05-08-2023, 07:33 AM
(05-05-2023, 10:25 PM)BluePhantom link Wrote:I noticed right from the start of the game the Bears were out to hurt us. They were tackling with intent to hurt and when they won the free kick they certainly told us.
When teams do this physical stuff yeah we might do a bit of push and shove back but it creates perceived pressure and the players panic because they don't want to be tackled harshly and hurt.
We are a NICE team, we have no MONGREL, no one tackles to hurt someone.
You look back to when we were successful, we had all this, Whorethorn played unsocialable, Richmond were dirty.
I'm not saying we go out there and play with high elbows but play angry, play to win, no prisoners. I'm over this nice guy stuff.
Still can't work out the umpiring, they got so many HTB yet we got hardly any. Is it the way we tackle?
Why didn't Harry get a free kick for the whack he copped to the eye. 4 Umpires? WTF were they looking at?
Harry is always being held. Cripps is always being held at stoppages. I thought the 4 ump system was brought in to have extra eyes around contests not divide the ground up into qtrs instead of thirds With each ump sticking to his lane.
The Match committee should be sacked today! Not tomorrow! How many games do we lose and then mention the MC?
We are charlatans, but I thought we did very well last night with a half a playing list made up of VFL standard players.
Agree 100% on the comparisons to Hawks and Tigs - we dont have that ruthlessness
If I see Crippa being held before a stoppage (and then when there was a free pinged for it - it was to Neale!!) or Harry being shoved under the ball in a marking contest (the old Paul Roos trained "tunnel") - i'll scream.
As for the the HTBs - i am sure that the majoirty of the time McCluggage and Dunkley were tackled, they did the old "pretend to punch the ball out" trick, except that it wasnt being held to them, and it was obvious they werent actually trying to get it out. also saw a few drag the ball in during the tackle - but im not sure we got a HTB all night???
ah well, that was NOT the reason for the loss - but still sh!ts me!
a few have menitoned it on here - but the number of goals they got out the back, just walking into goal must be a real indicator of how poor our d50 structure was....