Oh shit balls eh. That was insanely next level, can't make this shit up kind of brutal. Shaun have we earned our stripes yet?
Full credit to all the fans who stuck it out till the end. Proves we're quite literally the best supporters in the country.
Only positive, is I'm glad Mulvey got to see the level of the challenge that he just walked into and why we're all so wildly pissed off. I don't blame Sully for that. I can't believe Okon or Jolic never even uttered a single word of self criticism or apology for this "legacy".
This is one seriously poisoned chalice now. If Mike's contract is now lying torn up in the stands where he was watching the game... I wouldn't blame him.
Agree on the Kennedy outrage. Choking like that, in THAT game, is just unforgivable. I honestly don't think I can bare to see him in our shirt again as I will never trust him to perform in a big game again.
This is a side who has not just been crippled by their previous manager but is also full of dead wood. And it should be a very hard look into the mirror for them all.
Ok, we did create opportunities and score some goals and could of had a couple more. Pain, Hoole, Lachie and Trent, each had moments going forward, but all were shit house defensively and I've been saying it for a long time, at HAL level, Powell is a useless pretend striker. We were clearly better once TBT came on. But it was our lack of defense in midfield first and foremost and then our backline, with our keeper starring in a beyond abysmal display.
Of our starting 11, only 2 from 7 of our defensive players deserve to be kept imo, Baro and Rowles. The backline were horrible and with the scoreline they look like the logical target, but were offered the worst protection from a defensive midfield that I've possibly ever seen. We play with two holding mids and that's what they do? You have to be kidding me. The Jets ran through our mids at pace and with such ease that our backline, shit as they were, were at total sixes and sevens running backwards so often that they were cut open constantly and easily. And on top of that Kennedy literally decided to give the game to the scum.
Even Wout, on the back of tonight, despite his pedigree, I now have very serious doubts about whether he is passed his used by date and is worth keeping. And anyone who still thinks L Rose is a holding mid is f**king dreaming. Sure he looked ok when we had no strikers on and 4 midfielders around him flooding the mids and parking the bus, but tonight while he was good on the ball a couple of times, in his PRIMARY role he was worse than useless and competed very hard with Powell, Kennedy and McGing, for worst on the pitch in a game where the competition WOP was the stiffest I've ever seen. He's a lacklustre 10 or DM without the D. So he has to go.
Mulvey has to do a clean out like a boss mobster, recruit like a genius, and then coach like a god, or next year may really be the end of us. Not sure how you can serve up a wooden spoon to eat an 8-2 shit sandwich from your most hated rival while your ex founding coach and former mayor looks on laughing and drinking beers in a scum shirt, and think there's going to be plenty of people happily signing up as members next season.
I will. But that just makes me clearly insane. And a lot of people are not rusted on barnacles determined to stay stuck to the hull of this ship of fools even as we sink into the abyss.
So with Charlesworth unable to lose more than a mill a year... we're under done and our squad compared to others is going to stay under done. The only hope now I can see is the fact that it has also been 3 unproven coaches in a row that has truly sealed our fate, and all 3 have in differing ways driven our teams, culture and club ever deeper into the ground. If Mulvey can turn that around. It will be an incredible achievement and he may well be all that saves our cub. No pressure Mike. You will have my unwavering support. (until 8 games into next season).
Chin up guys. Impossible to get worse than this. So our future is either an end of suffering via death, or improvement.
