Sharp Axes

[Bornadog]

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People on social media talking about tearing their memberships up are not real supporters.

[1eyedog]

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You'd delist a guy immediately after being one of our best players in a Grand Final? Really?

Wasn't hard after half time. He is a bit player across every other game and everyone knows it.

[1eyedog]

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People on social media talking about tearing their memberships up are not real supporters.

Regardless this is what I mean. Can the club afford to lose these 'not real supporters' and roll out 40-45k members next year? Would be damning.

[bulldogtragic]

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People on social media talking about tearing their memberships up are not real supporters.

Why not? Don’t people grieve losses and manifest stresses in different ways? If that’s their way, not mine, I won’t judge them for it. We all process things differently.

[Mofra]

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Wasn't hard after half time. He is a bit player across every other game and everyone knows it.

There were plenty of blokes I'd delist at the end of 2021. Roarke absolutely earned at least one more year after his season.

[SonofScray]

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That's quite true and you can see after making the hard call on Rohan Smith how hard it actually hit him. Multiply that across a tightly knit playing group and it would difficult for him to let go of players who are giving their all.

This is why I believe we need a strong GM of Footy and perhaps he needs to be making the calls more than a very invested coach.

Where a lot of people see a guy with really high emotional intelligence, I see a lack of professional boundaries. If we had a strong GM perhaps those boundaries could be reset or reframed strategically so Bevo can have the relationship he needs for his coaching to work.

But we don’t and it isn’t working.

I’ll be harping for a few days before I calm down, but he simply has to go. Quicker the better.

[Grantysghost]

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Where a lot of people see a guy with really high emotional intelligence, I see a lack of professional boundaries. If we had a strong GM perhaps those boundaries could be reset or reframed strategically so Bevo can have the relationship he needs for his coaching to work.

But we don’t and it isn’t working.

I’ll be harping for a few days before I calm down, but he simply has to go. Quicker the better.

I agree with this as cold as it sounds.

You really can't be an emotional decision maker at the macro scale. It doesn't work, there would never be change. What many see as a badge of honour for Bevo in terms of the playing group (I agree), doesn't work outside of that.

Who'd want to be a coach?!

[Grantysghost]

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There were plenty of blokes I'd delist at the end of 2021. Roarke absolutely earned at least one more year after his season.

And he's a known quantity. There's this idea you are going to bring in someone better? Who ? Baker? Poulter? More of the same really and actually I prefer Rourke to those two.

[azabob]

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Buckley and Cornes view from the weekend.

From the eight minute; fifteen second mark.

https://www.sen.com.au/programs/sen-breakfast/

[angelopetraglia]

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We entered round 11 with five wins in a row and 7-3 record after our horror 0-2 start. We had corrected. I felt confident. We looked ready to have a proper assaults on the final four.

From round 11.

Round 11- lose to Suns by 7 (after getting out to a 20 point lead)
Round 12 - lose to Cats by 22 (after being two goals up in the 3rd quarter)
Round 13 - lose to Port by 22
Round 14 - beat North by 21
Round 15 - beat Freo by 29
Round 16 - lose to Pies by 12 (after getting out to a 20 point lead)
Round 17 - lose to Swans by 2 (after getting out to a 19 point lead)
Round 18 - beat Dons by 41
Round 19 - lose to GWS by 5 (after getting out to a 35 point lead)
Round 20 - beat Tigers by 55
Round 21 - lose to Hawks by 3 (after getting out to a 20 point lead twice)

That is four wins in the last eleven weeks. Wins only against North, Freo, Tigers and Dons who are basically shot. Nothing to really celebrate.

That is seven losses. In every single one of those losses we have been in a winning position at some point. We just can't get the job done at the moment. Three losses by less than a goal. Another by 7 points. Another by 12 points. That is five of the seven losses by less than two goals.

After what I saw against Hawthorn and basically another period where we went completely missing for 45 minutes and could not even touch the ball which comes down to effort and concentration, my patience has finally been extinguished. Everything was on the line. The entire season. We go missing. We go missing again.

My view has shifted. We need to put a bomb under the place and blow it up. Serious questions need to be asked. We need a proper review and no ones position should be safe. If we have to go one step backwards to go two forward so be it. We are going no where at the moment.

The record since Round 11 speaks for itself. We have serious issues. Every time we turn the corner, I have given the group the benefit of doubt and then they let let us down again.

[Mantis]

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We entered round 11 with five wins in a row and 7-3 record after our horror 0-2 start. We had corrected. I felt confident. We looked ready to have a proper assaults on the final four.

From round 11.

Round 11- lose to Suns by 7 (after getting out to a 20 point lead)
Round 12 - lose to Cats by 22 (after being two goals up in the 3rd quarter)
Round 13 - lose to Port by 22
Round 14 - beat North by 21
Round 15 - beat Freo by 29
Round 16 - lose to Pies by 12 (after getting out to a 20 point lead)
Round 17 - lose to Swans by 2 (after getting out to a 19 point lead)
Round 18 - beat Dons by 41
Round 19 - lose to GWS by 5 (after getting out to a 35 point lead)
Round 20 - beat Tigers by 55
Round 21 - lose to Hawks by 3 (after getting out to a 20 point lead twice)

That is four wins in the last eleven weeks. Wins only against North, Freo, Tigers and Dons who are basically shot. Nothing to really celebrate.

That is seven losses. In every single one of those losses we have been in a winning position at some point. We just can't get the job done at the moment. Three losses by less than a goal. Another by 7 points. Another by 12 points. That is five of the seven losses by less than two goals.

After what I saw against Hawthorn and basically another period where we went completely missing for 45 minutes and could not even touch the ball which comes down to effort and concentration, my patience has finally been extinguished. Everything was on the line. The entire season. We go missing.

My view has shifted. We need to put a bomb under the place and blow it up. Serious questions need to be asked. We need a proper review and no ones position should be safe. If we have to go one step backwards to go two forward so be in it. We are going no where at the moment.

The record since Round 11 speaks for itself. We have serious issues. Every time we turn the corner, I have given the group the benefit of doubt and then they let let us down again.

Great analysis. The evidence supports the need for change and even the most ardent supporters of the current regime must be willing to accept something is amiss. We need to work out what it is a fix it. Standing still isn’t an option.

[bulldogtragic]

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Just about post of the year. The facts as they are. Thanks AP for that work.

[GVGjr]

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Good points AP. The thing that is really knocking our supporters around is that we have been in winning positions in enough games to be a top 4 side. We have to be better than being a club that frequently limps into the top 8 but rarely gets into a position to genuinely threaten the competition.

[angelopetraglia]

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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." -Albert Einstein

[angelopetraglia]

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Good points AP. The thing that is really knocking our supporters around is that we have been in winning positions in enough games to be a top 4 side. We have to be better than being a club that frequently limps into the top 8 but rarely gets into a position to genuinely threaten the competition.

Yes. Agree.

If it happens once or twice or three times. You may say you are unlucky. Things didn't go our way. When it happens consistently over a long period and you never, ever get the job done. Not once can you convert a winning position in a crunch game to a win against a quality opponent. It ain't unlucky. It ain't things going against you. It is you. (In reference to the excuses Bevo is throwing up about losing key defenders against the Swans and GWS).

We need stop looking through the window and into the mirror (reference: https://www.millennialleadership.net...dership-model/). Something systematic is wrong and broken.