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  • erica
    Happy and I know it
    • Jan 2008
    • 1247

    Originally posted by jono2707
    Yes but how many millions of dollars did the AFL spend on getting those $3.90 chips to you????
    I wasn't there. No chippies for me!
    All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

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    • Plugger46
      Senior Player
      • Apr 2003
      • 3674

      How did we let a bloke who is 189cm tall (Blake) have 31 hitouts!!
      Bloods

      "Lockett is the best of all time" - Robert Harvey, Darrel Baldock, Nathan Burke, Kevin Bartlett, Bob Skilton

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      • The Big Cat
        On the veteran's list
        • Apr 2006
        • 2360

        Originally posted by wolftone57
        There weren't too many good players last night and we were let down by our experienced players. Macca was soft and kept moaning to the umpie and fudging frees (which he didn't get just because of it). Bolts was non-existent. ROK did a few good things in the first and disappeared until swung into defence as a loosey. Still managed to be in the wrong place most times. LRT should be in the backline. Reg didn't protect Teddy from being blocked by his player 4 times, you'd think he might just wake up after the first. Teddy did at least try. Smithy, I never thought I would say this about him but he ducked it! Mal and Shaw kicked to anyone but our players.

        Horse: got the match ups wrong, got caught out time and time again. Tried a very old game plan of just bombing the ball and we got flogged because we couldn't get the ball out of our back line. Yes we push far too far up and bring the ball in far too slowly that is why we get caught on the spread. TDL on was a @@@@ move by an obviously first oh @@@@ second year coach. Oh! By the way you got totally out-coached. You were reacting not being proactive. He had you just where he wanted you. He kept mixing up his mids and you got caught out every time. I am not sure if our mids actually knew who they were on half the time. But you didn't try the obvious in the second quarter and put Tommy in the ruck! WHY?

        Backs Coach John Blakey; The kick out strategy would have to be yours John and it SUCKS!

        Forward Coach Henry Playfair; Henry fight harder for your forward structure and the placement of players as in TDL! Please advise Horse that bombing the bombing the ball in blind is not good for the forwards.

        Mids Coach Stewart Dew; Boy oh boy were you shellacked! Your lot took a hiding and the set up in the centre square is the main culprit. Add to that the wingers staying too far off waiting and you have disaster. Your lot got caught out on the transitions. Did they actually know who they were on? It seemed at one stage three of them were chasing either Lenny or Stevens around. When they set up on their defensive side your guys get caught out every time, WHY?

        Reserves Coach Jared Crouch; You get off only because you had the bye! But you might like to suggest some things to Horse if he is willing to listen. Like keeping the run on style and not shutting it down when we get ahead. Getting rid of those terrible kick ins.
        Yada yada yada ... same old snipes from the same old snipers! As predictable as the sun coming up each morning. Absolutely boorish!
        Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.

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        • BillyRayCypress
          On the Rookie List
          • May 2012
          • 1379

          Originally posted by basher williams
          Wonderfully negative post from an obviously passionate supporter
          George Bernard Shaw said - You call it negativity, I call it observation.

          My Manager told me that one as I was working out how many SKODA chips I could buy with my next royalty payment.

          Basher buddy, if you haven't worked it out yet - How we feel means little to how the team plays. So after a loss I get out my guitar and sing a few songs. Well last night I ate some SKODA chips instead.

          If you want to read a really sad true life story, I put one in for you here:

          Nothing like a good light bulb moment.

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          • BillyRayCypress
            On the Rookie List
            • May 2012
            • 1379

            Originally posted by The Big Cat
            Yada yada yada ... same old snipes from the same old snipers! As predictable as the sun coming up each morning. Absolutely boorish!
            Hey, great inspiration for a new song. Just have to work out how to get Mike Pyke into it.
            Nothing like a good light bulb moment.

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            • Primmy
              Proud Tragic Swan
              • Apr 2008
              • 5970

              Originally posted by BillyRayCypress
              Hey, great inspiration for a new song. Just have to work out how to get Mike Pyke into it.
              You tell em Billy (may I call you Billy?).
              If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood

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              • Triple B
                Formerly 'BBB'
                • Feb 2003
                • 6999

                Originally posted by BillyRayCypress
                Hey, great inspiration for a new song. Just have to work out how to get Mike Pyke into it.
                I think Larry David has the copyright on yada, yada, yada....
                Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09

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                • caj23
                  Senior Player
                  • Aug 2003
                  • 2462

                  Originally posted by The Big Cat
                  Yada yada yada ... same old snipes from the same old snipers! As predictable as the sun coming up each morning. Absolutely boorish!
                  Oh the irony of this post

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                  • ShockOfHair
                    One Man Out
                    • Dec 2007
                    • 3668

                    Shaw laments not capitalising chances


                    "CHANCES"

                    There.
                    The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news

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                    • basher williams
                      On the Rookie List
                      • Sep 2008
                      • 42

                      Originally posted by BillyRayCypress
                      George Bernard Shaw said - You call it negativity, I call it observation.

                      My Manager told me that one as I was working out how many SKODA chips I could buy with my next royalty payment.

                      Basher buddy, if you haven't worked it out yet - How we feel means little to how the team plays. So after a loss I get out my guitar and sing a few songs. Well last night I ate some SKODA chips instead.

                      If you want to read a really sad true life story, I put one in for you here:

                      http://www.news.com.au/national/melb...-1226368115867
                      You are getting off the track Billy boy. Dont equate the loss of a child with losing a football game.I followed the story of this boy. I'm familiar with it.

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                      • AnnieH
                        RWOs Black Sheep
                        • Aug 2006
                        • 11332

                        We sucked.
                        Badly.
                        Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
                        Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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                        • aardvark
                          Veterans List
                          • Mar 2010
                          • 5685

                          Did anyone else see the strange looking Indian bloke wandering around the swans rooms after the game with what looked like manilla envelopes full of something???

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                          • Mr Magoo
                            Senior Player
                            • May 2008
                            • 1255

                            Originally posted by aardvark
                            Did anyone else see the strange looking Indian bloke wandering around the swans rooms after the game with what looked like manilla envelopes full of something???
                            They were just getting a reward for providing weather and surface conditions at the ground. nothin suss

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                            • Mr Magoo
                              Senior Player
                              • May 2008
                              • 1255

                              Where have all the goalkickers gone?

                              See article attached. I think this gives a pretty good explanantion as to why our leading tall forwards are just not dominating - Put simply its becasue very few tall forwards are. The press used by pretty much every coach of a leading team in the league (including Longmire) is preventing it. This style of game plan requires 100 percent effort and in my opinion also leads to the flipping results we see. You only need to be down 10 percent and all of a sudden you look slow and out of touch.

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                              • Dosser
                                Just wild about Harry
                                • Mar 2011
                                • 1833

                                Originally posted by Mr Magoo
                                Where have all the goalkickers gone?

                                See article attached. I think this gives a pretty good explanantion as to why our leading tall forwards are just not dominating - Put simply its becasue very few tall forwards are. The press used by pretty much every coach of a leading team in the league (including Longmire) is preventing it. This style of game plan requires 100 percent effort and in my opinion also leads to the flipping results we see. You only need to be down 10 percent and all of a sudden you look slow and out of touch.
                                If this article is correct (and there is no reason as to why it shouldnt be) then it is another argument for getting rid of the gorillas up front and just going with mids and smalls. This would open the door for Nipper and Harry and would allow us to rotate our midfield through the forward line (which we do anyway). If footy is heading for a period like this, then maybe we should innovate and be the first to try it. What do we have to lose?

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