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Newton cannot handle the pressure of top level football. Wona, Robbo, Watts etc. etc. as soon as one of those are available for selection Juice needs to be dropped. His effort is OK, he's just not up to it.

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We just need to stop bombing the ball long and start playing smart patient football - we are getting plenty of the contested ball. Dees need to lift in the last QTR especially for Bartram.

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Did we just win a quarter? This might be the weirdest game I've listened to...

Thomas said at one point that "Melbourne won't know this, but they have Adelaide if they want 'em."

The umpires have been crucifying us, particularly in our forward line.

On one hand I feel for the demons, as they have tried hard, gotten first to the ball, worked hard. It's just our forwards may as well not be playing. I've never heard a forward line with so little likelihood of scoring chances.

And then when we get a shot or two, we can't kick them from the square... more than once!

I'm not sure whether or not to be completely [censored] off... I might leave it to those who were at the game. Jaded and others, over to you.

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We just need to stop bombing the ball long and start playing smart patient football - we are getting plenty of the contested ball. Dees need to lift in the last QTR especially for Bartram.

yeah-hope we dont get blitzed in the last q.. are we heading for the lowest score in recent times?

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Did we just win a quarter? This might be the weirdest game I've listened to...

Thomas said at one point that "Melbourne won't know this, but they have Adelaide if they want 'em."

The umpires have been crucifying us, particularly in our forward line.

On one hand I feel for the demons, as they have tried hard, gotten first to the ball, worked hard. It's just our forwards may as well not be playing. I've never heard a forward line with so little likelihood of scoring chances.

And then when we get a shot or two, we can't kick them from the square... more than once!

I'm not sure whether or not to be completely [censored] off... I might leave it to those who were at the game. Jaded and others, over to you.

Yep, we won the quarter 1.3 to 1.1 :lol: :lol:

We're not out of this! :lol: :lol: :lol:


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Did we just win a quarter? This might be the weirdest game I've listened to...

Thomas said at one point that "Melbourne won't know this, but they have Adelaide if they want 'em."

The umpires have been crucifying us, particularly in our forward line.

On one hand I feel for the demons, as they have tried hard, gotten first to the ball, worked hard. It's just our forwards may as well not be playing. I've never heard a forward line with so little likelihood of scoring chances.

And then when we get a shot or two, we can't kick them from the square... more than once!

I'm not sure whether or not to be completely [censored] off... I might leave it to those who were at the game. Jaded and others, over to you.

The thing is, IF, and it's a HUGE if, we could possibly kick the first two goals inside the first 10 minutes of the last quarter we are only 2 goals down!! Wishful thinking after only kicking one goal for the match but we certainly aren't out of the game. But you're right, our forwards haven't had a sniff today, although I guess the weather hasn't helped. It's not like the Crows have kicked 12 goals themselves so it's not just us.

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Newton cannot handle the pressure of top level football. Wona, Robbo, Watts etc. etc. as soon as one of those are available for selection Juice needs to be dropped. His effort is OK, he's just not up to it.

Sad to say, I think the same can be said of Miller. Big on effort, sadly lacking in execution.


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I honestly don't know what to make of this loss. Kicking 4 goals is far from good, although the Crows kicked only 7 and we lost by 17 points. Compare that to last years game where we lost by over 10 goals and it seems we have improved... yet we haven't really.

Backline stood up well, midfield had a crack and our forward line was terrible. Bate, Newton and Miller all had under 10 touches each and neither of them kicked a goal. That just can't happen.

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