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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.

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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.

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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?!

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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

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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.

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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!!

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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.

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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....

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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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