04-06-2019, 09:56 PM
(04-06-2019, 09:42 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:I'm calmer now than yesterday...thankfully though I saw very little of it live (listened as much as I could).
Yes, we now have a more consistent effort across the park BUT our players still appear to have no system and no plan to counter a team like Sydney when a team like Sydney starts playing like a team like Sydney does....
BUT for those two very late goals in the 3rd we were a fair way off it....because BB and co simply had no answer to the Sydney game plan (which is the same game plan they've employed for 20 years mind you). And tried nothing from the reports I had at the time.
For all of the 2nd quarter and alll but a few minutes of the third we were underwhelming (to be polite). Not poor by any means but not at senior AFL footy level. Wing and a prayer kicks, handballs to team mates under the pump, lazy forwards....
That's what worries me the most.
We're losing games at the selection table and on match day. No way should we have played LOB, Polson, Gibbons, Setters, Dow, Fisher, Walsh all together against a very mature bodies, physical team like Sydney. SoJ, Kennedy (if fit) and Fasolo should have played. Fasolo needs senior game time in him (perhaps Bolton read Kruddler's rants here and jumped onboard), not fluff around time in the 2s.
Not to mention question marks over the fitness of Smurf and Marchy?
At least they had a plan for Buddy yesterday - would have been goal less bar the charity from the powers that be....
Agree with this - the game plan lacked enterprise and we played a very predictable game. It’s the coaches responsibility to instill his team with the confidence to take the game on and go for that kick through the corridor.
If we’re honest we’re getting very patchy performances from our experienced players like E Curnow, Simpson, Thomas, Murphy. We need better. Ed is a great example 4 great goals but I counted 4 handballs that stranded his teammates and 4 kicks off the mark.
Along with Gibbons and Polson, we need to start dropoing guys from the group above to make a stand that 3/33 is not good enough.