A couple of times during the game, when they showed the injured, suspended and out of form sitting in the grandstand I was reminded of an old Wayne Brittain quote from 2002.
Injuries, suspension and the out of form affect a young side like our current one to a far greater extent than a good side.
That's not an excuse just an observation
Today was terrible....and it hardly explains a 100 point loss...
The reasons for that are many and some obscure.
We beat an Essendon side who beat Geelong....but you wouldn't give us much of a chance next week.
Just goes to show form-lines are meaningless and it's more about 'mentally' turning up to play.
For whatever reason we didn't today.
....and that's disturbing for the weeks ahead.
Quote:"I remember one game walking out behind the team as they ran out on to the ground. All these injured blokes in a Carlton uniform were walking up to the grandstand. I looked at them and thought: 'There's 15 or 16 blokes who would have been in the best 18. There's my team; who has just run out out there?' That was the first time I thought: 'This is going to be a tough day.'
Injuries, suspension and the out of form affect a young side like our current one to a far greater extent than a good side.
That's not an excuse just an observation
Today was terrible....and it hardly explains a 100 point loss...
The reasons for that are many and some obscure.
We beat an Essendon side who beat Geelong....but you wouldn't give us much of a chance next week.
Just goes to show form-lines are meaningless and it's more about 'mentally' turning up to play.
For whatever reason we didn't today.
....and that's disturbing for the weeks ahead.