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Really great fight back... seemed to play the last 10 minutes on our terms. 

Hope we come out firing and get some score board pressure going 

 

We don’t have a forward line. It’s amazing we were the highest scoring team last year somehow. 

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    We are hanging on by the skin of our teeth. 

    After a poor 15 minutes in the first, we've generally been able to break even around the ground.  Our mids have already been better than last week, but we just need to use it a little better.

    The difference is their bottom six are playing a little better than ours right now.

    4 goals isn't mission impossible.

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    We managed to cut the contested possession differential from 35 to 25 in only 10 minutes. We got on top but didn't capitalise.

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    Really need a crumber like Garlett in these conditions. Shame he is injured.

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    Goodwin has to throw the side around NOW 

    Find a spark at Half time

    Be Bold Goody. 

    Change some thinking...

    Need a Hogan.

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    So far it seems that we:

    1- have no forwardline 

    2- have lost our ability to win contested footy 

    3- have gotten slower 

    4- are carrying way too many injured or unfit players 

    5- one of our captains is cooked 

    6- Fritsch, Petracca, Harmes and ANB have gone backwards big time 

    7- Gawn is sick/unfit/out of form 

    Have I missed anything?

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    Weideman being thrashed. When he gets it he handballs into high pressure trouble. 

     

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    So many armchair critics here. Its wet, really wet. They play much better wet weather footy than we do. We stemmed the bleeding that quarter and we are still in it. Our forward line is the big problem, we just fall apart once its past the half forward line. Its not going to change much tonight, but lets hope an answer can be found.

    Cant help it im an optimist. Where are you @Wiseblood ?!

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    Without Oliver we are 10 goals down.  Not knocked off my feet by May and KK yet...  Trac ....!!!

    Viney looking better.

    Terrible in the front half

    Would love to get Garlett back into our forward line... well any proven goal kicker really.

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    Just now, Wadda We Sing said:

    So many armchair critics here. Its wet, really wet. They play much better wet weather footy than we do. We stemmed the bleeding that quarter and we are still in it. Our forward line is the big problem, we just fall apart once its past the half forward line. Its not going to change much tonight, but lets hope an answer can be found.

    Cant help it im an optimist. Where are you @Wiseblood ?!

    If only it was perfect 32-degree weather and the game was at the MCG...oh wait

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    Think everyone needs to calm down 

    lot of players underdone I for one didn’t expect to win this.

    we have been pretty awful yes but we are winning clearances tackles and inside 50s.

     

     

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    4 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

    Agree we look awful going fwd

    I like your optimism 


    Just now, The Swimming Dee said:

    KK is going to be a player for us...trying to find some positives

    KK and lockhart.  but we have a lot of players NQR's. and low on confidence.

    You know Its might almost be worth trying Tracca in defence, to steady the ship using his foot skills,  like Watts at Port last week.

    Throw Hunt forward from the goal square, along with OMc. Omc to draw the long kick in and hunt to do what comes naturally.  And have lockhart in there at their feet.

     

    Start Weide out around 50, at Half-foward...   Or,  run Weide at CHB on the Rat.

    Just now, Wadda We Sing said:

    So many armchair critics here. Its wet, really wet. They play much better wet weather footy than we do. We stemmed the bleeding that quarter and we are still in it. Our forward line is the big problem, we just fall apart once its past the half forward line. Its not going to change much tonight, but lets hope an answer can be found.

    Cant help it im an optimist. Where are you @Wiseblood ?!

    I'm here, mate.  Only jumped on at half time as I know exactly what this thread will be like.

    Conditions are horrible, we're playing in hostile territory and we're in touch... just.  That's a positive right there.

    We're struggling forward of the ball, and that's down to the weather, a few players being out of form and the fact that the Cats still have a good, and underrated, defensive unit.  

    If we keep up the pressure and work out butts off then, hey, who knows?  Maybe we can give ourselves a sniff.  We're certainly not out of the contest.

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    1 minute ago, Wadda We Sing said:

    So many armchair critics here. Its wet, really wet. They play much better wet weather footy than we do. We stemmed the bleeding that quarter and we are still in it. Our forward line is the big problem, we just fall apart once its past the half forward line. Its not going to change much tonight, but lets hope an answer can be found.

    Cant help it im an optimist. Where are you @Wiseblood ?!

    I'd rather have tmac as the stay at home forward than Petracca. Why do we keep bombing it up to Petracca one-out, at least put it in space for him.

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    2 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    So far it seems that we:

    1- have no forwardline 

    2- have lost our ability to win contested footy 

    3- have gotten slower 

    4- are carrying way too many injured or unfit players 

    5- one of our captains is cooked 

    6- Fritsch, Petracca, Harmes and ANB have gone backwards big time 

    7- Gawn is sick/unfit/out of form 

    Have I missed anything?

    Yep. It’s half time in round 2.

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    Definitely up against it tonight but players are really digging deep. It's clear we are not in form but we started to get on top that qtr, keep it up and we might just pull off a win.  Go dees! 

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    5 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    Key forwards aren’t in the team to tackle but his pressure is woeful.

    When the ball hits the ground he is out of the contest.  The OP just runs off at will for an easy disposal up the field.  For any goals Weid might kick through a traditional mark and kick goal on the lead he will bleed just as many through his opponent having a free reign the other way.  One of a few reasons our forward line is a dog's breakfast and all other clubs know this and exploit it.

    Yet we continue to persist with the Weids experiment year after year....Goody / Macca and Co...get serious FFS or our premiership window is finished and off we go on yet another rebuild!

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    Just now, DaveyJones'sLocker said:

    Think everyone needs to calm down 

    lot of players underdone I for one didn’t expect to win this.

    we have been pretty awful yes but we are winning clearances tackles and inside 50s.

     

     

    Borderline victim mentality. 

    We're just rubbish presently.

     

    It's going to click for us, one quarter or another.

    Whether it's the next one, or next week, it'll click, then all will be well.

    Just... need to not lose too many until we do.

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    3 minutes ago, buck_nekkid said:

    Without Oliver we are 10 goals down.  Not knocked off my feet by May and KK yet...  Trac ....!!!

    Viney looking better.

    Terrible in the front half

    May and KK deserve time to gel in a new side.  Think of how long it took Lever to settle last year.  

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