time to delete this topic?

When I saw people posting here positing how if we beat the Pies we'd be 7 and 6 I just knew the Saints would beat us.

We’re dead. This midfield has a ceiling of a low end mid table side. Sometimes it works but too often it just doesn’t use the ball well enough or dominate inside to cover it

May and Lever don’t run well enough to produce an elite backline.

Key forwards get the blame but our half forwards are just as plod as plod gets.

2 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

We’re dead. This midfield has a ceiling of a low end mid table side. Sometimes it works but too often it just doesn’t use the ball well enough or dominate inside to cover it

May and Lever don’t run well enough to produce an elite backline.

Key forwards get the blame but our half forwards are just as plod as plod gets.

Really?

We didn’t kick goals. That’s it.

I dunno, I think we are a chance to pinch this on expected score… 🤞

We might just be now.

Certainly we're today.

KP and Oliver and Milkshake all nullified.

Even Tracc was a little flat at times.

Lever still not impacting.

The same old wasted chances.

It hurts to watch.

On 31/05/2025 at 12:26, Adam The God said:

We will lose games, that's a fact. I hope we don't drop tomorrow though. It is a danger game.

The lowest pressure we've had under Goody apparently. May the only winner on the ground. Probably our worst performance since North.

Kick straight though and we win by 4 or 5 goals. Turner and Melksham missing in the opening minute of the 4th basically put paid to the game.

These are the sort of games we'll have unfortunately. Deeply frustrating and our conversion rate will mean we will struggle to be competitive against any side.

Play like that again I hate to think what Collingwood would do to us.

11 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

We’re dead. This midfield has a ceiling of a low end mid table side. Sometimes it works but too often it just doesn’t use the ball well enough or dominate inside to cover it

May and Lever don’t run well enough to produce an elite backline.

Key forwards get the blame but our half forwards are just as plod as plod gets.

Hang on, hang on, hang on.

We had 8 more scoring shots, most of our 28 shots on goal were extremely gettable.

No one was good today except May, but to put this on the midfield misses the point.

Like the first half last week, and so many times before over a long period of time, if you can't kick basic set shots, you won't win games.

1 minute ago, Adam The God said:

Hang on, hang on, hang on.

We had 8 more scoring shots, most of our 28 shots on goal were extremely gettable.

No one was good today except May, but to put this on the midfield misses the point.

Like the first half last week, and so many times before over a long period of time, if you can't kick basic set shots, you won't win games.

May’s first quarter was genuinely disgusting, along with Pickett’s rubbish play on he set the tone for the Saints getting in the game and a match winning lead with his complete disregard for Keeler.

Watch the relays of several goals and it’s clear May is the one who’s either sagging off or sitting forward in no man’s land.

He played a very good 3/4s after that but his work rate at times is just abysmal and he then blames everyone else.

Bloody Ross Lyon

Deciding to tag our taggers who weren’t really tagging.

And then running off our players that go forward from the Centre, without paying much attention to their midfielders.

And then just kicking it to each other in our forward line without kicking it to us up forward.

Bloody tactics!

18 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Really?

We didn’t kick goals. That’s it.

We didn’t kick goals because we so rarely get quality set shots in good positions. How many of our misses were inside 30 in the corridor? A few, but not too many. How often do we take the ball from one wing or flank to get chances in the fat side pocket? Almost never - because our mids and half forwards don’t have the skills to move the ball under pressure. They had 140 marks!!!

And anytime we did get a stronger hold on the game we let them go coast to coast with a backline that couldn’t defend the game in space.

They didn’t score all that much because the game was played locked in to kicking points. We saw what happened in the first quarter when both teams had the ball in space. We should’ve kicked 4, but they walked into 6.

We are officially done after today.

We were as limp as an 80 year old in front of the big sticks today.

1 minute ago, DeeSpencer said:

We didn’t kick goals because we so rarely get quality set shots in good positions. How many of our misses were inside 30 in the corridor? A few, but not too many. How often do we take the ball from one wing or flank to get chances in the fat side pocket? Almost never - because our mids and half forwards don’t have the skills to move the ball under pressure. They had 140 marks!!!

And anytime we did get a stronger hold on the game we let them go coast to coast with a backline that couldn’t defend the game in space.

They didn’t score all that much because the game was played locked in to kicking points. We saw what happened in the first quarter when both teams had the ball in space. We should’ve kicked 4, but they walked into 6.

