Blueboy74 wrote:
Sides like Sydney win games they are expected to win a lot of time purely due to talent. A more talented list can get away with not bringing the same intensity and pressure into every game and getting away with the 4 points. A team like ourselves is only going to get away with it against the very bottom sides, as today showed.
I don't see the simalarities between today and '94. That side was a gunning for a flag, and 12 months later did so. This one is on a reset, and was playing a side that are at least 2 years ahead of the process despite going in with a younger side. They almost knocked off Hawthorn and Nth, thrashed Melbourne and have wins against similar sides as us in Coll, Essendon** and Freo.
They were missing Reiwoldt, Dempster and Fisher but not a lot else. McCartin and Goddard is like saying we were missing Curnow and McKay. They are just kids.
Their midfield goes deeper than ours, they have a 50 goal a year forward in Bruce, and another on track to do something similar in Membrey. Our best forward's highest return for a year is 24. Their Ruckman is coming into his prime, whilst ours is undersized and battling to get through week to week.
I'm not sure where - on paper - you could say we had a clear advantage over the team they put out today.
Today was poor, and can't be glossed over, but it was hardly the upset of the century....
Very good points
This club and it's supporters has a habit of over estimating it's abilities
That mentality was starting to seep in over the last few weeks as evidenced by many of the posts on this site
Can't afford to go down that road again. It's pretty obvious there are players in our best 22 that will need to be phased out. There is no hiding from that fact
The days of maintaining average players on our list for too long are over
I am confident our coach thinks likewise
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