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GAMEDAY: Rd 19 vs Western Bulldogs

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The match day coaching is appalling. When your pre-match plans are not working, you make adjustments. Well good coaches do.

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    We still have a lot of passengers.

    Gawn may have just broken even with English 

    Harmes on Libba backfired, Bont did as he pleased, McCrae gets nearly 40. Our midfield was torched again.

    Josh [censored] Schache came from the wilderness and actually played a role.

    We are a fair way from our early season form, it doesn’t look like changing in a hurry either. If we are fair dinkum, the last 6 weeks warrant some big changes. We are just not hungry enough

     

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    Out  Harmes, ANB and Hibbard, 

    Lucky Fritsch and Salem

    IN Sparrow, throw open the other two Smith, Bowie.

    On notice coaching staff poor effort tonight.

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    Those 2 fwd stoppage goals for Bont with all the time in the world were unforgivable from Harmes.

    The idea is to kick goals and we missed 8 (count them!) gettable shots tonight. Q1: Ben Brown, set shot from 30m. Kickett missed a snap in front. Q2: Petracca, a set shot from the boundary. Fritsch, set shot from 50 on sharp angle. Ben Brown, a poster. Q3: Petracca, a snap: out of bounds on the full. Q4: Ben Brown, shanked it, missed everything. Pickett, missed after the siren. The mid-field is creating the opportunities, but we are not translating it onto the scoreboard. We were in this game, could have won it.

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    There are two wildly unbalanced stats from that game, and all the others are remarkably tight. We won hit outs 68-18. They won free kicks 25-11. Every sport at the top level should aspire to the best possible quality of adjudication. This was not that. It’s just not a level playing field out there. 

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    Harmes, Viney, Jordon, ANB are absolute battlers

    Our forward line is disgusting too 

    We have straight sets written all over the us 

    We need outside class and forwards for 2022 

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