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We had our moments.

However, we aren't near where we need to be.

The foot comes on and off the pedal too much. 

Posted (edited)

Just not good enough simple as that.

Ball use was poor and our pressure when we lost it was poor. 

We continued to bomb it to the saints advantage and couldnt keep up with front runners. Overuse of the handball played in to aints hands as well.

A few blokes with poor disposal and slow should be worried about their careers.

We continually lose to teams who rebound against us

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Just shithouse.

nothing more.

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1 minute ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

When does the rebuild start?

Tried to come up with a pithy comment BBO. Couldn't. That trip to Darwin took it out of me. Very disappointed.

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Not angry, just disappointed.  I've yelled, gotten angry and been frustrated at our decisions today, but in the end I'm more disappointed than anything.

But we lost the game up in the box with our gameplan.  St. Kilda beat us EXACTLY how they beat us last time and we didn't seem to plan for it.  No change at all.  We started well, but the moment they put us under pressure we faltered.  They made us look slow and we played some dumb footy which allowed them to get it down there end without trouble and score.  

I don't buy us being tired or whatever.  Not enough players rose to the occasion.  They stopped Hunt's run, Kennedy was poor, White and Grimes were WELL down on last week, Hogan had a mare, the captain was quiet, Vandenberg didn't do a whole lot... and the list goes on.

So, what do we do?  We reboot and look to next week.  What else can we do?  A few will get dropped and I think we know that guys like Grimes aren't the way forward.  When the pressure lifted some of our guys were found wanting.  

Chin up fellas. 

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No one stood up for the whole game. Only a few cameos here and there. Most of the team down today. Entire forward line thrashed. Worst umpires today too, going both ways, not idea what rules the were umpiring for

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4 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

When does the rebuild start?

Lol

Posted
4 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Just shithouse.

nothing more.

you going this week?

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2 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Pathetic and Gutless.

Preempting Joeboy ? ;)

Posted
1 minute ago, Wiseblood said:

Not angry, just disappointed.  I've yelled, gotten angry and been frustrated at our decisions today.

But we lost the game up in the box with our gameplan.  St. Kilda beat us EXACTLY how they beat us last time and we didn't seem to plan for it.  No change at all.  We started well, but the moment they put us under pressure we faltered.  They made us look slow and we played some dumb footy which allowed them to get it down there end without trouble and score.  

I don't buy us being tired or whatever.  Not enough players rose to the occasion.  They stopped Hunt's run, Kennedy was poor, White and Grimes were WELL down on last week, Hogan had a mare, the captain was quiet, Vandenberg didn't do a whole lot... and the list goes on.

So, what do we do?  We reboot and look to next week.  What else can we do?  A few will get dropped and I think we know that guys like Grimes aren't the way forward.  When the pressure lifted some of our guys were found wanting.  

Chin up fellas. 

Yep agree WB

I like that we want to play our style but it played in to saints hands. Overuse off thr footy killed us.

I'm not going to bag individual players as the whole team was down but there are a few blokes who are too slow and cant kick, which is a terrible combination to carry in our game plan 

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Players and coaching staff learned nothing from our first game against them this year. You could play footage of the game side by side and it would look exactly the same.

We haven't turned the corner yet, and we won't have until we beat this mob.

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