We missed sitters today dead in front pi ss poor performance all round.

Wasn’t expect to run the table for the rest of the year but you’d have banked a win against the Saints.

I have seen enough to know not only that the season is dead, but we have a serious serious issue defensively - especially against teams that have great kicking skills and ball movement.

Pies will maul us next week.

7 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

We didn’t kick goals because we so rarely get quality set shots in good positions. How many of our misses were inside 30 in the corridor? A few, but not too many. How often do we take the ball from one wing or flank to get chances in the fat side pocket? Almost never - because our mids and half forwards don’t have the skills to move the ball under pressure. They had 140 marks!!!

And anytime we did get a stronger hold on the game we let them go coast to coast with a backline that couldn’t defend the game in space.

They didn’t score all that much because the game was played locked in to kicking points. We saw what happened in the first quarter when both teams had the ball in space. We should’ve kicked 4, but they walked into 6.

kossie and trac missed from about 10-15 out in front of goal

plenty of gettable shots missed besides. from memory 3-4 from approx 45m out in front of goal

you may be right overall about our half forwards but they were not the reason we lost today

6 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

We missed sitters today dead in front pi ss poor performance all round.

A few shockers no doubt. Pickett, Gawn (hardly a surprise), Melk didn’t have the kicking boots on.

But the second half especially was a parade of bombing it in then taking awful shot after awful shot.

The more we miss the more pressure builds on the next guy

22 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

May’s first quarter was genuinely disgusting, along with Pickett’s rubbish play on he set the tone for the Saints getting in the game and a match winning lead with his complete disregard for Keeler.

Watch the relays of several goals and it’s clear May is the one who’s either sagging off or sitting forward in no man’s land.

He played a very good 3/4s after that but his work rate at times is just abysmal and he then blames everyone else.

Yeah May was appalling in the first quarter. Got better after half time after what I presume was an earful from Goody.

This season has a big “any given week” feel to it. So many chaotic results.

It’s certainly unlikely, but still wouldn’t say the season is 100% done.

Everyone between 6-12 on the ladder is a bit all over the place atm and while I wouldn’t bet on us (especially since we seem to have forgotten how to kick the ball through the big sticks) crazier things have happened.

6 minutes ago, BDA said:

kossie and trac missed from about 10-15 out in front of goal

plenty of gettable shots missed besides. from memory 3-4 from approx 45m out in front of goal

you may be right overall about our half forwards but they were not the reason we lost today

A fresh Bailey Laurie struggled to get the distance on his snap from 25m.

Sharp missed from directly in front, snapping, but under 12s type stuff, no pressure, an easy around the body shot.

Melksham 30m straight in front in the last.

Kozzy's in the first. 20m out.

That's 4 right there.

8 minutes ago, Disco InTurno said:

This season has a big “any given week” feel to it. So many chaotic results.

It’s certainly unlikely, but still wouldn’t say the season is 100% done.

Everyone between 6-12 on the ladder is a bit all over the place atm and while I wouldn’t bet on us (especially since we seem to have forgotten how to kick the ball through the big sticks) crazier things have happened.

Our draw gets progressively harder from here on in. Including 3 interstate trips in a row after we have to play the best team in the competition next week, who we play once more to finish the season.

Also still need to play Gold Coast and Adelaide away, Hawks again, and the Dogs. We are seriously cooked.

1 minute ago, Disco InTurno said:

This season has a big “any given week” feel to it. So many chaotic results.

It’s certainly unlikely, but still wouldn’t say the season is 100% done.

Everyone between 6-12 on the ladder is a bit all over the place atm and while I wouldn’t bet on us (especially since we seem to have forgotten how to kick the ball through the big sticks) crazier things have happened.

Totally, it's certainly not over.

23 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Yeah May was appalling in the first quarter. Got better after half time after what I presume was an earful from Goody.

Thankyou.

And I’m not suggesting May is the reason we lost but we used to be able to win playing like this because May and Lever would keep the opposition to low scores.

Without our backline dominating nor our midfield dominating in tight we have to get our skills and decision making going forward of centre somewhere more like our ball movement from the backline which is generally pretty good.

Yes we could’ve won just with some better goal kicking, but we didn’t play well enough elsewhere to set up goals to really deserve to win.