layzie

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.

This was the worst commentary of a sports game anywhere in the country ever heard. They should be ashamed

Had some serious passengers tonight and it's simply not good enough. As much as I would have loved to pinch that it would have papered over cracks and we would have used a get out of jail free card. I would have felt like we stole it and that isn't the reality. We are more a 7-3 team than an 8-2 team right now. In 2021 we had nearly a whole team of guys in career best form. Tonight we had nearly everyone out of form. Shades of that 2018 game that also sucked. Screw port

Absolutely pathetic all round performance

Definitely not blaming umpiring but there were some real howlers and non calls in that last 5 mins along with a pathetic throw in at 15 seconds left.

Can't blame the umps. Just not good enough mate

Wow, just wow. Words can't explain

What a rort