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Petty has no instinct, craft or skills as a forward. Can we please stop the experiment?

Zero effort from the umpire to call play on. Viney couldn’t impact kick due to the umps laziness or cheating. 

 

Tackle low Dees and stop moving when you do it.

Without any sort of explosiveness in the middle Viney and Oliver are useless.

 

Put Pickett in there and bloody leave him there.


How can we give up the first 9 scoring shots of the game, seriously? Looks to be turning a little but geez there are slow starts and there’s this. Dogs are running hot and will take great pleasure in eliminating our finals chances. Let’s not just hand it to them on a platter? 

missed tackles really getting on my nerves

 

Sparrow and Chandler. Both average players doing average things 🤮

What's happened to our tackling over the last month or two? It feels as though opposition players break out of them way too easily.


Just now, BDA said:

missed tackles really getting on my nerves

Our team is an expert on missed tackles and poor kicking skills. Not addressed enough by the coaching staff for years now.

Dogs tackling to our insipid efforts are great.

Can we please sub Clayton Off.. killing us big time

Petty doesn't work hard enough to keep the ball forward.

Also English is destroying Gawn.


TACKLE THEM. FFS! 

Just now, Demon Jack said:

What's happened to our tackling over the last month or two? It feels as though opposition players break out of them way too easily.

I feel like that’s been an issue most of the year. Everyone else looks to have Velcro and we’ve got oily hands. 

Lucky the Olympics are on TV

And can we please stop playing Max for this season?

It's clear that with and without him we are an average team at best.

Better to keep his body fresh for next season, he is our only ruckman.


2 minutes ago, praha said:

Without any sort of explosiveness in the middle Viney and Oliver are useless.

 

Put Pickett in there and bloody leave him there.

You may as well. No use leaving Pickett forward

Rubbish.

 

Commentary clearly going for dogs.

Can't blame them.

[censored] we seem to have given up

Lack of tackling, no defensive effort, can’t win a clearance. Really poor way to finish a season. 


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