Red But Mostly Blue

Of course that’s a free against us.

And then a hero comes along…

How’s that not holding the ball!!!!!???

MELKY!!!

But also 😢

Lead, mark, goal

Let’s try that a little more often

Please???

These i50s are doing my head in.

Not a great start

We can win this!!! Just gotta take our chances, be smarter going i50 and at some point the umpires will get tired, right?

Let’s do it for Neale and also Trac, who must be facing his own demons today revisiting the Pies

What can you say, the pies are professionals. They don’t need much of the ball. As soon as they get it, they move quick and make us pay. 6.2 to 4.6 is the same old story.

We have had our chances and should be up at half time, not behind.

I’d say we need to be better in the second half in front of goals and our entries i50 but that’s my Christmas wish every year.

We can win this, we’re just wasteful. And they are slick and take chances.

THAT’S A FREE AGAINST US???!!!

Howwwwewwwew???!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trust in koz.

As bad as the umpiring has been and it has been bad, they haven’t missed goals for us. Trac should have done better and Melk should certainly Have done better with all the time he had.

We should be entering the HT break a couple of goals up.

Wow

That’s what you call cheating.

Trac has looked fired up today.

Clearly today is the full circle moment for his mental and physical rehab.

Also, that Steele goal is so annoying.

We’ve had so much of the ball in our 50 and wasted so much of it, they get the rub of all the free kicks and, surprise surprise capitalise on their chance!!!

Maaaaaattee, YOU JUST CAN’T TOUCH THESE PIES!!!!!!

Gonna be that kind of game, which means, as it always should really, that we need to take our chances today, and play 4 quarters. The Pies won’t let up, and neither will the umps.

May was awesome. I miss that May. We miss that May.

What did we do to Steele to deserve that free kick against???

Only a few minutes but good start and good convert from spaz. I hope the boys see how much easier it is to get 6 points via a goal than through 6 individual points 🤣

Here come the behinds… 🤣😭

3 hours ago, poita said:

Anyone who doesn't think that goal kicking is a skill that can be improved over time needs to look at Russell Robertson's progression across his career.

His career goal kicking accuracy was 50% early on, lifting slightly to 55% by 2004, although his kicking was pretty poor that last year.

He worked his backside off in the 2005 pre season to improve his technique, and kicked 73.30 that year (71%). He went at above 60% for the remainder of his career as well.

There is really no excuse for current players to not be able identify and fix their issues (technical, mental or otherwise) with all the resources at their disposal.

Whoah 73.30 - what we'd give to have one of those right now! (I know the game has changed, but still, even something close to that)

1 hour ago, Adam The God said:

In: Viney, JVR

Out: Sharp, AJ, Laurie

McVee May Lever

Bowey Turner Salem

Windsor Oliver Langford

Langdon JVR Chandler

Kozzy Petty Melksham

Max Trac Rivers

Lindsay Fritta Viney Sparrow

Sharp

I think that's the strongest team we can put out on the park if Viney is fit.

The sub role is up for grabs. Sharp does have good assets for the sub role and almost always hits the scoreboard. If Laurie was more trustworthy, I'd have him there.

Like this a lot.

There's certainly an argument for a TMac/Lever swap, but 3 changes might be too much for a team that has generally been performing very well the last 6-7 weeks. But I personally think Lever was brought back too early, and things were stable with TMac.

32 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Yes, he has, and to refer to him as a NQR player is disrespectful because NQR in this context has nothing to do with injuries, rather it’s a reference to a lack of ability/talent.

100% x infinity.

3 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

I may be wrong but I feel we were under control the first 10 or so minutes. Then Milkshake and Kozzy proceeded to butcher two easy shots at goal.

I think if we put the score 20 - 0 or similar in that initial part of the match, things could have developed differently.

Completely agree. Momentum is real and we went out of our way to destroy it, and rolled the red carpet for the Saints to enter the game.

43 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Marty doesn’t belong on that list.

Marty has been unlucky as hell with injuries.

Just came here to say we are, despite our best efforts, still not dead. Yet.

It's both positive and frustrating, but despite being poor yesterday, we could have won had we kicked even a little bit better. The first quarter was inexcusable. though. I still don't know why/how we let teams jump us like that. You can talk whatever stats you want for our improvement in the last 6-8 rounds, but the truth is it came down to pressure. We were tackling like crazy and running guys down. This did not happen yesterday. We let ourselves be shown up by ross and his merry band of equally frustrating 'will they/won't they' - just so happens, they did. And we didn't.

If we beat the Pies and Port (you'll laugh, and I am kind of laughing, too, deliriously, maybe - but we can beat both), and we can go into the bye thinking about what the home stretch looks like. I'd love to stun the Pies this week.

We have to remember, that despite the terrible, godawful, goalkicking yesterday, this is the same team we were gushing over last week.

Are we reliable or trustworthy? Hell no. But we are capable. And dangerous when we click. With a few more games and time together, especially with the kids, consistency will follow. I certainly would be focusing on being a trustworthy/reliable side in the offseason. That should be our culture. knowing what fans will get weak in, week out. None of this 'which Dees will turn up today' stuff.

I can deal with losing, provided the same Dees turn up every week and put in 100%.

Anyway, one game at a time.