agree it would have helped had cunners been on his preferred but he needs to understand that and hit up whoever the free players were ( i think he had betts and casboult) with a 20m chip kick

Teague said the plan is to kick down the line and get it out of bounds. Not sure I like that strategy. We couldn't even get it right anyhow.

Yep terrible lack of poise. In the matter of 2 seconds he gave the ball back. Just stupid football.

Wasn’t able to watch due to sons footy. Listened to the first half on the radio and tried checking scores periodically as I could after that.

Gutted. Awful way to lose. Especially if we lacked composure and should of iced it.

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We lost. They could have. Took a miracle kick after the siren. THey missed 3 sitters in the last 5. Toss of the coin. We lost. Can’t blame the last minute, we could have been 20 down or 7 up by then.

PA had three quick goals at the start of the first before we even looked like scoring.

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Me too and I yelled DONT YOU @#$%&! START NOW

Proud of our team.
We played four quarters.
The game could have gone either way.
Now turn to next week.
That's the nature of football.
If we bring the same application every week, we can play finals.

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I think the 3rd of those 3 goals was dumb play by us and the easiest goal of the game. The guy Crippa was minding(?) stayed down goal side of the pack while Crippa is trying to help/hinder Weiters. Half a metre out and thank you very much. In a 3 point game it hurts as much as Gray's goal.

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+1
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Gutted after but already keen for next week.

Noted the Cripps mistake in the match day. If Plowman did that it would almost be the talking point of the post game. Was poor by Cripps. Very poor.

Shattered. We only need a big man to compete on the wing and it was over

We have a horrible tendency to fly for the same mark and do nothing but spoil each other and inevitably both players end up on the ground while their opponent makes of like vandals with the ball. Cripps did it to Weiters and cost us a goal. Martin did it a couple of times, one certainly ended up a in a shot at goal which I think might have been missed. Need to develop a bit more awareness of what their team mates are doing. Weiters well and truly had it covered and would have marked it, instead Cripps gifts his direct opponent a goal from a metre out.

I know we want to win every week and losses like today hurt, but we are still developing and improving. Today was a bitter pill to swallow in the way it went down. But the effort and 4 quarter performance against a high quality opponent, in many ways it was one of our better performances of the year. We missed out on the 4 points but we backed up our best win with another great performance.

Next week becomes extremely important. Cannot drop the ball against an opponent that is bottom 3 this year.

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Seemed like lots of those contests where Port outmarked us way too easily. After watching Teague's press conference, I'm not sure that Gibbons can be accused of lacking composure, seems like he was doing exactly what he was expected to do.

Stoked to see a Carlton game live, yelled myself hoarse - neither players or umpires acted on my advice obviously - numb that we lost. (Had thought they kicked the one from the goal square so was still recovering)..
I love when we do quick movement and the 3 talls interacting - just looks beautiful and unstoppable. I’m sure they had to hang back, hence why they had numbers far too often.


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Yep. The alternative for Gibbons was to kick backwards into our defensive fifty. Port would have pressed up and the next kick would have been dicey unless we could somehow get a free man. He took seconds off the clock, steadied and kicked long to a contest on the boundary where we had Pittonet, Levi & Harry. It wasn’t a bad option if there was nothing else on.

The really disappointing thing was that Pittonet, Levi & Harry couldn’t kill the contest and get the ball out of bounds. Getting out marked in that situation is unforgivable.

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We seemed to turn it over time and time again kicking it long to a contest. We need to work on positioning and having someone at the fall of the ball. Port seemed to be able to take it away from those contests with ease.

I thought we were clearly outmuscled and outbodied in contested/clearance situations as well but we somehow stuck with them.

We did bloody well and should have earned some respect. I guess it's good that losing hurts again? @#$%&! that top of the ladder team had to be one that got away.

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

It doesn’t matter how many you have at the fall of the ball if the opposition mark it! Pittonet, Levi or Harry needed to impact that last contest. Opposition marks in our forward line is a source of immense frustration for me, especially when we field 3 tall targets down there. For me, the long kick into attack isn’t the problem, it’s when our big blokes allow the opposition to mark it.

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