5 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

No words for how badly we performed tonight. 
Cats without Dangerfield and Guthrie and lose Cameron in the first few minutes, and we just go on to play some of the dumbest, softest football we’ve dished up all year. 

We absolutely should not have dropped Tomlinson for Petty who was totally underdone. We needed someone to drag Stewart away from the contest, but instead we went too small and nobody was able to stop him intercepting. 

Spargo was a terrible choice of sub, not to mention that subbing him off for Jordon was just idiotic. 

Infuriating garbage. 

Spargo and Chandler lucky to get games at present. Was Chandlers purple patch a moment in the sun. I hope not but he's gone very quiet.

I love Trac but I don't think a player with his skill hits the scoreboard enough.

As for the Grundy Gawn combo scoring effort, We are still waiting.

Shut down Fritta and we can't score.

Smith's 2 early goals were good but We need ANOTHER tall simon. How can you not see this?

1 minute ago, Constant Mongrel said:

which one?

The Chest mark

3 minutes ago, Stiff Arm said:

Surely, surely they gotta make a play at a big forward during trade week.

Otherwise its more of the same in 2024, a waste of the best midfield and defence we've had in 50 years

Wouldn’t make a difference with the inside delivery. We need to hit targets in 30-40m zone not hotspot. 

I know that @binmanwill be not panicking and looking big picture. 

It can be so hard when you're in the thick of it though!

Edited June 22, 20231 yr by layzie

We play down at this $hithole every year and the Pies,Tigers and Bombers haven't played there in over 10 years!!!

 

I don't mind where we play but FFS AFL,share the MISERY around!!!

Giants next Sunday. Forget about it and move on to next week. Sloppy game in the wet, mid week, mid season, mid sized regional town.

You really think the members and fans like the way we are playing?

Our disposal is shizen, our forward line is bamboozled and constantly kick to a pack.

Crumbers are nowhere to be seen.

May kicks out to the left every time.

Players don’t get dropped when they should.

And Goody wants us to be invested as members?

GAGF. Got better things to do with time.

geez, we have loads of issues. 

 

I thought we were ok the first 3 qtrs, but that last qtr was just horrible. We had absolutely no room in our forward 50 and the repeat entries are just really inefficient entries if you can’t hit a lead up target.

But the worst part was just defending their ball movement in that last qtr. We were so highly pressed up that they just got easy goals and so much space.

Goody seriously needs to sort out this foward line.

Van Rooyen and smith are not going to kick us a winning score in finals 

12 minutes ago, watchtheeyes said:

 

Lol

I have no idea why I come on here during losses… some of the negativity is so over the top. Incredible.

Putrid 1Q and 4Q though. But the 4Q is all about us pressing too high and fumbling/losing contests when we’re all goal side. To say the cats blew us away is to suggest it’s because they were so dynamic, it was all our positioning and skill in dangerous areas.

Agree on ANB. Just grab the ball man.. so frustrating.

Shocker from Gawn

Push high and fumble...

Agree

Skills don't support the game plan!!

We were the hunted tonight.

Out coached and out played.

Personnel didn’t matter

They looked a yard quicker and we very very panicky with our kicks.

F50 connection is woeful. 
Can’t get reward for effort without the ability to give your forwards more opportunity for set shots.
 

It’s just very broken. 

1 minute ago, Jack7 said:

We play down at this $hithole every year and the Pies,Tigers and Bombers haven't played there in over 10 years!!!

 

I don't mind where we play but FFS AFL,share the MISERY around!!!

Actually they put up feelings fixture and Essendon do have to travel there. That cheered me up a bit

4 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

Stafford seriously needs to go at years end.

Yes, but look at who he has available, especially in terms of key position players. JVR OK as emerging forward and second tall - but we need an in form BBB or Tom Mac as the primary target ... which I suspect isn't gong to happen as both seem past it. Hope I'm wrong, because if not ...

Just now, dees189227 said:

Goody seriously needs to sort out this foward line.

Van Rooyen and smith are not going to kick us a winning score in finals 

100% can't win in September with those two as your main talks. Get BBB in for starters

Where do I start?

Getting the ball is not our problem.  It continues steady and stable. We have a good list, and a game plan that stacks up. But from here I can cut and paste the same three errors from across this season:

Horrible field kicking, including dumb, blind kicking into F50 that favours the opposition, allows intercept marking, and makes our forwards look inept

Over handballing in close leading to blind kicks forward, leading to ... see above.

Fumbling. 

Tonight though, we gave it up in the last quarter in a way I have not often seen during Goodwin's tenure. 

And now for my rant. ANB is a momentum killing player, whose fumbling at critical times is team destroying. I am sick to the death of it and him. But he won't get dropped because there are 5 ahead of him on tonight's performance.

And although we have a great list, we actually don't have good small players who can read the ball off a pack, or who can be first to a ground ball. Guthrie, De Koning and Blicsavs were better at ground level tonight than Chandler, Pickett, ANB and Fritsch.

4 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

Dangerous tackle and got paid as one too. Head whipped back and hit the ground

I reckon he’ll get 1 week. 

We will 'take the learnings'. 

And Geelong need 'full credit because they were outstanding'.

Whatever you do Goody, don't give away the fact that this team has the worst list of ball users inside the top. A list that has unbelievable talent. Just not in areas like composure, ball use and decision making. 

 

Just now, layzie said:

I know that @binmanwill be not panicking and looking big picture. 

It can be so hard when you're in the thick of it though!

This loss means nothing in the context of our season. But bloody hell it’s hard to understand what we are doing sometimes. 
Our forwardline is a disaster. We kicked big scores early in the season playing appalling opposition. But the reality is that between our mind boggling ball use, and our lack of marking power up forward, we are going to struggle in September. Why just why didn’t we put Petty forward the minute Cameron was taken off?

Just pray it’s a dry September. 

12 minutes ago, Hellaintabadplacetobe said:

Really disappointing finish after looking the better team 2nd and 3rd qtrs.

So many players MIA but WTF is up with Max! Worst game in years 

Nightmared by so many killer performances,  the cats to their credit double teamed him and shut him down to no marks at all.

We played such a laborious game style tonight once it opened up in the last quarter we got split in half

2 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Van Rooyen and smith are not going to kick us a winning score in finals 

But who is?

Nothing to do with the coaches, we just don't have the cattle.

5 minutes ago, Travy14 said:

Yeh was a bad game for him, but grundy looked pretty good.  In the wet weather surely you plonk gawn 10m out from goal and get the Smalls around him.  Leave Grundy in the ruck

What smalls. Have we any?

It's not the losses it's the manner. The way we came out at the start of that last quarter was garbage. They had the first for inside 50s and ended up kicking 5 from 7. It was a joke of all proportions, we defend so well in transition but in that moment we went back to 2019 level of conceding goals. Absolute unmitigated garbage. 

Long range approach but gee it hurts when you're not seeing the first for the trees. 

Weekend is already ruined and it hasn't even started? By that logic I should just got to sleep and wake up some time on Saturday.