Posts: 6,898
Threads: 7
Joined: Jul 2015
Reputation:
0
There were certainly many critical moments we can bang on about.
Ed v Bowes stoppage snap, Dow or Charlie's poor i50 brain fade v 2m Peter's, kicking to Gibbons repeatedly v a talented AFL players....
In the end our poor skill and decisions left us short. I don't think GC would be any happier with their equally poor performance.
I thought we were:
Thrashed in the ruck yet didn't play to Witts dominance
So so in the midfield
Picked a tall fwd line yet didn't play to their advantage
Add MK and many more opportunities avail
Nonetheless a very winnable game goes begging.
A few who impressed
Jones and Weiters with good support from Daisy
Crippa (q1 aside), Samo, Fisher in patches, and of course Walsh. Dow solid inside and on the burst, let down by disposal.
Murphy provided the smarts. However, there were just too many poor decisions particularly going i50.
We also struggled to get the ball out of defense over the centre of the ground, especially q1.
In all. we gave GC the win. Addressing a few of the obvious faults and yes, we would have won.
Coming together is the beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Henry Ford.
Posts: 9,435
Threads: 67
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
0
(04-14-2019, 08:17 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Yep...I'd question the coaching but I'd also be taking a serious look at the so called serious talent..
Serious talent doesnt kick the ball like some of our blokes do and make simple errors...Nick Holman was more effective than some of our so called serious talent
who pick and choose when they want to get serious.....
I call it Gibbs/Murphy syndrome!
Finals, then 4 in a row!
Posts: 29,292
Threads: 289
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
0
(04-14-2019, 08:17 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:who pick and choose when they want to get serious.....
It's a worry Eb1, because it seems to be habitual!
(04-14-2019, 08:19 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:I call it Gibbs/Murphy syndrome!
Sounds like Murphy stood up today, without him we'd have been out of it by 3/4 time!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"
Posts: 2,296
Threads: 12
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
0
(04-14-2019, 08:13 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Charlie Curnow has played 3 games and produced 3 shockers...what to do with him?
He should play twos and learn how hard he needs to work.
He has elite endurance and doesn’t use it
We need him to be a star not another jack watts
Posts: 2,212
Threads: 5
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
0
Surely Gibbo should be axed this week, hasn't added to the goal tally which is his spot currently, why hasn't he had mins in the midfield? Who replaces him? poulsen? Don't think so, we don't really have a small forward who scores, Wright in the last few yrs was the best option,
Posts: 29,292
Threads: 289
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
0
GC had a small D50, look at our bottom ranked players.
20th Casboult
21st McGovern
22nd McKay
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"
Posts: 2,296
Threads: 12
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
0
(04-14-2019, 08:19 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:I call it Gibbs/Murphy syndrome!
Culture
We have been poor in that area for 16 years.
Too many pedestrians
Posts: 13,062
Threads: 50
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
0
(04-14-2019, 08:17 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Yep...I'd question the coaching but I'd also be taking a serious look at the so called serious talent..
Serious talent doesnt kick the ball like some of our blokes do and make simple errors...Nick Holman was more effective than some of our so called serious talent
who pick and choose when they want to get serious.....
I believe this is a reflection on the prevalent playing group culture which is the result of a lack of the right attitudes within our senior group over many years. We need to take some drastic action here imo.
Reality always wins in the end.
Posts: 9,435
Threads: 67
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
0
(04-14-2019, 08:19 AM)LP link Wrote:It's a worry Eb1, because it seems to be habitual!
Sounds like Murphy stood up today, without him we'd have been out of it by 3/4 time!
Murphy was ok today but put in a few shocking kicks like many others....
Finals, then 4 in a row!
Posts: 385
Threads: 4
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
0
(04-14-2019, 08:04 AM)sydneybluesfan link Wrote:We played 2 patches of good footy - 10mins at the start of the 2nd and 10 mins at the start of the third. In that time we kicked 5 of our 8 goals. For the other 60mins it was largely a mess of skill errors and lack of poise. We have so many dumb footballers and have done for years and years. When the pressure came on in the last quarter we wilted as we always do.
I can't see how Bolton can keep his job next year. 4 games in and we are rock bottom on the ladder again. You can't sugar coat the fact that we can't score, and cant play anything more than the 10-15 mins of AFL standard football before we start to look like a VFL team.
Here a great stat from today - they had 96 marks in total for the day. 71 of those came from our kicks. 3 out of 4 of their marks came from intercepts!
Hmm. I had the same recurring nightmare for four weeks now. We play 2 good patches or quarters of football and then go to sleep and get rolled.
|
