Surely tonight Terry...

[Harry]

But I tell you something else. This playing list is a bigger problem than any coach ever has been and nothing will ever change until this club gets fair dinkum about recruiting and developing some decent *smile*ing players. They have got away with way too much for way too long.

That's true Ridles, but it's not the players fault they are recruited and named in the team. The coach, selectors and recruiters are to blame for this. A dud is a dud is a dud and if they get recruited and played on the ground there's only so much they can do. You can't argue that the effort isn't there - players like Tuck, Jackson, White, Coughlan, Polo etc are busting a gut but quite simply they are not good enough. It's up to the coach and his staff to identify this and recruit and persist with the players that are good enough. There is no doubt the playing list needs to be culled, - the buck stops with the coach whichever way you look at it. The players do not make the decisions that affect the overall state of the playing list and game plan.

 

[structures]

Why do you think they were spent?

It comes down to fitness gpb were not fit enough to run out a full game. have you seen the way they train that's the way they play soft.

 

[feisty tige]

I think the goal celebrations took it out of the guys in the first half

Maybe we could learn to celebrate with a minute to go and we are 10 goals up ?

I'm dreaming I know...

 

[Tigers of Old]

Yeah, he did say that. Pity he's only had 5 years to develop a list. I'm sure he's thinking that if he had another 5 years he would clean out the deadwood and develop a skillfull list.

:cutelaugh

I am sure you are right!

 

[BloodOath]

I dont understand how we can beat those pr!cks by 70 points last year (int the same game) and then get beaten by 40 this year when Wallace has his best team in? Whats gone wrong Terry?

 

[bringbakflemmo]

It comes down to fitness

We should be the fittest side in the AFL.
With the amount of turnovers we have had this year we've spent a lot of games chasing the opposition .
I reckon we played as well as we could for 2.5 quarters but when the Bombers lifted their intensity we couldn't match them.
We need a star ( forward preferably ) who can take the game by the scruff of the neck when things get tight.
At present we have a bunch of players doing their best but there is little class in the side.

 

[martyshire]

We should be the fittest side in the AFL.
With the amount of turnovers we have had this year we've spent a lot of games chasing the opposition .
I reckon we played as well as we could for 2.5 quarters but when the Bombers lifted their intensity we couldn't match them.
We need a star ( forward preferably ) who can take the game by the scruff of the neck when things get tight.
At present we have a bunch of players doing their best but there is little class in the side.

We ARE one of the fittest/fastest teams in the comp IMO.

Trouble is our style of play requires too much work for too little reward...and we get knackered.

 

[Hungry]

It made me feel queasy hearing him heap praise on Essendon's list and future, saying Essendon members have a lot to look forward to and they wouldn't have much hesitation paying up their memberships.

Well guess what - Essendon have been recruiting from the same draft pool that we have and have managed to totally draft rings around us.

Sadly, they are merely the latest in a long line of clubs to do so.

 

[Hungry]

Time to cash out. Terry gave something a whirl, it worked for a bit. The moment the opposition did something different, the game fell away.
Bored of the whole thing.

Terry tried his pitiful one card trick - a short forward line - which back in the last ice age produced a memorable upset win against the premiership-bound Bombers. Nowadays it fails more often than not.

While Terry continues to abandon conventional on-field structures and play players out of position then we can expect more of the same.