Round 15 Post Game Thread - Blues v Tigers

[PaulP]

I think the Tiggies were exposed a little last night. Whether we rattled them a little (a laughable concept to some) or whether they paid us no respect, I'm not sure. Up until last night, I thought they were around the mark. Was last night a one off, or is it a portent of things to come ? Because they were ordinary last night, and they should have pumped us.

[cimm1979]

I think the Tiggies were exposed a little last night. Whether we rattled them a little (a laughable concept to some) or whether they paid us no respect, I'm not sure. Up until last night, I thought they were around the mark. Was last night a one off, or is it a portent of things to come ? Because they were ordinary last night, and they should have pumped us.

Early on they couldn't take the pressure, gifted goals by umps and then we shot ourselves with disposal.

[blue4life]

Crikey fellas, enough of the lame excuses.
Last night was as insipid as anything we served up under Malthouse, rank turnovers, missed tackles, no support for the ball carrier and woeful conversion, and apart from a couple of players we were near enough to full strength.
There's no way to spin it, our list needs major surgery and even if we get all our recruiting decisions right it's still going to take 5 years.
Last year was another wipe out, Jaksch, Wiley, Boekhorst, Tutt and Jones, that alone has put us back another 2 years.

[Lods]

Regarding Fields.
First thoughts were he probably needed to go back and have a bit more "development time".
He seemed to be a fair bit off the pace but considering Rowe was missing and Jamison went down early he, and the rest of the defence, had to carry a bit of extra weight.
Thought he started to work himself into the game a bit and had a couple of minor wins.
Lovely kick of the ball.
So in the interests of development maybe he needs another go this year.
Whether it's the next two weeks or not is debatable.

[LP]

Time to give up on Hendo as a forward. Play him back so he can get some confidence. Play Rowe forward, at least he would give the forward line a bit of mongrel.

The tell was when he was delivered the ball to perfect advantage, one out and goal side of the defender inside F50. He failed to use his body to defend the space and then failed to take the mark despite having Rance beaten and out positioned. It was U15 stuff.

A genuine forward begs for those sort of opportunities and Hendo burned it!

[LP]

Some players last night seemed to be  playing as if they really don't want to be out there in Navy Blue.

We really don't have much to lose if we start helping them out with their decision making.
I'd rather a player going full bore and stinking it up than a talented player putting in half efforts.....and stinking it up.

Did you see the pre-match footage of Barker/Laidley addressing the team? Yarran is away with the fairies, most of the list look disinterested and nobody is really listening to the coaches!

This is what you get from players who have been stuffed around with mixed messages for too long, there is no coming back for this crew they are lost as a group! No wonder Barker hasn't put his hand up for the job, it would be like volunteering to take the remedial class.

There is no way we will attract a decent coach with footage like that circulating, the EFC Ch.7 apologists have cooked us again, it's another bend over session boys I hope you enjoy it! :o The rest of you can keep thinking those broadcast shots are not deliberate!

[PaulP]

Early on they couldn't take the pressure, gifted goals by umps and then we shot ourselves with disposal.

Yep -some scoreboard heat from us in the first q would've made things interesting. The chances were there.

[PassIt2Carrots]

Fair enough, your opinion. They work hard and play for each other but seem to lack that final polish that it normally takes to win a flag - my opinion. We made plenty of errors that they just failed to capitalise on, some they did but we got away with plenty of others. I suppose they could just get lucky if they got to a GF and their opponents had an off day.

On last night you are spot on but I've seen them beat sydney and Freo away, they are the real deal.

[PassIt2Carrots]

I think the Tiggies were exposed a little last night. Whether we rattled them a little (a laughable concept to some) or whether they paid us no respect, I'm not sure. Up until last night, I thought they were around the mark. Was last night a one off, or is it a portent of things to come ? Because they were ordinary last night, and they should have pumped us.

The good sides still win when they play crap.

[PassIt2Carrots]

The tell was when he was delivered the ball to perfect advantage, one out and goal side of the defender inside F50. He failed to use his body to defend the space and then failed to take the mark despite having Rance beaten and out positioned. It was U15 stuff.

A genuine forward begs for those sort of opportunities and Hendo burned it!

Good pick up LP, I thought exactly the same thing. Had no idea about protecting the space for the ball to drop and not good enough to jump over Rance and mark it.