layzie

I appreciate the thread from Bobby but I find the people who sit back and wait to attack the people who show frustration on here quite obnoxious. It's like they're secretly hoping for us to lose so DL goes into meltdown and they can gaslight posters who actually care about the game and this club, making themselves look really high and mighty in the process. It's frankly pathetic, we might care and say things we don't 100% mean in the moment but we aren't stupid and idiotic maniacs and you aren't better than us.

I felt like today went against everything we had trained for in pre season and reverted back to everything that got us to here but won't get us to there. The quick ball movement and trying to get through the middle was gone and we reverted to kicking sideways and trying to play down the wings. We sent long balls onto T-mac's head and it was out of there pretty quickly. When they kick a long ball to a pack on the wing or the middle you'd better hope it doesn't get out to the back because it's that point we are on the back foot defending in transition and we are usually screwed. We're slower to react, ground balls are pounced on much faster from the opposition, not sure if this is coaching, hunger or execution but it's there. How many times can we use the line "We weren't that bad with our output, the other team just turned up and outworked our butts off!" Some of the skill errors today by hand and foot were embarrassing. I've been saying for weeks that we slip way too many tackles in the middle of the park and this was on show today. I don't want to be shown the tackle stat that we won, in critical areas opposition players are bouncing their way off our tackles far too often. The problems are not easily fixable and I haven't mentioned the forward line because I also feel if we tidied this other stuff up the Forward setup wouldn't be as much of an issue.

People should ease off the postgame thread venting. If it entertains you then I'm glad because at least you're getting something out of today. I'm not gonna apologise for ranting a bit in what should be a safe haven. You're not losing time or money over it.

Is this thread code for "Is Goodwin the right guy?"

Yeah I'd say there's a 5 out of 7 chance I'd agree with that.

Deal.

Strangely enough I've actually agreed with most of what you've said tonight. We are in a position where we need to find the next gear and so far it has been left wanting.

I'm just hoping we get it right in the back end. Still time to turn it round and hopefully some other teams have their slip ups.

It's almost the final frontier to play it down.

Was he in The Little Rascals?

6. Petracca 5. Gawn 4. Brayshaw Nah, nah I'm sorry I can't go on.

If only I wasn't 3rd last in my tipping comp BBP!

I gave him one single clap on his first possession. Am I fired?

People do that all the time in my workplace the day before a public holiday. "You've done so well today you can have tomorrow off" A real dad joke organisation haha.

Just wasn't one of his better days. Really whiffed that set shot too

I had no confidence at all kicking into this forward line today. I really felt we needed a lucky flick off a pack to have any chance of scoring. I don't know what we do about it though, there aren't many more levers to pull here. Getting Kozzie into the middle to give us a better look at the middle robs Peter to pay Paul at them moment. Chandler can't seem to get near it, I really don't know the answers right now for this.

A good take. Gee that 5% we're lacking is hurting us right now though.

Yep, been saying it for a few weeks now. But hey, I'd hate to be an "I told you so" guy for having an opinion.

Little harsh Titan and I do resent being told that all my posts attack other Demonlanders. I've seen and been on the receiving end of much worse attacks from yourself to be honest. I'm not attacking anyone personally and am simply questioning some pretty useless statistics that are brought up lately to make people feel better about a team that all of a sudden can't score. As you said there is plenty to discuss though and am happy to do that.

But hang on, aren't we the highest scoring team in the comp? Can't wait for someone to bring that little gem of wisdom up.

Saturday 2.10pm. Before the excuse was night games are too late. Sundays were too Sunday. What now

To get 2 goals out of those 3 plus ANB is a joke. Why have all these forwards if we can't get it to ground?

Can we re-schedule the King's Birthday game? I don't want it right now.

Well Deever, it's a funny old game. 2 weeks later it's become much more relevant.

I'm sick of being on the back foot every single time the ball spills to the back of the contest. Either we aren't onto it quick enough or they are too quick for us. Either way it sucks