Blues2005 wrote:
Synbad wrote:
79.. we played above ourselves last year imo.
We never should have win 10 it was a mirage....
We beat Collingwood by a point twice we won the Crows game on the siren and caught a few teams when they had a downer....and others were just more of a rabble than we were.
Yes Pagan should take some responsibility...!... i really think he should .. but the list is very Fitzroy/Freoesque..
There are players that dont try week in week out.. they dont do what they train to do... they dont fight.. they dont hit targets they make silly mistakes... THEYRE NOT UP TO IT...OT FOR IT!!!
See you can look at last year the other way too Synbad - we got lucky in a few games no doubt but we should have beaten Sydney and threw it away and we led North until the last minute too...win those games on top of the ones we won and presto we're probably playing finals..
Is the list THAT bad Synbad? I don't think it is, in fact I'm convinced it isn't. Something is wrong though. We're not that bad as to only have 2.5/13 wins just like arguably we weren't good enough really to have 10/22 wins. Works both ways. The fundamental problem as far as I can see it is a pure and simple lack of intensity and lack of fight and desperation and a real will to win...yes obviously the list still isn't great whether or not we play hard but the players are not getting the most out of themselves and Denis is not getting the most out of the players Synbad...see you can't expect players' skills to suddenly change but you can expect to play with intensity and actually looking like you give a shit and this isn't happening!
How do we go from beating the Dogs by 9 goals 16 weeks ago to losing by a similar margin 4 months later? 100+ point turnaround in that period of time? The Dogs that night in the Wizard Cup had as good a team in as they had last night and probably a better one with Darcy, Grant etc...the players aren't as bad as they are playing Synbad. We beat a full strength WCE for heaven's sake! In two weeks time we play them again and we'll go in the longest favourites you'll probably ever see in a two horse race.
I just can't believe that we are playing so poorly because I know that we aren't this bad.
Vintage i never said after the Collingwood game we would make the eight. I thought so before the Collingwood game.
2005.. you can be in denial all you like but yes our list is THAT bad.
Footy isnt about talent (We dont have much of that either)... its also about mental toughness and leadership and inspiration.
We dont have much talent.. we dont have much mental toughness .. we dont have much inspiration and we have NO leadership.....
...... End result is we are a bucket of shit!!!!
.. now you can dress up a bucket of shit anyway you like... but its still a bucket of shit!!!!
You have to get rid of the players that dont make a difference... and you have to replace them not with more REJECTS and wannabes.. but with early picks with talent, leadership and inspiration.
You get a woody when Liverpool recruit good players from other clubs... why dont you say wait a sec.. i dont want those players im happy with the hacks that were there 4 years ago????
why wouldnt you want Gerard to leave and replace him with a player from Bath United???
Why???... cos you can never beat talent in the first place....
We have precious little talent...
Those players we recruited from other clubs we got because they wernt good enough!!!
No early picks???
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