04-26-2021, 05:12 AM
Just another one of those games where you can take away some positives but just be sick and tired of the same old negatives.
How many games have been lost under Teague on the back of one absolutely sh#thouse quarter of footy? It's just hard to fathom that we can come out and play with the sort of intent and endeavour we did in the first quarter and then just go completely missing in the second?
I'm not sure if we have a skills coach but if we do, he should be looking for another job? Every week it's the same thing....we continue to make the easy look impossible. Opposition teams score heavily from shocking turnovers and basic skill execution errors.
If not for Walsh and Jones and maybe Harry, that would've been a slaughter. Hard to criticise Harry with 6 goals but it's heart in the mouth stuff every time. Even his around the corner snaps travelled barely 40m and when it's a straight drop punt....he's less than a 50/50 chance.
The delivery into the forward line at times is laughable. The number of times we kick it straight to an opponent...or sit it on a team mate's head...or hospital handpass to a bloke standing still with an opponent right on him.
It's like shooting Bambi but I think Eddie's time is up and he's probably gone on a year too long. Will the club be brave enough to drop him or will he just be "rested"?
Docherty still looks a shadow of the AA player he was and is regularly making shocking mistakes, dropping marks.
We can criticise Levi but with no other ruck or key forward options at the moment, he simply has to play. Similarly, hard to criticise Pitto either....cracks in every week. He was recruited primarily as a back up ruckman to Kreuzer and TDK as he developed...but has been the number 1 ruckman basically since round 2 last year. The lack of planning in terms of a long term ruck option is appalling.
Williams' disposal has been terrible...and that was one of his strong points with GWS. Are we simply just masters at turning good players into ordinary players with poor skills?
On the positive side...Walsh is simply incredible. He doesn't stop gut running from the opening bounce and for a kid in only the beginning of his third season, it's inevitable that AA selection isn't too far off.
How many games have been lost under Teague on the back of one absolutely sh#thouse quarter of footy? It's just hard to fathom that we can come out and play with the sort of intent and endeavour we did in the first quarter and then just go completely missing in the second?
I'm not sure if we have a skills coach but if we do, he should be looking for another job? Every week it's the same thing....we continue to make the easy look impossible. Opposition teams score heavily from shocking turnovers and basic skill execution errors.
If not for Walsh and Jones and maybe Harry, that would've been a slaughter. Hard to criticise Harry with 6 goals but it's heart in the mouth stuff every time. Even his around the corner snaps travelled barely 40m and when it's a straight drop punt....he's less than a 50/50 chance.
The delivery into the forward line at times is laughable. The number of times we kick it straight to an opponent...or sit it on a team mate's head...or hospital handpass to a bloke standing still with an opponent right on him.
It's like shooting Bambi but I think Eddie's time is up and he's probably gone on a year too long. Will the club be brave enough to drop him or will he just be "rested"?
Docherty still looks a shadow of the AA player he was and is regularly making shocking mistakes, dropping marks.
We can criticise Levi but with no other ruck or key forward options at the moment, he simply has to play. Similarly, hard to criticise Pitto either....cracks in every week. He was recruited primarily as a back up ruckman to Kreuzer and TDK as he developed...but has been the number 1 ruckman basically since round 2 last year. The lack of planning in terms of a long term ruck option is appalling.
Williams' disposal has been terrible...and that was one of his strong points with GWS. Are we simply just masters at turning good players into ordinary players with poor skills?
On the positive side...Walsh is simply incredible. He doesn't stop gut running from the opening bounce and for a kid in only the beginning of his third season, it's inevitable that AA selection isn't too far off.