Plowman's had two very poor games.

Back from match. Usual random thoughts:

- Cripps: Not himself. Either the faster/more open game of 2021 has passed him by, he's carrying an injury or he's checked out. Or a combination of the above.
- Harry: Wins as many as he loses in the air, but some of his efforts seem half-assed. Nothing in the way of second efforts which is a shame because he's very quick over the first 5-6 meters. Goes to ground.
- Murphy: Cooked. Cookedy cook cookingly flower cooked. Looks for easy possessions and can't stick a tackle. Cannot believe he was our captain.
- Doc: Poor disposal continues, has been a major issue since the pre-season matches. Dunno what's going on there, he used to be up there with the best.
- SPS: Flat footed and reactive.
- Walsh: Star
- Saad: All class. We'll ruin him in good time I'm afraid.
- Williams: Can play. Already trying to do too much to compensate for the soft and fragile players around him.
- Fisher: Is way ahead of himself. You're not Dustin Martin pal, so don't try the fend offs. You're 5 foot nothing and 75 kegs soaking wet. Play the percentages and do the basics well.
- Williamson: Almost always tries to run around and almost always gets caught htb.
- Fogarty: Persist. He's got some good tools. Can be a solid role player in a team with good structure and discipline.
- Dow: No confidence anymore. Could have been a good role player and depth midfielder but we've destroyed him.
- Coaching: Deplorable. We simply have no structure and no good connection between the lines. I maintain John Barker MUST go.
- Mental strength: Weak as piss. The whole comp knows we'll buckle under sustained physical and mental pressure.
- Physical strength: Most of our team can't break tackles. Most of our team can't stick tackles.

- If I hear Teague say he "believes in the group" in the presser I'll vomit. They gotta earn your belief and they aint doing it. Find something else to say.
- The players likewise need to earn the coaching groups' belief. No gifted games.

I should be detached and it shouldn't worry or hurt me anymore, but it @#$%&! does. It @#$%&! hurts. Many of you have seen glory years. At my age, all I've seen (other than being barely 13 in '95) is mediocrity. We've been really crap for really long and we don't even look like we're close emerging from it.

While frustrated with the loss and the inconsistent umpiring the longer the game went, I go to bed reasonably content...
Because I got to go to the MCG on a pleasant night to watch my team against the old enemy with 51,000 making lots of noise, lots of entertaining footy, some emotion and plenty of people happy to be out. The post game walk back to Flinders Street with the moon and the city lights and the bubbling sound of the throng chatting about the game, or life.
After last year in Melbourne, with no live sport and exactly one year now working alone at home...it was great to be at the footy.

Moore clearly had a much better game than H.

H’s second efforts are rarely there, and many times his first efforts are sub-standard.

I never rated Kreuzer as a ruckman

Lion hearted and gave his all

But never had the impact of a Fitzpatrick or Madden. Particularly in the middle.

Our centre clearance work has been deplorable over the first two rounds, so De Koning becomes even more important going forward.

No one this year will kick more Goals on Moore than Harry did tonight

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Back from match. Usual random thoughts:

- Cripps: Not himself. Either the faster/more open game of 2021 has passed him by, he's carrying an injury or he's checked out. Or a combination of the above.
- Harry: Wins as many as he loses in the air, but some of his efforts seem half-assed. Nothing in the way of second efforts which is a shame because he's very quick over the first 5-6 meters. Goes to ground.
- Murphy: Cooked. Cookedy cook cookingly flower cooked. Looks for easy possessions and can't stick a tackle. Cannot believe he was our captain.
- Doc: Poor disposal continues, has been a major issue since the pre-season matches. Dunno what's going on there, he used to be up there with the best.
- SPS: Flat footed and reactive.
- Walsh: Star
- Saad: All class. We'll ruin him in good time I'm afraid.
- Williams: Can play. Already trying to do too much to compensate for the soft and fragile players around him.
- Fisher: Is way ahead of himself. You're not Dustin Martin pal, so don't try the fend offs. You're 5 foot nothing and 75 kegs soaking wet. Play the percentages and do the basics well.
- Williamson: Almost always tries to run around and almost always gets caught htb.
- Fogarty: Persist. He's got some good tools. Can be a solid role player in a team with good structure and discipline.
- Dow: No confidence anymore. Could have been a good role player and depth midfielder but we've destroyed him.
- Coaching: Deplorable. We simply have no structure and no good connection between the lines. I maintain John Barker MUST go.
- Mental strength: Weak as piss. The whole comp knows we'll buckle under sustained physical and mental pressure.
- Physical strength: Most of our team can't break tackles. Most of our team can't stick tackles.

- If I hear Teague say he "believes in the group" in the presser I'll vomit. They gotta earn your belief and they aint doing it. Find something else to say.
- The players likewise need to earn the coaching groups' belief. No gifted games.

I should be detached and it shouldn't worry or hurt me anymore, but it @#$%&! does. It @#$%&! hurts. Many of you have seen glory years. At my age, all I've seen (other than being barely 13 in '95) is mediocrity. We've been really crap for really long and we don't even look like we're close emerging from it.

Don't know if you watched on tv or at ground (I went) but he was more competitive than you give him credit for: certainly more than last week.
In fact he had a great battle with Moore and I think this motivated him to be more competitive, certainly in the third quarter when he was down where I could see him.
The other big improvement from last week was backing himself to kick the goal.
Murphy on the other hand seemed to have no impact.

An observation from level 4 of the Olympic stand: our forward pressure was atrocious. Every time the ball hit the deck inside 50, the Collingwood players raffled it, had 3 easy handball options and then just walked it out of the 50. Just really disappointing. Fogarty tried on the pressure front but didn’t have many mates

Finally someone has said it, he got well and truly pantsed tonight.

Like many others

Williamson
Murphy
Casboult

Out.

I was at the game and thought Dow is absolutely worth keeping. Fogarty was very good. Martin, Saad also good.

Weitering was shown by Moore why he isn't all Australian.



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