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To win this game all our experienced players will not only have to turn their form around completely, they will have to reinvent themselves. Kizza is shot at the moment, Hannas too due to injury. They would both need to take a great deal of Pethadine, Tramadol (I wouldn't recommend it as they will probably go to sleep before quarter time. What the **** what's new), Heroin, morphine or Endone to not have any pain. Doctor 'you have a broken leg sir', Patient 'what leg'.
The older players have to actually come up to a standard the younger players can look up to. That might be hard seeing most of the older players couldn't get a kick in an electric light factory at the moment. Not only that but when they actually do get a disposal they use it worse than the blind man in a bowling alley. Add to the scenario that the young players can actually hit targets not get hit by them.
The forward line really needs to be coordinated. It is close. At the moment it is like the David Jones outfit smart but not not chic. It needs to be chic.
The mids need to get their hands on the ball and not fade in and out of games. They also need to lower the eyes and see who is presenting. This bombing in to Bud or Reidy is not good footy. Wasteful. GWS midfield is probably the best en mass of any team in the league. We must win the clearances.
The defence. Boy I wish I had a solution for this one. I send an SOs, I send an SOS to the world. Where have you put my bloody defence. It's gone effing missing. To say this is the biggest disappointment to me is an understatement. The usually solid, dependable, ruthless defence is now a skeleton of it's former self. Cut down with leaking/clanger Syndrome in the prime of life. Marsh is sometimes wonderful, sometimes dreadful. Mills has just been the latter for all but 3 quarters of the four games. Reg has returned to early 2015 form. Smithy has never played this badly. It's as though he changed brains with Benny ******* Hill, running around the place madly without having a clue what he is doing. dta, dta, dta, dtadtadta dah dum. Newman has been solid, so has Jones (abate a little easy on the free kicks, yer need to do it in the pack Jonsie give 'em a good uppercut as yer go in or otherwise just get 'em in a good old fashioned squirrel grip). The defence really needs help, always does but it isn't getting it as often as it needs. But we are not helping ourselves by sending birthday presents to opposition players. 'There ya go have a goal I kicked that one straight to ya'. Or for that matter making terrible decisions like giving the ball to a player who is in a worse position than them surrounded by opposition players. But there is hope. We can only go up from here, I certainly hope our defence has not hit the depths of the Hawks, then there would be no way back.
Coaching. Horse keeps saying same old, same old. We don't want ******* same old, we want something new, something borrowed, something blue. We want to be the bride not the bloody bridesmaid John. We want our players to stand up on the premiership dais and have a pic holding the cup. So start working on something bloody new. Otherwise you might just be 'Same Old' bloody sacked coach.
Can we turn this slump, slide, depths of despair around? Of course we can. We can start by following another team for the year or... We can hope our senior players get the message and start giving bang for the buck. I know most of you don't get what Bud & Tip get but you are on about 8-10 times as much as the mean wage of an ordinary worker ($54,000). Come on guys you can do it. If Eddie the Eagle can actually get off the ground and fly, abate very badly, you can too but not badly.
Players coming back. According to AFL.com Tippett, Naismith, Rohan and possibly Heeney will be coming back. Heeney they have as 1-2 weeks but I believe if he trains well this week he will play. The reason I looked at AFL.com is that our website is never up to date with the injuries or anything else really. If all are back this will strengthen our side a lot. Rohan will probably play reserves though as he has had far too long off.
In; Naismith, Tippett, Heeney & Melican
Out; Sinclair, Foote, Florent, Jack
Hannas really needs to get over his injury but not yet. Ollie was poor last week. Same Foote. Sinclair tried hard but his lack of talent and awareness was obvious.
Heens would boost the mids. Melican in would free up Mills to go to the mids. Jones back & wing. Lloyd back & wing. Kizza has only been playing 20% in the mids & even without match practice I can see Heens doing far more time there. Heens and Hewee were good there in the preseason playing together or in the intra opposed. I think Heens adds another dimension and mills will add another. I just wonder if we have played Ollie in the wrong spot. I saw the kid play as a mid, not on the wing in the centre, and he was good, very good.
