Mick Malthouse put much blame on Scott Burns for our record 112,786 point loss against the W.A Anchors yesterday.
"We will sit down in the cold light of day and we'll analyse exactly how the game went and how the senior players went. Believe me, Scott Burns and Chad Morrison are under enormous pressure to hold their place. It's not a matter of possessions, particularly when you get beaten by a 130 possessions."
This was not the first time Malthouse put blame on the veteran midfielder. Earlier this year he put Burns' current mediocre form as one of the big roadblocks to Somalia's peace process and that Burns was really the one to blame over Channel 9's poor performance in this year's rating figures.
In his usual calm manner, Burns shrugged off Malthouse's finger pointing. “Sure, I've struggled to play four quarters in a row of good footy but me an Licca both agree Our Place pales in comparison to Burke's Backyard.”
“That Don Burke is a legend. If he doesn't line up on the half forward line for us against Richmond next week, maybe me, Licca and Don can fly up to Somalia and have a word to this Prime Minister Ali Gedi joker.”
2 comments:
Geez, poor Chad. He doesn't deserve to take the blame for that, that's for damn sure.
Just on the ex-Eagles angle, what's the deal with Williams? The guy was never really anything more than an honest fringe HFF / forward pocket player with us. Why is he the focus of so much anger from Pies fans? Could he be perhaps symbolic of a wider loss of faith in Mick the messiah?
Right on, Carneagles. Williams has only come onto the game for the Pies as a fringe player, sort of like putty in our forward line when Rocca and Tarrant aren't taking grabs and the crumbers are doing nuttin. There's definately quite a bit of anger against the bloke because he played under Mick for the Eagles.
A few of us have been real critical of Malthouse after the second grand final. Sure, we were soft but his coaching that day was woeful. The stories we heard following that black day were that he spent the game fighting with his coaching staff. The blokes he fought like Terry Daniher went on to turn clubs like St Kilda around to the successes they have become.
Meanwhile at Collingwood...
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