05-29-2022, 01:59 PM
This is probably a good loss if that ever exists. Our intensity didn’t match theirs. Our cover on the defensive side of a turn over didn’t match theirs. We exposed a few weak areas to improve on. Forget the injuries. Forget the cattle on the field. Forget the effort to bring the game to an almost win. We lost. Not a bad thing if you learn from the mistakes. We turned the ball over so many times trying to be to cute. Lack of concentration. Big crowd pressure. Something we don’t experience to often. Almost a finals pressure situation. We need to learn to stick to a winning strategy with the stock we have available. We need to do more one percenters. The little acts that count. We miss Kennedy more than any other player on the ground. He is an accountable player that executes all over the ground. Tough, hard and ability that he lacks respect for. I hope he is available next game. I am sad we will loose Weitering for a while. He is another loss. The general in defence. Like he controls the back 50m for us. I hope this gets us more block buster games at the G. We need more big crowd high atmosphere situations to win or fail, for the potential finals experience. In a small way I am glad we lost. Surely we will be hungrier next game. Surely we will be more aggressive and bitter for the game we lost next time we meet the Pies again. This will test Voss and what the entire coaching group stand for. Are we contenders or making up the numbers. Shallow sides would fold like a poor deal and loose 4 of their next 5 games and fall out of the top 8. Genuine sides that need a season to fall into place would find at least 4 wins in their next 5 games. Looking at our next 5 games it is up to how much ticker our players have. Not the cattle on the field. With our current injury list, Voss needs to get into the head space of what it takes to get over the line and win. We were close, but no chocolates. Similar to how we have denied other clubs the 4 points so far this season. Close wins. Close losses. The question is how do we respond with what comes next. We didn’t really give it all out there today. We tried to be cute over being brutal. We took risks at the wrong moment. We failed to play hide risk and high reward football when it counts. I can only put that down to a few things.
Not injuries and a lack of top grade players on the field. Not a poor match up of players. Not a game plan that doesn’t work. A simple lack of big stage experience for too many kids trying to play the game of experienced men. Sure they made mistakes. Sure they all failed to get the end result that supporters want. They all rarely get to play big stage football. They all lack finals experience. They are all poorly experienced at winning the close games, when you don’t get it your own way. Learn. Recover. Be ready for the next contest. Just remember to learn and remember from past efforts. Some of the efforts today were weak. Body language showed me this. Poor manning a mark and letting an opponent play on without any effort. Avoiding a tackle because they might break through the lines even if I do something. Not checking small forwards free in their forward 50m.
They didn’t win this game. We unfortunately gave a good effort, but let this slip through our hands. Hence why we had so many holding free kicks paid against us in frustration. It is a small possibility we thought this win was penciled in. Please guys. There is no sure thing but death and taxes. Still happy with the close result and the effort in the last quarter. No ruthless enough yet. Then again you can’t expect that from the kids on the field just yet. Keep developing the cattle you have Voss. I am convinced you are doing well with what you have. It will fall into place eventually.
Imagine Harry, Weitering un-injured, Kennedy, The Gov, and Pits in the ruck. Would we have won? Sure we probably would have. Would it be better for the club? Probably not to be honest. Our depth isn’t the depth that the Melbourne football club has. They loose games with a few key players out and they have high quality and rated talent. We need to develop the kids before the guns are back in the squad. This is what real rebuild is all about. This is where the hard work starts. How do you create serviceable players into genuine players?
Coming up against the Bombers might actually be a challenge. Once again a side that has nothing to loose and everything to gain. We can’t play other sides into form. We need to make their result a contest. Something we lacked today. Not completely but we did look lost at times and no idea what to do next. The pressure was put on our players. The heat was turned up to high. Can we bring the pressure on next game to totally fry the Bombers? We will see next game. Not by available cattle on the field. By a will to step up and get the job done. Before this round, I would have predicted a 40 points loss to the Scum. After this week, we need to get over the line. They are shit. Seriously shit. However even a shit side has the ball bounce their way once in a while. Do what it takes guys. Let me state, what ever it takes please.
Not injuries and a lack of top grade players on the field. Not a poor match up of players. Not a game plan that doesn’t work. A simple lack of big stage experience for too many kids trying to play the game of experienced men. Sure they made mistakes. Sure they all failed to get the end result that supporters want. They all rarely get to play big stage football. They all lack finals experience. They are all poorly experienced at winning the close games, when you don’t get it your own way. Learn. Recover. Be ready for the next contest. Just remember to learn and remember from past efforts. Some of the efforts today were weak. Body language showed me this. Poor manning a mark and letting an opponent play on without any effort. Avoiding a tackle because they might break through the lines even if I do something. Not checking small forwards free in their forward 50m.
They didn’t win this game. We unfortunately gave a good effort, but let this slip through our hands. Hence why we had so many holding free kicks paid against us in frustration. It is a small possibility we thought this win was penciled in. Please guys. There is no sure thing but death and taxes. Still happy with the close result and the effort in the last quarter. No ruthless enough yet. Then again you can’t expect that from the kids on the field just yet. Keep developing the cattle you have Voss. I am convinced you are doing well with what you have. It will fall into place eventually.
Imagine Harry, Weitering un-injured, Kennedy, The Gov, and Pits in the ruck. Would we have won? Sure we probably would have. Would it be better for the club? Probably not to be honest. Our depth isn’t the depth that the Melbourne football club has. They loose games with a few key players out and they have high quality and rated talent. We need to develop the kids before the guns are back in the squad. This is what real rebuild is all about. This is where the hard work starts. How do you create serviceable players into genuine players?
Coming up against the Bombers might actually be a challenge. Once again a side that has nothing to loose and everything to gain. We can’t play other sides into form. We need to make their result a contest. Something we lacked today. Not completely but we did look lost at times and no idea what to do next. The pressure was put on our players. The heat was turned up to high. Can we bring the pressure on next game to totally fry the Bombers? We will see next game. Not by available cattle on the field. By a will to step up and get the job done. Before this round, I would have predicted a 40 points loss to the Scum. After this week, we need to get over the line. They are shit. Seriously shit. However even a shit side has the ball bounce their way once in a while. Do what it takes guys. Let me state, what ever it takes please.
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