Webber

You’re joking I presume?

And............breathe.

We’re just so easily opened up when we lose possession in general play. It’s like watching a car crash, again and again and again and again. And no solutions!

Umpiring gives West Coast a 4 to 5 goal head start in Perth, and we finally proved on Sunday (if proof was needed) that we are pi**weak when it really matters, and the joke club of the AFL. Umpires feed on perceived weakness, just like good clubs do. Not that it makes a difference, but I think Sunday might get ugly. Free kicks will ratio 5:3 to them.

Practice will NOT give him faith when the pressure is high and consequences significant. It all goes out the window. It’s MENTAL, and won’t be fixed by MORE practice. Experience, situational exposure and maturity maybe, but not practice.

EXTRA Goal kicking practice will do zero. It’s the mental fragility exposed by the expectation, not the lack of practice.

Nicholls has a career passion for biasing against us. He’s an incompetent umpire.

It’s over, we aren’t up to it.

Yep. There was no adjudication of kick distance today, and the swans exploited it beautifully. Might as well not have the rule.

I’m not saying we lack disposal skill, we lack competitive quality and certainty, It’s a mind thing, and it appears to be fatal.

Of course, this we know, but we don’t have the mentality to fix it. Look at our goal/behind ratio for our big games this year. Repeated misses from 20-30 metres with little angle is a product of a fragile competitive psyche. We are THE chokers of the AFL, pure and simple. We CAN’T kick straight because we don’t have what it takes.

No, we won’t. We aren’t good enough. How much evidence do you need.

Sure, but the point is that in these games we DON’T kick them because we choke, we choke, we choke. It’s part of being a successful team, holding your nerve. We simply don’t have what it takes.

I heard Nathan Burke on radio pregame tipping the Swans, because, and I quote: “Melbourne will choke. They always do”. It made me angry, because I wanted in my heart to know that he was wrong, but in my head I knew he was likely on the money. Once more we had everything to play for, but this time against an interstate team, at home, and down to 20 men effectively for the whole game. In truth, if we had an ounce of the gumption, belief and sheer fortitude that Sydney has, we would have won, and bearing life as a Dees supporter would be a breeze. As it is, this club currently has an insurmountable problem with their group psyche. Will it change? Maybe, hopefully, but nothing about their approach to big games this year tells me it will. And even if we make finals, it’s worth little, because quality teams know easily they can upset our apple cart mentally and tactically. We are horribly inadaptable defensively, have been all year, the good teams exploit it, and today happens. As a result, I couldn’t be more confident that we’ll roll over in the next two weeks.

Wasn’t actually referring to you. I would have quoted you if so.

Some wild presumptions, medical misjudgements and bizarre over-reactions in this thread. Truth is we have been on the lighter side of injuries this year. Suck it up. Kent in.

Yep. A shambles.

The Frost one was nothing, and had it been a crows player...it would absolutely have been play on. Just shameful umpiring, as usual in Adelaide. The AFL needs to settle down on the rules fiddling and put their efforts into finding ways to improve interstate umpiring. It ruins the game.

Free kicks 22-15 to Adelaide, quel surprise! I think we won only one for them incorrectly disposing, yet it was happening all game. I reckon the umpiring is worth about 4 goals against in Adelaide and Geelong, and 6 in Perth, so we won big!

Says more about Sydney I reckon

6. Gawn ....currently best footballer in the AFL 5. Brayshaw.... brilliant career re-definition 4. Oliver....probs should get 6 for the ridiculous 50 metre worm-burners alone 3. Lewis....turnover kicks aside, lead the defence 2. Hogan.... back to backing himself 1. Harmes....worked hard both ways all game.

Tyson for Hannan, in lieu of Viney.

Team high tackles, Goodwin was pleased. He's playing nest week.

But he had chances this year, and wasn't. He's just not the answer, no matter how much u wish it.

"None of those teams concern me". You're joking, I presume. If not, what exactly about our season has given you the idea we can beat these teams? I'm serious, as there's just no evidence, and an injury decimated Adelaide in Alice doesn't count.