Not a bad effort considering....
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Not a bad effort considering....
....our skill level..
Pity, effort doesnt always gaurantee success...
Pity, effort doesnt always gaurantee success...
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I think he should be shot.
Then eaten.
Then eaten.
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Ralphy that is an understatement - it seemed such a wasted effort to outtackle them, beat them in contested possession (did we ?) and then continually give it back to them and have them burn us.ralphsmith wrote:Agreed, effort 100%!! Deserved much better, but the skills...the skills..the skills.
The skills are terrible.
The boys tried their guts out, just let themselves down with skills...something we really need to work on...we played an unbeaten team, with injuries but nonetheless, a team choc full of confidence and simply a better team at the moment than us. Its not like the loss to the Crows which was far more disappointing. The boys had a red hot go.
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They should always try their guts out and give it their all.Old Mate wrote:The boys tried their guts out, just let themselves down with skills...something we really need to work on...we played an unbeaten team, with injuries but nonetheless, a team choc full of confidence and simply a better team at the moment than us. Its not like the loss to the Crows which was far more disappointing. The boys had a red hot go.
That's the baseline.
And your point is? I made the comment because people are questioning the boys will to win. You can't expect to win them all and all we should be asking for is that they do their best. Which they did.saintspremiers wrote:They should always try their guts out and give it their all.Old Mate wrote:The boys tried their guts out, just let themselves down with skills...something we really need to work on...we played an unbeaten team, with injuries but nonetheless, a team choc full of confidence and simply a better team at the moment than us. Its not like the loss to the Crows which was far more disappointing. The boys had a red hot go.
That's the baseline.
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No faulting our effort, but we are way down in confidence ... and, yes, skills.
Geelong were that much more direct than us.
Instead of pissing around with little handballs and short kicks they back their teammates to win the ball and move it quickly and directly.
IMO it's a confidence thing with us and we may or may not get it back this year. Too many guys paralysed with fear about possibly taking a chance and possibly making a mistake.
Geelong were that much more direct than us.
Instead of pissing around with little handballs and short kicks they back their teammates to win the ball and move it quickly and directly.
IMO it's a confidence thing with us and we may or may not get it back this year. Too many guys paralysed with fear about possibly taking a chance and possibly making a mistake.
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no lenny...and basically no joey....evens out imhfo....Bernard Shakey wrote:No Ablett.BigMart wrote:And considering
No bartel, no selwood.
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The way this forum's going off you would think we just lost the unlosable game.Old Mate wrote:Yeah fair call, we're not as good as we have been in recent years and can not expect to win every game. Only losses in the past 5 weeks have been against a team unbeaten and another with only one loss to their name after 12 rounds. Fair go.
That's not the way the experts and gambling agencies viewed the situation pre game.
Unfortunately some poor skills errors and a few disappointing performances and suddenly some people are refusing to acknowledge what was a reasonable performance against an unbeaten, super confident team at the very top of their game.
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I thought we were pretty good a touch unlucky…
Tried our guts out, had a few rough calls and the runner incident,
They just had a bit more class when finishing, our skills are looking ordinary,
I thought we would go down by about 6 goals so 4.5 is ok in my book…
Bartel went down very early, but really we had around the same output from Montagna,
Peake, Jones, Dawson, Dempster and Kosi were very good… (+ fisher & dal as usual)
Gamble not up to it…
Gram needs more time in the 2's…
Why don't they move Riewoldt around earlier?
Why did they try Raph as the sub again?
We now have to have a good look at Walsh in the 1's,
Any risk of having Armitage at a few centre bounces?
That side won't be better next year, we need more games into younger guys at risk of losing, including Ledger for a whole game, [/img]
Tried our guts out, had a few rough calls and the runner incident,
They just had a bit more class when finishing, our skills are looking ordinary,
I thought we would go down by about 6 goals so 4.5 is ok in my book…
Bartel went down very early, but really we had around the same output from Montagna,
Peake, Jones, Dawson, Dempster and Kosi were very good… (+ fisher & dal as usual)
Gamble not up to it…
Gram needs more time in the 2's…
Why don't they move Riewoldt around earlier?
Why did they try Raph as the sub again?
We now have to have a good look at Walsh in the 1's,
Any risk of having Armitage at a few centre bounces?
That side won't be better next year, we need more games into younger guys at risk of losing, including Ledger for a whole game, [/img]
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dragit wrote:I thought we were pretty good a touch unlucky…
Tried our guts out, had a few rough calls and the runner incident,
They just had a bit more class when finishing, our skills are looking ordinary,
I thought we would go down by about 6 goals so 4.5 is ok in my book…
Bartel went down very early, but really we had around the same output from Montagna,
Peake, Jones, Dawson, Dempster and Kosi were very good… (+ fisher & dal as usual)
Gamble not up to it…
Gram needs more time in the 2's…
Why don't they move Riewoldt around earlier?
Why did they try Raph as the sub again?
We now have to have a good look at Walsh in the 1's,
Any risk of having Armitage at a few centre bounces?
That side won't be better next year, we need more games into younger guys at risk of losing, including Ledger for a whole game, [/img]
all in all...a good sensible post.....hope ross reads it....
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Agreed pretty much.plugger66 wrote:We did ok. We are a 6-10 side now. And next year around the same. The window is shut. It is how we try to approach coming back that will be interesting.
Effort great. Skills s***.
That's all there is to it.
A skilful side showing that effort would be unbeatable.
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