POSTGAME : Rd 19 vs Western Bulldogs

[Earl Hood 6,167]

4 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

They kicked 5-2 to ours 1-3.

So frustrating. And where did Fritta & Weiderman go in the final quarter?

I would be asking where the midfield went in the last myself. We had chances at the end but just bombed it high. We don’t have pack crashing forwards Goody! 

[KingDingAling 3,758]

8 minutes ago, Foita said:

Umpiring was a disgrace, two different sets of rules out there

Yeah I tend to agree. I am really patient watching the footy. Never turn it off like a lot of ppl I know so when it gets close. Tonight I did. I thought we played really well. But it’s hard to win when the free kick count is one sided. I actually feel sorry for our guys.

[Bates Mate 4,520]

Dogs played better than us in the second half. Dogs also kissed on the D by the umps. Every 50/50 went against us but given to them . May brain fart kick across goal and kozzie miss cost us. Still annoys me ugle Hagen was gifted to the dogs and they changed the rules straight after . We are still second and destiny in our hands . Bulldogs played their grand final and as good as they can. Us still room to improve not slitting my wrists yet.

 

 

 

 

[Little Richard 6,265]

1 minute ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

Carrying on like they won the GF.

As close as they'll get right now.

[gOLLy 401]

4 minutes ago, Purple77 said:

Please, umpires didn't decide the result.

Dogs thoroughly deserved the win. Played like their season depending on it, and did some pretty impressive stuff.

Still, f**k me May, wtf

+ kossie two misses and Fritz not being hungry. How many times does Max want to take it out of the ruck to be pinged

How many time do we spoil each other.

Easier to flop for a free kick in a pack than stand strong.

Very unlike May.

[jnrmac 20,377]

9 minutes ago, Boots and all said:

Tomlinson mostly played on him and was given a footy lesson. 

Tommo was mainly on Bruce

[Mickey 4,777]

1 minute ago, Scipio said:

What TF was Gawn thinking grabbing the ball out of the ruck on the flank... dumb, dumb, dumb. Too many stupid errors made to have won that.

On the other hand, would have been a great game to watch for neutral fans and Jamarra's goal at the end was epic.

Almost as stupid as belting it indiscriminately when no one goes up against him.

I love Max, but God he does some stupid things.

[rufus 1,162]

Embarrassing performance. Tomlinson not AFL standard. May reaching Maxwell lvels of finger pointing while making schoolboy errors himself. Disappointed in Brayshaw. Gets enough of it and can win a contest but disposal for an experienced player is woeful. Petracca once again not near an actual contest. Getting beaten by Ugle Hagan is a pathetic step in a premiership defence.

[Ben 222]

They just wanted it more. Smashed us in ground balls. Always got first use. As an aside,  dump kicks into the corridor from D50 need to be banned. If you can’t dump kick boundary side, handball into space and try to affect a stoppage.

[dees189227 12,515]

Is Jackson thinking about his house in Perth? He was disappointing. 

I felt like the dogs players always found targets while we were just bombing it.

I still cannot work out our best forward line

[Jaded No More 68,976]

2 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

Carrying on like they won the GF.

Their fans are embarrassing. I told some pimply faced mullet wearing [censored] if he would swap this win for last year’s flag 😂

[gregdemon 628]

2 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Putrid. We could easily lose the next 4 games if we can’t even beat the Dogs. We are in horrible form. 
Gawn is playing hurt and it’s costing us. Apart from Oliver and Petty, we haven’t had one player this year play good consistent footy and deliver week in week out. We are missing the spark and hunger that got us the flag last year. 

Seething and shaking with anger.  Get over it after a nice bath    Bloody hell!!!!!!!!!   And then you have to put up with the druggie behind interviewed.   Yep spark gone second half of year.  How far Geelong 

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 6,830]

I expect a massive response against Flagmantle.

We don't do shoot outs as a rule, what were we getting involved in tonight?

[Mr Steve 3,820]

4 minutes ago, loges said:

Does anyone know if Weid was off the ground for long moments at a time?

He play "well was on the ground" for 72 % of the game.

