Post-flag plummet was always possible

[jeemak]

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So the club should have tempered expectations immediately after winning a flag. Makes sense, wouldn’t have been mauled by all and sundry at all!

[anfo27]

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Clubs never come out and say we will lose games for two years and have a tilt in 2019.

I am being realistic with what has happened this year.

I am sure the results so far would have been different if Libba, Morris, Picken, Adams, Clay, Redpath and Trengove (all games) were all available for the season to date.

Yes we have played at times up to 6 players with less than 10 games and most of those players have shown ability and earned their spot, but you can't expect them to be world beaters.

Yeah but our youngsters haven't been the problem. Its our experienced players who are a shadow of their former selves.

[Happy Days]

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This is so deeply frustrating. We always talk about how piss poor the communication is from the club and this is a prime example of why; this is nothing more than an attempt at spin doctoring to ease the burden on a group of players and coaches that have taken the better part of 24 months off.

I guess no one can be accountable if we all saw it happening because we’re so so clever.

[Sedat]

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Barrett and Wilson will rightly have a field day with us for the next few weeks. I just heard Zaine Cordy being grilled on 3AW and accidentally contradicting the precise message from this article.

This is amateur hour stuff.

[Twodogs]

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Barrett and Wilson will rightly have a field day with us for the next few weeks. I just heard Zaine Cordy being grilled on 3AW and accidentally contradicting the precise message from this article.

This is amateur hour stuff.

Don't blame Zaine. He's concussed!

[soupman]

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God this is pathetic. I understand coming out and trying to lower the pressure but this just makes us look like idiots.

[Grantysghost]

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I think he's just stated the obvious, nothing to get emotional about .

[GVGjr]

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I think he's just stated the obvious, nothing to get emotional about .

Based on facts or spin? It doesn't ring true to me.

[Grantysghost]

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Every club spins the truth, I don't expect complete honesty. How could you plan for that flag happening, and in the aftermath I can understand them taking their eye off the ball a tad. We probably all did to a degree, I think I'm still in shock. I understand the sentiment but calls to sack Grant my god seriously .

[Bornadog]

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Every club spins the truth, I don't expect complete honesty. How could you plan for that flag happening, and in the aftermath I can understand them taking their eye off the ball a tad. We probably all did to a degree, I think I'm still in shock. I understand the sentiment but calls to sack Grant my god seriously .

Agree with you, pathetic really to call for sacking the lot.

[anfo27]

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This is so deeply frustrating. We always talk about how piss poor the communication is from the club and this is a prime example of why; this is nothing more than an attempt at spin doctoring to ease the burden on a group of players and coaches that have taken the better part of 24 months off.

I guess no one can be accountable if we all saw it happening because we’re so so clever.

Agree 100%. If it was true we would have spun this rubbish in the pre-season like Carlton did to keep the pressure off Bolton.

Since the flag its been comedy central. We have barely done a thing right & we are a joke. Thats the hardest part for me, knowing everyone thinks we are a laughing stock. We fought so hard to beat that tag & thought we did forever, only to be there 6 months after winning a flag. I guess the only silver lining is the saying 'its never as bad as it seems'. Please let that be true!

[Bornadog]

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Agree 100%. If it was true we would have spun this rubbish in the pre-season like Carlton did to keep the pressure off Bolton.

Since the flag its been comedy central. We have barely done a thing right & we are a joke. Thats the hardest part for me, knowing everyone thinks we are a laughing stock. We fought so hard to beat that tag & thought we did forever, only to be there 6 months after winning a flag. I guess the only silver lining is the saying 'its never as bad as it seems'. Please let that be true!

Examples please.

We have paid off our debts and created a strong viable club for the future through the hard work of Peter Gordon and the acquisition of primary land from the government.

I would love to hear from you why we are a joke?

[Twodogs]

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Examples please.

We have paid off our debts and created a strong viable club for the future through the hard work of Peter Gordon and the acquisition of primary land from the government.

I would love to hear from you why we are a joke?

The Redpath suspension. That got a bit silly. The original suspension was a joke but somehow we ended up looking silly.

[Rocket Science]

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That infantile spat between Gordo and Alberti ...

[Rocket Science]

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The coach devoting some of his time to calling in a gutter-dwelling scribe ... because priorities.