Red But Mostly Blue

These exercises are much more fun after a rousing win. It’s funny how fast we can go from excitement to rabble. No idea about changes, I’d love to sub out nearly everyone who played today for a total lack of skills and very little heart, but we don’t have that luxury so almost everyone will line up next week for a much tougher assignment, and so a good opportunity to show some pride and earn back some trust.

Yeah absolutely terrible And it’s that difference between best and worst that continues to haunt us. Can’t build trust with stuff like this.

My eldest didn’t watch the game (thankfully) and I kid you not he just showed me this page of a book he is reading, and asked me what those words mean… Contemptible Deplorable Despicable Loathsome Hahahah life is funny (I said broadly ‘very bad’ and did not tell him the result).

It’s not the end of the world, it’s just a game of footy, and we’re all gonna die one day etc etc But yeah that was so bad and to lose to those mugs again, over there, like that, is depressing The hope really does kill you, hey?

8/10 top possession getters - dons.

336 days since their last win, and we have been kind enough to end that streak!

Oh I agree 100%

Just about as disappointed I have been in this team in a long time, probably more so because we started a new chapter and looked to have a new mindset. Losing is fine. Losing like this, to them, is not fine. "It's the hope that kills you"

Turning this off, poor. Just about as disappointed I have been in this team in a long time, probably more so because we started a new chapter and looked to have a new mindset. Losing is fine. Losing like this, to them, is not fine. "It's the hope that kills you"

Equal last, 17-loss streak, 62.7%, currently now pantsing us. This undoes so much of our hard work this year, and it's just one game, but gee this is why we can't trust the team, and why we still don't draw big crowds. Unlike the hawks, cats etc, you just don't know who you're going to get.

Of course. Not our day, friends. Unless we burst through now (and I can't see it, we've just been so poor all day other than 5 minutes in q2), it's done.

Agree, umpiring poor but if we lose, it's on us. And I don't mind losing. As a rebuilding side, we're going to lose - but there's a right way to lose and then there's this. There can't be night and day differences in how we play. Have to play 4 quarters every game. We've not shown up today, and while I remain hopeful, it looks like we're going to the bombers over there, again. We are so good at making bad teams look good :-(

At least this team/our performance against a struggling team is familiar. There's some comfort in that, I guess.

We need a study into why we play the bombers like this over there.

Far out the bombers are great, look at 'em. Finals bound.

Gee we've been poor.

PHEW, needed that. Can we use that to give us a little gee up and play out the next 5 minutes to get into this for the last quarter? Some of the guys have been unsighted, so we should have fresh legs in Q4.

17-game losing streak... We've been so poor today and this is starting to turn.

We miss our chances, and they take theirs. Our conversion kept us in the first half, won't be good if that falls away. Lot of footy left, but this doesn't look good. Thought we'd come out after HT firing, but we're still asleep and sloppy.

Wth - NOT GOOD Wasted chances from Petty and Steele.

Far out. Too easy. We're making an average side look good. Why do we this to ourselves?????

OK, here we go! Let's hope they practiced heaps of foot skill stuff in the rooms and psyched each other up to make sure we don't lose to this rabble! Just play a solid, no-quarter-given half of footy please!!

Soft ending. We actually have 4 of the top 5 rated players on the ground, but the problem is we have 6 of the bottom 8 as well. If not for Koz, Gawn and Disco, we'd be down a few. Need to see a lot more from guys like Langford, Culley, Windsor, Lindsay etc - and hopefully Melk/JVR/Fritter can get more involved at the scoring end! And we lead turnovers 43-35

…Super important to take chances And it’s really disheartening that we are in this tussle (again) with this team. Win or gulp lose, having to battle these duds is lame.

Would love a couple more this quarter. Lucky we’ve been accurate (and they have been a little wasteful), otherwise this would be uncomfortably level score wise. Got to be cleaner around the ground and stay focused for the second half.