Round 15 Post Game Thread - Blues v Tigers

[BluePhantom]

Anyway let's look at the few positives.....

Krezuer - was excellent, really starting to find his feet and has committed himself publicly to the club!

Murphy - battered early and clearly injured but still battled hard for it.

Cripps - a few dodgy disposal but continues to impress

Tuohy - another that had a few poor moments but held Martin quite well and provided plenty of rebound.

Dylan Buckley - Courageous, plenty of run, getting better with every game. Probably our second best on ground.

Cas - 11 kicks 9 marks 2 goals on a wet night, bounced back from last week nicely.


Negatives.....

Henderson - Not worth the money he is on now let alone what he probably wants. Clearly looks more assured and confident down back. Let's leave him there for the rest of the season, he's doing nothing for our forward line. Does not like the idea of guys spoiling him from behind.

Everitt - not a defensive bone in his body.

Menzel - Reserves please until he can find more of the ball.

Yarran - Clearly costing the side right now.

Simon White - just not up to it.

Bit tough on White there Carrots, he was played on the number 1 forward all night and we all know he prefers the number 3 type player. I like White,yes he is a battler and tries hard but you know what you are getting with White and he delivers week in and week out.
Which can't be said for quite a few of our other better skilled players that seem to only play when they want to. Ala Yazz, Menzel, Everitt and Hendo.

[PassIt2Carrots]

White's double turnover for a goal was unforgivable. Did it again later on coming out of defence. He's okay defensively but he is a spud with ball in hand. If he doesn't make an error he generally takes far too long to move the ball on and invariably goes the long bomb to no one in particular when there was plenty on offer had he moved the ball quicker. Yes he tries hard. He certainly does not deliver week in week out.

[PaulP]

Disagree with those who say Richmond were ripe for a loss. We had two 6 day turn arounds, played quite a few kids with hardly any games between them, including a first gamer, had injuries early, other players clearly playing through injury, missed some real sitters etc. Plus two last quarter junk times goals that flattered them.  If Richmond are fair dinkum top 4 contenders, they would have used this game as a percentage booster, and handed us a 10-12 goal mauling.

We certainly played badly at times, but in effort and consistency, I see a faint glimmer of hope.

More polish and composure please. And get some decent umps.

[PassIt2Carrots]

Spot on Paul P, the effort was there all night, obviously lacking polish on occasions but when it looked like we may lose by 10 goals out boys rallied and TBH that decision not pay Kreuzer the mark killed off all our momentum as did Carrots miss early in the last.

[PaulP]

Spot on Paul P, the effort was there all night, obviously lacking polish on occasions but when it looked like we may lose by 10 goals out boys rallied and TBH that decision not pay Kreuzer the mark killed off all our momentum as did Carrots miss early in the last.

Yes, those little things in the heat of battle make a big difference.

Having a quick look through the stats, we laid 74 tackles to 56, broke even in the clearances, as we usually do. Inside 50's very much in the Tiggies favor. I'm very surprised by the free kick count. 30-25 in their favor - can that be correct ? It felt like 50-25.

At any rate, most of the boys are having a real crack.

EDIT : I just hope the boys don't drop their heads after tonight, and keep up the effort for the entire season. They were looking a little down last night TBH.

[flyboy77]

Simple fact - if guys like Gibbs, Everitt, Menzel, Yarran and Hendo even played average games (and the poor kicking at goal already mentioned), we beat the clowns.

When your 'better' players don't turn up you have no chance.

Says very little for the Tigers - they are ordinary.

[Dominator_7]

Would ve been less than three goals down with all the momentum if Kreuzer had been rightly given that mark and converted.,
Who knows what could ve happened next.
Umpires ruined it.
So many other decisions didn't go our way.
Umps had a stiffy for Cotchin all night.
Coz only he gets held at stopages right ?
And then some pople are adamant that umps don't change the course of or influence games.

In saying that, the same old problems were there.
crap kicking for goal
crap disposal. So many turnover kings.
Yazz still ahsnt snapped out of it
Gibbs might as well have had another week off
White was out of his depth.
What happened to the aggressive tackling we saw against the Crows and Port ?
Vickery justified his reputation for being a total cock yet again. Should give Kreuz and extra 0 on his next contract for smashing the knob's teeth in lol

[cookie2]

Yes, maybe our list isn't quite as bad as we thought BUT massive question marks still hang over it in terms of poor skills execution, poor decision making and kicking for goal. SOS will be very busy for 2 - 3 years for sure.

A very disappointing loss at a very blustery MCG to a Tigers team that has NO CHANCE of a flag IMO. Their supporters were happy, but then again they are very long suffering, as we now have become. 

[madbluboy]

We were better in rd 1.

[PassIt2Carrots]

Yes, maybe our list isn't quite as bad as we thought BUT massive question marks still hang over it in terms of poor skills execution, poor decision making and kicking for goal. SOS will be very busy for 2 - 3 years for sure.

A very disappointing loss at a very blustery MCG to a Tigers team that has NO CHANCE of a flag IMO. Their supporters were happy, but then again they are very long suffering, as we now have become. 

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