Very disappointing loss.

I saw enough today to make me really optimistic. 

3 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

We were absolutely stuffed by 3/4 time.

We really need to find a KPF who can just as effectively ruck. Watts is not a ruckman, not even a relief ruckman.

Maybe not, but how much more do you want from him. gave his all today.

Played 4 players down with gawn weed Tyson and Hannan. Proud of the rest of the boys but bad kicking is bad footy

Effort was top shelf.  Kicking for goal was under the counter (but occasionally those days just happen).  A win in the circumstances would have been unbelievable.  A loss is hard to take, but I'm just so proud of our boys.  In a strange, perverted sort of way, Melbourne might have arrived today.

7 minutes ago, Danelska said:

Dissapointing as clearly we could have won. Tired and put the cue in the rack in the final 20, sure I can wear that, considering where we have been the last decade. I am super super impressed with our midfield, and super super content with where we are headed, considering the 3/4 effort and the intent and energy we displayed. We will be a juggernaut.

Agreed. Played well and aside from the worst case of the yipps we would have won.

I think the selection panel stuffed up by 

3 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Weideman had an absolute shocker, which clearly shows his misses the influence that Hogan brings to the side.  He got their best backman for most of the game and it showed.  Not surprised guys like Hannan, for example, have dropped off a little.  Tyson doesn't worry me though.

Interested to hear what Goody has to say about it, and to also see how the boys at Casey went.  We could be in for a few changes again this weekend.

T. smith a shocker as well but hey it was his first game.

The selection panel let us down in my book. 

Peterson and or spencer should have been a lock

Just now, waynewussell said:

When a team burns so many chances against some old pros they usually get burnt! Disgusted with the set shots that were missed! Some of the lads made very little contribution when they had the opportunity to step up. Happy enough with Kent (minus set shots). Hannan is not playing as instinctively as he did in his first game. ANB still has that question mark. Tyson didn't have much influence. I could pay out on some other young blokes who let us down by not being competitive, but I will put the cue back in the rack. I'm sure you all know who I am referring to!

What?  Outside of Jones he was BOG for me.  28 touches and 8 tackles, easily his best game for the club to date.  What more can we ask of him?

What could go wrong did go wrong. Unhappy to lose this one, however I can see we're building what's going to be a bloody good side.

I saw enough today to make me even more optimistic. Beaten by a better team when it came to the crunch, but put Gawn back in there and it might have been a very different outcome. 

2 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

We were absolutely stuffed by 3/4 time.

We really need to find a KPF who can just as effectively ruck. Watts is not a ruckman, not even a relief ruckman.

I don't get the obsession with the ruck/forward player.

Which teams actually have what you're desiring?

most back up rucks are either second rate ruckman whom go forward and line up on the 3rd best defender or area second rate forward who doesn't kick enough goals and is just tall enough for make it slightly difficult against a true ruckman.

 

Take a genuine ruckman out of any team and they're gonna find it hard.  The key there is for the kids to read the taps better

Just now, leave it to deever said:

Agreed. Played well and aside from the worst case of the yipps we would have won.

I think the selection panel stuffed up by 

T. smith a shocker as well but hey it was his first game.

The selection panel let us down in my book. 

Peterson and or spencer should have been a lock

How were they to know that Gawn would get injured?  We were 2-0 without Pedersen or Spencer, so they had every right to go with a proper forward to cover Hogan.  We were doing pretty well today as well until Gawn did his hammy.

Smith was okay in the first half, very quiet in the second.  Will probably get another week with Hogan out, though.

2 minutes ago, Bates Mate said:

Played 4 players down with gawn weed Tyson and Hannan. Proud of the rest of the boys but bad kicking is bad footy

And Weideman.

Just now, Deeoldfart said:

Effort was top shelf.  Kicking for goal was under the counter (but occasionally those days just happen).  A win in the circumstances would have been unbelievable.  A loss is hard to take, but I'm just so proud of our boys.  In a strange, perverted sort of way, Melbourne might have arrived today.

How we deal with this loss in the context of the next three weeks (all very winnable games) is so important.

Being  5-1 is a great start to a long season

Anyone who tells you that the two suspensions were not important is kidding themselves

Can not believe we had them on the ropes and let it slide!!! For god sake we smelt blood at 3/4. Thats the difference between top 4 and the the rest, when the foots on the throat!

2 minutes ago, The Reverend said:

I saw enough today to make me really optimistic. 

Maybe not, but how much more do you want from him. gave his all today.

Watts was NOT the problem. Was trying...very hard to be part of Solution. Well done Jack. Hope Goody conveys same.

Can't remember when I last saw a game where the result was such a travesty

1 minute ago, Pottsydee said:

Can not believe we had them on the ropes and let it slide!!! For god sake we smelt blood at 3/4. Thats the difference between top 4 and the the rest, when the foots on the throat!

Hard to play without a ruckman. we were just worn down in the end. Brave effort. Be proud of how far we've come. In previous years that woould have been a 70 point loss.

Just now, Wiseblood said:

How were they to know that Gawn would get injured?  We were 2-0 without Pedersen or Spencer, so they had every right to go with a proper forward to cover Hogan.  We were doing pretty well today as well until Gawn did his hammy.

Smith was okay in the first half, very quiet in the second.  Will probably get another week with Hogan out, though.

True. I think playing a first gamer for hogan was always a risk. 

We blew our chances and now we suffer the consequence.

Btw i thought beside his howler Nibbler was good. Kent will rue those missed shots but jeez its good to have him back! He makes our forward half alot better. Shout out to Wattsy for battling on. Stretch and Petracca were quite solid and both played 4 quarter games.

 

Positive: Hunt, Jones, Watts stepping in for Max. Some nice  kicks from Melksham. Stretch early. ANB tried hard. Petracca useful.

Negatives. Hannan (didn't do enough), Tyson (53 percent disposal), Oscar (horrible again), Weideman (no presence), Smith looked off pace.

Edited April 8, 20178 yr by dee-tox

That was a young team's loss. You win some, you lose some. They'll be filthy. Not sure Lewis and Hogan would have made much difference.

Yes we are young and we can continue to develop, but no one should be in any doubt that we allowed ourselves to have our pants pulled down (again!) by a couple of old stagers! As far as I am concerned, only Jones out of our leaders, stood tall in trying to pull us out of the ShXX that we got ourselves in! On today's showing we are still 9 - 12 and not an obvious top 8 team. WE were anxious in front of goal. Almost to a man we were signalling that we didn't want to be the one that nailed the gettable goal. Weak as PiXX in my humble opinion!

 

We will be 10th on the ladder at the end of this round.

Just now, dazzledavey36 said:

We blew our chances and now we suffer the consequence.

Btw i thought beside his howler Nibbler was good. Kent will rue those missed shots but jeez its good to have him back! He makes our forward half alot better. Shout out to Wattsy for battling on. Stretch and Petracca were quite solid and both played 4 quarter games.

 

His second half, once he got the speed of the game back, was sensational.  As you say, he makes our forward line better.  He is deceptively good in the air as well.

We did so much right just didn't finish. I leave that game quite confident that we are comfortably ahead of the cats and had we had gawn, hogan and Lewis the result would have been different 

Have only just checked scores and stats... Maxie and Weid both get injured early?

Poor kicking cost us?