4 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Harmes didn't learn his lessons and kept getting caught trying to break tackles

He was frustrating beyond belief. Know your limitations James 

Shows what I know about football. I thought our smalls would be the difference. They were but in the wrong way. Spargo, Bedford, Pickett and Bowey all with limited impact.

Geelong just looked so much bigger that us. They wanted the win a lot more.

Well played Geelong. I look forward to our next encounter.

Whats up with the fixture? How come they play 3 home games in a row?

Really didn’t have a winner all night, lost on selection, tactics and in game play, completely outplayed in all facets - different game on the Gee hopefully

This meant a whole lot more to the Ferals than us, this was their GF, they have a dinner tommorow night, Premiership reunion, Issac Smith's 250th.

Good on them they were far to good, they will get my respect when they beat us on the G.

Our pressure was knowhere near the Brisbane game tonight.

 

3 minutes ago, Seraph said:

Stats don't tell the whole story etc etc... but here's the 10 lowest rated players on the ground.

That's our entire forward line right there

So predictable from the kick outs tonight, kept going to the same spot and Geelong just kept on beating us there, time to mix it up Dees. 

Our lack of run and legs has been very concerning.

2 minutes ago, willmoy said:

Deliberate kick to the players hand, reportable, deliberate, straight to tribunal.

And of course we will hear nothing about it

We were outplayed, pure and simple!   Couldn’t hold a tackle in the back half when it counted, couldn’t hit a target or kick a goal in the front half when it counted.  Couldn’t win a clearance when it counted. Too many players well below their best.!  No excuses!  Can’t even blame the umps or the 5 day break.  
Disappointed, but we will learn and regroup.  It will be different in September!

Gawn and Jackson, one mark between them as well….ugh. Maybe both rushed back too early? 

Where was this performance from the ferals in Perth last year?

Demons were very poor, bottom 10 stats we had 9!

I don’t like being negative about any Demons . Player but Jordan is very slow with the ball I would put in Rivets or Hunt ahead of him

6 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Can't compete against the best when you are beaten in clearances 54-36. They turned that into forward half dominance, with 66 inside 50s to our 46. It's no wonder they had 31 scoring shots to our 18.

They did to us what we did to Brisbane.

For all our failures, we worked so hard to get it back to a goal difference at the start of the last, but Pickett's miss, Fritsch's miss, then Bedford fumbling when he had the entire forward half empty in front of him killed our momentum and they got their tails up.

Gawn and Jackson didn't look match fit, Bowey played his first genuinely poor game of his career, Harmes didn't learn his lessons and kept getting caught trying to break tackles, and we were too short up forward and therefore couldn't take enough get out of jail marks when we needed them.

We can't play one tall forward without having one of Gawn and Jackson playing forward as well, so either we do that or we bring Weideman back and drop one of the underperforming small forwards (Bedford was great against Brisbane but really no good since).

We don't have much wriggle room with our fixture, so it hurts to drop this one to one of our major competitors, but the swing between the Brisbane game and this game shows that we have to be on for most of our run home or we're going to drop too many games and cede ladder position.

Good post mate. Agree with all of it. 

They seemed to allow us Forst possible from the stoppage with manic tackle pressure from behind.

Max couldn’t get off the ground.

Too slow to execute basic skills under pressure.  One or two steps too many.

Harmes is not Dusty.

A loss we deserved.  Poor across the board, lots to work on,  If that is their best, we can break it down in finals.

Cats supporters are flogs.

3 minutes ago, hardtack said:

I seriously hope you’re not trying to say that was a deliberate act. I don’t like Adele of at all, but that was just a footballing accident with no malice involved at all.

Yes l am swinging a boot in mid air when a player’s about grab the ball

I think that’s against the rules don’t you?

Smashed in the contest, wasteful with poor disposals, outplayed aerially, outcoached and worst of all outrun by the Cats' supposed squad of geriatrics. And there are not many selection options, given that without T-Mac that was close to our best 22. Looking at the tough run home, considerable improvement will be needed to stay in the top four. All in all, a disappointing reality check.

2 minutes ago, von said:

That’s all Geelong have. Played well on their home ground. Selwood said post match we prepared for this period in the season and we are running on top of the ground now. We quite obviously were not. We had all the signs of a high loading period. Slow off the mark, fumbles, poor execution. The ball fell in their favour time and time again, partly because they were playing fitter and got to the drop and partly football gods. 
 

positives were we held their tall forwards well despite being very average for the night. The ground cost us, we didn’t play it well. Things look different on the mcg. They may have timed their run to peak too early. We look like we will be back week after next. 

But we just finished loading 2 weeks ago didn’t we? When do we not load and actually play? I’m not buying the loading stuff this time as it’s a bit too early for the final loading before finals. Im starting to question the hunger a bit, they just lack dare and the ruthless edge we all saw last year . 
 

The game plan is doing my head in. Slow down the wing has been worked out. Can we switch or use the corridor once in a while to surprise the opposition? Bowey and Salem are not the kicks we all have talked them up to be. Haven’t played a standout game for a while. 

As the Neale Daniher used to say “own the corridor, own the game”. We are safe, predictable and boring to watch. 

Hate losing to those stinking tu.rds

But it’s July. We had a flat spot last year and came good in round 19. 
 

Don’t show your hand early. 
 

We can obliterate them when it counts 

We lost it in the clearances and particularly the centre clearances.

Weideman should have been playing tonight on the skinny ground. 

Our rucks were ordinary. 

May was moving like Frankenstein and fumbled. 

The Cats planned well to nullify Lever. 

Fritsch is too selfish. 

Drop Max. Viney loses the captaincy & plays like sh1te. 😁

1 minute ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Hate losing to those stinking tu.rds

But it’s July. We had a flat spot last year and came good in round 19. 
 

Don’t show your hand early. 
 

We can obliterate them when it counts 

Exactly, let them have there moment.

even losing the clearances we could have won if our delivery into our forward line had been better, far too many kicks from both kick ins and kicks into our forward 50 were marked by [censored] players without any Melbourne player around them. If we had given our forwards the ball instead of their backs or their forwards then the scores would have been far better and maybe it would not have blown out at the end.

We need to makes some changes I would like to give Tomlinson a go on the wing again. Chandler in, rivers.

Max Holmes looks a ripper. Jason Taylor was bang on identifying him as a gun outside talent. Shame he went a pick too early for us. 

We need to look at some changes to our smalls next week. That game was lost by our small forward not getting involved, and lack of smaller lockdown defenders.