Red But Mostly Blue

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… 🤣😭

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)

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.

100% x infinity.

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.

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.

Mondays are infinitely better after a win. No bueno

OH AND QUIT IT WITH THIS [censored] AT ALICE SPRINGS WHATEVER WE ARE GETTING, IT’S NOT WORTH THE LOSS. (caps intentional)

SEVEN GOALS TWENTY ONE BEHINDS And all that room we gave them all day? Gross Golden opportunity down the toilet

The saints are a big ordinary team who only beat teams who waltz in assuming they will win.

Couldn’t buy a goal

Can we get Keeler? Knows how to kick a goal. Has kicked nearly half our team’s goals.

Maybe we can just kick 21 more points?

Far out Woeful.

we can be so very annoying 1.4 for a dominant qtr. and we’ve gone backwards on the scoreboard. Do we want to win??

Ugh.

We’re in this, despite our abysmal patches of footy and poor kicking. We’d actually be even/in front if we kicked straight. Just need to come out and play good, honest, accountable footy. Hopefully the boys get a rocket to set them up for the second half. Kozzie (among others of course), needs a lift. He’s been incredibly poor.

There’s still time to play tough, honest footy and win this. If we can kick a couple of quick ones and bring it to 2 goals it’ll look a lot closer and we can build from there. That was an important steadier.

Why do we do this to ourselves? I can handle losing. And especially to a better team. But the saints are not a better team!! They have just come here to play and knew we might come in full of hot air, playing lazy, complacent footy. And that’s exactly what happened.

Lazy + arrogant.