Jaded No More

Anyone who isn’t thrilled with that (if it’s true), is an absolute fool! Securing our talls means we can focus on restocking our midfield!

Big difference between reveling in our demise and calling for half the team and the coach to get the boot, and being very unhappy with that performance. Losing is losing, it happens all the time. We played so well against Brisbane and came up short. Annoying but acceptable. But you cannot put up these uncompetitive numbers and say “she’ll be right”, because sadly it’s not a one off anymore. I didn’t expect a win today. I also didn’t expect a 10 goal loss to flatter us.

Sure, but when he’s refusing to chase or tackle that’s not age that’s just poor effort. I will say that he didn’t play much on ball today, and we didn’t get a lot of ball inside 50, but he had 6 touches and 3 clangers today. Chandler who every man and his dog is yelling to get rid of, has played half the number of games and had 10 touches and kicked 2 from the same low number of forward 50 entries.

You are wrong. First Kosi is no longer a young player. He’s played 100 games and his effort today was subpar. Not good enough. Likewise Fritta. I think you need to watch the game if you’re going to comment about the young players being inconsistent. It wasn’t Turner or Roo or Windsor that let us down today. Lever had maybe 8 goals kicked on him today. Salem 10 touches, Sparrow 15, Nibbler 16, Oliver 18 and only 3 clearances, Viney only 2 clearances! In contrast Brayshaw 41, Sarong 36, Young 28 for a combined 19 clearances. Absolute putrid effort.

The young players are not the problem. Senior players are. Fluctuation in form is one thing. But when you’re getting mauled in every “effort” stat that’s another. Smashed in every aspect of the game that is meant to be our DNA. Inexcusable. Nobody expected us to win, least of all me, but effort is a non negotiable and so many players have to be questioned on their effort today. And no I don’t mean first year, or second, or even third year players. I am talking senior players with 100+ games under their belt, letting their opponents waltz out of packs and mark uncontested time and time and time again. I didn’t care that we got monstered in the ruck, I cared that we had Viney Oliver Salem Nibbler and Sparrow, premiership players with stacks of experience, apply no pressure in the contest. Young, Sarong and Brayshaw may as well have been at a little league clinic today. -36 in contested possessions and -31 in clearances, with the lowest clearance numbers recorded since the 90s! That is sky is falling level performance. Or no performance.

Do we have to?

From all reports he struggles to win a ruck contest at Casey. Not sure he would have won many against Darcy and Jackson.

As if Fullarton would have made a 10 goal difference. Even Gawn wouldn’t have made that much of a difference and he’s the best ruckman this decade.

Just hoping someone tells me that there’s Ebola running thru the club so I can find a valid reason for this disgusting display of “football”.

Have said nothing on tv about it so far. He was in the midfield and then disappeared so possible. He is too fragile to play midfield.

TV is off. Thank you for ruining my Sunday. That was a worse performance than the last time we played there purple f&(kwits

I am not saying it’s working. Or a good strategy. Just answering the question. Midfield and defense should be ashamed of this performance. Senior players an absolute disgrace with lack of accountability and defensive effort. No excuses and I love May but Jesus stop carrying on like a pork chop, you’ve been embarrassed today.

Chasing tail

Because we are playing extra in the stoppages which we never do normally.

Oh good we have gone to [censored] again. Embarrassing.

Frederick has really lowered Kosi’s standards today. Poor poor game by him.

These umpires need to get in the bin and then let me set the bin on fire

Alex Pearce’s hair is magnificent. 10/10.

Surely Darcy is gonna run out of juice if they don’t feed him a few burgers at 3/4 time?

And to help our flailing defense

I don’t want either benched because they aren’t the problem today. The stats will show you that the midfield is why we are losing.

Please show me where I blamed the umpires? I was saying they’ve been poor but it’s not why we are losing. Learn to read. Senior defenders not defending behind the ball is also a big problem. But when we have had so few inside 50s, you can’t be blaming forwards for this loss. Chandler been better than Kosi FYI.

You can’t touch a Freo player without giving a free. What a joke.

Fancy not knowing anything about football blaming a small forward for this performance when we are -19 for clearances 😂