08-21-2022, 09:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2022, 02:43 PM by ElwoodBlues1.)
Real disappointing and we fell away after a promising start to the season, too many unreliable players especially under pressure with the ball. Sometimes you have to tip your lid to a team who can comeback like they can and say we can learn something from how they keep persisting. We seem to have more ball, more entries but players like Maynard and Moore just kept spoiling and denying us good entries and passage to our key forwards.
Got smashed in the ruck but still did well at clearances and stoppages thanks to Cripps who was a real warrior but missed the edge he provides down forward because he didnt have Hewitt and Kennedy to take up the slack if he moved away from the middle.
No Walsh made that situation worse along with Saad looking very sore and he probably shouldnt have played......thought Motlop gave us a lift and showed why he probably has more upside in a Kossie Pickett type of way than either Owies or Durdin.
The Jack ruck experiment is over IMO, when the opposition have two genuine rucks we have to play similar and I thought Jack was also well beaten by Maynard when he played forward as well so I think we havent done him any favors in terms of continuity and he needs to concentrate on his forward craft.
MacRae made some interesting moves late with Maynard, DeGoey in the middle who lifted the Pies and those two old blokes Pendlebury and Sidebottom continue to be handy and seem to have haunted us for a while, I'll be glad when both retire.
Thought Cerra was very good, Young held up well and Docherty was his usual reliable self.
LOB was ok, Cottrell had another shocker on J Daicos who helped kickstart the Pies 1st quarter and we didnt learn much from our previous game vs the Pies in that regard.
Elliott and Ginnivan didnt get much of ball but when they did it they really punished us and a real class small defender to help Saad is a requirement we cant ignore. Zac Williams doesnt do it for me, Stocker lacks experience and Martin is finished as a senior player imo. McGovern was ok and I thought Marchbank played ok but the goals Johnson kicked really hurt us especially that zinger from the boundary line...
Some work for Austin to do in trade week and the draft and Voss needs to tune his coaching skills and give us some MacRae type belief and set plays for those last quarter vital moments.
Got smashed in the ruck but still did well at clearances and stoppages thanks to Cripps who was a real warrior but missed the edge he provides down forward because he didnt have Hewitt and Kennedy to take up the slack if he moved away from the middle.
No Walsh made that situation worse along with Saad looking very sore and he probably shouldnt have played......thought Motlop gave us a lift and showed why he probably has more upside in a Kossie Pickett type of way than either Owies or Durdin.
The Jack ruck experiment is over IMO, when the opposition have two genuine rucks we have to play similar and I thought Jack was also well beaten by Maynard when he played forward as well so I think we havent done him any favors in terms of continuity and he needs to concentrate on his forward craft.
MacRae made some interesting moves late with Maynard, DeGoey in the middle who lifted the Pies and those two old blokes Pendlebury and Sidebottom continue to be handy and seem to have haunted us for a while, I'll be glad when both retire.
Thought Cerra was very good, Young held up well and Docherty was his usual reliable self.
LOB was ok, Cottrell had another shocker on J Daicos who helped kickstart the Pies 1st quarter and we didnt learn much from our previous game vs the Pies in that regard.
Elliott and Ginnivan didnt get much of ball but when they did it they really punished us and a real class small defender to help Saad is a requirement we cant ignore. Zac Williams doesnt do it for me, Stocker lacks experience and Martin is finished as a senior player imo. McGovern was ok and I thought Marchbank played ok but the goals Johnson kicked really hurt us especially that zinger from the boundary line...
Some work for Austin to do in trade week and the draft and Voss needs to tune his coaching skills and give us some MacRae type belief and set plays for those last quarter vital moments.