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POSTGAME : Rd 19 vs Western Bulldogs


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1 minute ago, Webber said:

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.

Contrary to who? This was the only one I’d pencilled in.

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7 minutes ago, gregdemon said:

Correct way off the pace play one final and put finish 8 th.   The loss is dedicated to May.  Mouths off at team mates   I bet a few cannot stand him. Then makes a Clanger that just cost top 4.      We will one more. 14 wins and out first week.   Maybe next year we can hit top form again.     They can never take last year off us buts this hurts after winning 1 st ten games.   Freo at freo loss the golf th a loss. Possible Carlton one maybe.     Brisbane at Brisbane loss. 

your keyboard playing up mate?

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We haven't been a good team for 3 months, so this doesn't surprise at all, however it still hurts to see our season wither away to nothing after the 10 & 0 start. 

The May clanger was definitely a defining moment in the end but we shouldn't be in a losing position after leading by 25 odd points. 

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10 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Mentally soft.

What do you expect when your captains puts in one of the most insipid performance. 

Gawn, Jackson, Harmes and Spargo were all absolutely embarrassing. Besides Gawn, you could easily mount a case for all 3 being dropped. 

We're not top 4 standard team at the moment and have said this since the Geelong loss. We have far too many concerns with our game being so bloody predictable.

So [censored] angry..

 

Spargo? Did you some of his kicking going inside 50? your name should obviously be downiedavey.

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Reckon we might have just cost ourselves top 4 tonight. Certainly top 2 seems unlikely now.

Our leaders were sorely lacking when we needed them to stand up in the last quarter, show poise and get the job done.

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5 minutes ago, Blue-and-red said:

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 !

Like last years premiership win. Other than that I see all the school kids have been allowed to have internet access tonight.

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In previous weeks we may have bemoaned the fact we can only score 60. Tonight we actually got to the magical 100 first (but still somehow lost despite that being a statistical improbability). 
 

Call me naive but I imagine that if the FD wanted that game to be low scoring and defensive, it would have been. Don’t get me wrong, I’m upset we lost and my night is ruined, but have some faith in the club.

We may not win the flag this year, but let’s not sell the farm before the final game of the season. 
 

The Tigers went into the 2018 finals series in read hot form… how did that work out for them? 
 

I appreciate the next few games will give us an idea of where the team is at, but let’s give them the opportunity to prove themselves before we write them off. 

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Just now, Vineytime said:

Midfield got beaten, everyone of them:

Gawn

Clarry

Trac

Jordan

Langdon

Jacko

All got beaten, why did Gawny continually try to grab the ball out of the ruck? It was a liability 

 

 

Gawn is just out of form.. tap work was poor, so tried something else 

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18 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

Our defensive game missing. bulldogs stretched us wide with uncontested possession. We played really tired. Too easy for them to transition out of defensive 50 but not for us and zero forward 50 tackles to their 9.

Lacked a second tall up forward to stretch a shortish dodgy Bulldogs D.  That and a lack of pressure in general especially up forward as you say.  The lack of pressure up forward was the worst i've witnessed all season.

Tomo could not go with Ugle and was smashed by the young rookie.  Tomo looks way off this level now when he's on anyone half decent.

In the second half in particular, we refused to cover the fat side outlets at around ground stoppages which gifted the Bulldogs the corridor and allowed them too many quick transitions inside 50 hitting up leading targets ....mostly Ugle!

We continue to play the 'give them half the paddock' zone to switch and run the ball out to about the half way mark which is laughable.  This plays right in to the Doggy's game plan of switch , switch and link up play to launch zones.  Or switch and then go inside for a corridor play if it's available from the HB zone.  You just can't gift many teams the back half of the ground and expect to win too often.  The only way you are going to do so is by bringing elite pressure and intercepting from about the middle of the ground to HF.  And we brought very little of either of those tonight.

What's happened to Maxy?  Unable to run out a match and looks half the player he was prior to the injury.  Still under the weather?

Tracc was Mr Fumbles on a few too many occasions.  Viney second half??  And understandable but Clarry went missing for most of the second half as well.  A few patches he went ok.  Dogga meh.

FInally there were to sets of decision making out there tonight.  Unfortunately one side copped it up the [censored] and the other was allowed to play without too many rules at all.  Good luck trying to beat that.

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I’m not even sure we can win another game this season.

Once Gawn was paid HTB I had to switch it off. 

Umpiring putrid but we’re just not playing anywhere near how we were last year. 

I’m going to the game in Perth next week. I think we’ll know how our season will ultimately go based on that result. Win and we gain back some respect and get ‘8’ points on a rival. Lose and top 4 is basically gone. 

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13 minutes ago, CYB said:

Seriously at what point is something done about it. It’s beyond a joke now. I saw a dozen throws HTB , DTB and none of them were paid. Not 1. 
 

We are not undisciplined , but the dogs seem to get the run every week without fail. 

The last 2 seasons they’ve absolutely dominated the frees for ladder to the point it’s incredible people don’t ask questions. They were something like plus 50 on the free kick differential and the next best was like plus 10 or 15 

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2 minutes ago, Blue-and-red said:

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 !

They have no clue how to switch play and what goes with that, they never look inside going forward,  they are so focused on going down the line they know nothing else, example harmes bursting out the centre milkshake is free and goal side, he kicks it to the pocket no thought.

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8 minutes 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.

TF are you talking about, he took one step and got tackled yet apparently that's HTB?

Umpiring went one way in the last quarter, I swear I saw multiple instances where we'd get tackled and dispose of it yet they'd call HTB prior to a handball or kick. Yet Dogs players can have all day and eventually throw it out - play on.

Just garbage.

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Didn’t cost us the game or anything but…Medical sub for ‘calf tightness’ - cmon!. Wish we took the p*** out of that rule as much as other teams do. 

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It's not the number so much with the frees,  It's  the actual breakdown of the momentum in crucial plays, where the players stop, not understanding  the recipient of the free against the play.

What's more they know what they are doing. Of the three maggots tonight, MFC players would have only noticed two.

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[censored] me !!! There's some pea hearts  on here tonight!  The Bull flogs played super footy- they would have beaten anyone . We were beaten by a better side on the night. - it's not season over !!!!

Get a grip boys and girls - it's the finals that count!

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