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1 minute ago, praha said:

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

Most games arent played in these conditions.

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    1 minute ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

    We deserve to be another goal or 2 closer, we wasted some opportunities that quarter.

    Dunno how we can be even this close when, apparently, 20 of the 22 selected are pathetic, terrible and VFL standard.

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    2 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

    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!

    Give me a spell

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    3 minutes ago, 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.

     

     

    We warmed into that 2nd Qtr.    Still need to wrestle back some more momentum.

     

    We look like a scratch team of guys who can play a bit but never have with each other. Just win the contested ball and hack it forward and hope. Unrecognisable from last year. 

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    So when I coach under 12s one of the things I teach is chest marks; is there a spot for me on the Dees coaching Panel?

     

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    3 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

    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!

    Not helping contract negotiations ?

    2 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

    Thanks, I agree awful is at the optimistic end of the scale...

    Sorry, meant to click someone else.

    2 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

    Hunt, KK and Jetta - 7 possessions between them - shameful

    Jetta has runs on the board.

    KK not setting the world on fire but conditions don’t suit him and it’s half time in his first game for a new club.

    Hunt I think he looks like he has his mojo back but I might be looking through my rose coloured headband.

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    Cannot believe all the negative energy on this page. I thought I was looking at Bombers page instead. We lost that quarter by a point !!!!! We've been good in the second half of most games recently. Tough to win down at Geelong. You get no help from the umps as the crowd make the decisions. Oliver Brayshaw, Viney, KK Salem, Gawn have been great. The commenators dribble all over Duckwood and Ablett but its been the Cats young guys that have played well.

     

    I predict a Dees comeback in this quarter 

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    3 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

    Most games arent played in these conditions.

    You're doubling down. If that's the case there's no reason why any one team should be definitively better than the other in these conditions. 

    Our entire gameplan is built around contested ball. We should thrive in the wet, not struggle.

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    Playing with no structure and a complete inability to adjust the game plan to suit the conditions and what the opposition throws at us.

    Continuous fumbles and poor decisions puts us under pressure, allows Geelong to fill the hole and then break away from our players that are caught napping too often.

    So much space for them in their forward 50. Hard to see on TV why this is the case. Are our defenders pushing too high? Lack of accountability? 

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    9 minutes ago, gOLLy said:

    Need a Hogan.

    He wouldn't have had a touch tonight. 

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    2 minutes 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 ?!

    yes it is wet, just look at how poorly geelong is going in the same conditions.  We have too many passengers, players not chasing, geelong players running around us because if we even both to try to tackle they just step around us.  McDonald cannot be the player he was last year because the ball is firstly not getting down the forward line too often and when it does he is usually up the field trying to push it down to a lone petracca, who is sadly losing every contest either by being outplayers or [censored] poor skill errors.

    Jones and weiderman have been fumbling everything that came their way. 

    Does not look good though we did seem to recover a little in the last half of that quarter. still all in all a woeful performance from a team that wants to play finals football, without doing the hard yards.


    3 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

    Dunno how we can be even this close when, apparently, 20 of the 22 selected are pathetic, terrible and VFL standard.

    This is typical of the game day threads I take it? I'm usually too busy watching the game but thought I'd jump on to gauge the mood. I should've known better.

    Just now, Demon_spurs said:

    Cannot believe all the negative energy on this page. I thought I was looking at Bombers page instead. We lost that quarter by a point !!!!! We've been good in the second half of most games recently. Tough to win down at Geelong. You get no help from the umps as the crowd make the decisions. Oliver Brayshaw, Viney, KK Salem, Gawn have been great. The commenators dribble all over Duckwood and Ablett but its been the Cats young guys that have played well.

     

    I predict a Dees comeback in this quarter 

    Since to see someone that isn’t a doom and gloom poster for once. 

     
    4 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

    We deserve to be another goal or 2 closer, we wasted some opportunities that quarter.

    and we wasted a lot more possessions in the 1st. we had it but coughed it up overusing it manically.

    We showed a bit more composure in the 2nd.   And the Cats tired imo,  just a little.

     

    We can come out hard in the 3rd and even things up.

    3 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

    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.

    Hallelujah im with you. Thanks for the level headedness. 3 goals down in shocking conditions on a hostile ground and people want the coach sacked. 5 years ago we would have been 12 goals down.

    We are making a lot of mistakes. If we could find an answer up forward we can hang in there. Oliver has been great.

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