05-31-2021, 01:21 AM
PP....he's got history for the head high stuff. I thought at the time it was a dangerous one.
Once again we let a perfect opportunity slip. Could've won that game and set ourselves up perfectly for a shot at an undermanned WCE this weekend and be perched just outside the 8 leading into the bye. But not to be. Pretty much different game, same result. Too much left to too few. Glaringly obvious that we have one of the shallowest midfields in the competition....Cripps, Walsh, Curnow and then not much else...after all these years of drafting young midfielders. Again, terrible foot skills when the game was on the line....how is it possible in this day and age that we can have such poor kicking efficiency in games? Do we not practice that sort of basic sh#t at training? And just dumb footy at times during games....Docherty might've been finding some reasonable form but some of his brain fades have killed us week after week.
The SCG is a tiny ground but at times it looked like they had 25 blokes out there they had so much space. As someone else pointed out, we can look pretty good when we've got the ball but when the opposition have it, we are terrible and teams just pick us apart at ease.
I love the way Saad plays...he gets it and runs with it and is usually very efficient when he kicks it. But as a pure defender, he's not that good. If he was matched up on Heeney, as it looked, that was a terrible move and it proved to be the difference. I'll get howled down but I think we actually missed Plowman in that game.
Teague seems bereft of any plan B in the coaching box....at least that's how it looks. It might be you could argue lack of personnel but it's getting frustrating as a fan and a viewer when the camera goes to him and he's sitting there with a blank expression on his face and seemingly no emotion. He doesn't have to smash a hole in the wall or destroy a phone, but give us something.
We are a Jekyll and Hyde team.....blistering to watch at some points but absolutely f#cking hopeless at other times....unfortunately it's the latter for more of the time.
Hard to see what changes we can make from here on in? Hope that Charlie gets fit enough to play again this year.....hope that McGovern gets fit and finds form....hope that with a few more games under their belt, TDK and Martin, Williams etc get better.....hope like hell that Walsh, Cripps, Harry or Weitering don't get injured.....or just hope that some of the younger guys in the VFL team do enough to warrant a game and then show some form when they do get a chance? That's a lot of "fingers crossed".
Once again we let a perfect opportunity slip. Could've won that game and set ourselves up perfectly for a shot at an undermanned WCE this weekend and be perched just outside the 8 leading into the bye. But not to be. Pretty much different game, same result. Too much left to too few. Glaringly obvious that we have one of the shallowest midfields in the competition....Cripps, Walsh, Curnow and then not much else...after all these years of drafting young midfielders. Again, terrible foot skills when the game was on the line....how is it possible in this day and age that we can have such poor kicking efficiency in games? Do we not practice that sort of basic sh#t at training? And just dumb footy at times during games....Docherty might've been finding some reasonable form but some of his brain fades have killed us week after week.
The SCG is a tiny ground but at times it looked like they had 25 blokes out there they had so much space. As someone else pointed out, we can look pretty good when we've got the ball but when the opposition have it, we are terrible and teams just pick us apart at ease.
I love the way Saad plays...he gets it and runs with it and is usually very efficient when he kicks it. But as a pure defender, he's not that good. If he was matched up on Heeney, as it looked, that was a terrible move and it proved to be the difference. I'll get howled down but I think we actually missed Plowman in that game.
Teague seems bereft of any plan B in the coaching box....at least that's how it looks. It might be you could argue lack of personnel but it's getting frustrating as a fan and a viewer when the camera goes to him and he's sitting there with a blank expression on his face and seemingly no emotion. He doesn't have to smash a hole in the wall or destroy a phone, but give us something.
We are a Jekyll and Hyde team.....blistering to watch at some points but absolutely f#cking hopeless at other times....unfortunately it's the latter for more of the time.
Hard to see what changes we can make from here on in? Hope that Charlie gets fit enough to play again this year.....hope that McGovern gets fit and finds form....hope that with a few more games under their belt, TDK and Martin, Williams etc get better.....hope like hell that Walsh, Cripps, Harry or Weitering don't get injured.....or just hope that some of the younger guys in the VFL team do enough to warrant a game and then show some form when they do get a chance? That's a lot of "fingers crossed".