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Is that you Dom? Or is it Mike?
Or the long running endurance either sadly, we have fallen off badly this year.The speed of the game has gone past us, and we don't have the personal on the list to play the new game style.
There's a fragility amongst this group. Lack of resilience. And that's from our leadership group down.Or the long running endurance either sadly, we have fallen off badly this year.
As I have said ad nauseam 2023 might have been this groups best chance to snatch a flag, so close but yet so far.
The close GF loss may have broken us mentally, tonight v the Giants has got a vibe of breaking us for the 2024 season IMO.
Poor recruiting.The speed of the game has gone past us, and we don't have the personal on the list to play the new game style.
Yep, way more experienced than yhe Giants and literally blown off the park. The players are disinterested and clearly don’t play for each other and I’m not buying that there isn’t a fracture somewhere. Every week the club pushes out players who honestly just spout crap (of course they aren’t going to say the opposite) about how united we are and we’ll turn it around etc but they don’t run for one another and are dispirited. That was utterly embarrassing tonight and after everything said by anyone associated with the club that we’ll turn it around and to them produce that; I can’t accept that but the club does because this is the fifth time it has happened.Or the long running endurance either sadly, we have fallen off badly this year.
As I have said ad nauseam 2023 might have been this groups best chance to snatch a flag, so close but yet so far.
The close GF loss may have broken us mentally, tonight v the Giants has got a vibe of breaking us for the 2024 season IMO.
Poor genetics.Poor recruiting.
As much as ideally I'd like to see us make finals, it actually might be a good thing if we miss it altogether and regroup with a better game plan and strategy.
We are the only team to play finals every year for the past five seasons. Sometimes a dip isn't a bad thing.
Or the exodus of players begin when they start thinking they’ll get a pay increase plus a better opportunity at a flag outside of Brisbane which I suspect some would be starting to think. Not a good place to be.I think this is a big part of our current form problem.
Five years of short off seasons, five years of climbing and striving.
Mentally and physically fatigued.
Having said that, if the players believe that they may also start next year thinking it's all going to fall at their feet. Need some strong and honest assessments of where we are every week too frame whatever happens in the rest of this year as development - the dreaded learnings.
Or the exodus of players begin when they start thinking they’ll get a pay increase plus a better opportunity at a flag outside of Brisbane which I suspect some would be starting to think. Not a good place to be.
A great positive that would come out of not making finals is we would get a full pre season in, IIRC we trained for 2 weeks pre Christmas for this season, starting 5 weeks earlier would make a hell of a difference.As much as ideally I'd like to see us make finals, it actually might be a good thing if we miss it altogether and regroup with a better game plan and strategy.
We are the only team to play finals every year for the past five seasons. Sometimes a dip isn't a bad thing.
All we are getting this season bar maybe a couple of very late selections is Levi Ashcroft and Sam Marshall, unless we can snag a top 2-3 pick somehow and get a selection in before Levi is bid on, we are not getting a highly rated draft kid in the 2024 draft besides Levi.I wanted a flag but that doesn’t seem like it’ll happen. Now I just want as many early draft picks as we can get for the future.
I don't think we should overlook Washcroft, but are Marshall and Gillet the players we really need? Do we overlook those guys and use later picks on more physical guys?Poor genetics.
We're matching talented father son kids way ahead of where our natural picks would be, so of course we take them in the draft. But they don't have the athleticism/physiology that most dominating midfields have these days.
When we get the chance to use a pick in the draft, we're picking outside of the optimal spots in the draft.
All we are getting this season bar maybe a couple of very late selections is Levi Ashcroft and Sam Marshall, unless we can snag a top 2-3 pick somehow and get a selection in before Levi is bid on, we are not getting a highly rated draft kid in the 2024 draft besides Levi.
Definitely worth consideration IMO, I haven't watched much at all of our academy/FS guys this draft but the one I did like the look of is Ryan Gilder.I don't think we should overlook Washcroft, but are Marshall and Gillet the players we really need? Do we overlook those guys and use later picks on more physical guys?
I wanted a flag but that doesn’t seem like it’ll happen. Now I just want as many early draft picks as we can get for the future.
I thought it must have been a joke when they came up with the leadership congregation.You have got to admire a stubborn old coot like Fagan but there's one area that I have been critical of him.
His persistence (stubbornness) with having half the team in the leadership group.
What has been created and yesterday's game is exhibit A, the on field leadership is abysmal. We have no ON-FIELD leadership, but we have twelve in name only. Everyone is absolving their leadership responsibilities to the next fellow. No one has a clue about taking responsibility.
Rayner(for fakes sake has been elevated as a leader)
So, I want to get rid of this bullshit system of leadership groups and just go back to a more traditional, one leader and one or two deputies. It has worked for centuries. If it aint broke... well.
I thought it must have been a joke when they came up with the leadership congregation.
So the ones in it don't step up because it's someone else's problem and those not it don't think they're good enough to do so.