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GAME DAY - Round 15

Whispering_Jack
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We have zero ability to win the ball from a contested pack situation.

 
 

Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up drinking....

Salem must get more involved he's just not taking chances that are on offer, not that there's many.

Had so many squandered opportunities in the last 5 minutes, we desperately needed to take them.

Can we get Crossy back in please?
 

Just be thankful Griffen and Cooney aren't playing


Come in close Smitty, Macca, Snake, Jacko. now listen up. We're only four goals down. We're right in this.

Salem must get more involved he's just not taking chances that are on offer, not that there's many.

The whole midfield needs to lift and Dawes needs start taking clean grabs.

I'd hate to be a forward out the today.

By the time the ball gets close to our F50 every bulldog player is already there.

Or,

We just massacre the ball.

Usually both.

Skills have been terrible today and not even because of the poor-skilled ins. Our better users are just butchering chances. Play 10% better though and we are right in the game...


Dont know why Salem is in the side. Looks spent and tired. Two weeks in a row he has started the game without the sub and he just isn't giving us anything.

Is young and needs a rest.

Bring in JKH or Blease atleast!

What a putrid first half. Lucky to be 4 goals down. Dawes, I love his effort but if he can't clunk a mark he's virtually useless out there.

Need to switch Dawes' concrete hands with human hands at halftime.

Somehow still in the game

At least they are consistent - Consitently poor decisions and disposals


I do not understand how players mark the ball and immediately start looking behind them or sideways instead of forward and try to move it on. Terlich is a prime example of this, he rarely moves the ball on quickly.

Dawes is giving us nothing. Has to start taking marks. But ultimately our putrid midfield performance is why we are losing so badly.

Jones, and anyone who knows my posts knows how much I love him, is having a stinker. That in itself isn't helping.

Absolutely pitiful first half. That first half was worse than the Eagles game. The ball use, the lack of run and intensity was abysmal. The second quarter wasn't much better. Dawes need to stick some tackles and take a bloody contested mark. Morris is about a foot shorter than him.

 

We are very poor but honestly I can't stand games at Etihad. It's like watching basketball. All momentum one way, and then it swings the other. The team with the ball and half decent skills play like millionaires, but it's an erratic, unreliable surface. Essendon, North and the Bulldogs all have moments of looking like contenders but clearly aren't. It's just not a reliable indicator of quality levels.

All it's highlighted for me is that we have too many players without AFL skills.

Probably should have kept the girls on. They seem to have more of a clue :rolleyes:


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