07-10-2021, 11:07 AM
(07-10-2021, 10:48 AM)crashlander link Wrote:Fair enough, for them. Maybe they realize they couldn't put away a team with half its list unavailable.
We did so much right, only to turn it over and give it to them on a platter.
Not enough players really put in, but we had some absolute winners on the day: Weitering slaughtered Hawkins; Walsh had leather poisoning; Saad did a great job ... But our disposal killed us.
I didn't expect to win when we lost Casboult and Jones. That hurt us a lot and robbed us so much flexibility. But we were also out-coached: far too often Geelong had an extra in defence and it ended up being either Tuohey or Henderson. Talk about rubbing salt into the wounds.
Unfortunately, with our outs and lack of height, we had to play an extra in defence. Makes it easy for a player like Stewart when it goes into our forward 50. May have been better going into the F50 low, if there was no clear target, so as to keep it at ground level.