Red But Mostly Blue

I love your optimism, I really do. But the reality is some of these posts (not all), really are trying to address some of the things that have not been working for quite a while. There has been a steady decline but there's this tendency to rest on our ladder position. That can't last forever. I played with the ladder predictor... With the games played this round, and the likely wins next round, if we lose to Port, depending on percentage , we could actually be 5th!! Then all of a sudden we're out of the 4 and having to scrap to get back in, against very tough opposition, with a bunch of players who still think they're number one! ... And we're dreadfully out of form/confidence.

I'm actually happy we'll lose the #1 spot this week. We're not a true #1 (ladder leaders have losses, but they don't lose to THREE bottom eight sides in just over a month. GWS struggled against the bottom two sides in the league. Plus, being #1 doesn't suit us, the boys have clearly gotten ahead of themselves. Hopefully they rediscover the hunger they had at the beginning of the season. Quick. Because time is running out. As is the ever enduring forward problem. Bring in either Brown. Anyone really, just not another midget. Not a bad time to be out of form, gives us a chance to build momentum. But that depends on the boys recognising where they're actually at (except most of our defenders), and working their backsides off to get to where we need to be. We need top 4, top 2 is going to be hard. It goes without saying that we need to turn 180 to beat Port.

Hope you've got a few drinks nearby, you'll need them.

We're being shown up by the Giants, a team beaten by the Hawks. For any one who has chosen to deny we've been on the slide for a while, here's some proof. We've found some ways to win some games, which is ok, but largely we've struggled, particularly against poor opponents, and this is yet another example. Even if we find a way to win this, these half game brain fades just give teams unnecessary look ins for games. This is embarrassing.

It's disgusting. And to cap it off, with that weasel Greene.

We're making terrible decisions. May has saved our backsides too many times already. For the few times we've made it into the forward 50, who's taking the marks? Almost like we could do with somebody tall out there! What's the gameplan here!?

It's called a "professional free", though .. (Total BS)

6 May 5 Lever 4 Gus 3 Salem 2 Hunt 1 Umps/Maxxy

Bombers fans probably still booing...

PHEW Not convincing but we did what we needed to do (the apt summary for most of our games this year) and will take the 4 points. We need to sort out our i50 very quickly. That booing was killing me!

Peptides have kicked in. Come on - let's crush these flogs!

A mark inside 50... ...Then a goal! Much easier than scrapping, we should try that a little more! ?

A few of the boys not making 40 tonight. Weird.

Calm down mate. I've watched every game. Our current forward structure was working against the other teams. Today it has looked limp. Constructive comment to say we're going to need to fix it. The Bombers are not a top 8 team. We will soon face a bunch of them..

Jesus this game is giving me palpitations. We're ahead and everything, and provided the wheels don't fall off we should run over these twerps. But we've gone from a 'nice problem to have' in not knowing who to pick up forward to we seriously don't know who to pick. TMac has gone off the boil, I thought last round was an aberration. Fritter has had a couple of assists but otherwise nowhere near it. Kozzie quiet. What do we do?! We're going to need to convert against better teams and in finals!

FFS Can somebody, any of the guys in our i50 being paid to kick goals, take a mark and kick a goal!? We're going to get shredded against better teams if we don't fix the forward 50.

Don't know what they're complaining for, Jacko marked that anyway. Good kick Trac

Fritter has been very quiet, really needed to kick that. So did TMac. We could really do with a forward right now.

Everyone seemed to just be standing around while the ball was delivered in the 50???!

I'm happy Trac kicked that, hasn't been his best tonight, and he probably wasn't the best option in the 50. Here we go here we go

Double 50!!! More like 75 in total, but all good. I'll take it.

We didn't deserve that last goal, but hopefully we are smart enough to take advantage of it and start playing some selfless footy in the second half. Clarry and Trac trying to do too much Anyone going to stand up in the 50? Somebody going to get on Merrett?

Now I know this is a joke. Wake me up when this nightmare ends.

That's how bad our forward is. Fritter kicked to literally nothing. And he meant it. Because there was nobody there.

Is this a joke? We are a dead set rabble inside 50 and nobody has any vision to lower the eyes either. Terrible.