Deecisive

Yes maybe but still a few weeks to go and injuries and other things will take their toll. We have some hard matches but so will other teams, even some of the easy teams are putting up a fight. A few injuries will hurt any side. Tonight was not a great result, may be they need another kick up the butt to get them moving. We had a few passengers, we had some mistakes and we had some bad calls from the umpires, same as every game. as long as we are playing finals we are with a chance, our attack out of the middle is the best in the competition. our defense is usually better, but missing lever and having a couple of others down did hurt. time to fix these before the finals.

may has to stop kicking the ball out to Max when English is there with him, he gets pushed out of the contest and english has longer reach, go around, find another avenue to move the ball on. we have so many returns to our kick ins because of the same thing. good finish to the quarter, but frankly they ran over us in that quarter thankfully they were kicking astray. we need to finish them off asap.

i do wish sparrow and Jordan would move the ball on quickly after taking a mark. they seem to ignore short passes that look a certaintly and go down the line to a contest.we play some of our best footy when we move the ball fast.

it been a pretty good game so far, we have played some good football, but been a bit lax at time. I think we need to do more about when the opposition kicks in. we do not put pressure on the player kicking in we let them run and bounce the ball and gain another 40 meters. by that time they are kicking over our players heads. I wonder if harmes was trying to kick the goal rather than pass it. we are doing pretty well, time to come out and do what we do in the second half kick away, add some percentage so that we can take back top spot

Danger does not think it is a problem as it would rob geelong of frees for their players who do exactly the same thing.

disappointing as it was, it was a loss that hopefully will make geelong feel like have it over us, so that next time we play them at the MCG with a melbourne crowd and hopefully better umpires and us not having so many players contributing that we beat the crap out of them on the scoreboard. We need to make changes cannot drop all of the players that were poor, as there were just too many, but we have to drop enough and bring in players who have earned the right to wear the demons jumper and potentially play in finals to be given that chance. that should put all on notice that if you dont turn up now, you will not be there at finals time or possibly even next year.

even losing the clearances we could have won if our delivery into our forward line had been better, far too many kicks from both kick ins and kicks into our forward 50 were marked by [censored] players without any Melbourne player around them. If we had given our forwards the ball instead of their backs or their forwards then the scores would have been far better and maybe it would not have blown out at the end. We need to makes some changes I would like to give Tomlinson a go on the wing again. Chandler in, rivers.

need to be wary of handpassing to Viney his opponent is right on his heels and taking him down. unfortunately viney tries to get rid of the ball and gets penalised for it. it may be better if he just holds it in and pretends to try to get rid of it. Time for the dees to put in a big final quarter, show the cats and the commentators that we are on top of the ladder for a reason.

Why do we always play Geelong in Geelong.....

poor delivery into our forward line, just booting without looking who to. need to lower their eyes and make sure they hit a target. it would also be nice if a couple of these players could move the ball on quicker. taking too much time to kick down the line gives geelong lots of time to flood back.

a lot of players just not putting in not chasing, not tackling. We know they are going to run, but our players are not running with them. we need our team to step up and put these [censored] down

dont mean to be rude but can they kick the f'ing ball instead of handballing

seven frees for the entire match, wow adelaide are extremely good tacklers, i dont know if they have had a holding the ball against them yet, or an incorrect disposal. our players getting tackled and thrown around without the ball and getting nothing is shameful.

If we know we are losing the ruck then play to their ruckman, stats early in that quarter had us winning more than adelaide from their taps. its around the ground that we need to lift. we can get buy without a ruckman in the ruck, but we sorely miss a marking ruckman around the ground, neither of the Browns or weid are doing that job and it is cost us big time in turnovers.

need to stop kicking down the line to their talls who are intercepting everything. This is exactly what we want opposition teams to do when max is playing. How dumb, pass it around. Sparrow does some good things but has not idea about moving the ball quickly, he has had multiple opportunities to do a short kick down the line to a free player but holds it up and does a long kick down the line. Must admit the umpiring is pretty poor, tex's ruck free for blocking was a disgrace, we see their ruckman putting their arms around our ruckman and throwing them out of the way but thats ok. Ben Brown is being manhandled as is oliver and they are getting nothing. We have far too many players who have done absolutely nothing they need to lift. the coach needs to remind them that we have players in the VFL that are ready to take their place.

disappointing effort that quarter, we started well but then just stopped chasing. letting them run the ball out of defense too easily our forwards are not applying any pressure on them. We have to stop letting them have the easy kicks out of defense. they keep whittling away our lead, now is the time for those players not doing a lot to stand up.

lost that quarter, so often we lose the 2nd quarter, hopefully we will have one of our fantastic 3rd quarters and put them to the sword.

a disappointing result mainly due to the way the players played, only a few really stood up. shows we do not have the depth that we thought we had.

we have been here before and we have won well. we have had a lot of bad 2nd quarters over the last year or so. so lets not go giving up hope yet. we have a lot of players down and that can easily turn around.

a disappointing result, our kicking for goal is still a concern, far too many players who just did not put in or could not find the ball all night. I suspect a few of those may be going back to the VFL and we may not see them again too soon. It is a good chance to try some other players from Casey and see how they go, cannot be worse than a couple who played today.

not winning as well as some teams against the bottom teams, we seem to be kicking a lot more points. is it that our players now think they have a bang at goal from anywhere, compared to the more team oriented style we have against top teams?

yes there has been some poor umpiring, but we should still be doing a lot better, if our backline was not as good as it was we could potentially be behind with the number of forward 50 entries. We need to get back to playing team football. Kozzie's selfish attempt at a goal was not a good example. Our best play all day has been when we have played as a team. we need to get back to that. and try not to give the umpires too many excuses to give frees and goals against us.

trace had leg/knee problems a game or so ago, maybe we should take it easy on him and give him a rest and a chance to fully recover. we shouldnt be taking a risk with him, he is too important a player to lose

I would prefer mcdonald going back to find some form, he does not chase and has not provided a lot of drive this year, hope he can recapture his form. Dropping him may give him the drive to try a bit harder, chase a little more. Weids needs a chance to show what he can do, this was obviously not the game for forwards, with our poor inside 50's.

We conceded 35 points because they did not kick straight if they had it would have been far different, we only had 2 scoring shots more than they did and they had a whole range of good players out. I must say i was disappointed we did not do better. definitely some good defense and running but our entry into the forward line was pretty disappointing. We showed such dominance at times but could not put it on the score board, that is where it counts.