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Rant warning.
Are we supporters or aren't we?
We have played ONE game - ONE - and I have read in multiple posts that basically everyone in our leadership group needs to be banished to Williamstown never to be seen again, that the players are simply not up to it and that they never were. And the coaches are all either dumb or incompetent.
Before we all get carried away, it is still MARCH. The players we were planning to see us through the season - and yes, I am talking about Hudson, Cross, Boyd and Gia - did not perform well against Essendon. But we are talking about a couple of regular top 5 finishers in the B&F, our best contested ball winning ruckman in my memory and the competition leader in goal assists in 2010. Can we all just settle down for a second and back our team in? Can we back the leaders of the group to turn it around?
Further, the members of the MC are apparently all stupid and unable to:
- Pick a side
- Establish a game style
- Implement that game style.
Well, that might be so but we have finished in the top 4 for the last few years so they might not be all that bad. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt for just a minute or two and see what they come up with.
I am all for debating the team and the players and the selection policy and whatever, but continually bagging our leaders, calling for Boyd (one game as captain - ONE) to be dropped, for Cross to be dropped, for Gia to be dropped whilst at the same time asking for Skinner/Schofield/Wallis/Dalhous etc to be promoted....give me a break. It simply is not going to happen. Firstly, only dreamers pick kids. Secondly, even dreamers would want them to play a couple of senior games of VFL footy first. Thirdly, it is only MARCH and we have played one game. Calling for the captain to be dropped after one week is just agitating without purpose.
I know there is no disappointment without expectation - and that is why we are all disappointed...but a heap of us picked Essendon to inflict our first loss of the year in the time capsule thread...so why all the hand-wringing now???
Are we supporters or aren't we?
We have played ONE game - ONE - and I have read in multiple posts that basically everyone in our leadership group needs to be banished to Williamstown never to be seen again, that the players are simply not up to it and that they never were. And the coaches are all either dumb or incompetent.
Before we all get carried away, it is still MARCH. The players we were planning to see us through the season - and yes, I am talking about Hudson, Cross, Boyd and Gia - did not perform well against Essendon. But we are talking about a couple of regular top 5 finishers in the B&F, our best contested ball winning ruckman in my memory and the competition leader in goal assists in 2010. Can we all just settle down for a second and back our team in? Can we back the leaders of the group to turn it around?
Further, the members of the MC are apparently all stupid and unable to:
- Pick a side
- Establish a game style
- Implement that game style.
Well, that might be so but we have finished in the top 4 for the last few years so they might not be all that bad. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt for just a minute or two and see what they come up with.
I am all for debating the team and the players and the selection policy and whatever, but continually bagging our leaders, calling for Boyd (one game as captain - ONE) to be dropped, for Cross to be dropped, for Gia to be dropped whilst at the same time asking for Skinner/Schofield/Wallis/Dalhous etc to be promoted....give me a break. It simply is not going to happen. Firstly, only dreamers pick kids. Secondly, even dreamers would want them to play a couple of senior games of VFL footy first. Thirdly, it is only MARCH and we have played one game. Calling for the captain to be dropped after one week is just agitating without purpose.
I know there is no disappointment without expectation - and that is why we are all disappointed...but a heap of us picked Essendon to inflict our first loss of the year in the time capsule thread...so why all the hand-wringing now???
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