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They were incredible. Unfortunately we were not. 

We had the two best players on the ground in Oliver and May, but it fell away badly. Fritsch aside the entire forward line struggled. Jackson struggled. Brayshaw was terrible. Wirh Trac hobbling, it was too much left to too few. 

They scored 12 of their 14 goals from turnovers. May turned it over with two shocking inboard kicks, but across the ground we put our backline under pressure by giving up the ball all night. 

The free and 50 against May on Buddy were two absolutely disgraceful decisions. Utterly abysmal. The umpiring was horrendous all night, both ways, but those two were just disgusting. Turned the momentum, for sure.

But Sydney are our kryptonite. They won’t relent in the middle no matter what we throw at them, and their backline is too good for our forward line. It’s actually spooky how similar tonight was to Round 12. 

Huge pressure on us now to beat Brisbane, a side we have the wood over. I’m hoping with the pre-finals bye, that a week off is a bad thing this year, so I’m trying to tell myself this is a blessing in disguise. But I doubt it, unfortunately. 

 

What a melt down by some of you, we weren’t great but wholesale changes after you lose a QF to a great team? 

You all drank your own bath water on this Demons team.

Last year in Perth was lightning in a bottle.

We are not some god team that will CRUSH. KILL. DESTROY. 

We are a good team with a scrappy fwd line that really struggles to move the footy in transition and good teams prey on us for that.

SIMON simply does not have the answers despite having the best cattle at his disposal !!!! 

 
4 minutes ago, rufus said:

Both almost concede contested ball and pressure us on the way out...works well when we don't apply the same level of pressure back. It nullifies our biggest strength. 

Good observation. And they are ultra efficient and opportunistic on the turnovers. Down corrider, lower the eyes, take some risks. Imo that game style alone wont win you a premiership but Sydney do change it week to week. Very well coached.  


2 minutes ago, 1964_2 said:

Will dumb it down for everyone. Weaker team won. Why? Better coach, coaching panel delivered on their plan. 

We can’t afford for Adem to go!! 

He’s part of the coaching team but couldn’t work out how the mids should kick the footy into fwd50. They need Yze’s skill but the up and under kicks !! 

3 minutes ago, mo64 said:

Nobody denies that loading takes place

Yes they do. Nothing but BS in the context of team sports in-season. You only load out of competition (athletics, olympic sports etc.) or between seasons.

 
1 minute ago, rpfc said:

What a melt down by some of you, we weren’t great but wholesale changes after you lose a QF to a great team? 

You all drank your own bath water on this Demons team.

Last year in Perth was lightning in a bottle.

We are not some god team that will CRUSH. KILL. DESTROY. 

We are a good team with a scrappy fwd line that really struggles to move the footy in transition and good teams prey on us for that.

Terribly take from someone who can’t cop being spanked by a better team / coach 

6 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

Ok, all I’ve been hearing and reading all year is “they will flick the switch!”

Can some one check if the [censored] thing is plugged in???

People make excuses to feel better mate, a tale as old as time. Easiest excuse in the book is 'just wait, you'll see'. 

In any other language it's called blind hope 


4 minutes ago, Stiff Arm said:

Yes, they did their homework on us. Nullified Max and Dogga, got on top of our midfield and made our forwardline look useless

To be honest I actually don't think it was much that they nullified Max and Dogga, it was more that Max and Dogga simply didn't turn up and failed to assert their physical presence. 

1 minute ago, 1964_2 said:

Terribly take from someone who can’t cop being spanked by a better team / coach 

Huh? Sydney are a better team. Might want to reread it, champ. And maybe calm down. Your stream of consciousness is weighing down the servers.

13 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Ok so if may and harmes didn't give away those goals from brain fades Melksham kicks the 2 he missed and we kick that goal that we absolutely butchered we win. But hindsights a wonderful thing.

No woulda, coulda, shoudlas about tonight mate.

Beaten fair and square by a high quality side on an 8 game winning streak.


1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

To be honest I actually don't think it was much that they nullified Max and Dogga, it was more that Max and Dogga simply didn't turn up and failed to assert their physical presence. 

Particularly the latter of the two rucks you mentioned.

The MCG thing is certainly an issue huh.. starting to look like a bogey ground for us lol.

'Built for finals' maybe but now looking also 'Knackered for finals'.

Hugging the wing all year rather than using corridor. Outnumbered around fall of ball & tired errors & decision making. Rarely roving Maxy's taps.

We'll get over Lions & go down swinging, learn and reset. Get Burgo back somehow

 

7 minutes ago, 1964_2 said:

Will dumb it down for everyone. Weaker team won. Why? Better coach, coaching panel delivered on their plan. 

We can’t afford for Adem to go!! 

The better "TEAM" won. Having more superstars doesn't make a team. 

Our fwd line just can’t function under pressure and slow ball movement. Can’t see us getting a winning score vs Cats assuming we make it that far. To be any chance of the flag this year we are going to have to start playing with some dare not unlike cats did this year.


It is concerning how much work our forward line needs. Fritsch, McDonald (for a couple more years), and Kozi are fine. But beyond that, I’d happily lose the rest that played tonight. 
 

Brown is a massive liability. Especially if he gets anywhere near a loose ball in the middle of the ground.

Max seems to get worse by the week at set shots.

2 minutes ago, rpfc said:

Huh? Sydney are a better team. Might want to reread it, champ. And maybe calm down. Your stream of consciousness is weighing down the servers.

Can sum it up for you very simply. The better team lost. Absolutely 1000% out-coached, if you can’t see that yet, you will work it out in coming days 

 

 

Whatever is said about our success and failings this year, we are a [censored] boring side to watch!

3 minutes ago, Spaghetti said:

Happened in 2020…

And 2006 - Eagles lost home QF to Swans. They beat them in the granny.


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