(04-08-2022, 05:03 AM)Thryleon date Wrote:Vision and decision making were the problems. Not what any of the players were doing with their running power or work rate. This is all a problem caused by a lack of composure and panic. For some reason I thought to myself we should be in control of this game, yet for some reason we looked like we were rushing things.Sitting at the game it was clear the team lost it's composure, looked flat and looked fatigued, even during the 1st-Qtr when we banged through a string of goals it was obvious we had relied on one trick with BigH, Charlie and Cripps jumping form behind or the side to clunk marks, none of them were in front.
Later the reasons behind those poor decisions were obvious. The skills were not as bad as some suggest, and the underlying opposition tactics were not addressed by our coaching panel. CJ basically ran freely out of our F50, and our Mids in an array of 3 or 4 jogged behind relying on Owies, Fisher, Setterfield and LoB to bridge the gap. The only joy we got was seeing BigH chase down Dawks a couple of times, I was hoping to see a De Koning chase but he also looked flat.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"