Been reading some rubbish on the match day thread so I just want to say I was worried about this game from the moment I saw the fixture last year.

We played QB Monday, then Sunday (Freo), Saturday (Tiges) and Friday (Dogs).

That is three short weeks - three 6-days weeks - makes recovery difficult and is too much for many sides, especially young ones. Would have liked to have seen more ins to freshen the legs but I don't think they were available.

The lesson is we should not take too much away from this as disappointing as it is to lose to the dogs as their window is closing.

Edited July 1, 201114 yr by pitmaster

Yeah i think so....we were just so flat at times tonight....just seemed like a different team to the last two weeks.

One thing about the Dogs also is that whilst they've been [censored] this year, they are still full of older physically developed players. Quite a few times tackles didn't stick tonight. The 3x 6 week breaks hurts also, DB mentioned it quite a few times - we're the only team in the comp that does it this year.

No excuses though