Red But Mostly Blue

Slender lead, poor half. We look unfocused, giving them too much room. They’re taking marks at will in our backline. May has been horrid. Please put Petty back. I’m loathe to say this already but the reality is that we’re not there yet, not even close. Like last year our wins have come against low ranking teams or ones who have not yet found their stride. Our wins are v 10, 11, 14, 16 and 18. Losses against top 8 teams. We need to make big improvements. If we sneak a win out of this I’ll be very happy but we need to address stuff like what the hell happened to our backline, where is May? Why do we disappear so often? Needless to say we need a big statement setting second half.

Why do we look so disorganised out back? How are they taking so many marks out there? Leaked 46 points to the GC in a half, so far. Not great.

Our backline has been very poor.

WHAT A GOAL BY CHANDLER Speed, smarts and composure.

They say thrashings like this are boring. Nah, I thoroughly enjoyed that. And it’s great to exact some of that punishment on the Roos and Clarko, who were both responsible for so much of our pain for many years. The only downside was the missed 100. Go Dees!

Despite the umps, and ourselves for 2.5 quarters, we have come away with a good gritty win against a hard-working tigers outfit who came to win. We still have a long way to go, but these are important steps forward!

We take the win obviously, but there are some things we need to look closer at. Our backline was poor, still too much millionaire football, and our forward structure is a mess. Having said that, positives: wrestling the game back, JVR and what a crowd!! Learn from this and take the W onwards Go Dees 🔵🔴

MAXXXYYYY!!!!

We really need a goal to adjust the momentum. We’ve been lucky they have been inaccurate.

Oh hey THEY FINALLY PAID HOLDING AGAINST THE TIGERS

I love your optimism. I felt the same against the bombers last week and we never showed up. Worried we’re not going to turn up today either but happy to jump on board your positive sentiment!

Does anybody notice how, just like last year, every team we play against knows they have a chance of winning if they just work hard. We were average against the WAFL Eagles, destroyed by the bombers and getting shown up again today.

Doubt it. Where was the spray when we weee getting towelled by the bombers? My guess is we’ll do more of the same after HT, lose then talk about how this is not our brand of footy. Not us. Etc.

WE ARE MAKING YET ANOTHER TEAM LOOK LIKE 2023 PREMIERS.

WHY ARE THEY TAKING CONTESTED MARKS EVERYWHERE???????

Umps awful but not as bad as us. Hopefully that ignites some momentum.

Who are we???!! This sucks. Last week we lost to a team who won’t go the distance and will again this week because we don’t work hard enough. Too many excuses. No imagination. We have nearly a full strength team out there. This is embarrassing.

We look so refreshed after a 9 day break. Lots of intensity. Great to see given the excuses we got re travel and maybe fatigue for folding to the bombers last week. POOR

Backline putrid again. We’re being shown up by a non contender. Again.

Sloppy. Again.

Had a good sleep on this. OK… Teams have bad days, I get it. But this is our SECOND very bad day in just 5 rounds. In both cases we were outplayed and outworked by a team who wanted it more. We may have been tired last night from travel, who knows, but that’s a lazy answer - we had team mates burning each other, and guys playing millionaire football. No teamwork. it’s time to wake up - WE’RE NOT THE REIGNING PREMIERS anymore. That would be the cats. Either we get used to hunting now - do we want this dynasty or not?? We can either be the Doggies and rest on our one flag, which would be such a waste given our list or we can play our guts out week in, week out - and earn it!!. The bombers were hungry and smart last night, and they outran us. Where did our intense levels of training go??? Wasn’t that what we kept hearing? Anyway, I hate that I never know which version of my club will turn up at games. We’ll never be great, and we’ll never have that dynasty they talk about so much until consistency is in our DNA. So annoyed at last night’s loss. Wasted points in what will obviously be a very tight season 😔

The bombers will do absolutely nothing this year. Hope they enjoy the win, and that we learn from this.

Given a bath. The bounces went against us and they took their chances with some lucky goals but that’s not why they won, they won because they worked harder, wanted it more and were better coached. We came in arrogant and complacent. i hope we don’t sweep this away as a one off because other teams will beat us the same way if we continue to turn up expecting wins with lazy football. Pretty bummed after that.

I hope we keep JJ

That’s holding the ball