Oddly encouraging
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Oddly encouraging
Very negative posts on here so far, to be expected I guess.
I thought it was the most encouraging effort this season. Up against one of the best 5 or 6 teams who generally had the rub of the green, took their chances, nailed arsey shots etc We muffed too many shots that should have been goals. A couple of 12 point plays there that went against us. Play that game 10 games and we'd win it 7 or 8 times. Against one of the better sides. It shows we're there abouts. A great game from Luke Ball.
I thought it was the most encouraging effort this season. Up against one of the best 5 or 6 teams who generally had the rub of the green, took their chances, nailed arsey shots etc We muffed too many shots that should have been goals. A couple of 12 point plays there that went against us. Play that game 10 games and we'd win it 7 or 8 times. Against one of the better sides. It shows we're there abouts. A great game from Luke Ball.
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Re: Oddly encouraging
Had the pies actually been playing really good footy all year i could accept that, however they havent been, in fact that have been piss poor all year they had only won of of their past 4 before tonight and we let them off big time!doggerel wrote:Very negative posts on here so far, to be expected I guess.
I thought it was the most encouraging effort this season. Up against one of the best 5 or 6 teams who generally had the rub of the green, took their chances, nailed arsey shots etc We muffed too many shots that should have been goals. A couple of 12 point plays there that went against us. Play that game 10 games and we'd win it 7 or 8 times. Against one of the better sides. It shows we're there abouts. A great game from Luke Ball.
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LOL my thoughts exactly.Bernard Shakey wrote:Up against one of the best 5 or 6 teams?
Collingwoods as much a flat track bully as we are - struggles to beat ANY SIDE that played finals last year and dont forget has a DREAM MCG draw.
Im all for "optimism" and agree the signs from Ball were good....but we just lost a very winnable game with poor skill errors and carrying half a side and you reckon alls good?
As the radio commentary pointed out - St Kilda has REAL issues bringing the ball into fwd 50 AND with the fwd line. FFS we have to be just about to admit that Gehrigs time is up?
Sorry we have some problems. To me Im all for optimism but Im more for realism because when your are realistic about where your at thats when you can start to plan your improvement. Otherwise we're all still living in "glory days" of 04/05 with a side thats a shell of that.
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of course there were some encouraging signs but one can't go past the fact that we beat ourselves through bad kicking and failure to capitize on too many easy shots on goal
call it a negative post if you like but blind freddy will tell you thats why we lost... and I think someone once said bad kicking is bad footy
surely its merely constructive criticism
even given the ones they seemed to kick out of their fundamental orifices and the couple they missed we were well and truly behind on the ledger, so forget about any other stat, a conservative 5 easy misses 3 from lenny 2 from Milne for starters ....without going any further , theres 30 points and we lose by 9! unaceptable
call it a negative post if you like but blind freddy will tell you thats why we lost... and I think someone once said bad kicking is bad footy
surely its merely constructive criticism
even given the ones they seemed to kick out of their fundamental orifices and the couple they missed we were well and truly behind on the ledger, so forget about any other stat, a conservative 5 easy misses 3 from lenny 2 from Milne for starters ....without going any further , theres 30 points and we lose by 9! unaceptable
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yep.starsign wrote:of course there were some encouraging signs but one can't go past the fact that we beat ourselves through bad kicking and failure to capitize on too many easy shots on goal
call it a negative post if you like but blind freddy will tell you thats why we lost... and I think someone once said bad kicking is bad footy
surely its merely constructive criticism
even given the ones they seemed to kick out of their fundamental orifices and the couple they missed we were well and truly behind on the ledger, so forget about any other stat, a conservative 5 easy misses 3 from lenny 2 from Milne for starters ....without going any further , theres 30 points and we lose by 9! unaceptable
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we played good last night! that is the best we have played all year and it could have went either way remember that! milne kicks that goal with 3 mins to go and the ball goes to the centre again which we dominated
Im glad we played a more attacking brand of footy than just flood and kick 6 goals and lose by 9 points, that would be more disapointing
Im glad we played a more attacking brand of footy than just flood and kick 6 goals and lose by 9 points, that would be more disapointing
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We are heading South. The window has closed. We have a number of good player ( I infer these or the odd positive) but insufficient depth to go all the way.
Prepare for a long cold winter because there is NO premierships on the horizon and with the NSW and QLD teams coming into the comp. things look bad.
We are heading South. The window has closed. We have a number of good player ( I infer these or the odd positive) but insufficient depth to go all the way.
Prepare for a long cold winter because there is NO premierships on the horizon and with the NSW and QLD teams coming into the comp. things look bad.
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The bottom line is we lost .Sure somegood signs,M gardiner etc,but its a game we needed to win and didnt.Im starting to agree with some who say some players dont play with the passion ,when the game was there to be won ,thats when you want a kosi or a g train to stand up,you cant afford 1 passenger in todays footy ,yet week in week out we seem to have players who dont put 4 quarters together.For us to be a contender we needplayers stringing together good games,not just showing flashes of what they are capable of.