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think positive 
Side By Side
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mate I just love your post,
and re next season I know what you mean!
im already wondering what to do on weekends!!
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jackcass 
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Location: Bendigo
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| AN_Inkling wrote: | | jackcass wrote: | | swoop42 wrote: | If anyone thinks the Port we beat remotely resembles the Port of this week then they're kidding themselves.
Chalk and cheese.
People can take the glass half full approach but the simple reality is that Ken Hinkley showed he was the right man for the job last year in his first season while most of us continue to hope Bucks can prove the same thing next season in his 4th year.
He showed it doesn't take a "5 year plan" to turn a clubs fortunes around, even one considered a basket case when he took over, nor does it take years to implement a new effective game plan without inherent flaws to easily exploited by quality opposition.
At Collingwood we're still waiting for that. Hopefully it finally arrives next year.
Port have also showed an ability to get super fit on the back of a single preseason last year while we in attempting to do the same thing ended up with a long injury list that included a number of soft tissue complaints.
It's fair to say Hinkley has raised the bar that all rookie coaches will now be judged against.
He's ruined it for the rest of them.
At Collingwood we simply must improve next season in all areas.
bucks#noexcuses2015 |
Bit like Scott at Geelong. Both had the luck of walking into teams that were primed. Bucks came into his position to a team that had played off in 2 GFs but I'd suggest heading the other direction given the decline of Didak, Jolly etc on top of the premature departures of Brown and Davis. |
Ablett, Scarlett, Ottens, Rooke, Harley, Mooney, Milburn ...
Also you can't look at the outs and say we were helpless to do anything about them. Leon wanted to play another year, and after a career best season, should have. Jolly was starting to struggle with injury in 2011, where was our succession plan? Maxwell playing ruck late in 2012 was not it. Should have we realised that Wood was not up to it earlier? |
Not discounting the quality of any of those players, Ablett in particular. They did however get some pretty handy compo for Ablett if memory serves. And despite the lose of all those other players, they retained a significant core group of 26-30 yo's, as evidenced by the 8-9 30+ guys they still have. Something we weren't able to do. Mooney remains the one that they've been least able to cover, mainly due to Vardy's run of injuries and Brown and Walker taking time.
In terms of Jolly, I agree he struggled in 2011 but the club had Wood, Witts, Ceglar, McNamara, and Gault on the list going into 2012. They clearly identified a need, even added Grundy in the 2012 ND. That Jolly had little impact in 2012-13 and was gone by age 32 is unfortunate. He's actually younger than Dean Cox but certainly didn't have anywhere near the impact over the last 3 seasons. Wood always had the talent, application was another thing. |
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Bob Sugar
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This is like a sunshine and lollipop convention.
The sky isn't falling, it fell! It's time you embraced the horror.
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| How poetic. |
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Joined: 26 Sep 2013
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| Defender wrote: | This is like a sunshine and lollipop convention.
The sky isn't falling, it fell! It's time you embraced the horror. |
If it wasn't so true, this would actually be really funny!!!
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| neil wrote: | We beat Carlsum
TWICE |
Yes, a successful year by any measure.  |
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