What's the point of Murphy, seriously?

Also is there any fear of someone giving Cripps a chop out? cauliflower was being held all day - someone go and belt howe couple of times in the contest and he'll soon let go.

Also, I know these guys are all colleagues now, but any chance one of our high marking forwards can give away a free kick or two by making people fear standing in a hole?

We are Brisbane last year.
Competitive but always going down in the close ones.
Positives was others stood up when Crippa was well held
Negatives: the 3rd term, Free kick Hawthorn is back, injuries again. We can’t catch a break

it really is a game of inches, when you are coming back from as far back as us.

1 point loss and a 5 point loss ... could very easily see us 3-3, but that is what we will have to learn from this year and why we are 1-5

i thought our first half was good, with an even contribution from across the board.

i thought our 3rd quarter was proably our worse this year (following closely by the 2nd quarter against the swans)

take those two quarters out, and its been an okay month of footy, with some real purple patches ..

a missed opporunity, no good playing a half of good footy, it needs to be 4 quarter effort

100% it is.
I have been saying it for years

They don't know how to win.
And it doesn't matter if we don't.

Gold Coast game was a disgrace
This was just as bad as Hawks are not good enough to come back from 33 points down.

But we let them. .




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100% it is.
I have been saying it for years

They don't know how to win.
And it doesn't matter if we don't.

Gold Coast game was a disgrace
This was just as bad as Hawks are not good enough to come back from 33 points down.

But we let them.


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Clarkson let us do our thing for the first quarter and acted accordingly. Besides the result, its was a really great game. Wasn't boring, and we were in it until the dying seconds. We'll get there, but we're going to get there the hard way. We'll get no favors from the umpires that's a fact. We've got the makings of a really good team, no doubt about it. Can only improve week by week regardless of the win/lose ratio. For the first time in a LONG time, I'm quietly pleased with our prospects.

We are Brisbane last year.
Competitive but always going down in the close ones.
Positives was others stood up when Crippa was well held
Negatives: the 3rd term, Free kick Hawthorn is back, injuries again. We can’t catch a break

We were competitive like this in 2017 too winning 6 but also leading 7 times in last qtrs before losing.

The difference is we played above ourselves in 2017. We couldn’t have played any better. This year we have plenty of progress still to make.

I don’t care about the first half.
I don’t care about the umpires.
I don’t care about the injuries.
I don’t care about the coaching.

What matters to me is that we again had an opportunity to evolve a little more, to elevate ourselves above opposition we should be dispatching, and we again @#$%&! blew it. Outside of Richmond and Port, every opposition has been beatable, and we’ve got one W to show for it.

I said this after the Sydney and GC games, and I’ll say it again. We’re not going anywhere until we put teams like this away. I’m past green shoots, “moments of brilliance”, and “if <player> wasn’t injured we’d have won”.

This team needs to rise above this shit and start winning 50/50 games. That’s what the Lions are doing, that’s what the Saints are doing. They’re put in these situations and are finding a way. Meanwhile our guys continue to back down when the challenge is made. Only exception was against a team mentally weaker again.

I don’t doubt they’re giving their all and leaving nothing left, but there’s not an ounce of ruthlessness in this team, and even mid-table opposition can sense our moment of weakness and exploit it. Oppositions know when they start to push us around, we back off. This again comes from our introverted senior leadership and filters down.

This game was lost upstairs, and the moment of bathwater-consumption was the red rag to the bull. Until they pull their heads out of their arses and demand ruthlessness on days like today, they’ll have to continue suckling on green shoots.

Norf next week presents a similar challenge to today, and a perfect opportunity to see if we’re capable of learning. They’re shithouse but physically they’re more developed, and have been put under the pump in da meedya. They will throw everything at us and superior ability alone won’t get us over the line. Ruthlessness, not backing down and not accepting any outside excuses are what will win us next week.

At some point, encouragement awards aren’t going to cut it anymore. Get the @#$%&! job done.

/Rant

so who'd we lose that game? kruez, simmo and newman?

they're some big outs if the old 2-3 weeks treatment from the med team.

random thoughts

the turning point really was simmo going off. we were up by 30 and in control.

possibly, bolton couldn't match up with clarkson after clarkson made his adjustments at half time.

harry didn't get a sniff after qtr-time.

I'm really liking Daisy. hope he goes around for a couple more seasons.

our future is pretty good.

What’s missing at our club is ruthlessness, and the willingness to crunch the opposition to win a game. The Hawks had their line in the sand game, and god knows we need ours.

Cons:
Couple of delayed shocking decisions in the last quarter. Umpires seemed to decide because a Hawthorn player was lying on the ground that an infringement must have been made.