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GAMEDAY: Rd 19 vs Fremantle

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10 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

Another Goodwin speciality. 

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    Just now, M_9 said:

    So far we've dropped 3.4%. Drop another 2% and we'll go below the Dawks.

    Hawks deserve to be ahead of us. Been sensational for weeks now. 

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    When May and Lever are bad, they are just horrific. 

    It feels like we've spent the entire game taking 5 steps too many and running into trouble, or just banging the ball long to the Freo defenders. 


    Walters in the protected zone behind the man on the mark, moving sideways.

    Not only is no 50m paid, but he's not even told to get out

    Just wondering when genius mode kicks in for Goodwin 🤷‍♂️

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    How are they constantly running unmanned? And finding multiple free players inside 50?

    Is everyone dead in the coaches box? 


    CAN OUR DEFNDERS ACTUALLY DEFEND AN OPPONENT FOR ONCE!

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    Walters must love playing us. Perfectly suits his game of not wanting a tough contest & waiting for a loose ball 

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    Just now, Moonshadow said:

    Turner is not a marking beast

    I wasn't never going to believe that. Coming as it was from his mum 😀 

    Freo are everywhere, headcount please lol

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    Why are they all unmanned so often in their forward 50?

    Ok we are down in the ruck but why so poor in defensive effort today??

    What was our plan going into this match? If you look at the disaster of the previous match what did we plan to do differently to counter this?

    The inability to create solutions has cost us finals and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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    Embarrassing performance all round from the Coach down.

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    Why the [censored] would we sub kolt.

    Sparrow and chandler have been 100000% worse 

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    How is it that you can turn over the ball at half forward, and they get an uncontested mark inside 50 without anyone getting within 10m of their players?

    This is unacceptably bad. Makes Goodwin look silly when he said that they haven’t seen the real us. [censored]. But don’t worry Billing’s will save us.

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    1 minute ago, Moonshadow said:

    Turner is not a marking beast

    Hard when he's being double teamed at every opportunity.

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    We're not a contender this year so may as well just play kids and try for be best draft pick possible. Give the kids time around the ball. It's not like the senior players can handle it.

    No more list cloggers like Billings, Hunter, Laurie etc


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