Well sorry AJ but if you are thinking of such things over a decade on when you guys are well safe in Vic....well
I was just clearing up the misconceptions still held about that time and what went on as a lot of **** is slung at us supporters about it all and it doesn't clearly portray the supporter base especially the members who are the only ones that actually get to vote on such things. They were run like like a Zimbabwean election.
I paid up that year like many others and our membership yesterday on the big screen right or wrong was listed at 28,000 already. A decent amount after these two awful rounds.
I think the weather gets to more Dee's fans than others. Any hint of rain and they stay away in droves....Its footy people! You get wet occasionly, big deal. Rain often gives good footy.
TJ was a lazy footy player no matter how good he was. Still glad he is gone but sad a few others you mention still wont go get the ball. Brocky gets his headspace stuffed up too often now and goes off the boil. No leadership to speak off. In fact NOT ONE player pulled the group together or showed any on field leadership at all. We lack a real captain on the field other teams have.
Bruce spent far too long down back on Johnson. Why was Bailey protecting a 80 point lead? After that point of the game playing to limit the losses and not trying all avenues to win the ball and score is ridiculous. At least we didn't have 3 talls up forward ALL game like last week with no adjustments.
PJ has been great. Missed a sitter of a goal early but worked hard again second week in a row. Hate to say it but Carrol came out strong too but only early. We had the Doggies in shambles early on but failed to take advantage of their turnovers on the scorebaord like they did. We locked it up in our 50M very well but fell apart further out in the middle. Forced them to way overuse the ball.
Bloody hard to watch the handpasses to teamates with 3 players on them, kicks to 1 on 3's and doggies breaking tackle after tackle.
Dunn was 5 steps slower than Hahn and we really need Rivers, Frawley and Bate back badly and thats an uderstatement.
I just want to get more than the one quarter we got yesterday and actually win a quarter for the first time this year. Fire up Dees and give us something.
If i can secure a reserved seat I'll be down Geelong next weekend. Hopefully the fact that its easy to drive down to the game gets Dee's members in the cars they love and to the game. I'll be on the train though of course LOL