I honestly think the Lions were just playing with us for the first half.
Their midfield had not even fired up as per Zorko's comments at half time. Something like, we are lucky we have plenty of depth in the midfield. Referring to the upcoming second half and rotations.
It's going to be a long year.........again.
It will be interesting to see if we only focus on getting 1 gun mid again, instead of a few up and coming or good fringe mids. i.e. a Zak Jones, Ed Langdon, Adam Tomlinson or even a CEY to help out in the middle.
I still think we will regret not keeping Daisy this year also.

Absolutely.
Our midfield wilted as the game progressed but I fully expect us to be a different proposition is 11 days.
I liked some of Dows work. McGovern was very underwhelming but he does some great things off the ball. Look at Eddies second goal and watch McGoverns work on the wing. When most players would be running offensively to receive the ball, he runs 15 metres to put a beautiful block on for Dow.
DeKoning was good but he seems to struggle with depth perception. Too often we were looking for a tall option coming out of defence and he's standing 80 metres away expecting them to put it on his head.

It was great to see Doc out there. His kicking out of defence is magnificent. I thought Simmo and Newman were so-so but our tall backs were pretty good. Once again I fail to understand the Polson experiment.
Also, umpire number 16, where the @#$%&! has he come from? He's the male version of Eleni. Doesn't shut up, overrules other umpires with pissweak decisions and wants to be the game instead of adjudicating on it.
I went home a bit disappointed but I'm expecting a big effort against the Tigers. As for Jack Martin, he'll be a jet if we can keep him fit.

People think Newnes was a bad kick yesterday. Go watch Langdon play the other day.

Jones would be the only one I’d take for a midfield role from that lot.

All four of those names would do more damage than most of our midfield.
Langdon still had a lazy 25 touches at 76% eff. and Tomlinson had 32 at 72%.

McGovern was terrible. Dow can’t kick neither can half the team
If we don’t improve in 11 days and the Tiggies are on we will lose easily.
Your optimism needs to be tinkered with some realism.

People think Newnes was a bad kick yesterday. Go watch Langdon play the other day.

Jones would be the only one I’d take for a midfield role from that lot.

The fact that Hawthorn got Mitchell, O’Meara and Scully to rebuild their midfield while we watched says a bit about our mindset.

It’ll be another long year with the occasional joyous moment.

Wingard too

All four of those names would do more damage than most of our midfield.
Langdon still had a lazy 25 touches at 76% eff. and Tomlinson had 32 at 72%.

McGovern was terrible. Dow can’t kick neither can half the team
If we don’t improve in 11 days and the Tiggies are on we will lose easily.
Your optimism needs to be tinkered with some realism.

How about some perspective?
At times yesterday our centre bounce consisted on Dow, Fisher and Martin. Ed Curnow spent plenty of time on the wing and Cripps up forward.
Cameron kicked 2 or 3 on Polson who wont play on him next time. Murphy also spent plenty of time out of the midfield. As much as its frustrating, Teague has given the kids plenty of midfield time last week and this.
We still developed and gave opportunities whilst they played their best 22 in their best positions. Yet we were still within 3 and a bit goals with 5 minutes to go.
It's not the doom and gloom you thrive on.