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Don't let the last 7 minutes excuse the heartless performance leading up to it.

Not happy at all.

Edited by deva5610

 

I'll take that margin considering what it was an hour ago.

Ugh it would have been good to snag another. Just to many handballs. 

God how weird tonight.

Lets just get home and find out what's the damage to max. 

Edited by dees189227

Don't fear Brisbane one bit.

Give us Kozzie, May, Salem and Gawn back in and we beat them comprehensively. 

 

[censored] teasers tonight.

I thought I'd seen enough of this in my younger years.


I'll take an 11 point loss given the first 3 and a half quarters. 

2 minutes ago, deva5610 said:

Don't let the last 7 minutes excuse the absolute pissweak performance leading up to it.

Not happy at all.

Well you’re embarrassing 😳 

Some big learnings from that last 12 minutes. ATTACK, take risks, take the game on!

A good lesson, can’t rely on veterans like May and Gone, way past it.


WTF?
I left the pub and caught a tram home thinking the game was over and then checked into kayo and there was 2 mins to go and we were 19 points down and then kicked a goal. 

We were pox before that.

It was doom and gloom but that last 8 minutes proves we can play good football when our transition from d50 and entry into the forward line has bit of courage. 

It was a horrendous performance but theres something there to keep us hopeful and moving forwards. 

7 minutes ago, deva5610 said:

Don't let the last 7 minutes excuse the absolute pissweak performance leading up to it.

Not happy at all.

Absolute garbage. We had a bad night compounded by the fact that the universe conspired against us. Salem, May, Gawn, and then greasy conditions that really suited them.

All we could do at the end was come out and give it our all. That could be the most important 10 minutes of footy we play for the year. Percentage will split the good sides at the end.

Im proud of that effort.

Edited by The heart beats true


The last 12 minutes was fake footy in some respect given Brisbane had stopped but I hope we take something from the way we at least remembered how to run and gun and attack.

We lost this game by being disastrously belted in the middle. -28 in clearances, and it would have been worse before the break because we got a bunch of centre clearances in that late run.

Gawn going down threw us out. The same thing happened last year when May went down against Fremantle. It's understandable, but disappointing all the same, that we couldn't re-group.

You'd expect a few changes next week given some of the poor performances tonight. But a few changes aside, we will lose to Sydney next week if we don't dramatically improve in the clearances.

Round one was too easy, we played like it was going to be the same game.

Our midfield still pick and choose when to dig in.. been an issue for a year now. 

 
1 minute ago, Hopeful Demon said:

Basically a carbon copy of the West Coast game in 2021. The only difference is that we were the ones playing catch up this time.

Yeah restarts suck 


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