We dominated the first and the first half of the second. They have played 15 minutes of football and take a lead into the second half.

The turning point was that Gibbs turnover. Then they just started to run.

We will be lucky to get up from here with one player down.

Murphy has to stand up.
Yarran
Everitt
Bell
Rowe can't ruck and seems slow.
Jamo unsighted

This is a real test of mettle.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

Terrible mistakes those two and the last kick to Yarran.

Heads drop, stop running, awful.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Bell a bush footballer.
Jones needs to hold his marks.
Losing Thomas a big blow - I'd feel a lot more confident if he was still out there.
Smith not ready yet.

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There is no footy god

Going by that quarter he isn't wrong

I think when momentum is with them they are better drilled and balanced to capitalise.

We are slow. Murphy gets shut down so easily, some captain he is!

Same shit different year. No real change so far, lazy lazy team.

They have to control the footy when the other team gets a run on.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

Selected team always looked too slow in leg speed.

gimmick infringement !

no run. we're plodding.

daisy, yarran or judd were just about the last three we could ill afford to lose tonight, let alone in the 1st minute.

crisps, bell, curnow, carrots. invisible, not skilled or quick when they do have it.

rowe is costing us. but really, rowe, casboult and watson aren't afl players.

We are not a good football team.
There's not enough class out there or leadership and that isn't turned around overnight. Going to be a long season and a tough rebuild.

mute button

long year ahead. cannot possibly see how we will do anything substantial this season. too slow, and maybe disjointed due to the fact we're a patchwork team.

If someone was better they would get the tag and get shut down.

I don't think we are too lazy. Some teams are just better. Better at playing team football.

Our better players were the ones making the mistakes coming out of fifty when the game was starting to turn their way.

It's not over.

a real leader in that scenario would have got the team to slow down and maintain some possession to stop the flow against us.

watch this game and try and find any example of leadership in that qtr from murphy

captain bludge led the bludge

rowe as backup ruck is a car wreck too

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Mick loves them both to bits

Being saying it for years need a full clean out and rebuild
Through the draft stop this crap trading for players

By two of our leaders. Terrible decisions that hurt us badly.

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I just want my old club back ... (edit) maybe I have!

This Jekyll and Hyde mob could suddenly come out and kick 6 in 10 minutes. Problems aren't so much physically but mental application.

Like i've said for a couple of years, we are never safe when 5 goals in front, but never out of it when 5 goals behind.

The other problem with those two corridor errors we made is we are less likely to try there again, but we have to.

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I hope Essendon* folds.