(05-05-2019, 09:11 PM)PaulP link Wrote:Yes I know that. The Hawks won :
a. because of the clock,
b. their senior players are experienced and have a winning culture
c. because young teams like ours don't have what it takes to turn the momentum when it's not going our way.
Yesterday sucked, make no bones about it. Hopefully the boys will learn. We're not at the Hawks level where we can arrest a bad start.
That's exactly the scenario.
The crew on Manrgrook predicted a 60pt defeat based on our outs and our inexperienced list combined with the motivation Norp were receiving off the media and Scott's ball on the line. Most Carlton fans scoffed at their prediction, some even sledged them, so I suspect they are owed an apology! Yet fans will buy the Monday morning media shock, as that has them feel at ease when they throw the baby out with the bath water.
We lost how many hundred games of experience after last weekend, and we brought in how many games of experience?
The bigger worry is did the club see this coming, if they did then they haven't played their media cards very well this week, if they didn't they are basically incompetent despite the realisation they have no other choice? Especially given the list management decision they have made in the recent past?
Are there any positives we can take from this game?
Despite being besieged Weitering kept it together to the best of his ability, but we do not want him BoG in such circumstances but he probably was.
But again my biggest worry remains, I do not think being battered week in week out is necessarily good for the kids. In small does adversity might be OK, without relief it's more likely debilitating. I've not seen Cripps look so disinterested before, but yesterday he looked like a guy who didn't want to be there, a player going through the motions. Daisy looked old, sMurph looked old and Meat was the old meat.
I gather yesterday ends any thoughts that Phillips and Levi are viable AFL 1st ruckmen!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"