[Blue-and-red 91]

Goodwin needs to rethink coaching from boundary - either can’t see how the game is playing out and doesn’t react, or has no tactical nouse, or both !

[Guest]

When I saw they got 59 points to half time, alarm bells were ringing for me despite the 15 point lead.

When we are truly in control, the opposition scores roughly sixty points for the match. We were clearly playing a game on their terms and lost as a result.

Yes, the umpiring was terrible at times. But the amount of dump kicks coming out of defensive fifty were where we lost this. The amount of repeat fifty entries we had against us crippled us.

On current form, we aren't winning the flag this year. We are a top 8 team for sure. But a premiership team? Not on your life.

I was saying a couple of months ago that it was us, the Lions and daylight. Sadly, the Cats are now the team to beat (their kids like Atkins, De Koning, Close and Holmes have improved considerably). At the moment, we are just making up the numbers. Things could change, but they'll need to change soon.

[Demon Jack 7,194]

Gawn and Jackson are so woefully out of form it's not funny. 

The less said about May's brain explosion, the better.

 

[Webber 10,650]

Contrary to many, I reckon that was our best chance for a win from here to finals, so being so comprehensively outplayed in the second half is very disappointing. They were fierce, clean, and opened us up like a tin of old sardines from the breakdown, and made us look just predictable and under-committed. Consequently, not only will top 2 be a bridge too far now, but top 4 I suspect given our run home. Haven’t seen Maxy lower his colours like that to another ruckman in 5 years - he won’t be happy - and many players were unsighted in the second half. Umpires yes, a problem again of course, but you expect that vs Dogs, and in truth they were way better. We just keep plugging from here, but a home town flag is looking very very shaky.

[gregdemon 628]

Just now, Jaded No More said:

Their fans are embarrassing. I told some pimply faced mullet wearing [censored] if he would swap this win for last year’s flag 😂

We will always have last year dogs will not go close this year neither will we

[Lord Nev 13,512]

Ton of dumb moments from usually good footballers.

Jackson not rucking enough in the 4th?

0 tackles inside 50. Yes, 0.

That's the game IMO.

[Gawndy the Great 9,011]

Ever since the punch up May just doesn’t look right. Probably some sort of life karma. He is a liability and probably wont make the AA team. 

 

[praha 11,267]

Don't want to overreact because it's a very close league but pretty concerning how we are losing matches.

It's something like 40 goals to 17 in the second half in loses. That's very concerning. 

[Graeme Yeats' Mullet 6,794]

22 to 13

Apparently Bontempelli doesn't need to handball it...

[dees-picable 211]

I think fitness must be a major problem. Why should we be more  “tired” than any other team? Couldn’t match their spread and run all night. Made us look lazy. And the holding the ball disease! Beaten by a better drilled fitter and more desperate team. Umpiring was dreadful but not the reason we lost. Sorry not this year. 

[Demon Disciple 12,537]

Called it out in the VFL game day thread, but some clueless posters didn’t like it.

We have no plan B and our Plan A has been well and truly figured out. We’ve gone 3-5 since our 10 & 0 start, and it’s looking likely we’ll miss top 4 with our run home. The way we’re playing atm, any team in the 8 will be praying to play us. We have no competitive desire, no hunger for the contest, and no killing instinct (we get up by a decent amount, then simply surrender).

Spargo can flounder in the 2’s for all I care, he’s a small forward that doesn’t crumb, nor kick goals. If Jackson thinks he’s worth more than $500k a year with those weak efforts, Freo are welcome to him. Trac just doesn’t have his head in the game, May should join the umpiring ranks (as clearly it’s one rule for him and another for everyone else). As for Harmes, look elsewhere, as you are the epitome of dead weight.

Poor Clarrie with his 1 busted hand is the only one who gives his all 100% of the time. As for Gawn, the big fella ain’t gonna be around much longer, his body is just about cactus (from all the years of abuse he’s copped, yet never complained about once). 

Our once mighty defence is becoming very leaky, which is now uncovering the weaknesses of our midfield and forward line. Unless we make drastic changes to our KPF stocks and bring in fresh blood in the middle, 2021 will be the only success this team will see.