Mickstar wrote:
When we play that high pressure defensive game style we are respectable.Well the Hawks pressured the shit out of us and as usual couldn't take our own medicine.If you dish it out ya gotta be able to take it.Or as they say in the sweet science...........anybody can throw a punch,but who can take a punch.................
BUT...........i actually got a couple or two positives out of yesterday.We actually matched them in that kamikaze run and gun first quarter.We once again slaughtered ourselves with NUMEROUS turnovers and poor decision making.We virtually dished it up on a plate to the rampant free wheeling Hawks.Credit to them for taking advantage but talk about shoot yourself in the foot.
The good stuff................Weiters is coming good and at times yesterday he was mercurial in his intercepts
Murphy was super AND WAS FIRST TO REMONSTRATE WITH HOWE.Yes,was quite demonstrative and visibly furious.Good on you Murph.You are gonna be great on that HFF next year.
Kennedy bore in all day and got plenty.Just gotta work harder on getting to the outside.
Lobbe was excellent early till tiring which is understandable with his lack of exposure to first class footy.
Jack Silvagni was very good at times.Read the incoming ball well and got far more of the ball than he usually does.A good sign.
Matt Shaw got plenty of the ball in his second outing with us.He poisoned himself ver well all day and used the ball well.Unfortunately got outmoded in one on one contests.But very encouraging all the same.
Harry also won far more of the ball than he normally does.Threw himself in with more vigour which has been his archives heal.More vigour Harry.Needs to throw himself around and clean somebody up.Kicking atrocious for sure,but a step in the right direction.
Cam Polson was a real busy bee and seemed to put more thought in his disposal.Little terrier.Another one that got more of the ball.
LOB just keeps motoring.Running machine.Another that got more of the ball and for the most part used it quite well.
The worry is Paddy Dow.Just can't get his hands on the pill.Its not for the want of trying coz he continually puts himself in for the ball.Its just a flat spot that he has to fight his way out of.
Remember folks,the Hawks are fighting for there lives and were fully primed ready to kill.That is the sort of game you can learn from.One little slip or lapse of concentration and you are dead meat against the big boys.Our kids put in but those little lapses hear and there cost us.................reckon our kids know they can match it.They just gotta put in 100 % 100 % of the time.Just knuckle down boys.
Thanks, Mickstar, for coming up with some positives. Reality checks are fine, but the constant negativity of some posters just adds to the already depressing atmosphere after another shellacking.
You're not the first to mention it, but Murphy deserves credit for his genuine ag at Cripps' treatment. Even if he's not everyone's poster boy for captain, it wouldn't hurt a few of his constant critics to acknowledge the good stuff occasionally. He frustrates me heaps, considering his talent (injuries probably haven't helped), but to everyone lining up to savage him again - we get it, you want another captain, and you'll probably get one. Yes, a permanent flanker role (if we can get a substantial midfield together - Kennedy's game was encouraging) might help him rediscover his mojo.
Okay, I'm slipping out to zombieland again.