Round 15 Post Game Thread - Blues v Tigers

[cookie2]

Disagree re the flag part mate, not sure what more you want TBH for them to be considered contenders.

Fair enough, your opinion. They work hard and play for each other but seem to lack that final polish that it normally takes to win a flag - my opinion. We made plenty of errors that they just failed to capitalise on, some they did but we got away with plenty of others. I suppose they could just get lucky if they got to a GF and their opponents had an off day.

[Baggers]

Time to give up on Hendo as a forward. Play him back so he can get some confidence. Play Rowe forward, at least he would give the forward line a bit of mongrel.

[cookie2]

Time to give up on Hendo as a forward. Play him back so he can get some confidence. Play Rowe forward, at least he would give the forward line a bit of mongrel.

Agree. I don't know how bad Jamo's injury is (concussion) but Hendo's return to the backline would seem timely.

[kruddler]

Ironic the amount of people singling out individual players and there lack of defensive nature, given the number of people who complained about Malthouse being TOO negative and trying to make everyone work on their defensive side. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

[Lods]

Some players last night seemed to be  playing as if they really don't want to be out there in Navy Blue.

We really don't have much to lose if we start helping them out with their decision making.
I'd rather a player going full bore and stinking it up than a talented player putting in half efforts.....and stinking it up.

[kruddler]

Some players last night seemed to be  playing as if they really don't want to be out there in Navy Blue.

We really don't have much to lose if we start helping them out with their decision making.
I'd rather a player going full bore and stinking it up than a talented player putting in half efforts.....and stinking it up.

It's far from an excuse, but the conditions were terrible last night. That never really shows up on TV, but it was very cold wet and windy. I'm not suprised some of our 'finishers' had quiet games.
Yarran probably hasn't played too many games in those conditions before. Part of the problem with playing half your games indoors, and for him growing up in the heat of the west.

[Lods]

It's far from an excuse, but the conditions were terrible last night. That never really shows up on TV, but it was very cold wet and windy. I'm not suprised some of our 'finishers' had quiet games.
Yarran probably hasn't played too many games in those conditions before. Part of the problem with playing half your games indoors, and for him growing up in the heat of the west.

Yarran was off all night, even before the 50 metre penalty thing.
...you know how it is sometimes...you know they're off, and you hope they don't get the ball because you know they'll stuff it up
His mind just didn't seem to be there.
Rain may affect skills but it shouldn't stop effort.

(I wasn't just talking about Yarran though, and in his case there may be some underlying issues, there was some poor second efforts by quite a few players)

[cimm1979]

I'd like to give a big thank you to the 3 or 4 players I've been defending over the last year or so .......for all being shizen on the same night. THANKS BOYS!!! ;D

[crashlander]

Oh well, our skills were deplorable but we still battled for four quarters and never gave up. Hard to win with passengers like Yarran and those umps cost us at least three goals.

Their first 5 goals all started from free kicks.

[crashlander]

Was that Hampson's best ever game?

He did play a couple of reasonable ones for us, but this was his most consistent game. And he really killed us in the ruck taps. That was probably the difference: they got silver service in the middle.
Mind you, losing Jamo like that hurt. He usually kills Riewoldt.