Geelong Predictably Smash the Blues - Post Game

[IvanAwfulbigone]

Yeah, but how many people loved the way Franchina used to play?

Judd has copped more than his fair share, it's about the time to even up the score the other way.

Absolutely. Don't get me wrong - would LOVE to see a washing machine mangle Selwood's jumper so that the colours ran and it came out with a white CFC on a navy background.

What makes my blood boil is that he has so many apologists in the media.  Juddy has been manhandled off the ball his entire career and somehow that's ignored or considered acceptable.

A bit of consistency please.

[madbluboy]

Run and spread was our strength under Ratten. It's all gone unfortunately.

Prime Judd carried everyone. Before Judd we were bottom and now  he's coming to the end we are bottom again.

[cookie2]

Bottom line for me - Geelong looked like they had all the time in the world when they had the ball and could move it quickly and at will. We looked harassed and under pressure when we had it and quickly turned it over or if we eventually got it forward too often missed the shot at goal.

We put almost zero pressure on opposition teams for very long stretches of games - they are free to create, look good and kick goals. Couple that us having to work our asses off to get into F50 and then too often missing the goal - no wonder we are demoralised.

Is that the "game plan", lack of game plan,laziness/incompetence by the players or a combination of all three?

[madbluboy]

I don't believe our game plan is to not chase and tackle.

[crashlander]

We played a lot better.... and lost by almost 80 points  ???

It is one of the things that frustrates me. We have been playing poorly with almost no heart and with guys playing for themselves. But last night a few guys appeared to be headed back in the right direction.
But what happens? We get smashed. And by a team definitely on the decline. GWS impressed me a LOT more than Geelong, even with Geelong having 2 very effective forwards. GWS's game plan was better, their players were quicker and they beat us at our strengths (such as they are at the moment). Judd had to play an excellent game, and we still couldn't get close.
Geelong were nothing in comparison and we played better, yet the result is as bad? I don't understand it.

Curnow smashed Selwood. Armfield smashed Motlop. Johnson didn't do much and we managed to control Clark and Hawkins much better than I feared. Simmo came back to something like form.
But could they miss? No, they could not. Their kicking for goal was perhaps the difference.
I was very unimpressed by the umpiring last night. We simply didn't need that kind of rubbish when we were no serious threat. In the 3rd quarter it was obvious that they were trying to even up the numbers, but even then the decisions were rubbish.

[Gokz93]

We laid our first tackle on the 5th min mark.. that says a lot about our intensity/gameplan..

I've been an observer on this website for quite sometime over the years.. we had our ups (never seemed to back it up) and a whole of lots of downs for over a year now and spiraling further unfortunately..

I'm more of that hopeful person.. I get myself pumped up each week with all the positives I can find within the team, and expect a good result, but it all goes to trash in the first few minutes of each game.. and this goes on and on each week.

There is this voice in my head that says what if this rebuild goes to shambles as well.. what then? What does this prestigious club stand for then..

Sad times ahead unfortunately.. "HOPE" is all we can do..

Go Blues!

Gokz93

[PaulP]

Prime Judd carried everyone. Before Judd we were bottom and now  he's coming to the end we are bottom again.

Paradoxically, I find this idea both meritorious yet somehow overly simplistic.

[IvanAwfulbigone]

Paradoxically, I find this idea both meritorious yet somehow overly simplistic.

So is it a co-incidence? I guess we'll never know.

[PaulP]

So is it a co-incidence? I guess we'll never know.

I don't know. Judd clearly has been our main inside /grunt work mid during his time with us. This allowed Murph, Gibbs et al to be outside runners / receivers. I guess the players have known for a while that they needed to share more of the inside workload, so now that they do more of this work, maybe it's a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul ? The guys that used to be more outside haven't been replaced with anyone else, or anyone good.

As my son would write, idk.

Jofo seems to think we simply have too many numbers around the ball. As he said, lack of coordination. Doesn't seem to adversely affect the Swannies or the Purple Haze........

[bignic]

Before they play the swans this week, I would have the players at training do two things only for the whole week.

Firstly, I would have them practice trying to hit a target from about 30 metres away.

Our turnovers last night were deplorable, Armfield, Simpson, Menzel with some shockers, Murphy, and others found it impossible to hit one of our players on the chest when they were not under pressure.

The second thing, goal kicking practice from 40 metres out. Jones, Menzel etc. killed us, with their crap goal kicking from set shots, and what about Curnow. yes, he did a terrific job against Selwood. But that doesn't cover up the sin of missing from 20 metres out.
You really wonder what the 6 months of training over Summer was all about.

if they could have just got those two things right last night, who knows what might have happened?.

Yes, they would have been beaten, but kick goals instead of points and reduce the margin you are behind and the confidence builds.

Hit your target instead of turning the ball over resulting in goals, and your confidence doesn't collapse.