Navy Blue Horse wrote:
Stefchook wrote:
Pros:
Walker, Yarran, Simmo and Curnow.
Ellard kicked another couple of good goals as our midget key forward replacement for Betts. Still not convinced we can afford to play him forward give our lack of pace and ball control at the moment. Almost no pressure being applied to rebounding defenders at the moment.
More games into young players. Although, other than Buckley and Casboult, not a lot to really catch the eye at the moment.
Malthouse did a decent job at defusing things post-match.
Cons:
We’re so inept we make Melbourne look good. We look smaller, slower and less skilled than every opposition we play. And we don’t try as hard. I think we’ve been out-tackled every week this year.
We played a more possession style of game today. And that didn’t work either.
Goalkicking. Again. Looks like Gibbs may have joined a long list of our players with the yips.
Early injuries in a game. Again. Smaller bodies and more timid players being crunched by the opposition.
While I support the MC making hard (and hopefully long-term) decisions. However our 3 most dangerous forwards missing after quarter time (Waite, Garlett and Menzel).
Curnow’s the only one who works hard enough to receive handballs at the moment. And we don’t want Curnow as our distributor.
I know he’s not particularly fit, but Thomas looks slow at the moment. Be nice to see some big money-performances from our big money-men.
The umpiring. I guess it’s the underdog syndrome, but after the 30 seconds, they didn’t want to pay us any frees forward of centre.
Walkers ball use was woeful yesterday
How the heck can people think players like Gibbs, Yarran, Walker were positives yesterday???
Do they understand the game or were actually watching??
They were pathetic. People get excited by a highlight or a couple of things that "Look Good". Gibbs and Yarran are a classic example of why we are crap.
They pick and choose their moments and only work one way. Numerous times both had the opportunity to tackle, man up, help a teammate and stood back.
Every time Yarran went for a run he would NOT work back to his opponent and walked to recover. How is that a positive?
According to 3AW he had 17 disposals for 11 ineffective possessions. That is shocking by any standard especially since it was a very soft game pressure wise.
Personally I would choose a Curnow or an Ellard any day of the week. May not be anywhere as talented (or AFL standard) but at least they have crack.
Still trying to work out where I said Gibbs was good. At least Yarran and Walker were finding the ball and trying to attack with it. We're currently the slowest and stodgiest team in the competition with our run and ball movement. I agree Curnow has been one of the few bright lights this year.
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- stop saying we are in a trough and we have an ok list - we have a putrid list of b graders and battlers and whats worse is that we have a list that has been weak mentally for about 14 years - it made me cry to watch other matches on the weekend with teams having so much talent in them and then we see ours - cachia was our best first year player last year surely that says something - we have sam rowe at fb and he isn't afl standard that says something - we have little or no leaders so when we have young talent come in they are not supported or learn bad habits or become mentally weak 
