layzie

Sometimes you need to go a little beyond the basic mechanics of the system. Not suggesting we do what Freo did a few weeks ago with Lobb but look at how Collingwood absolutely bit back when Nick Daicos was getting roughed up by the Swans.

West Coast really are pathetic. They need to make a big call.

I'm glad to hear kids at junior footy are still taught to protect themselves. They way these incidents play out you'd think it was a dying art.

Not against it, he's probably not going to offer much coming in and out like a bit-parter. Give the Shack a chance to attack.

All unraveling so quickly if true. Find it so hard to believe he could run out a whole last quarter in the wet if it were that bad. If there was even the slighted tear this action would have ripped it off the bone.

Did anyone know the penalty for an interchange was a free kick and 50m penalty in the worst area on the ground possible?

This weekend has been crud

We find ourselves in a bit of a battle next week

It gets forgotten about once the final score is released. The fact that we were belted in nearly every metric we pride ourselves on and Port missing 60 set shots doesn't matter because hey we fought back and got within a kick. It's all sweet bro, galant effort! This game and the Brisbane game were maulings at the coalface. Contested ball, our 1-wood as the coach likes to say. These close results shouldn't be band aids over problems that are actually quite obvious.

I don't think I missed the point at all and that's precisely what I was suggesting with this post. We literally could not be more on the same page. It's the people that come on here and make people like you and I feel bad about complaining because 'it was only a 4 point loss" and we should be grateful that I'm talking about.

I'm starting to think that anyone who comes in here or the gameday thread making a big statement like "Wow you'd think from reading this thread we lost by 100 points" doesn't actually watch the game and just sees the scores in the paper.

MFC - Grow a set

Are they though?

Can we all put under our avatar in the info section what we all expect out of the season so we can categorise A) The people who want a top 4 finish and another shot at a flag B) The people who are happy with top 8 C) The people who got their flag and are happy even if we lose every game. It would make conversations in this thread easier and people will then understand why the A people are so hell bent on not dropping too many games for instance.

Our tackling intensity in the middle of the ground is sub par lately. Can't get a glove on anyone.

No

Couldn't in my right mind give high votes to any of our mids so: 6. Butters 5. Rozee 4. Wines 3. May 2. Fritsch 1. Hunter

Climb out kid, our early work cost us the game. Little margin for error when fighting for a top 4 spot. Great for 1 quarter I'll give them that, doesn't make it an honourable loss though.

His fitness was lacking big time in the middle. Would have moved him back with or without the Bowey injury

In games where points are only being scored from clearances yes absolutely

It really was worth 2 goals on balance. I'm confident we would have brought it home if the lead was 17

If it was easy to do and my Kayo didn't buffer a million times like it did tonight I'd probably do that too.

Yeah that bump ball was a joke, umpire about 10 metres away too

I feel like throwing the baby, the bath and the whole ocean out the window right now.

That is true. You'd rather they go down fighting and I guess they did somewhat.