P-man

It’s a shame cause his skills are sublime. He’ll come into the game in the second half…. *casually crosses fingers*

I think his last two errors (pulling the kick from a set shot and playing on to handball to a teammate under pressure) was him trying to make amends for that early burn. Just needs to play smart..

Honestly wtf is Fritta doing out there? Three bizarre decisions that have cost goals.

Ya just gotta love him.

Great stuff Nib.

Nice to hear some support in the crowd. These usually feel and sound like an away game.

Kozzie ❤️

Tommo playing reasonably well. So that’s something.

It would be downright embarrassing to get beaten by this mob. This game is screaming out for Trac to show why he’s top tier.

Three kicks in a row that hit a target. Whaddaya know. Scoring opportunity.

The effort and pressure is there. Just about everything else is pretty ugly.

Lever off the ground holding his shoulder.

Our forward play continues to be horrendous.

Fritta is starting to [censored] me off. Surely the coaches have had a word to him. Surely.

How’s that backdrop 😍

Pitiful Hawks crowd. We would be crucified by everyone (including our own players) if we had a showing like that.

Yep, they are flying. Surely even they can carry this kind of form into September. If not it would arguably be the most enjoyable Cats capitulation yet. And there have been some enjoyable ones.

Be that as it may, it’s a misrepresentation so say he’s been poor since returning to the side.

Salem last week had 22 disposals, 453m gained at 83% DE and 6 tackles (2nd behind Oliver). He has not been poor since returning from injury and is absolutely not getting dropped. He was poor tonight but he had a lot of mates..

Tonight was one of those days when nothing really worked. Overdid it by hand early and didn’t pay enough respect to their pressure. Obliterated at stoppage. Routinely beaten in the air. Again. When Gawn and Jackson are well down coupled with our horrendous forward entries and our predictable love affair with kicking down the line coming out of defense, we get exposed. Benny Brown was decent early but the gulf between their forwards and ours tonight was there for all to see. Our smalls were poor and Fritta should be read the riot act about his selfishness. It’s becoming habit. We will be better next time around but one thing we absolutely can’t afford to repeat is getting smashed to that degree in clearances. It’s crucial to both our game and modern footy in general.

Oh well. To the post match thread!

That Bedford fumble. Little moments matter so much in games like this.

Huge.

Honestly I’ll laugh my head off if we can snatch this.

Make that minus 18.