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Just now, Devil In Disguise said:

Game will be over by halftime. Backline is weak as water.

backline is less of an issue than the complete lack of pressure put on by mids and half-forwards

their movement thru the corridor is completely unimpeded

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    Just now, Devil In Disguise said:

    Game will be over by halftime. Backline is weak as water.

    Geez May just stopped and watched opponents run past him a couple of times in that quarter.

    And....still yells at his team mates for not covering the space.

    Dead set

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    Just now, Devil In Disguise said:

    Game will be over by halftime. Backline is weak as water.

    The problem is the turn over up the ground and lack of pressure back toward them.

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    Very good teams like Brisbane have the ability to rip open games very quickly. We would want to stop the momentum quickly after quarter time or this could get worse than Essendons performance last night.

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    3 minutes ago, picket fence said:

    U dont say try telling Simon! Also Spargo , Johnson, Sharp,Salem USELESS!

    Yeah, Jeffo could do better than all of them put together 🙄

    Edited by Stiff Arm

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    3 minutes ago, Tom Dyson said:

    Contest and offence is alright, not amazing but alright, but gee our defence is horrendous.

    Cannot defend transition for the life of us.

    Hard to know from the tv what’s going on in defence, I suspect they are able to get an extra and use it the whole way down the ground ending in what looks like a loose player inside 50

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    we're going to have defend the corridor better or we're looking at a shellacking here

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    Just now, jaydenh10 said:

    i don't get why sparrow is not doing this

    Perhaps because Oliver is a bit lost and it gives him a role.

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    2 minutes ago, layzie said:

    Some of the best we've looked all year until it wasn't

    Agree

    Only looking for green shoots at present

    One day it might all come together

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    This will be a ten goal loss.

    geez windsor. he's supposed to be one of our better kicks


     

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