4 quarters of footy all year. It was 10 mins against Carlton, 1.5 quarters against Geelong, 1 quarter vs Dogs and Melbourne, 3.5 vs North (win) and 2 quarters today. You're not going to win too many games on that form. We were inconsistent last year as well but when we were "on" we would score heavily. This year we are struggling to score when we have the momentum and so we are not getting the reward for our dominant patches. Today we were all over the Swans after half-time but still only kicked one more goal than we did before half-time when the Swans were on top  . We're simply not good enough and our forward line's lack of potency is killing us. We need another quality key forward to straighten us up. It just so happens one of the top 3 picks this year is a quality key forward  .

Exactly MT.  And let's look at the one major thing that has changed from last year.  Hhhmmmm.  Ah yes, that's it.  Richo is back in the forward line permanently.  The proof that was the second half of last season obviously wasn't enough.  We have only hit our collective heads against the brickwall about 50 times - it obviously needs to be at least 100 times or so before the OBVIOUS TO THE WHOLE FOOTBALL-FOLLOWING COMMUNITY sinks in to our football department.  As Graham Kennedy would say ........aaaaaaaaarrrrrrkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
(Here's another 10 times - just to help us get to the 100 times a bit quicker)

I agree smokey but it was a move out of desperate necessity unfortunately. We went back to Richo up forward because we had no big marking target in the first 4 rounds and he also takes the best defender allowing Jack more freedom with only the 2nd defender on him. Sarge was dropped because he's failed too many times and Cleve's been injured and is stuck in the Coburg 2nds. The problem on Sunday was Richo was in no condition to play and LRT and Richards had a field day. The game was lost at the selection table. Last week we dropped all non-fit/injured players (Simmo, Browny), trusted talls in their 3rd, 4th & 5th years to do the job and we win. This week we go back to selecting players nowhere near 100% right (Richo) and we lose.