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So frustrating watching other quality teams with rucks Who win taps to advantage and are then actually useful around the field. RoB is not even average at either, hasn't been for at least a couple of years, and we've made effort to find a better ruckman. We truly are a s**t club -...

Crouch is at least creative as a stoppage mid - Laird isn't, he is absolutely useless there. Watch the difference between the quality of our clearances when Rankine or Soli are in the middle, versus Laird - it's all just s**t handballs that don't create anything, or dump kicks to nobody. He...

Said in another thread - the saying 'Good is the enemy of great,' applies perfectly to the AFC. (s**t, I hope that's not something JP has said!)

Laird as a stoppage mid is absolutely useless.

It's a good starting point to play a tall mid type as a KPD? It's bloody idiotic. Play him on the HBF or as the third tall? Good starting point, not the crap we did. It's hard to think we didn't set him up to fail.

Arbitrary decisions are rarely good ones. Insanity to make a decision on the sub BEFORE the game has even started, even crazier to not re-evaluate that decision based upon the state of the game.

Is that when we subbed out Soli? Obviously thought Murphy still had fresh legs.

Luke Pedlar on Stewart?

I suspect we've got some guys capable of growing into leadership roles (Worrell, Soligo, Murray) given the opportunity - but we don't give them the opportunity; we don't even give them the responsibility of being key players on the field. Soli forced his way in through his performances, Rankine...

Just to reinforce this, after yet another week of hopeless selection decisions. There is no development plan for our squad and younger players, it's just the same yo-yo bullshit of the same players who are for some reason in favour - performances are irrelevant. We have a good list with some...

What absolute ******* nonsense.

If only we had some experienced players in the side, with the match feel and leadership strength to recognise this during the game and adapt accordingly. Instead of telling us on a Tuesday.

He's useless. Terrible at selection and structure, and completely inept on game day. A pre-planned sub is just absolutely moronic, he's done it before, conceded it was stupid, and does it again anyway. He doesn't even learn from his own mistakes.

So many terrible takes from Arab this week :tearsofjoy:

Bont and Pendles are hardly fast players, still dominant mids. Appears as though we just drafted Curtin without any idea as to how he'd fit into our side. Hopefully we can get WCs first pick for him.

We actually have a good team/list, with some clear weaknesses which should be easy to address. But our coach actively hinders our ability to win games. It's pretty amazing, and classic AFC - we are our own worst enemy.

The crazy thing now is we're actually playing alright - which highlights even further how useless Nicks is. Can't blame the entire team for being out of form, now.

And his meters gained now aren't booming kicks out of the back line to advantage. They're dump kicks to nobody.

It's a pretty clear bell curve though - start your career, build to your prime, prime for the bulk of the career, then the downward slope. When you're towards the end of the downward slope, there becomes a point where the value of experiences is outweighed by the lack of performance.

Well, we did in ~2018, McGovern, Lever, Cameron etc all going, Lynch, Jenkins, Laird, Smith - plenty of trade bait we could've used. But yeah, we'd actually want to be proactive in improving our team this year.

*another - sorry, missed that. Hard to judge someone when the team has been so hot and cold over the last month or so. How'd he go last week? I know it was only Norf, but that's a good game, followed by a poor game; not a shock for a youngster. We lose nothing by giving him another month to...

Yep. Give Cook a month to find his feet, then make a decision. Don't yo-yo him for the rest of the season and end up having no idea whether he has value moving forward.

Nicks's press conferences are mostly bullshit these days. Rolls out the same. The bolded - once again, good is the enemy of great. Great teams ruthlessly pursue improvement. Good teams play a month of decent footy with plenty of passengers, but look at the barely acceptable outcomes and...

It's another stupid comment by Roo - you can talk up Ryan without needing to compare him to Curtin.

Expect we'd have to pay him out for it, either way.

Even if Smith doesn't have an attitude of entitlement (which isn't hard to believe), his form doesn't warrant selection now - little loan being first 18 next year. Terrible list management, yet again. Doesn't Roo say this bullshit about everyone? If he was rated higher than Curtin, why...

Sigh. Another week, another incomprehensibly stupid decision by the AFC footy dept.

Doesn't this only apply to AFL subsidised clubs?

The fundamental flaw of the AFC at almost all levels - we never look to replace good, with great. Lose a great assistant coach? No problems, replace them with a good one. Have a good ruckman? No need to find a great one. Can't drop people in a win if they played good, because we don't try to...

Should've kept him at the Eagles, Crows SANFL is not a proper team.