Thread: Micks press conference.

Then proceed to read......bloody funny thread.
Love your work club, as does everyone else.
We needed a diversion from the list which is supposedly "@#$%&! fantastic".

What else could MM say?
You see the coaches job is to add a bit of theatre, common sense and a bit of science...footy science which makes us think.
He needn't mention weaknesses between the ears and heart and desire...he summed it up as smarts.

We could've won.
The umps could've paid the free to Army...and others.
Nevertheless the game goes on...and MM compares our wits and intelligence against Pies who he knows intimately.

Lynch got 24 possessions....never did that before.
Because he was smarter?

No need for more. MM said what he had to say and that was it.
End the controversy there.
The players were expected to do the rest.
7 goals to 2 in the last. FMD!
What's that got to do with Ratts or MM?
NOTHING.

WE are learning about the lack of depth with this list.
Something I thought we had in abundance.

JUDD is the only game breaker in the midfield: there's the problem MM saw last year.
He didn't need to say that again. He's building a team and their belief systems and Judd will be retiring by the end of MM's 3 year reign.

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Not necessarily so.
You cant fix years worth of bad habits and bad list management overnight.
It might take this season for Mick to pick out the rotten wood from Ratten's list and then work on bringing in players who he knows can do the job.

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I think even if we dont win a flag in 3 years... we will be in a better place than we are now.

We just have no winning culture or willingness to do the hard stuff

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For too long we relied on talent to win games; no wonder we could not win 4 in a row.
Micks job is make all players contributors; so we lessen dependency on top 12 players.
I think he will do this; we have be better for that change in approach.

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'‘He had an enormous capacity to pump himself up and get the best out of himself when it mattered. He had a fire in his belly – a passion for the contest like few other players’' -- D Parkin in reference to the dominator

Micks game plan is shit . Couldnt give a crap about culture . A winning culture comes from winning games . If we keep playing this kick it down the line to a contest and dont introduce some form of tempo footy or play the switch we wont win .
So Mick can shove his plan up his arse as far as Im concerned because you wont develop a winning culture losing games

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Sunday's games show how hard you have to work to win games these days, Geelong coming from behind to best North Melbourne and us being in front and not working hard enough to stay there.

And as Dominator alludes to until we can string 4 or 5 wins in a row against quality opposition ( when was the last time we won 5 in a row) we will never be in contention to make top 4 let alone win a premiership.

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I can understand why "stats" lovers hated this presser...

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haha I know what you mean. Classic everytime he went after one he couldnt find it on the sheet or didnt have his specks.
He was prickly though. I wonder if he does that to kill time. Belittling the bloke who asked about our weakness.

I don't really care about pressers. People use to lose it when Ratts did one because he used stats to kill time. Always funny.

Mick will go after the reporters week in week out and in the end they will love going after him.

Like him or not I feel more comfortable with Malthouse leading us than Ratts.

Having said that I believe we will not make the finals. Malthouse has heaps of re-engineering to do

Agree, but having said that I thought the club hired a 59 year old bloke on a mill a season for immediate success.

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yep, they did indeed

bang bang

And the other millions spent paying out Ratten/Williams/Richardson/Riley.

Poor management...when it comes to coaching appointments, signing players made of tissue paper on 3 year deals, not having a recruiting focus on players who are at least adequate kicks.

Top 6 this year or it's a fail.

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yeah but he has a record of making prellims and gfs..
what did we have before him???

You cant see the irony in what youre saying can you????

hint(can't see - blind faith)

Do you feell abit blindsided with where everything is right now??... faith in sticks and ratts???

two serious featherweights in contemporary AFL football......

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Actually its a 3 year contract... depends on what your definition of immediate is......

A three year contract means 3 years.... unless im mistaken

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1st year discovery/development/cleanout
2nd year further development/consolidation
3rd year success (whether thats ultimate success - not sure)

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

that was the plan in 2007

yeah and it failed - so now we are coming from a long way back and have to start again

as shit as that is

finals this year should still be a target though

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

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