The heart beats true

This game should be called the ‘How did we lose to this mob?’ cup.

It’s terrible that we sell a game to the NT. It’s a super tight season, and we expect the players to do all the little things for optimal performance. The club needs to the same thing and protect both the playing group and the supporters.

@binman Eagles loading?

Negative nazis is a bit of a tautology. Nazis weren’t exactly brimming with rainbows. Didn’t look banged up 2 weeks ago when we beat the top team. Did we get banged up over the bye? Rest fatigue? Couch related soreness?

I know it seems knee jerk, but I’ve actually been observing it over a 3-4 month period and my analysis really stacks up.

I don’t rate Ashcroft’s hair.

I do! Now they all go out of there way to promote holistic options.

I did a hammy and my Osteo waved a half a pack of Oreo’s over my leg. Sorted me right out.

Now our win over a Collingwood is an aberration? Your negativity is off the charts today.

Are you not a Spargo fan? I wasn’t aware. 🙄

I thought we were wasteful and lacked connection. How anyone could watch the 2nd and 3rd quarter of that game and say it was ‘lacklustre’ and ‘inept’ is watching such a different game to me. We battled our hearts out, we just didn’t finish our work off when we had total control.

Like the shoes?

I’ve wondered this too. Kenny needs wins, but 28 weeks of football is a long time to be up.

Not me WCW! I was nowhere near good enough 🤣

Lots of criticism of the players for not doing the little things right, not much criticism of the club for making our season harder and playing a home game in Alice this week. This season will be defined by the little things. Why travel when we don’t have to, especially when we haven’t traveled well all year? Brisbane, Essendon, Port, Geelong away losses. Why are we risking this again?

Dazzle, who legitimately is playing better at Casey though? I’ve watched all their games this year and aside from Howes, Disco and Woewodin I don’t reckon there’s much there. Howes and Turner aren’t better players than our current backline. We seem to be light on for outside skill.

Wet weather ain’t the issue. Forward centre conversion and reward for effort is. We dominated the 2nd and 3rd quarter but had to work impossibly hard to score. If that sounds familiar it’s because it was an issue in 2017, 18, 19, 20, half of 21, 22 and now 23. We are tired, because we don’t get anywhere near enough reward for effort.

That’s the spirit!

That’s the spirit!

That’s the spirit!

While I agree with this I really think they’ll chalk it up to ‘hard ground to get space at, we looked better in The G’ and not much will change.

This one made me swear at the TV…. https://twitter.com/outbreezyWC/status/1671835632514256896?cxt=HHwWgMDS7czpxrMuAAAA

Is there a way I can find that footage of our centre square free kick in the last where they refused to give the ball back and then when they did they threw it passed Viney? That was laughably bad umpiring.

Currently we are a 5-8 team. We can scrap and fight to stay in the contest, and on our day take a big scalp, but consistently we lack skill forward of the ball. The good news is we have one too many running half backs. Hopefully Bowser or McVee can move up the ground over the preseason and help with executing that last kick forward.

Fine by me. There will be 25,000 Melbourne supporters there, who can give our boys some momentum and belief. They aren’t getting that playing in front of 5,000 impartial footy fans in Port and Adelaide jumpers in Alice.