Red But Mostly Blue

Hahahahahaha ANB's handball sums up our season perfectly!

Is Ratten available next year? I know a club that is in dire need of a tactician.

Great stuff by Fritter! Goal belongs to him.

Phew, lucky the Saints aren't a better side. If so, we'd be 30 points down at half time.

Take me back to the first two minutes of the game!

Fritter in the forward half of the ground easily > Fritter in the defensive half. Can't believe it took this long to make that happen.

It says a lot when both of them are useless.

Aside from the first few minutes, the Saints have been moving the ball I50 way too easily, and consistent with with our year, our entries have been marred by aimless long bombs, fumbles and turnovers. OMac has done some ok things. I'm not a fan so that's worth noting.

LOVING Lever's work around the ground tonight.

THANK YOU FOR THE HOPE!!

I'm still stunned by this team (not in a good way). Why are we doing the same things? I would have thought OMac is in the pile of 'tried, but didn't work out' decisions? At this juncture of the season, being second last, we should be doing different things! Hell, play the mascot out back, I don't care, at least it's not the same cycle of crap. It must be me, but I see a loss, the same guys go out, Wagners, ANB, etc, then we lose again, and they're brought back, like we've forgotten how poorly they played just a fortnight ago. To be fair, at very rare times this year one of the Wagners did ok, but I can't tell which is which. We should be trying things, and sticking with the kids, we can't expect them to play well after a game (like Dunkley). Hell, most of their mates aren't even playing well!

Truth! I'm sorry I missed in-form Oscar, he sounds pretty handy, unlike the spud who is never anywhere near his opponent/the ball. I'll be sure to look out for him this week.

Also, why is the official statement that OMac took time off mid season to get his body right? I thought he'd just been playing terribly (I know there are some who disagree), and was dropped. If I underperform at work, and am relegated to the mail room, I don't get to say I'm building the skills necessary for my substantive job?! I'm so confused. He was playing terribly, right? His form at Casey has not been much better! Why is he back?

May has been fantastic since returning, and quite frankly one of the few reasons I've continued to watch games, and not resort to full blown alcoholism. This year just keeps on giving.

We're so far gone this year that I'm pretty much at the point that I'll take any positives right now and hope they continue next year, along with the many other things we need to do. Clarry was great, and despite a couple of errors Fritter was good, too. May was awesome, and Lever looks like he's finding his feet out there. We had more scoring shots (story of the year), the game really was there for us to take, like many others this year. Maybe we'll practice our kicking in the off season. It wasn't really the reason we lost, but the umpiring was amateur.

I think Preuss is fun and will add heaps as time goes by, but that dropped mark was not good. Lucky for the free! Finally for Petty.

How the hell was that paid against Gawn? WHAT THE HELL WAS HE SUPPOSED TO DO? And another Darling goal. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

1.5 to 5.1 sums up our season pretty nicely.

Not great today, some positives though. Petty was good up forward. Salem was his usual reliable self. I liked some of Hunt's run. May was solid, he had an immense 5 minutes at the end. The problem was these guys didn't have enough mates helping them out. Why was Dunkley left unchecked most of the day? What happened to a good old tag?

Is something wrong with ANB's legs? He seems to only be able to kick about 5 metres?

Ah the old McDonald for McDonald switcheroo. It's not the worst thing I've heard, and the way things are going with injuries we might not have much choice but to bring O back. I'm not a fan of his, but you never know, this might be the second McDonald transformation. At the very least his failed attempts up forward won't cost us any goals. At least directly anyway.

Sorry, I meant funny as in tragedy. I like dark comedy, and this stuff happening to us is about as dark as it gets in the footy world. It was a great kick, looked a certainty to go through, until it didn't.

I love winning, and I'm happy we won. So long as the euphoric feeling of beating the 2nd last team in the league (going through their latest rebuild) doesn't detract from the fact that the nature of today's win is reflective of the trouble we're in, and the questions that we need to ask. I appreciate that we're a few players down right now (as were they), but we bulldozed them last year, and squeaked through today. But absolutely, I'll take the four points as long as we don't feel this was any significant step forward, as it wasn't. We have a long way to go.

I am seeing lots of positive references to JKH today (ie we should bring him back in)... Serious question, and I'm happy for you to change my mind. Have any of you watched any of the other games he played for the seniors after he was promoted, after showing good form in the seconds? In each instance, he's been poor. Lack of basic skills, and brings nothing unique to the team. Proof? He keeps getting dropped back to the seconds, where he then proceeds to 'shine' amongst the lesser types. When do we come to the realisation that something won't work? Bringing him back after we forget he's not that good (or at least not good enough for the seniors) won't solve any of our problems. Lockhart, however, has shown something. Not perfect, but his best has been far more interesting and exciting than anything JKH has ever shown while playing in the seniors.

Completely agree. He's aggressive, lanky and unpredictable. Perfect combo to at least get our opposition thinking.