Round 3 Game thread

[Fugazi1966]

Drop Coffield piss weak

[Laurie]

Dont blame umpires .
Our guys just not up to it.
The old cliche heads as big as boarding house puddings.

[jonesy]

I'd go as far as saying dollar for dollar, pound for pound this is the most insipid performance I've ever seen on every level

[SAINT-LEE]

The issue at hand is lack of confidence in themselves and their team-mates. Every culture has this challenge, whether its losing keys players or adding new players that somehow shift the vibe or just a funk that settles in after a few defeats.

I feel its several things right now. We all have seen this group play great, but we are missing some strategic links.
Geary- his impact is so undervalued
Patton- he has the vibe of Geary being able to calm the backline but he was beyond Geary in skill and ability to see forward players to link with
Ryder- good tap work, overall play is solid, runs forward, tries to tackle and defend, takes marks and scores
Rowan- great ruck presence, good ground game, speed, tackling, smart like Ryder...got eyes on where the ball needs to go

Just these 4 players can supply first touch, rebound to advantage creating ops for Hill & co to run off....plus relieve defenders off King and Membrey pushing forward.

We are a good team, not great, but good and when we get all these lads back ( minus patton) we will seriously improve and confidence will bounce off the walls again.

I wish this weren't true but we've all seen it in every sport so many times, why get too down hearted?

Sure I gotta bitch & moan too and hate on players but getting real, Im going to stop.

Im sorry for my piss poor school boy whining on your posts. Im not that disappointed and I see a great team regardless of this game or season outcome.

[whiskers3614]

Making Hooker and Stringer look like Carey and Lockett!
Any chance of man on man for a while?
I thought it was Richo who had no plan B!

[B.M]

Coffield on Hooker

Clueless

[Laurie]

Piss of Hill
Jogging around lije a ballerina

[whiskers3614]

I'd go as far as saying dollar for dollar, pound for pound this is the most insipid performance I've ever seen on every level

Surely we can't go lower?

[Laurie]

Put him in a tutu .

[The Fireman]

ok we have lost this game, we have lost to 2 ordinary teams...no finals this year.
I can't watch anymore...too depressing .. I was actually feeling sorry for Nth supporters..should have saved it for myself...again.

How can we be so crap after such good recruiting ?

[Fugazi1966]

We are getting manhandled everywhere and not getting called for it, but when we try the same tactics it’s free kick Drug Cheats.

There is no explanation to how we can fall apart this quickly.

What happened to a side that beat Doggies and Port last year???

[Mr Magic]

Effort’s not good enough, but we’re getting pinged for every slight infraction and getting virtually nothing with similar infringements against us

[HardSaint]

ok we have lost this game, we have lost to 2 ordinary teams...no finals this year.
I can't watch anymore...too depressing .. I was actually feeling sorry for Nth supporters..should have saved it for myself...again.

How can we be so crap after such good recruiting ?

Nor sure about good recruiting anymore

[The_Dud]

Training drill!

[SAINT-LEE]

See what I see....
No Geary or Patton

Hill has played 100% in defense, only run 107 meters, less than avg.

Run is his game!
But he's stuck, no one to bounce the pill out to him so he can zip through the gaps and strike forwards on the move...

Everything is linked together, lose players, we lose ball movements, we lose morale then we lose games

[roskilde]

Their key forward is involved in marking contest, drops the mark in a crowd and gets his own crumbs and then has time to just turn and find a target inside 50.

Done with this nonsense.

[HardSaint]

Hind

[Winmore]

Brad Hill 800k witch’s hat.

[Otiman]

I didn't see much of the North game but we look worse than them.

[Bruce G McAbee]

Our players aren't hungry, not interested, maybe it's too hot for them. What a waste of money on Hill, Crouch, Butler, Higgins and Jones would have been better drafting kids. We fell into the trap thinking we are better than we are and recruited average players. Now Gresham probably out for the majority of the season. Forget about finals, the only four we're making is the bottom four.

[B.M]

What was King doing allowing Hind to run straight past him to tackle Billings?!

[Devilhead]

Absolute horror show

[axcellence]

1 reason only

ZERO SELECTION INTEGRITY

[Lennylegs]

Total over emphasis on running forward of the ball. Only person willing to run both ways is our skipper.

I haven't been this embarrassed by us in years.

[Laurie]

We are slow and Essendon exposing that.