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Game Day Thread: Rd2 v Hawks

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Red Sox Redleg

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How has our backline gone from being one of the best to possibly the worst in one season?! Sounds like a "Royal" screw up...

Starts elsewhere. Those in the backline did as well as anyone else that couldn't give a fig.

Face Your Demons Mighty Demon

Face Your Demons   175

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This is bad BUT still not as bad as the first game last year. Its only been the one quarter that went pear shaped. Mind you it was one hell of a pear. won 2 quarters lost one by a point and lost the other by, oh [censored] 9 goals

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Gorgoroth   13,184

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In the second quarter we were blindly playing on from nearly all marks, that seems to have stopped completely in the second half.

stuie Legend

stuie   7,374

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Starts elsewhere. Those in the backline did as well as anyone else that couldn't give a fig.

We've have been MURDERED in the back 50 today, this would be a 15 goal margin if the Hawks had kicked any better, and ALOT of goals have come from turnovers after kick ins.

The backline was a BIG part of the problem today, but not the whole problem.

Range Rover Redleg

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Oh well, at least we can all clearly see who drops away when confronted with a challenge. We have a few downhill skiers in our ranks. We can all see who they are out there. Senior players who go missing when it gets hard.

stuie Legend

stuie   7,374

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This is bad BUT still not as bad as the first game last year. Its only been the one quarter that went pear shaped. Mind you it was one hell of a pear. won 2 quarters lost one by a point and lost the other by, oh [censored] 9 goals

Winning quarters? That you Bails?!

stuie Legend

stuie   7,374

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Oh well, at least we can all clearly see who drops away when confronted with a challenge. We have a few downhill skiers in our ranks. We can all see who they are out there. Senior players who go missing when it gets hard.

That would be pretty close to 22 players today

Range Rover Redleg

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Winning quarters? That you Bails?!

Yep you can put money on him saying it. We "won" the first two quarters. I started a thread on it a few weeks back. It's absolute garbage and Bailey needs to be called out on it. It's the catchcry of a losing coach.

Range Rover Redleg

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That would be pretty close to 22 players today

But where are our leaders Stuie? The experienced group who should be throwing themselves in hard at contests. Hasn't happened.

RalphiusMaximus Trident

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Yep you can put money on him syaing it. We "won" the first two quarters. I started a thread on it a few weeks back. It's absolute garbage and Bailey needs to be called out on it. It's the catchcry of a losing coach.

We lost the first by a point didn't we?

Red Sox Redleg

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We've have been MURDERED in the back 50 today, this would be a 15 goal margin if the Hawks had kicked any better, and ALOT of goals have come from turnovers after kick ins.

The backline was a BIG part of the problem today, but not the whole problem.

Think we'd be splitting hairs stuie.

I'm not sure I've seen anyone out there since the half time siren went. Especially any imprint of a game plan or influence from the coach.

Where's the belief? It's hard to watch Dees!!

stuie Legend

stuie   7,374

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But where are our leaders Stuie? The experienced group who should be throwing themselves in hard at contests. Hasn't happened.

I totally agree, but there has not been 1 good player today

stuie Legend

stuie   7,374

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Think we'd be splitting hairs stuie.

I'm not sure I've seen anyone out there since the half time siren went. Especially any imprint of a game plan or influence from the coach.

Where's the belief? It's hard to watch Dees!!

Yup, agreed, something needs to happen this week, we can't keep coasting and thinking the improvement will just happen...

Bailey needs to [censored] them on the track, or call everyone in for a team meeting, something, anything, just NOT nothing, again.

deejammin' Redleg

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This is bad BUT still not as bad as the first game last year. Its only been the one quarter that went pear shaped. Mind you it was one hell of a pear. won 2 quarters lost one by a point and lost the other by, oh [censored] 9 goals

If Hawthorn had kicked straight it would have been at least 2 quarters that were pear shaped, also the last quarter is starting to look a little pear shaped too. Anyway, in many ways I think this is worse than 2008, we had a worse list, had less expectation and really weren't capable of winning or getting near the Hawks, today I expected better....

The Song Formerly Known As Redleg

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If we reflect on our "plans" and "aspirations" for the 2011 AfL season after seeing our draw I can guarantee 95% of us penciled this game in as a loss.

But I think it's the WAY we lost that is the most heartbreaking.

We were up and about and looked like the future Melbourne. And then in one quarter we sprinted years into the past.

What positives can we take from today/tonight?

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