Otiman wrote:Selection of Raph still baffles me.

me too. wouldn't have thought he is RL's type of player. bit of flair but takes too many chances and too many mistakes, not accountable enough etc.

he must have been blitzing for casey

The key this week is getting our hands on the footy through the middle blake in ruck is a step in the right direction imo. at least we don't waste a spot on a big bloke who might win a few more hit outs but does nothing around the ground. goose is also a ruck option. i can remember him performing c...

brown-coat wrote:I want to see Ross try something revolutionary..putting Stkilda players in the attacking forward 50.

Think you are all being harsh on Raph, the boy can play IMO and will eventually be best 22 permenantly. .... I am befuddled that we would have come to the point where Blake is a ruckman again. i've always thought that raph would make it, too, provided his attitude and work ethic is there. he has ta...

what about playing a sh|thouse brand of footy badly?

who has a 'plan B'? nobody has a 'plan B' the reasons why plan A don't work are things like skill execution, pressure and tackling, talk and etc... all are things that a) won't change in a 'plan B' and b) would cause plan B to fail as well there is no magic button, no easy switch...if your plan A i...

with great sadness i agree with you about harvs and thommo

however i still think fraser has something to offer and would benefit from a more attacking game plan. he's only 31 or 32 isn't he?

as for hammer, give him one more shot at it. one more injury and its curtains

i genuinely thought we'd be a contender, especially given what i now know to be our very good run with injury in the second part of the season after all, we were told that GT couldn't coach a pig to be dirty and anyone could coach our list to the finals etc, etc. i'm very disappointed by what i've s...

it is nearly impossible to play well with all the running away from the forward line we do. i noticed in the last quarter there was one time where there was no-one at home except for milne he was left to contest a high floating ball against two bigger opponents ... not exactly his forte more of the...

Put Goose at CHF? He's had two shots on goal this year. One was smothered by the man on the mark, and the other was lucky to stay in the stadium.. well for instance when roo was being well-held and comfortably beaten in the second half last week perhaps goose could have broken the logjam by grabbin...

n1ck wrote:disappointing given the creative players we have at our disposal.

well if you listen to some of the apologists for RL around here you will learn that they are no longer the creative players that they were ... they've somehow lost their talent in 12 months. spin doctoring bullsh*t

i hear RL saying "modern footy is all about match-ups".

well how about making them match up on us for a change.

take some chances before the season is over and give us something to hope for through the off-season

Would I rather win games in an unentertaining way? Sure thing. so would i and winning is the bottom line. but is what we are serving up really the way forward? i think we have shown in the recent past ... and geelong is showing this year ... that there are other ways to win games this ultra-defensi...

Problem is, we never SMASH anybody. No doubt it will be another slug fest, with our DEFENSIVE game plan operating big time. In another universe, we would go out and attack them, put pressure on them, run in waves, get numbers to the ball, etc etc. But no doubt we will "zone off", "pr...

if we're fair dinkum we'll do a number on them.

but i'm not convinced we're fair dinkum

this was also a criticism of our previous coach, but when things aren't going our way we don't seem to have a plan b. what would be wrong with giving goose a run at chf when roo is being blanketed. chuck roo at chb and see if it doesn't shake things up a bit. OR throw goose in the ruck for a while a...

On the Crowmo board on Bigfooty(2008 puzzle) the talk there is Kosi. might be goose. maybe they remember how he can play and not what we've seen in 2007 since his return from injury. i hope it is not. i hope it's not kosi or fisher either. all are very valuable required players integral to our futu...

good luck to them if they win it. they seem to have learned a lot from the beltings we gave them in recent history and are now playing the sort of risk-taking, barnstorming football that deserves to, and often does, win premierships they stuck to their guns and suddenly it has all clicked into place...

meher baba wrote: Gee there's a nasty pack mentality on this forum. Lots of posters have gotten a sense that Lyon has it in for Voss, so they move in for the kill.
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i've had a second thought about voss and decided i should have said "gone ... as long as the coach doesn't believe in him"

From those members/fans I have spoken to there is almost a unanimous feeling - we hate the way we are playing and we would love to be in Geelong's position (on top of the ladder) isn't the way we are playing directly linked to the coach? anyway, as to your question on the percentage who think the c...

of course the club's not going to admit it has made a mistake. i'd never expect them to. takes a big man to admit you are wrong, especially on decisions of this magnitute but our ladder position and general ineptitude this season suggests otherwise ... also the fact that we'll probably not be in the...

Mr Magic wrote:In your opinion bigcarl, not necessarily everybody else's.

yep that's my opinion and you will find that it is shared by many fans ... not all, but many

RL places too much emphasis on "accountability" and not enough on putting a score on the board.

half the time our blokes are more worried about where their opponent is than getting the ball and kicking a goal

it is becoming increasingly clear that the club erred gravely by sacking GT

Robert Harvey, yes. sadly next season would be one too many Andrew Thompson, gone Matthew Clarke, gone Fraser Gehrig no, but needs to find some inspiration. would benefit from a more attacking and more direct gameplan Aaron Hamill. see what a proper pre-season brings. one more serious injury and it'...

And I don't believe him when he says that he wants to play attacking footy... you can't play attacking footy with your whole team behind the ball. yeah. where the hell was our forward line when the match was there to be won in the last quarter? at one stage we were kicking long bombs to stephen mil...