D. Hardwick

[jackstar is back again]

Yep, Round 2 and we have 16-18 players playing behind the ball.
Teachers  young players nothing !
Round 1= 9 goals
Round 2= 7  goals.

Good Luck !
As the club said, its not about winning a games but the structures in the place.
There aint any structures in place..
Nahas chasing kicks in  D 50.
Riewoldt go for marks up on the wing.
Its not about how many rounds, but the method and way we play.

[Ramps]

Yep, Round 2 and we have 16-18 players playing behind the ball.
Teachers  young players nothing !
Round 1= 9 goals
Round 2= 7  goals.

Good Luck !
As the club said, its not about winning a games but the structures in the place.
There aint any structures in place..
Nahas chasing kicks in  D 50.
Riewoldt go for marks up on the wing.
Its not about how many rounds, but the method and way we play.

we have very little talent at our disposal jack, theres nothing we can do about it right now, only thing we can imho is wait for Griffiths and Astbury to get fit and take up kpf spots, wait for dae to take his place on a hbf and a webberley on the other hbf or in a pocket, wait for taylor to take a place in a forward pocket, and wait for grimes to taks a spot in defence, Id also like to see contin get a run at some stage, good size can take up a spot in the mids, also want to see Gourdis get a run maybe even at CHB. Anyway until we see more kids we wont know exactly where we are at!

[WilliamPowell]

i really have to ask what exactly you thought Tambling did to suggest he was okay and not pathetic which is what i think he was.

daniel, as a very brief example (and you'll need to take off your biased blinkers or you will miss it) have a look at the first 10 minutes of the game. I think you will find tambling at the bottom of packs and defensively going very hard at all contests he was involved in. Actually think you will also find him getting hit in the head when he has his head over the ball which I thought these days was a reportable offence but I digrese. Just one example

As I said I thought he was OK not the worse and not the best

[Francois Jackson]

i really have to ask what exactly you thought Tambling did to suggest he was okay and not pathetic which is what i think he was.

daniel, as a very brief example (and you'll need to take off your biased blinkers or you will miss it) have a look at the first 10 minutes of the game. I think you will find tambling at the bottom of packs and defensively going very hard at all contests he was involved in. Actually think you will also find him getting hit in the head when he has his head over the ball which I thought these days was a reportable offence but I digrese. Just one example

As I said I thought he was OK not the worse and not the best

he is the biggest dissapointment on our list alongside Edwards.

No blinkers on here just saying it as i saw it.

tell me  how many goals has Tambling kicked in his 100 odd game career. he doesnt do enough around the ground and for a midfielder doesnt break the lines.

can someone answer me one thing about Richie tambling. is he supposed to be quick???

every time i wantch him i watch a guy who looks slow and his always scared to take a risk

[WilliamPowell]

tell me  how many goals has Tambling kicked in his 100 odd game career.

Going into this season after 95 games he had kicked 58 goals

And just as a comparison Griffen from the Dogs who was pick 3 before Tambling going into 2010 he'd played 97 games for 51 goals

[Gigantor]

WP i know this sounds really ufair on ritchie but as i said in a previous post what really grates with me is his willingnes to just be a follower or someone who sits on the sidelines of a game,rather than someone who is prepared to make things happen......maybe he cant make things happen ,maybe his lot in life is as is now

[WilliamPowell]

WP i know this sounds really ufair on ritchie but as i said in a previous post what really grates with me is his willingnes to just be a follower or someone who sits on the sidelines of a game,rather than someone who is prepared to make things happen......maybe he cant make things happen ,maybe his lot in life is as is now

As I said I understand why people get frustrated with him

Personally, I would prefer to see him playing of the HB line like he did last year - that was where he played his best footy for us. And he did play good footy last year from about round 6 or so onwards and part of that involved taking the game on. 

[Francois Jackson]

tell me  how many goals has Tambling kicked in his 100 odd game career.

Going into this season after 95 games he had kicked 58 goals

And just as a comparison Griffen from the Dogs who was pick 3 before Tambling going into 2010 he'd played 97 games for 51 goals

poor return from a poor player. thanks for those stats but FWIW i dont rate Griffiths in fact i rate Tambling higher

am i upset we drafted him. yes i am but it has become more than that now. he is actually a very average player who deserves some critisism like some of his friends out there. He has had enough chances to perform now he should be sent packing to Coburg.

1 goal for almost every 2nd game played is unnaceptable from a midfielder who allegedly has speed. He and Edwards look like the 2 most slowest players on our list constantly getting caught

[the_boy_jake]

As I said I thought he was OK not the worse and not the best

You are right, but it is still very frustrating.

I think you'll probably see the best and worst of Tambling looking at the game again. One minute he's winning the ball, evading one and two players and setting us up from HB, the next he's missing an open 30 metre target.

5 years on and he's just another good ordinary player who we must write off as a draft miss and as not having reached his early potential.

[Siberian]

Should he just replace Nahas in a forward pocket, Naish was a high drat pick too, but he could kick forty metres!

[Tigermonk]

This thread is a reflection of why we are stuffed as a club. A new coach in his 2nd game is being attacked even though he was handed the worst job in AFL footy with the worst list. What did people expect? Hardwick has made a good start, he got rid of 1/4 of the list and another 1/4 will get the behind come september and october. Thats where we are at!

Why I'm out of here for a month or two
I can't take the crap that's on this and other boards
The problem with supporters is they overestimate where we're at.
If they had have sat back and looked at the list - the seniors and the kids - there isn't much there
Instead, they put the highest of expectations on a very inexperienced group and expect miracles
You are all fodder for newspapers to continue their attacks on us
They won't let up on us until we let up on ourselves and accept where we're at
Self-destructing is not going to help
And disappointing that those that have an idea (Jack) don't use your good advice generally to help the club rather than what you're doing.
Go and offer your services and do something constructive for a change
I have no problem with your footy nous, and I think you know what you're talking about most times, but we won't have a club soon if we keep all this garbage up.
Round 2 FFS and this is where we're at 

was at the Melbourne game, they played great football & should have won
They dont have no super coaches & they performed thier skills well apart from some stray goal kicking  but they moved the ball like a AFL side should
Now they have alot of younsters with good skills better than our 4 to 6 year players. why