The older players have to actually come up to a standard the younger players can look up to. That might be hard seeing most of the older players couldn't get a kick in an electric light factory at the moment. Not only that but when they actually do get a disposal they use it worse than the blind man in a bowling alley. Add to the scenario that the young players can actually hit targets not get hit by them.
The forward line really needs to be coordinated. It is close. At the moment it is like the David Jones outfit smart but not not chic. It needs to be chic.
The mids need to get their hands on the ball and not fade in and out of games. They also need to lower the eyes and see who is presenting. This bombing in to Bud or Reidy is not good footy. Wasteful. GWS midfield is probably the best en mass of any team in the league. We must win the clearances.
The defence. Boy I wish I had a solution for this one. I send an SOs, I send an SOS to the world. Where have you put my bloody defence. It's gone effing missing. To say this is the biggest disappointment to me is an understatement. The usually solid, dependable, ruthless defence is now a skeleton of it's former self. Cut down with leaking/clanger Syndrome in the prime of life. Marsh is sometimes wonderful, sometimes dreadful. Mills has just been the latter for all but 3 quarters of the four games. Reg has returned to early 2015 form. Smithy has never played this badly. It's as though he changed brains with Benny ******* Hill, running around the place madly without having a clue what he is doing. dta, dta, dta, dtadtadta dah dum. Newman has been solid, so has Jones (abate a little easy on the free kicks, yer need to do it in the pack Jonsie give 'em a good uppercut as yer go in or otherwise just get 'em in a good old fashioned squirrel grip). The defence really needs help, always does but it isn't getting it as often as it needs. But we are not helping ourselves by sending birthday presents to opposition players. 'There ya go have a goal I kicked that one straight to ya'. Or for that matter making terrible decisions like giving the ball to a player who is in a worse position than them surrounded by opposition players. But there is hope. We can only go up from here, I certainly hope our defence has not hit the depths of the Hawks, then there would be no way back.
Coaching. Horse keeps saying same old, same old. We don't want ******* same old, we want something new, something borrowed, something blue. We want to be the bride not the bloody bridesmaid John. We want our players to stand up on the premiership dais and have a pic holding the cup. So start working on something bloody new. Otherwise you might just be 'Same Old' bloody sacked coach.
Can we turn this slump, slide, depths of despair around? Of course we can. We can start by following another team for the year or... We can hope our senior players get the message and start giving bang for the buck. I know most of you don't get what Bud & Tip get but you are on about 8-10 times as much as the mean wage of an ordinary worker ($54,000). Come on guys you can do it. If Eddie the Eagle can actually get off the ground and fly, abate very badly, you can too but not badly.
Players coming back. According to AFL.com Tippett, Naismith, Rohan and possibly Heeney will be coming back. Heeney they have as 1-2 weeks but I believe if he trains well this week he will play. The reason I looked at AFL.com is that our website is never up to date with the injuries or anything else really. If all are back this will strengthen our side a lot. Rohan will probably play reserves though as he has had far too long off.
In; Naismith, Tippett, Heeney & Melican
Out; Sinclair, Foote, Florent, Jack
Hannas really needs to get over his injury but not yet. Ollie was poor last week. Same Foote. Sinclair tried hard but his lack of talent and awareness was obvious.
Heens would boost the mids. Melican in would free up Mills to go to the mids. Jones back & wing. Lloyd back & wing. Kizza has only been playing 20% in the mids & even without match practice I can see Heens doing far more time there. Heens and Hewee were good there in the preseason playing together or in the intra opposed. I think Heens adds another dimension and mills will add another. I just wonder if we have played Ollie in the wrong spot. I saw the kid play as a mid, not on the wing in the centre, and he was good, very good.
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