Straight Sets Simon

Bad two minutes for McDonald.

The fear that Pickett creates for opposition is unlike anything I’ve seen since Davey burst on to the scene in 2004.

About 15 of our players (and coaches) need to be donating their wages to Pickett tonight. What a performance, what a star.

How does Salem drop a handball? Total momentum killer.

Another five now, please.

Jordan going barrel from the centre while his teammates stuff around with handballs. Good lad.

Thank god for Pickett.

They are walking out of our tackles. Lever again with the error leading to a goal.

We win the centre clearance the give it up to them for a goal. This team.

Not sure how I survived.

No need to chip backwards with the man on the mark rule, we should be hitting targets after every kick as there is nothing to impede the kicker.

How good is Pickett’s defensive pressure!

100% they are, they don’t really even try to hide it.

I love Fritsch and Spargo provides so much composure when his teammates are all at sea.

I age ten years every time Lever has the ball, especially when he has time to think.

They have so much time and space in their forward line.

Get in the bin, Lever. Wrong kick, at the wrong time to the wrong spot.

Hunt and Langdon raffling it off to see whose turn it was to miss a target was cute. Pickett, my goodness.

Viney so lucky he got that clearance because initially he didn’t bother bending down to pick the ball up at first chance. Great finish, Fritsch.

So we should with their injuries to key players.

We don’t bend down to pick the thing up, that’s why we miss it.

Also, we don’t understand the new (and excellent) man on the mark rule. We are taking kicks from marks and free kicks as if we are locked in certain directions when in reality we can kick any direction without worrying about the man on the mark (if we were smart).

We are second to the ball every time, no one to blame but ourselves.

This one million times. Especially when the ball hits the ground and even more especially when it’s in our forward line.

Second to the ball every time. No one is willing to bend down to pick the thing up.