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We managed to cut the contested possession differential from 35 to 25 in only 10 minutes. We got on top but didn't capitalise.

Good end to the half. Got on top. Oliver amazing. KK, Frost, May, Brayshaw all solid. Viney in and out. Petracca just terrible. Gawn uninspiring and seemingly not 100%. Zero forward coherency. ANB useless. Weeds not ideal for the weather. Jones is absolutely cooked.

Petracca. The momentum killer.

lol and who do you replace him with?

They have 30 more contested possessions.

We'll lose by 100+. Bookmark it. When you give Geelong this much control in Geelong, they punish you.

FYI, we've scored 15 points since the 25th minute mark of the 3rd quarter last week.

Uninspiring trash.

We tackle alright but Port and now Geelong's absolute demolition of the contested ball is a major indictment on our development at this point. That to me is the major key. Yeah we have good handles in close and can contest to bring the ball down, but Port and Geelong seem to get a clear kick or run out from a contest almost every time.

We won't win this. Three times we have gone for the ball, and a teammate peels off instead of shepparding. All three times we've lost possession. We're playing decidingly poor team football. They have numbers around the stoppages. It is a carbon copy of Ports domination around the ball last week. We are in a bad slump right now.

Something about white men with dreadlocks that just annoys me. Why do they all have such punchable faces?

KK, May and Frost have started well.

We look out of sorts. Just no cohesion.

We beat them and end their season in the finals, but Fox Footy fixates on Tuoy's after the siren shot.

Or what? You'll trade him? For what?

https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=12&pid1=4041&fid1=C&playerStatus2=A&tid2=5&pid2=4043&fid2=C&type=A Pretty neck and neck statistically. IMO Petracca is the more defensive/wing sweeper whereas De Goey is a Bruest/Jack Riewoldt type forward. Like I said earlier in this thread I think the comparisons are really unfair.

Petracca and Degoey are completely different players. Please stop comparing them. Anyway, watching how both Collingwood and Richmond play the MCG it really stands out to me that Goodwin's gameplan needs further refinements. When we lose on the MCG we seem to lose the same way. We get smashed in uncontested possessions and marks. If we were playing Collingwood tonight, we would comfortably lose by 10 goals. We're still at least 12 months off it. We just can't fill the space at the MCG. We're not winning a flag or getting close to it until we start consistently owning that ground. We weren't just bruised and battered on Saturday. We were tired and slow.

yes

Yes, sure. But a choke nonetheless.

It was a massive choke from one of the most experienced players in the league. All you can do is laugh, really. And maybe he should, too.

lol you were acknowledging a trend. I wasn't. I said it was the worst we had played *since*. Whereas your argument is that it was a trend.

We'll kill them.

Completely irrelevant in isolation. We were terrible against Collingwood in round 23 2017 and similarly inconsistent and poor against Geelong in round 1 last year but no one made the connection. If you want to talk about trends then fine but seasons should be treated in isolation. Besides, we were x10000 worse in the Prelim. We were within a goal on Saturday at the 12 minute mark of the last quarter. Like I know people are trying to justify their irrational angst, but comparing two games, 6 months apart, in two different seasons is just silly.

It was an average performance after an uninspiring pre-season. Interstate supporters tend to be wordy if their team is winning away from home.

Nothing stat. A better insight would be the finishing position of the season prior of the teams that start 0-2. How many are actually bound for, expected to and/or have goals set to realistically play finals? The reason so few teams that start 0-2 make finals is because most teams that start 0-2 just aren't very good and were never playing finals to begin with. The teams that have started 0-2 and ended up making it, were expected to and always were going to play finals. Really, is starting 0-2 any worse than starting 1-2, and then losing by 70 points and 50 points like we did last year vs Hawks and then Richmond? It's selective analysis at its best.