Red But Mostly Blue

Freo showed us where we are right now. Way too fumbly and just generally outrun by a much better team. At least we kept running and trying, I’ll take an 8 goal loss. Last week the kids (and Maxy) gave us cause for excitement, and this week it was the old boys who kept us in it. We will lose a fair bit this year, so we just gotta dust ourselves off and try again. We should be able to bounce back against the blues.

11 goals down, we CAN do this… It’s not even a goal a minute. Way more luxury than that. Seriously though, just show some heart boys and keep this respectable. Was always going to be a tough ask tonight. But if we’re going to build with this team, we need to start building one that keeps fighting until the last siren.

Here’s King’s first big challenge. Goody was criticised, and rightly so, for just watching games play out with no changes. What are we going to do here? Can’t let freo run away with 100pt win, because that’s very possible right now.

Back to Q1 deficit. All the good work gone, that’s a shame. Boys have to man up now and not let this get away from us. We will lose lots of games this year, but it’s important we lose them the right way and learn from them (sorry, learnings…)

Not really the start to the half we wanted, both on the scoreboard and skills wise.

Those freo goals aside our fight back was good, not sure we would have seen it last year after starting a game so poorly. Pity we couldn’t close out the the half 20 down. We’re actually still in this, just got to keep them accountable, take our chances and can’t afford those late mistakes.

Hard to argue with that. And to be fair, I wouldn't put it past him!!!

Agree, previously he's looked a little lost in play, struggling to get involved - tbf he's just a kid barely 20 games in and that's not a problem of itself, but it looks like the way in for him (as Kingy, praise be, has identified), is having a specific task and opponent to get involved straight away. In time he'll learn to read the play better, I reckon he'll go alright. He's got the right attitude. We need that.

I'm gonna back the big guy in for 10. It's a much nicer number.

6 - JVR 5 - Gawn 4 - Windsor 3 - Checkers 2 - Kozzy 1 - Culley HM: Steele, CJ, Sharp, Petty, Disco (A very difficult one this week as it was such an even team performance - a GOOD problem to have).

AMAZING!!! Perfect start. Sure you could nitpick some stuff, like defence (a little shaky), some guys not really involved here and there, but what's the point? First game of the season and we came out hungry. We persisted and we took down a team that really fancied themselves (Jack Sinclair's HT comments were odd, really made it seem like they were the goliath here). Truth is, you can buy a midfield, but you can't buy class. And we outclassed them when it mattered. Saints might need to throw another $10m to become relevant. Still not a destination club, unless the destination is irrelevance. Anyhoo, ROO!!! MASSIVE. Gawny got better, great hands. But Windsor was electric. Sharp had some awesome moments at the end in particular. Culley might actually take mark of the year and just generally awesome. Mihocek got better as it went on. Steele was solid. Lots to love, long live the King!!!

Fritter!!!! Phew. Still not out of it, but one more MIGHT DO IT KEEP PUSHING, BOYS

I’m not gonna survive a whole year of this 😂

HELL YEhhhhh Jai, that goal is all yours. Gun. Let’s settle with another.

Lucky, and that was poor by lever We really need a settler goal. I’m reminded of that moment where fritter really needed to go back and take the shot, to take us 4 goals up