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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Geelong

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Why can Geelong kick a ball inside 50 and hit a target? Why can basically every AFL team do that bar us?

Coaching? Personnel? List management?

In the last quarter I reckon Geelong hit more targets inside 50 than we did in the last two weeks.

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    Geelong have taken a record number of uncontested marks. They have scored every second time they've entered the 50. They toyed with us.

    Allowing your opposition to rebound with ease and control ball movement is not how you play AFL level footy. The coaching is horrid.

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    Better effort (until the 4th quarter) but skill execution is still a mile off.

    We're in serious trouble.

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    Our final quarters this year…unfortunately those training reports aren’t adhering to ‘super fit ‘ with those stats

    Still hold hope we will improve as the season goes, but geez it’s hard.

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    Just now, MurDoc516 said:

    Why can Geelong kick a ball inside 50 and hit a target? Why can basically every AFL team do that bar us?

    Coaching? Personnel? List management?

    In the last quarter I reckon Geelong hit more targets inside 50 than we did in the last two weeks.

    Everytime we get the ball there is no-one inside 50.

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    Effort but no skill or composure, same 5hit with this group won't change. Been this way for nearly 10 years. Had a great few weeks in 21 but we are what we are

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    Remember when we monstered these mugs in that prelim? Yeah that memory is fading, and we’re so far off that team It boggles the mind.

    Anyway, 0-4 (worst start since 2012, a year you might also have forgotten), and this year’s final quarters have yielded 4 goals for and 22 against?

    Aside from the fact that we have no forward connection, we were out marked everywhere and just lack basic skills and gave them room everywhere .

    Where to now? Honestly don’t know

    Edited by Red But Mostly Blue

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    Absolute rubbish… we have no forward line, no effective mids, still just play up the wings, cannot hit a player on the chest to save ourselves, our skills simply aren’t up to scratch… awful to watch!

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    Swap Van Rooyen for a key forward who can hold his marks, and Petty for someone who can defend without giving away stupid frees, and we win that.

    In spite of everything, we are generating enough I50's ... only to see it come straight out again.

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    A pretty decent effort for 3 quarters and a pretty abysmal effort in the last quarter.

    Skill execution just not to the level.

    Also umpires can gagf'd as far as i'm concerned, took away all our momentum in the third when we were coming.

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    Well, at least we showed some heart ❤️💙 ,which is a huge improvement on the previous two weeks.

    Skills are another matter, but ……

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    Our play between wing and F50 is an ugly, ugly thing.

    Our effort was really good and most gave their all.

    I could see us trying our new style but we simply don't have the foot skills to execute. Actually, our foot skills are a total embarrassment.

    van Royen and Petty are in the lowest form slump I can remember for each of them.

    And we are slow.

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    Another last quarter fade…goal-less…about time Selwyn Griffith is held to some accountability. We haven’t ran out a match since Burgess was in charge of high performance.

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    Just now, Red But Mostly Blue said:

    Remember when we monstered these mugs in that prelim? Yeah that memory is fading, and we’re so far off that team It boggles the mind.

    Anyway, 0-4 (worst start since 2012, a year you might also have forgotten), and this year’s final quarter is have yielded 4 goals for and 22 against?

    Aside from the fact that we have no forward connection, we were out marked everywhere and just lack basic skills and gave them room everywhere .

    Where to now? Honestly don’t know

    Yeah I remember, geelong has turned over and improved their list and their game style since. We have not

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    It is absolutely pathetic what has transpired at Melbourne over the past 18 months.

    77% of its flag winning squad played tonight. That's 14 on the day and 17 who played at some point during finals.

    They have zero forward craft, zero midfield craft, and if you take one of May or Lever out of the backline, it completely breaks down.

    I am just absolutely gobsmacked. To get run over by a team on a 6 day break from playing in 100% humidity and 30 degree weather is completely unacceptable.

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    I mean say what you want about the game, but we have no forward line.. none. No key position player, no talls. Van Rooyen looks barely a VFL player.

    No team is winning with that.

    And then you add Petty…

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    1 minute ago, Hellaintabadplacetobe said:

    I don't think I've ever seen 2 KPPs as badly out of form as Petty and Roo.

    Aside from that, we are a shell of the team we used to be.

    Fritsch?

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