Familar Signs of 2007

[LostDog]

Just watching tonights game vs Essendon,
Besides the Umpires screwing us again, cant say that i'm real impressed easy mistakes

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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Just watching tonights game vs Essendon,
Besides the Umpires screwing us again, cant say that i'm real impressed easy mistakes

Yes, agree. I'm prepared to cut SOME slack given it is the NAB Cup and we're not a full strength squad.
However if we serve this up during the regular season.. we can expect a similar outcome to last season.
Getting killed on the rebound and turning over the ball to easily.
Sloppy in the midfield.
No cohesion up forward.
Skill level down, especially kicking for goal.
Really missing the Stewardship of Gilbee along the backline and the run of Griffen.

[LostDog]

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Considering our membership is down we need to have a positive NAB Cup,
I dont mean to sound negative but we are looking horrible NAB Cup or not.

Eagleton is the new Matthew Robbins will see very little senior football this year cant believe how soft he is.

Agreed with Gilbee amd Griffen

[LostDoggy]

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The familar sign is the umpires screwing us. They decide who wins and who loses.

I'm perplexed by so many decisions tonight. Some of them include:
2 deliberate out of bounds against, some non mark to our forwards and number of soft free in the Essendon 50. The non rushed against us.

Its made worse by having to listen to dumb and dumber in Nathan Buckley and Daviud Schwartz.

It really is the Stupid cup.

[Rocket Science]

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2007?...and '06 to a lesser extent, and '05, and '04.

Can't keep the footy (sub par skills, decision making), and can't get it back when we turn it over (invisible pressure skills)...same blokes making the same errors...it feels familiar for a reason...brainless footy of this order makes for a bloody long night, and a bloody long year.

And in advance to the apologists, tonight's outs wouldn't make a speck of difference...this malaise is en masse.

[LostDoggy]

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Another decision was the Murphy mark and non 50 when punched in the back of the head.

Eagleton and Wight are being given a bath.
We look slow but when you aren't allowed to be first to the ball by one sided umpiring, its no wonder.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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The familar sign is the umpires screwing us. They decide who wins and who loses.

I'm perplexed by so many decisions tonight. Some of them include:
2 deliberate out of bounds against, some non mark to our forwards and number of soft free in the Essendon 50. The non rushed against us.

Its made worse by having to listen to dumb and dumber in Nathan Buckley and Daviud Schwartz.

It really is the Stupid cup.

Agree the Bombers got some gifts.....but we were ordinary, and right from the get go Bombers looked sharp.
I think Eade has got it wrong with Minson up forward, and with McDougall down back.
I would rather see McDougall up forward, and Minson as the 2nd ruck.
I also think Wight is a better option at Centre Half Back than up forward also.

The thing I'm most concerned about is the same glaring problems of last year appear to still be evident. No drive from the midfield, and no alternative route to goal other than Johnno.
Next month needs to see us iron this out, otherwise it is going to be another ordinary season.

[Rocket Science]

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the umpiring's crook but surely the least of our problems, and hardly the reason we're second to the footy.

[LostDoggy]

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Minson was doing ok, the ball isn't getting there. He is slow but out numbered.
McDougall and Wight aren't good enough anywhere.

You are discounted the umpiring influence when the heat was on in this game.

[LostDog]

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I am really worried as a rare dogs supporter in Tasmania, everybody knows i go for the dogs I wear Dogs clothing everywhere.

I wont be travelling interstate much this year to watch them if they continue with this rubbish,
our indigenous boys are no where near the calibre of any other clubs.
I get very emotional with the boys I am starting to think I should go back to reading the paper the next day instead of watching live games.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Familar Signs of 2007

2007?...and '06 to a lesser extent, and '05, and '04.

Can't keep the footy (sub par skills, decision making), and can't get it back when we turn it over (invisible pressure skills)...same blokes making the same errors...it feels familiar for a reason...brainless footy of this order makes for a bloody long night, and a bloody long year.

And in advance to the apologists, tonight's outs wouldn't make a speck of difference...this malaise is en masse.

Agree wholeheartedly.
The only positives I could see was Hill increasingly showing his skills.. however until he adds some muscle to the frame he's going to be a liability when he doesn't have the ball.
Higgins also looked smart at times.
But other than that not alot to be encouraged by.
Minson up forward- failed tonight
Wight at CHf- failed tonight
McDougall at CHB- failed tonight
Tiller in defense....jury out but he looks a tad slow for mine.
The Defensive pressure evident in Darwin....looks like it didn't make the plane back to Melbourne...

[LostDoggy]

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Mcdougall should have been delisted. Lucas is faster than him.

[LostDog]

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Tom Davidson can run faster than Mcdougall

[LostDog]

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Perhaps we should shy away from the media for a awhile and concentrate on football

[MrMahatma]

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Perhaps we should shy away from the media for a awhile and concentrate on football

But then we wouldn't know that the team has bulked up massively, and wouldn't run out of steam...

seriously, the spin that comes out of our media dept is as bad as Wallace.