WB Game Day V Sydney Swans R17 2022

[GVGjr]

Are you sure that is our Brad Johnson? I find it hard to believe he would say something like that at all.

It's looking more like a false account. I've stopped following him now

[Grantysghost]

It's looking more like a false account. I've stopped following him now

Haha. Sucked us right in.

Fake Brad is right though.

[whythelongface]

Wonder if there's been a fallout?

I recall him being scathing earlier in the year too which is really unlike him. Perhaps gives a tiny insight into some issues behind closed doors

Interesting isn’t it (and not in a good way). Isn’t Bubba still on the coaching staff? Bubba and Johnno (assume) are still close so that would provide insight into the ways of working. Do Bevo and Grant get on? Are there issues there? Or is Johnno just frustrated like al of us with our game plan and game management? It’s not like we have players wanting to leave (at this stage) - which to me is the biggest determiner of ‘losing a playing group’. It’s not like there is a mass exodus like the Tory party seeking resignation at the top.

Just saw the post above indicating that the Johnno account is a fake.

[Happy Days]

Don't stress, Dunkley and Hunter won't be at the Dogs next year.

We must be housemates because it seems we get the same mail.

[jeemak]

We must be housemates because it seems we get the same mail.

You're a funnier version of me.

I'm you if you didn't get raised on this site.

[G-Mo77]

It's looking more like a false account. I've stopped following him now

Yeah as much as I agree with that tweet it really doesn't sound like the real Brad Johnson at all.

[angelopetraglia]

Bevo was flat in the presser. Didn't really reveal much. Kept his cards close to his chest. He said I don't want to make excuses while hinting in riddles that we have had some excuses for our decline in performance this year versus last year.

[Happy Days]

You're a funnier version of me.

I'm you if you didn't get raised on this site.

I would’ve way rather gotten raised in /mu/ than here but I guess we play with the cards we’re dealt

[Grantysghost]

Bevo was flat in the presser. Didn't really reveal much. Kept his cards close to his chest. He said I don't want to make excuses while hinting in riddles that we have had some excuses for our decline in performance this year versus last year.

It was subtle, but if you listened hard for the sub text you noticed a clear message.

[jeemak]

I would’ve way rather gotten raised in /mu/ than here but I guess we play with the cards we’re dealt

Sorry for being a Karen or a Boomer or whatever it is I should identify with given I don't know what you're talking about, but what is /mu/ ?

[jeemak]

It was subtle, but if you listened hard for the sub text you noticed a clear message.

Change your signature.

[Sedat]

Apparently we are 8-10 in games when English is sole ruck and 11-2 (both losses against Melbourne) when we have a two-pronged ruck division.

[Grantysghost]

Change your signature.

I'll retreat back into the shadows next week.

[merantau]

There is so much angst on here and deservedly so. We are all searching for answers. The obvious one is that we just aren't that good. It's hard to accept that when we made the GF last year after a Herculean effort at season's end and then, as recently as last week, absolutely dominated the first quarter against Brisbane on their own deck but fail time and again to take our chances. Instead of being 5 goals up Brisbane are still in the game and we get humiliated from then on.

And then, next game mind you when we know the Swans are going to come out firing, we just roll over and they open up a 40 point lead. How do you account for that?

Team selection for a start. Hannan and Treloar in defence? Did Bevo get out the ouija board during the week?

English rucked like a bloke recovering from a stroke. His timing was just horrible. I saw him looking at his opponent so many times before going for the ball. That's NOT a good look. Go for the ball with all you've got - that's a non-negotiable.

I get the impression that we don't have the personality types who can inspire blokes around them to lift. Apart from Libba that is. And you can't fake something like that. The desire to win, the desire to give everything can inspire those around you to greatness. We don't have those types of players I'm sorry to say. I wish I knew what the atmosphere was like in the inner sanctum in the week leading up to this game. I didn't see any evidence that the players were primed for a big game.

I'm as frustrated as all hell. It's another horrible waste of a season. In fact you could say it's been a disastrous 6 years as we have failed to inculcate a winning culture at the Club. In what way has the Herculean effort we made to get to the GF last year infiltrated the mind set of the organisation? It hasn't.

[Hotdog60]

Just reading a little between the lines I wonder if Bevo has all but written the season off and now tinkering with players to see if they can play other roles.
I've posted my thoughts about Treloar in other threads but defence would be the last place I would put him and I'm also wondering about Williams as he has declined this year and gets caught a lot.
I thought Garcia played well enough in a poor team effort and shows some good evasive skills if his body can hold up he could replace Libba when the time comes.
I'm also in the Sweet should have played and I know his mobility isn't were Bevo wants it to be but with the 6,6,6 rule isn't more important to get first use out of the centre so the ball get in fast to our forwards before the opposition can clog up our half.
Anyway a lot went wrong and not much right and because of a lack of depth (Not many putting their hand up in the VFL) it's hard to give battered players some recovery time.
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