Lots of talk lately re our woes is it coaching ? Lack of talent? (probably bit of both is the beige reality) that said I thought N Buckley said it nicely this week on Fox when asked what the results might be if Fly swapped with Lyon…his thoughts were….Lyon would go considerably better with Pies and...

Harley can write his own ticket in Perth, and won't be going anywhere soon He can write his own ticket anywhere. If he has half a brain or his manager has, he will be refusing to discuss contracts until the end of next season. The Vic clubs will be frothing at the bit and offering stupid money whic...

I don't, I am old and soft and don't mind admitting it.
I can drive my car into the carpark under Marvel, go up to my seat, watch the game, and head straight back down to my car, and never have to face the elements.

spert wrote: ↑Tue 21 May 2024 7:44am Drop every midfielder that got beaten in the last two games.

It is a gutsy game plan going in with Roma as the only midfielder. It should open the game up though having only 13 on the field.

.the other guy who creates energy and enthusiasm is Caminiti. He has to stay in the team Has in spades what our forward line needs as much as anything else. I'm over that goal celebration by King of waiving his index finger like the Queen waved at crowds but showing less emotion than the Queen wass...

Jack Stevens played 30 games before Ross showed his true colours and ran off to Freo for the cash. So if you claim he developed him he didn't develop Fyfe who already had 40 games before he arrived. Sean Darcy played 26 games only under Ross. You haven't really helped your own argument by showing ho...

Jack Stevens played 30 games before Ross showed his true colours and ran off to Freo for the cash. So if you claim he developed him he didn't develop Fyfe who already had 40 games before he arrived. Sean Darcy played 26 games only under Ross. You haven't really helped your own argument by showing ho...

It is not an either/or situation. We need to turn over the list because we lack talent certainly. However, players are going backwards under the new messiah's watch. I would challenge any member of the Ross cult to try to refute that. The way we play lack's any semblance of a coherent game plan for ...

So does the cult excuse Ross this week?

Marvel stadium has a roof, so it is not as cold as other grounds. You will be able to find good seats as the ground will be half empty. If you drive to the game you can park underneath and never have to go out into the cold (one of the things I like most about Marvel, though the name is stupid). The...

Yeah f*** Carlton. Split their list up. Are they still using brown paper bags? We won't split their list up it will split ours. They won't match 1.5m because the number is crazy. They will however expect us to give them our first and second round draft picks this year and next year. Carlton can say...

1.5m does not necessarily overly damage the salary cap but it does set a precedent. If I was 2 times All Australians Sinclair or Steele you would be asking where is my 1.5m. Every player on the list would expect more than they are getting now as the club shows they are willing to throw Money around....

Money doesn't make us a destination club. If we want to land an LDU or McCluggage, we will need to offer 300 K more per annum than a Geelong or a Collingwood can. The only way to push us up the table is talent acquisition through the draft, and another comfortable mid table finish does not give us a...

I predict it will be between 22K and 25K.
Last week's game was so awful to watch people won't need much of an excuse to miss.

It is not an either/or position. We lack high-end talent, and skills across the board are substandard. However, that does not mean that the coaching is not also to blame. We have a coach who is completely opposed to attacking, he does not try to win the game. Ross coach's to breakdown the opposition...

Standard Ross Lyon football. It takes until the last quarter to decide to try to win the game rather than to try to purely negate the opposition. Bassett needs to make a hard call. Give him till the end of the season to change his anti-football approach and if he won't or can't then fire him tomorro...

Unfortunately, his second year blues started about round 6 in his first year. Sending him back to Sandy is the correct approach. He needs to justify his selection by performing at Sandringham. He started well last year and then was gifted games ahead of players that probably offered more to the side...

Scollop wrote: ↑Thu 09 May 2024 7:48pm We should be trying to beat them rather than just restrict them

Ross never tries to beat anybody, it is always structured around restricting the opposition.

WellardSaint wrote: ↑Thu 09 May 2024 3:52pm Sicily out makes our job a bit easier

Well, who are we going to allow to have free reign on the half back line to collect 40 possessions while nobody goes within 30 feet of him?

That will upset Ross's gameplan. It is obviously a key component to it as he allows it every week.

Not for me.

We play a game that is about stopping the opposition. We do not play an attacking game which means we will not bury anybody. We don't get dragged down to their level we just never go sufficiently offensive to blow a side off the park.

Actually, I think it is particularly relevant given that Father/Son selections and preferential ability to trade are the very short cuts to talent acquisition that Geelong have had and to some degree still have that we do not. For us to have acquired the talents of a Jeremy Cameron we would have to ...

There are absolutely no short cuts for talent acquisition...it took Scott over 10 years to win his first flag and what was Geelongs secret...the sum of all parts supported by ti.e and stability. Incorrect Chris Scott won his first flag at Geelong in his first year of coaching!!! Admittedly he walke...

We have players missing but when we were playing well at the start of last year Wood was the only one of those missing players who was available. What has changed since then is Ross has implemented his negative game plan. The article is correct we are the most boring side in the competition and that...

What’s the purpose and benefit of the tactic of sitting back in a game of keeping’s off? Ross was shielding the players. It wasn't a tactic it's what the players delivered. Rubbish. We defend grass every game. I guess you think the bombing to 30m out is just the players and not a tactic. If as you ...