08-30-2020, 08:26 AM
We all got ahead of ourselves, players included. I said it after team selections in picking 2 kids that have shown SFA and whack them both in together against a well drilled team. I don't care that they were undermanned the bulk of their list have played a lot of finals and they were never going to be easy beats.
That was the start of it IMO.
Our back six as a unit have been settled and a consistent area for us. How dumb is it to bring a bloke like Poulson into that mix -even for his own development it was a massive ask. Adams tore him a new one early and while i have seen him play worse games its wasnt the right time for such a risk risk to be taken and smacked of cockyness.
This game highlighted how far off our midfield is when a team with 3 of there best 5 mids out and we still get beaten up badly in the middle. We could have done with a big bodied mid like Kennedy and couldn't have hurt having the goal smarts of Cunningham roaming deep near goal. I know he is quiet too often but he is dangerous and requires attention and i think that type of player would have loved to highlight his skills in a massive game like this.
Send it countless times the midfield needs at least 2 A-B graders before we can talk about finals let alone dreaming about flags and this game showed we are miles off the real teams.
That was the start of it IMO.
Our back six as a unit have been settled and a consistent area for us. How dumb is it to bring a bloke like Poulson into that mix -even for his own development it was a massive ask. Adams tore him a new one early and while i have seen him play worse games its wasnt the right time for such a risk risk to be taken and smacked of cockyness.
This game highlighted how far off our midfield is when a team with 3 of there best 5 mids out and we still get beaten up badly in the middle. We could have done with a big bodied mid like Kennedy and couldn't have hurt having the goal smarts of Cunningham roaming deep near goal. I know he is quiet too often but he is dangerous and requires attention and i think that type of player would have loved to highlight his skills in a massive game like this.
Send it countless times the midfield needs at least 2 A-B graders before we can talk about finals let alone dreaming about flags and this game showed we are miles off the real teams.