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101 disposals to us 57.

That is a serious joke. Do we not want the footy?

When the pressure is on we fail to stand up.

Petracca the only one standing up.

 
1 minute ago, WERRIDEE said:

Goodwin has [censored] this game up by playing Gawn against Adelaide.

Laughable.

10 free kicks to 3

 

I try hard to not be an umpire whinger, but [censored] hell, that was an absolute disgrace.

One thing we need to do is to get our hands on the footy.  I think we are using it quite well in transition - they have had 101 disposals to our 57, but it doesn't feel like that.  But we need to do more around the ground and to take more of our chances.  That will take the umpires and their BS out of the contest.


1 hitout for the entire quarter. Wow.

Why the hell did they bring in T Mac instead of  Preuss

And why are we being slaughtered by the umps AGAIN

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2 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

Will be 44 to 12.

Actually, one good thing about getting Crucified early is the Umpires are true to one rule

Operation Evenerupper kicks in at the second half!  AFL policy to react on the run!

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    These umpires are shocking. Petracca gets held onto in our 50, nothing. Goldsetin just runs thorugh the protected space, nothing. 

    In saying that we haven't helpe dourselves. any chance of manning up these nth players. They are just allowed to get free and how about we stick a tackle. God twice we let goldstein get out of one. 

    Also how about kicking goals. Petracca is at the  level where he should be nailing those. 

     

    This is why I would've dropped AVB for being a dumb kent last week. And taking stupid [censored] seriously. Nonetheless, Goodwin looks the other way, picks him again, and unsurprisingly he costs us another goal this week with our season on the line. 


    2 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    Umpire 31 has not paid us a free in 5 quarters so far. Disgrace.

    oh wow.

    I don't usually go "off" players, but Harmes is really testing that. The opposite of a smart footballer, whatever that is.

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    As per much of last week, Harmes was an utter disgrace that quarter.

    On the whole, really poor tackling efforts. 

    Fritsch and Melksham numerous poor efforts and our kicking for goal is VFA standard. Petracca back to not being able to take set shots.

    We're totally still in the game, but a better side would have blown us off the park in that quarter.

    Our defence was setting up really nicely, but poor ball use going inside and an inability to convert simple, simple shots (Fritsch, Petracca and Kozzie) really hurt us.

    And despite what Healy said, McDonald's refusal to use Langdon on the outside and instead kick it to the advantage of the North defender, was a terrible decision and cost us a scoring opportunity from a clean clearance. 

    Already a shocking decision to play McDonald. As slow as my old man.

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    Just now, KLV said:

    10 free kicks to 3

    And Oliver got 1 of our 3 from opening bounce


    As I said Tomlinson is not a defender. All 3 roos goals are on 100% on him.

    Imagine the crap omac would be getting if he gave away three goals and was being thrashed by a kid.

    Where is Goodwin's head at?

    2 minutes ago, layzie said:

    Umpiring is terrible but something is wrong with us. I'm getting tired of hearing every week how bad the umpiring is we need to look at why this is happening and look within as well. I refuse to believe every umpiring group we have has it in for us.

    Same umpires as crows game same umpiring. 9-1 first quarter now 10-2 .

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    Frees should rarely be equal, I don’t care of to so 10-3 against is if they were fair, just call what you see and but it has to be fair and consistent for both sides. 
     

    We get crucified 2 weeks in a row.

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    All we need is a bit of composure and will win this by 10+ goals North are not that good.

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    Goodwin out coached already, can he see that they’re playing keepings off

    Man up!!!

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    who gives a cr$p about scoring shots. you gotta kick them. 

     
    1 minute ago, titan_uranus said:

    We're -44 in possessions, -11 CPs, -29, -2 clearances.

    But we're +2 in inside 50s and equal on scoring shots.

    It's one positive from the quarter - we are using the ball very well on transition, and taking marks and pressuring quite well inside 50.  If we can even up those stats above then we'll be fine, as long as we take our chances of course.

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    Clearly playing thru Tomlinson. No idea why we are playing him at FB. Not ideal. 

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