Its Official - We Have Gone Backwards - No Improvement on 2011

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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We are going to get worse before we get better.

I agree, I think next year is going to be more of the same, if not worse in some regards.
However I at least will be looking to see individual improvement and signs of hope in the future through the performances of some of our young guys, especially Wallis, Libba, Howard, Grant, Jones, Roughy, Cordy, Dahl and Smith.
Would love to see some games into Roberts, Talia, Pearce and Campbell.

[Bumper Bulldogs]

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My issue with club strategy is that Harbrow and Ward were unnecessarily lost due to the ineptness of our player contracts negotiator and list manager at the time. And that person is still employed at the club in a very senior capacity.

And based on what is. Urgently happening with the Minson contract negotiations we might be adding him to this list as well.

The Club needs to get things in order and get him signed upor float him o the market now and start getting trade talks started!

[Maddog37]

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In today's paper that negotiations with Will are progressing well.

[F'scary]

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Great thread - this is why I come here.

Agree with Mofra: our best players this year tend to be our older established ones (but Gia & Gilbee excluded from this and Gia's decline is a shock, he was good last year but this year has lost a metre or two and is therefore no longer competitive). Ok, with the younger ones, Dahl, Libba, Wallis big ticks but others are just not measuring up - big worries there. But Smith looks like he will have something to offer.

Points made by Jeemak (et al) about the pilfering (Demitriou abetted) of gun players Harbrow and Ward and the tragic injuries to Morris & Cooney explain a lot of the lack of competitiveness this year.

[Desipura]

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Great thread - this is why I come here.

Agree with Mofra: our best players this year tend to be our older established ones (but Gia & Gilbee excluded from this and Gia's decline is a shock, he was good last year but this year has lost a metre or two and is therefore no longer competitive). r.

Gia was very good last year. At his age his drop in form should not be a shock given his age. This is why clubs generally only offer players at the wrong side of 20yo 1 year contracts.
Gia is the same pace as last year, it's just his body is failing him.

[Desipura]

Re: Its Official - We Have Gone Backwards - No Improvement on 2011

Great thread - this is why I come here.

Agree with Mofra: our best players this year tend to be our older established ones (but Gia & Gilbee excluded from this and Gia's decline is a shock, he was good last year but this year has lost a metre or two and is therefore no longer competitive). r.

Gia was very good last year. At his age his drop in form should not be a shock. This is why clubs generally only offer players at the wrong side of 20yo 1 year contracts.
Gia is the same pace as last year, it's just his body is failing him.

[KT31]

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Gia was very good last year. At his age his drop in form should not be a shock. This is why clubs generally only offer players at the wrong side of 20yo 1 year contracts.
Gia is the same pace as last year, it's just his body is failing him.

Groundhog Day, Desi ?

[Bulldog4life]

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Gia was very good last year. At his age his drop in form should not be a shock. This is why clubs generally only offer players at the wrong side of 20yo 1 year contracts.
Gia is the same pace as last year, it's just his body is failing him.

I'd suggest the wrong side of 30 too.