Gawndy the Great

That’s BS and you know it. They have had one extra day rest, so our conditioning is not the reason we lost. It was tactical, effort and skill. All 3 combined. The only thing we can realistically improve is effort.

Do we know when Oliver hurt his hand, what’s he done and how long to recovery? Was that his only ailement? Or his struggling to cover the ground? He is nowhere near his best this year - hasn’t had a dominant game yet. I know he is carrying a bit of baggage. Maybe this is all we can expect from now on.

He gets shanked too easily. Whether that’s on him or the mids I don’t know. But he has to hit the ball to advantage. Too many times our players are wrong footed.

Coz lions took foot off the pedal. The game was done.

And that makes the loss more acceptable? That gives you hope that we are a shot? We got categorically pantsed. Once upon a time we lived free in their heads. That lasted for 1 year, the adapted and evolved. For the other 5/6 years they have been a level above. If we cannot beat this team on our home deck, then we have no shot. Not in the way we lost today.

It’s overcome with pressure. That’s why it doesn’t stand up in finals.

The players willed the results of the first 4 wins. Tonight was our audit and we massively failed. Massively. No excuses. We were smashed in the middle, you could see how easily Lions players would exit stoppage and score. We were denied the ball when the game mattered and were shafted hard when we had the ball. Our pressure and intensity was way off. Way off. A contender doesn’t lose a game like that this early in the season. Pretender is more prudent a description. The stats were telling for the last couple of weeks and tonight we saw what has been brewing. Billing’s needs to be dropped. He is just way off the pace. Bring in Hunter. Woey is a VFL player, maybe next year. Kolt is a pup, needs 12 months in the VFL. Petty lowered his value, but is seemingly not the answer to our forward line woes. Kozzys suspension hurt a little but wouldn’t have changed the result. I’d say come out breathing fire in 2 weeks, but maybe not. Gawn again can hold his head high. McVee beaten. Howes needs more games. Umpired Can GAGF, we have to ask the AFL to review the last few weeks. I need a bye round.

junk stuff. Don’t be fooled.

No

Our stoppage game needs a major major overhaul.

This is an absolute annihilation. A reality check for this club.

In other news Salo just cannot stay on the park for long enough. It’s probably a 8-10 weeks hamstring.

I think Norf put up a better fight against them last week.

That’s absolute bullocks. They have had 7 days since their last game.

There’s a reason you can’t trust this team and its performances like this that bob up every now and then.

Lions in complete control. We are doing jack all this year playing like this.

In all fairness they kicked 2 luck goals from hack kicks into f50 plus a [censored] 50m penalty.

In all fairness they kicked 2 luck goals from hack kicks into f50 plus a [censored] 50m penalty.

Umps don’t won’t to spoil Neale 250th to go with his fake Brownlow. Midfield need to really fire up. This is pathetic.

Clearance game has been problematic all year. Lions will make you play. All goals from stoppage. Absolutely pathetic.

Nope. I have seen the starts before.

How is the Blues vs Crows game an 82 rating. Adelaide are 0-4.

Nothing like this to feed the MFCSS on game day. This is on the back of Hoiney’s summary earlier in the week. Fits the narrative that Port lost the game not MFC winning. Maybe we have been a tad lucky so far this year. Nothing like a victory tonight to dispel this myth.

Wouldn’t fit our team, lacks defensive work rate. Part of the Lions defensive woes. Great with ball in hand though.

It’s a decent 18 degrees too so if no rain, we should have a dry surface come game time.