Post Match. Swans smash Pies. All comments, please.

[Rd10.1998_11.1#36]

[Rd10.1998_11.1#36]

[qldmagpie67]

I don’t see why people are so perplexed as to why we lost again
It was easily predictable
I’m going to make this really easy to understand for people
To win you need 3 important things
Planning - Application - Desire

There’s a old saying everyone has a plan until there punched in the face
Well that is we have 1 plan. If any team finds a way to disrupt or conquer that we are doomed

Application of any plan or strategy is important. We manage to do it on average for around 30 minutes a week. Mentally we are weak and that weakness starts at the head and works it’s way down the corpse.
Most of our senior playing group are mentally weak. They lack the necessary mental toughness to lead through any form of adversity or pressure. Pendles would get a 7/10 in this regard the others below 5/10

You can have the greatest plan ever but without the desire to be 100% committed to it you might as well stay home.
We have to many players who lack or don’t have the necessary desire to follow the coach for whatever reason
Leaders of men don’t say go as and do XYZ they say follow me and I’ll lead to do XYZ
If anyone for 30 seconds believes experienced players like Grundy Sidebottom Thomas have the desire to do whatever it takes to win games of football for this club they are seriously kidding themselves
Yes they might have good moments during a game but the desire to consistently do whatever it takes isn’t there

Finally our biggest enemy is we are as predictable as the media will be when we loss
We never offer up anything different really
We may move a player around here or there but it means nothing when the methodology of the structure never changes
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result

Match summary from last night is simple
Sydney are a relatively young side who last night didn’t turn up ready to go in 1st term. Coach let them know made a couple minor tweaks demanded his leaders set a example and the rest is history
1 goal 10 for 3/4 of football ?? Seriously even a 50/50 split of that means we are in the hunt if not winning

People need to stop making excuses for a coach and side devoid of the necessary skill set to get the club out of this mess
What we have is players like JDG Grundy Sidey Thomas who are consistently under performing across a game (they aren’t the only ones but it gets down to experienced players leading by example again)

Finally everyone banging on about Clarkson are dreaming unless we pay him so much money he couldn’t refuse then your not hiring a coach your hiring a money hungry pension planner
Why would any coach worth his salt look at our list and say yes there’s plenty there
Our best player in Pendles is at the end
Other than Moore Crisp Maynard all other players over 100 games (currently in the team or available for selection) are big reasons why we are the mess we are
I can tell you with absolute certainty there are serious meetings behind closed doors happening at the club considering the future of several senior players futures and a couple of contracted players as well
Don’t be surprised (injury toll permitting) a couple of statement omissions happen in the coming weeks to reset some players attitudes towards the value of there place in the team

[Rd10.1998_11.1#36]

[The_Staunton]

[Lazza]

[think positive]

[think positive]

[think positive]

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

Ok, blame the game plan, blame the attitude of senior player and blame the attitude of the club, but have a look at who we fielded last night. Footy is a team sport with 22 out there. Henry is as skinny as they come. What is it? His third game of AFL footy? Same with Poulter. Third game. He’s also as skinny as they come. Then you’ve got Wilson playing his first game. Everyone raves about what a great player Quaynor is going to become, but he’s still just a kid with about 20 games to his credit. You look at Sydney who’s admittedly also a young side but their players are more physically advanced than ours. There’s an old saying, Rome wasn’t built in a day. There is no substitute for time unless the AFL forgives our salary cap situation and allows us to buy 5-6 ready made players to add to the team. Till then we’re in exactly the same situation as Hawthorn and North Melbourne. I still prefer our list to at least half a dozen other teams in the competition. 2021 was always going to be a rebuild period at the club. That a few at the club didn’t see it that including the new president just shows we have a few delusional people running our club.

[Haff]

I reckon if the script was flipped, 1.10 for the first 3 qtrs then 4 goals in the last the jungle drums would be beating much much louder than they are now. Still we wait. My tip is, 100 pt drubbing by the pussy cats and the decision will be made.

[Haff]

[Lazza]

[Lazza]

[Pies4shaw]

And, yet, watching them - plainly it is. So, it doesn't really matter what you "have always thought", does it?