Garbo

More talls wouldn’t help tonight, our players just didn’t adapt for conditions where marking is going to be hard. Lowering the eyes or moving the ball more directly so our smalls can get it out the back without the other teaming having time to setup

We need to be smarter going fwd our key fwds are barely capable of halving a contest let alone wining it. Giving our smalls no chance to crumb a goal. No way do we run the table, top 2 is now out of the question and top 4 is really on the line, we can probably only afford to loose 2 more from here if we want to hold onto the double chance

So it that the excuse next week of a 9 day break again if we loose

Disappointing how far can we go with a fwd line this inefficient, find it hard to think we can win a flag this way

Once again we can’t handle wet conditions, to many players running fwd of the ball assuming it won’t come to ground

Or more serious than they let on

Sure as you extend it out the numbers look better, but we clearly do have a backlog of untried or barely tried players from the last 3 drafts let alone more for this year coming up, as only 2 of those 8 picks (7 of which were under pick 40) taken in the national draft have found a regular spot in the 22 we would have been better off trading up for a single pick in each of those years and gone after generational talent.

At our stage we only need one player, it’s going to be hard enough to get games into one let alone three more. We have barely seen anyone from our last 3 drafts as is, no need to add more to the pile up

Hopefully Goodwin recognises that either Tomlinson or Petty if he isn’t fwd has to play down back for us to get the most from May and Lever. It’s was like been transported back to 2021 watching the backline today. If the forward line can just be more effective with there shots on goal we will be in great shape come finals.

He often has a punt both ways, did see him say that pies were due for a loss earlier in the week as well

How does James Jordan continue to not make the team, whoever is coming out for Oliver in a week.

To all the people the player this down initially remember what happened with Michael Hurley at Essendon who also got an infection from a blister which ended his career

Got to be unlikely to play now must be quite sever to need an IV, don’t understand how a fit young guy can’t fight off a simple infection from a blister naturally.

Any kids drafted now will only be the cherry on top, by the time they can fix holes in our list half the premiership side will be gone. If we want to fix deficiencies regardless of where they are we have to goto the trade table. First stop is a Key Forward and another Key back, Petty isn’t the answer forward if we are aiming for a flag and May is showing his age and needs some help as he can’t go with the taller fwds of the competition.

Time for everyone to lower their expectations down from a flag to just making finals, sooner you do that the sooner you will enjoy the games and we can be pleasantly surprised if we do better.

All his fault we haven’t gone undefeated and the vic government can’t balance the budget

Most players I don’t but if you leave after only a few years and we can only deal with one team for a trade you bet I will

The counter argument is they then won 13 in a row in large part due to a huge home ground advantage on the way to a flag. Even if we improve in the 2nd half we are not likely to repeat that making top 4 unlikely and top 2 impossible. Making a Flag unlikely. As greedy as it sounds I think most agree this team needs to win more than one flag to be called a success and top 4 finishes or a grand final appearance won’t cut it and the clock is ticking. How many years at peak do May and Gawn have left.

They also won’t kick that poorly in front of goal next time. No top 8 side should fear us at the moment, we will go out the same as last year assuming we even get a double chance

Game plan imo, we haven’t adjusted and teams have us figured out. We always play an extra behind the ball giving up equal numbers at the contest, this only works if we can split it at the contest and get the ball back via an interception often enough when we don’t. Problem is we aren’t winning it at the contest nearly enough and teams are being smarter when going forward. Goody needs to even out the numbers at the contest to give ourselves a chance.

Score line flatters us, we were beaten for 3.5 qtrs tonight, unfortunately same story as our other losses out worked round the contest, black line under pressure all night, fwd line non functional

Half a qtr of good footy blame Umpires all you want it’s our own fault been 2nd to it most of the night

How does port have more tackles while also having more of the ball shows a massive lack of effort

As weird as it sounds we need to stopping dropped an extra behind play it’s not helping when port just wins the contest at the ball 9/10 times

Once again we found lacking when playing top 8 teams