jmac. done his knee. not looking good on replays

3rd quarter 15 min mark I50s 10 to 0!!!

Gardiner GAWWWN

28 points behind now, getting killed by constant turnovers, spending most of the third quarter in the saints goal square.

Jmac back on field, phew.

C'mon Dees keep at 'em don't give up.

jmac back on.....knee must be ok!!!!! Junior has wolverine like healing powers!

F'ing pathetic as usual in the third.

We're trying and the pressure is there, but we don't have a forward target and we keep breaking down across the half forward line. Where the hell was Bate?

And just how many times can SENIOR footballers (especially Bruce), turn the damn ball over and make stupid decisions?!

Hospital passes or just handballs that miss the target all together is not acceptable from players who have nearly 200 games of experience under their belt. Junior too!

The umpires have been disgraceful. How the hell did Warnock not get a free for being smashed into the turf? And why wasn't Bate's free awarded play on?

Where the hell was Bate?

Presenting for hospital handballs from teammates.

Bad quarter didnt score.....

Stupid stupid turnover's - basic f'ing handballs to open players missing targets - NOT GOOD ENOUGH FROM PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLERS

only just shading the blatant one sided umpring decisions for our current predicament!

senior players are letting us down badly with there turnovers..... :angry:

We're getting murdered by the umpires, we have lacked any luck, failed to take most of our chances, are playing a very good (and physically strong) side, and we are only a few goals down.

Good signs.

But! Can we PLEASE stop stuffing up our short "gives" and fumbling the ball in traffic.

Umpiring is a disgrace!!!!!!!!!!!!

how can you run 20m with the ball go to kick it get tackled ,miss the ball and not be called Ball!!!!AAAArrrrgghhh.

Good signs at the start of the final if we could only kick straight.

senior players are letting us down badly with there turnovers..... :angry:

This has been the case for 2 years

there will be a time when the new will replace the old (and those who are NOT AFL standard)

throwing boys into the side at this stage isnt the answer either

one thing is for sure is that not many demons would ever get leather poisoning

Oh how i wish they would just kick the dam thing

Revolting just threw the ball with one hand and no free!!!! AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!

Come on!

Bennell is going to be a good player.

4 shots at goal to their 1 and we have kicked 3 points.

5 shots at goal 4 points. they have 3 shots 1 goal 2 points.

you do the maths.

Umpires with mullets. We were screwed from the outset.

4 behinds in the 2nd half????!!!!

Not good enough boys

I didn't comment on the Robbo issue and dropping him, because in essence I agree with the decision, however I would just like to make two comments:

1- You can't drop one senior player for not performing, but let someone like Bruce continue to turn the ball over and make really terrible decisions every single week. I realise that Robbo was dropped for accountability reasons, but at least Robbo contributes 2-3 goals a game, while Bruce is costing us goals at the moment

2- You can't drop the only, and I repeat, only deep forward we have capable to taking marks and kicking goals consistently, and not even attempt to find a replacement

How many times did we go inside 50 to nothing? Either play Green out of the square, and have our midfielders kick to him on the lead, or play Martin at FF and bomb it long. Jamar and PJ are not forward targets.

And finally, we will continue to lose, competitiveness or no competitiveness, until we can eliminate the completely unnecessary amount of ill-directed handballs and start winning some contested footy on the back of long kicks (taking a mark one on one seems a completely foreign concept to us, and it goes back to my second point in regards to Robbo).

On the plus side, I thought our backline was brilliant under constant siege and Grimes (and Maric and Bennell) will be a star!

Not bad signs.

If we can can run with the best teams in the AFL for the last couple of games and only miss out due to skills which can be improved.

I'm very positive about our future. We haven't been disgraced I think.

The senior players that should be better and have no excuse for their basic mistakes, are a thing of the past for us. We are young and on the rise.

How many times did we go inside 50 to nothing? Either play Green out of the square, and have our midfielders kick to him on the lead, or play Martin at FF and bomb it long. Jamar and PJ are not forward targets.

But Jaded, I thought this wasn't an issue?

Round 1, 2007.

25 possesions for Bruce tonight but he was average!

Outs: Miller, Whelan, Bruce, McDonald

Ins: Watts, Cheney, Jetta, Robertson

Jaded - I tend to agree with you on your two points; though on point 2 - i will say this; we cant kick goals if we dont have players in the forward 50. No point trying to kick goals if ALL of our players are behind the ball.