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I hate getting shown up by Westhoff. He's a spud who kicks his goals against spud teams. And fancy bloody Watts showing us up as well. Classic stuff.

 

Not being able to score will prove a challenge. Scoring often contributes to winning the game.

I know it's only the first game but geez we looked slow and unfit amd even disinterested. 

No score kicked in the last either. 

Great start fellas (bathwater drink drink). 

Not having Preus in the side was a stroke of genius. 

Edited by DemonOX

 
1 minute ago, Smokey said:

Jones to the twos

No way do we have that luxury.

We are playing some depth players who should not be getting a game because they are either too young and should be at Casey or they are simply not good enough.

Thank god we recruited May because I never want to see Frost and OMac in the same team ever again.


Watts was good

Just now, P-man said:

Not being able to score will prove a challenge. Scoring often contributes to winning the game.

sarcasm noted but it highlights a serious issue that bears further discussion during the week

 

No one stood up. No one.

Uncontested possessions showed how lazy they all are.

Pathetic effort.

Any club watching that has the blue print to beat Melbourne, change direct, speed and spread.

Our small forwards dont apply any consistant pressure and you back yourself to sling shot of half back

 

Some real concerns


Any demonlanders going for a froff?

Im keen...

wow what a terrible team effort, hard to find any player i would say played well all day. total lack of running as port transitioned across the ground left player after player free for them to run the ball down the ground. Where was our game plan to address this. Where were our players? where was our defensive game? we were luckly to not lose by a lot more. can see we may be winless after the first 5 games at least on this form. how do we go into games like this with players with no form.I know its the start of the season but nothing in todays performance to suggests we will get anywhere near the 8 this year.  

Time for Jones to captain Casey and help Viney rack up game time there.


Above all, I was expecting a return of our agro and pressure, and I saw none of that. Losing is one thing, but looking like losers is another.

Bring the passion back in R2 boys, we're going to need it!

They ran and spread like maniacs. We spread like butter that's been left in the freezer for a couple of months. 

2 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

No one stood up. No one.

Uncontested possessions showed how lazy they all are.

Pathetic effort.

Agree, but I thought Salem was very good, and did about as much as he could. Wagner was decent, but that might just be in comparison. 

14 minutes ago, KingDingAling said:

We looked slow, were beaten in close by youngsters, killed on the spread, didn't have a plan B for Gawn. Today was a bad day. On the upside, we have May coming back in and Lever also at some point. It's hard to really say what we need. Salem was an absolute standout today and I thought Spargo tried hard with his constant pressure.

Lever is a universe away at this point KDAL and history shows that players coming back mid or late season rarely have much of an impact.  Not sure that we want to place so much hope on his return having an impact on where we finish this year.

We are going to be exposed by teams that are blessed with a few more tallish rangey speedy players this year with the 6/6/6 coming in.

Early days and happy to see how we are fairing about Rnd 6 but might take a few years of recruiting to re-adjust and get back to pushing into the top 4 on a regular basis.

Edited by Rusty Nails

I also think we'll take time to adjust to the new 6-6-6 rule.  Someone else mentioned it earlier too, but I think our gameplan is hurt the most by this.  We have probably needed to make the most changes because of it.

Couple that with injuries and underdone players and you get what we served up today.


10 minutes ago, brendan said:

Calling it now the 6-6-6 rule hurts us more than anyone if we don’t win the clearance we are cooked, every side will now play quick players we are no good on the outside, I never got the media beat up about it being suited to us, impossible to win every clearance, prove me wrong Melbourne but I’m tipping a long year unfortunately, goody will need to come up with something 

I tend to agree, all those years drafting highly talented inside players, glad we didn't lose Hunt now! Very intrigued by 6-6-6, I like it as a spectacle but fear its bad news for us.

 

As l previously posted last week, Max will be targetted and defeated by superior forces. He was today. To not field Preuss to give him some heavy hitting backup was stupid in the extreme. 

At this rate, we will waste our biggest asset. Every side from now on will employ the same tactics, unless we retaliate big time

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