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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
Thought I'd bump this to see where the MaccaLove is.
I'm not endorsing the title, but this thread lingered as a barometer of MaccaLove.
I mentioned in another thread, I'm personally feeling like 30 games into the Rhode Dynasty. Outside of 6 weeks last year, this dynasty hasn't moved as much forward as I would've hoped by now. Not even close.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
Nothing to do with Macca this week, the players are the ones who let us down.The curse is dead.Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
More generally though and aside from this week, its a fair question to ask whether we as a side have built on our strong finish to last season. We finished 2013 with optimism that we were starting to build something. At best I would say this year we have stood still, but we haven't gone forward. Yes we have generally been in games longer and avoided blow outs. The last few weeks though have seen us concede multiple goals and generally not be in the contest. My call is we have not progressed.Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
2.5 years in and I still can't work out what we're trying to do. We try to win the ball in the contest and we try to tackle and harass when they have it, everything else seems to be a free-for-all.
The lack of ball movement strategy, forward structure, and the lack of game day awareness of most of our players is a huge concern.[COLOR="#FF0000"][B]Western Bulldogs:[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR="#0000CD"][B]We exist to win premierships[/B][/COLOR]Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
We only beat Freo for about 5 minutes in the game, and that was from the point in the third where Bob decided to go long instead of the short and it was probably the only time Freo was caught off guard and we ran the ball through the middle.
Our ball movement is so slow and predictable we can't beat anyone at the moment.
Certainly doesn't help not having anyone who can mark the ball.Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
We have a glaring hole in the forward 50.
For most of the game we killed Freo everywhere except the forwardline, where they beat us on the turnover.Western Bulldogs: 2016 PremiersComment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
I agree but I think we are being seriously unrealistic. Kurt Tippet and Buddy Franklin would struggle in our structure, we give forwards absolutely no space to lead in to and when we do bring it to ground it is so congested there is no time to get a snap off. We desperately need to get our structure right first before we'll see any improvement.Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
The only thing that should be packed is this thread to Teeny bobber footy( aka big footy)Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
Have been a huge macca fan from day 1 & was the first to ask for a contract extension last year. Was excited coming into the new season at the prospect of seeing us take another step but today coming home from the footy is the lowest I've felt for a very long time.
We've seen some improvements on some individual players but on a whole as a team i think we have taken a step back. Its not easy going to the footy these days and watching that. Macca and his coaching group have a lot of work to do.
Not sure there is a team out there that makes kicking goals look harder than us, also don't think there is a team worse than us at kicking goals from turnovers. I just pray that it gets better and not worse as the year goes on.Comment
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