Memo to Team...

Thinline · Post: # 801271Post **Thinline** » Sun 23 Aug 2009 6:48pm

Riewoldt can't do it himself...

Dal_Santos_Gal · Sun 23 Aug 2009 6:50pm

Fair go, Fisher, Goddard, Gram and Armo bleed for that side today.

I think armo was fantastic today and should remain in the side...

Thinline · Post: # 801279Post **Thinline** » Sun 23 Aug 2009 6:53pm

Maybe so, but Kosi disappeared as a target late and Milne...well... was he on the ground today? Where's Gwilt? Or Clarke busting a sphincter running forward out of defence to provide a target?

Everyone was looking to Saint Nick to save the day.

It was lazy and it riles me up so bad I wanna spew.

battye · Post: # 801282Post **battye** » Sun 23 Aug 2009 6:54pm

Thinline wrote:Maybe so, but Kosi disappeared as a target late and Milne...well... was he on the ground today? Where's Gwilt? Or Clarke busting a sphincter running forward out of defence to provide a target?

Everyone was looking to Saint Nick to save the day.

It was lazy and it riles me up so bad I wanna spew.

Gwilt was disappointing, he hasn't done too much all year. He is not a leading target and when he gets the ball he tends to do little with it

redwhite&blackblood · Sun 23 Aug 2009 7:11pm

We had a lot of players down today but the stand out was the efforts of Nick "Jogging Man" Dal Santo or the lack there of. Levi Greenwood is not the worlds greatest tagger but he made Dal look 2nd rate. Dal looked like the player that was dropped last year again worrying signs if that continues next week.

roo_477 · Post: # 801341Post **roo_477** » Sun 23 Aug 2009 7:17pm

I wouldnt get too carried away about our last two losses. We have been well down, but have only lost by 2 points and 5 points which i think is a positive sign. In years gone by we would give up the ghost and get run over.

Im taking these losses with a grain of salt. We will fly in September

spyglass · Post: # 801357Post **spyglass** » Sun 23 Aug 2009 7:23pm

battye wrote:
Thinline wrote:Maybe so, but Kosi disappeared as a target late and Milne...well... was he on the ground today? Where's Gwilt? Or Clarke busting a sphincter running forward out of defence to provide a target?

Everyone was looking to Saint Nick to save the day.

It was lazy and it riles me up so bad I wanna spew.
Gwilt was disappointing, he hasn't done too much all year. He is not a leading target and when he gets the ball he tends to do little with it

I'm not a great Gwilt fan, but I saw him get into space a number of times today and the team will not kick it to him...they just use him as a decoy....therefore it is not worth having him in the side if they will not use him

3rd generation saint · Sun 23 Aug 2009 7:24pm

Sorry, but good teams wanting to win a premiership don't lose to crap like Nth Melbourne.
Many players played soft making sure they don't get injured and had no hunger or desire to want to win.
Memo to team, you will get smashed and be an embarrassment if you play like that in 2 weeks time.
We will get tagged as chokers, remember this core group of players have played in 9 finals for only 3 wins!

Captain Impossible · Sun 23 Aug 2009 7:36pm

I'd like to think that if Lenny played we would have had a different result but the fact is we were crap. Same as last week, second to the ball and not sticking our tackles.

I have two concerns:

Have other teams worked out Lyon's strategy?

Have the players become complacent and forgotten about the 'effort' that got us to where we are?

If we play like this in finals we'll be out in straight sets.

wasoncestkil58 · Sun 23 Aug 2009 8:56pm

Wouldn't be too concerned just yet. There was very little incentive to win today or last week. If we lose against Melbourne then I might worry. We are virtually injury free and some players have been having a rest. Do we know if they have been on a hardened training regime? Look at the Bullies' they lsot to the Eagles and then get up and beat the Cats. It is all about winning when you really have to. We are still in a position that 15 other teams would envy.