Giants Trample Blues - Post Match

[kruddler]

What crap me to tears was whenever a GWS player had the ball there were always numerous options for them. You could see their structures working to create those options.

Contrast with us who had the option of kicking it across the ground or to a contest which wasn't in our favour.

78 inside 50s. Is that close to a record?

Don't be confusing structures with simple hard running. They did it. We didn't.

Unfortunately i was at the game. Not a whole lot of positives to come out of the game for us.

We played a loose man in defence for a large part of the game, and it didn't help us.

I'm sure the kick to kick on the backline pissed everyone off watching it on TV, well blame the players further up the ground. Everyone simply standing there, nobody presenting.
It was either...
- kick to a 50-50 along the boundary
- kick to a 2-on-1 down the middle
- Kick sideways to a free man

We chose the last option more often than not, with a sprinkling of the second option.

IF for some weird reason we were able to get the ball out of defence quickly, we were caught with our pants down as all 36 players were in our backline. So many time we started to break the lines and looked up and had not a single person to kick too. We had to put the breaks on and kick sideways or try and kick it to space and run onto it. But, as mentioned earlier, we refused to run hard and GWS always were the first back to mop up....usually with plenty of extra numbers to help out.

Our run/spread from stoppages is pretty much non-existent.
GWS' run/spread would be on a par with the best in the game. Its no surprise that they beat the hawks last week.

I know it's depressing that we lost to the n00bs by so much, but if i could borrow a quote from Mick "We played a very good football side tonight"