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GAMEDAY: Practice Match vs Fremantle

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This is a tad grim

 

This game day thread is a carbon copy of a in-season 2024 game day thread.

Unfortunately. 
 

Poor skills, poor conversion, lack of ball movement. 
 

The only slight difference I see is more chip and less long down the line. 

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    Just now, brendan said:

    Same old same old 

    Yep. Our skills are woeful. 

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    This appears to be heading like all other games recently vs Flogmantle 

    might get ugly 

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    Ooof

    I saw this twice last year. Don’t know I’m up for another episode.

    I’m a sucker for punishment so I’ll likely tune in for the first half of Q3 to see if Goody actually tries something different. But if no change I might turn this off and wait for the learnings. 

    Lame 

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    Those bemoaning lack of a new game plan...it's the cattle. 

    As soon as the ball is in motion we can't stop it because we are slow on every line. It's been happening for years. 

    We're a tough, slow team. We've never been a fast or skilful team, and unfortunately that's where the game has gone. 

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    Max is standing in front of every pack and getting crunched get him off

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    That effort by Salem in defence was weak.  Walters had all day.

    So I thought the game plan had changed, nothing I’ve seen has shown we have changed our games style 1%

    Still slow, still dump kick long, our early pressure kept us in this but this is putrid. 

    About to turn this off....

    Horrible, I know it's hot and we are playing in a country location but this is [censored] poor!


    Tell me please ,   has anything changed apart from the year ?

    If we are playing like this for the first ten or so rounds, it will be a very interesting watch to see how the club reacts. 

     

    Bad kicking aside, we are on track for allowing 30+ scoring shots against us. Not going to win many games of footy with that.

    Love how they flush just about every set shot & we absolutely butcher our chances time & time again. 

    Skill execution is still a major concern of ours. Don’t see how that changes any time soon.


     

     

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