05-31-2021, 01:20 AM
(05-30-2021, 02:14 PM)Macca37 link Wrote:This is our reality.
Too many players lacking the football skills to play at AFL level pressure.
Too many players lacking the mental toughness to see out a full game. Conservatively, over a full game, we are currently giving up approximately twenty minutes free time to the opposition to kick multiple goals.
Will I be satisfied if we win another 3 or 4 games? No way.
I will be satisfied when we get the list we were promised 6 years ago, one that is ready and willing to make a real challenge for a place in the 8.
At the moment we supporters grasp on to any scrap of good play in a desperate attempt to remain positive.
As I've said before: this is what a failed rebuild looks like.
Think it is too hard to do such a big rebuild. Too many spots to cover given draft picking can be a flukey exercise. It's been a reasonable rebuild but still too many holes. We are too competitive for it to be a failed rebuild. Much of the issues are mental more than physical. We can dominate good sides, often for 85% of the game, then have a 15 min lapse that screws everything.
We need the willingness to defend alot more when things do go our way. It's the way Teague wants it too given the mighty spray at half time against Hawthorn on the issue. We showed we could defend well after that. Players just don't have the drive, hunger, motivation to want to do it consistently and that's what kills. Problem is we need to dominate for 90% of a game just to have a chance.
Those opposition run-ons happened in both the men's and women's games, who did it near every game during their season, so what is pervading through the club.