05-06-2023, 12:54 AM
(05-06-2023, 12:09 AM)shawny link Wrote:Our whole organization from the very top to the boot studder is not ruthless enough and don't want it enough and out list has no leadership to correct anything.
Despite all the hope and talk again we are still miles off the pace. No leadership on this list and they just take performances like that on the chin without a whimper. We are a list filled with nice guys and none have a any sort of hard ruthless edge. Our captain was smiling after the game with Lachie Neale after he had a stinker while his direct opponent comprehensively smashed him and yet he still can smile? And all those that say that means nothing are kidding themself. We are powerless to do anything to change an outcome if it's not on our terms we have too many holes in a very unbalanced list to be genuine contenders. In the third quarter when we were jammed in our D50 and couldn't get out and not one player knew WTF to do. We looked stunned and just kept turning it over. It took a soft 50 metre penalty to get us out.
We are the ultimate teasers, pretenders that melt as soon as the heat is applied. And our opposition know it!
Again like so many pre seasons out list is talked up and many including me fall for it. Then the talk stops and we see teams below us with much less fanfare leapfrog over us and teams above us continue to pull away while we just pretend it all about to turn around any minute. Reality is another season has gone down the drain and i no longer have any belief our club is ever going to amount to anything.
Sad to say it but you are correct. Following on from the Adelaide game the third quarter last night laid bare how mediocre our list is.
We do not have small forwards capable of making an impact on a game. If H and Charlie are held it's game over.
We have a number one ruckman who was thrashed by McInerney, and our midfield were deprived of first use of the ball. At best Pittonet is a one dimensional, solid plodder.
We have a midfield that is easily brushed aside and is incapable of playing to a losing ruck.
Like so many previous years we have a defence which is placed under enormous pressure because of the failings of players further up the field. Unfortunately Weiters and Young are not handling the pressure well and basic mistakes are costing us big time.
In the last quarter Brisbane took the foot of the pedal and just did enough to win. What followed was the usual junk time goals.
No doubt when all the stars are in alignment this list will tease us with a win now and again and raise our hopes, but the reality is that mental fragility combined with a lack of basic skills under pressure will ensure that we stay in the bottom half of the ladder for the foreseeable future.