4 hours ago, CYB said:

Yeah i got that. But the sentiment i referred to was the 'everything will be allright - our boys will come good', im 50/50 on this. Most footy supporters with a 2-4 record in the past 6 weeks (1-4 against top 8 teams) would be writing their team off. 

In the 6 weeks, we have done nothing to show that we can shake off opposition teams tactics to undermine us at stoppage and to stop our defensive half transition and general ball movement (The Lions are off in form, and were not cherry ripe when they played us 2 weeks ago). This is not 'form' but gameplan and matchday tactics and simply not having any answers to opposition coaching. Also doesn't help when our pressure is off, but first and foremost we have to fix our ball movement.

 

I believe everything in our game plan starts with pressure. Don’t believe a word the coaches say when they say pressure drops as a result of the game plan going wrong.

no pressure means that oppo entries land 30 metres closer to goal which makes it impossible for lever to play his best game. Steven May is then turning the ball over at half forward rather than kicking to contests on a wing.

then it means that our sntries are landing shallow and we have no structure ahead of the ball.

midfield, half forward pressure is destroying the game plan at the moment.

if we play like we have over the last 6 weeks we will finish 6th and won’t fire a shot in finals.

we also have the ability to win our last 6 and finish top. The gap between our best and worse is increasing again 

23 hours ago, DeeZone said:

Even if the team forgive and move on he has to find that inner peace before he can move on and catch up.

Agree, however he was more a captain grumpy down back. I wonder if he feels less confident to berate and in that, may not get the reciprocating adrenaline surge or the drive to win, try harder or be more conscientious.  

Hoping he can move on. 

On 7/10/2022 at 2:54 PM, DeeSpencer said:

Choco doesn’t appear to be the saviour as advertised.

His footies are a scam too…. The yellow stripe is peeling off mine

6 hours ago, Lord Travis said:

This time last year Salem was the best half back in the league and was hitting 30-40 passes on angles that opened up options and made us really dangerous on the counterattack. This year since returning from injury he's also resorted to dumping it down the line

Confirmed by the man himself in his presser today, that his form isn't where he'd like to be (paraphrasing).

14 hours ago, kev martin said:

Agree, however he was more a captain grumpy down back. I wonder if he feels less confident to berate and in that, may not get the reciprocating adrenaline surge or the drive to win, try harder or be more conscientious.  

Hoping he can move on. 

It's probably the most pertinent question of the lot really. Does he have the same level of respect that he did before the incident? I'm sure he's still got it but that moment now when he may second guess pulling a teammate into line or barking instructions. 5% self doubt is all it takes and it would take a bit of time to get it back. 

So it would seem that its not just May or Salem's kicking - its the whole team.

Over the past 5 weeks we are 18th in the CData Kick ratings

EG Oliver and Petracca have had 46 kicks i50 and only TWO  have been marked.

Holy cow that is bad.