03-19-2021, 05:47 AM
(03-19-2021, 05:30 AM)shawny link Wrote:We really lack leadership don’t we.Cripps was manned up tighter in the 2nd half and we dont have another coalface mid to throw in the middle. Tigers got right on top led by Bolton, Lambert and Graham. We could argue Williams was missing but Tiger fans would argue so was Cotchin, apart from Walsh we were disappointing after half time in the middle especially when Pittonet tired.
What team gets to within a goal of the best team in the comp with 10 mins to go and yet at that very stage looks shot and like there is no spark or energy to will themselves to every contest to cause the upset.
There was under a goal in it with only half a quarter to go yet we looked flat. HTF does that happen? We were calling for someone to impose themself yet apart for Walsh and maybe Saad no one else seemed to be willing to gut run at the end. Never going to beat a team like tigers unless you take your opportunities and when the moment is there you lift up and give everything you have to take it.
Cripps was flat as a tack too and I was disappointed in our captain in the middle during the second half of the last quarter. Give us nothing.
Yeah I know the kids were bad no argument there but when your so close so late yet never really look like they will do anything to win, that’s the big disappointment and concern going forward for me.
A real missing key is TDK, Casboult isnt good enough to restrict a player like Nankervis and TDK could have swung the game our way more even than having Williams, Martin, Betts in IMHO.
Casboult and Ed Curnow are two players who we need to look at a bit closer when we have a full fit list, not sure when that will be but both look like the expiry date might be sooner than later.