I think anyone who isnt more confident about 2010 after that game should get on Ebay
and look up Jousting Sticks !!

Cons

We lost a winnable game.
Some of the dribble and lunacy being written about this game.

Pros

This was to me a very very illuminating game as to where CFC is right now.
You can win every bloody KPI under the sun, but unless you can put the pill
through those big sticks, its all navel fluff !!
As to some of the individual performances, personally (like most here im guessing)
i only watched it on tv, but cant believe some of the negative crap being offered up.

The 2 best CHB's ive ever seen are Peter Knights and Bruce Doull.
J. Brown would have had them both for breakfast in that form.
One out and with no help for Thornton, it was always going to happen.
Yarran didnt have a great game scoreboard wise, but he showed other facets
that will serve him wonderfully well ovr the ensuing years, he will be a player.
Cant believe the vitriol being heaped on Anderson.
Sure he stuffed a few up, but he is raw and if you cant see the potential
there then you are, simply, unreallistic.
Murphy was electric, Irish and Henderson showed plenty, Kreuzer was special K
all right, Mclean showed why we recruited him and kudos to Ratts for the Simpson spark.

Bottom line, can you remember many teams being 3.11 at half time and winning ?
The difference being the delivery (and space) provided by Black, Johnstone, Rich (only in
the last Q) and Drummond. Perfect example in the last Q when Drummond hit up
Banfield (i think) with a pinpoint round the body 50 metre pass.
Our blokes can do that too, but hey, we are rejigging our forward line, its not going
to be precision at round 2 after having a one man forward line for years.

I think anyone who isnt more confident about 2010 after that game should get on Ebay
and look up Jousting Sticks !!

Oh, and you smug prick Vossy, cant wait for the rematch down here.
If you think blokes like Maguire will get you there, then you already have a full set
of frickin Jousting Sticks.

PS........ please, oh please, for the sake of this forum.... JUST WIN NEXT WEEK !!!

Memo to Voss: Relying on a proven champion to drag your team over the line against an up&coming but depleted side @ home does not a premiership coach maketh......... Good luck with your recruiting masterstrokes........

I know a lot of people aren't going to like this but Voss has continously bent us over ever since taking over Brisbane. He can gloat because plain and simple he can afford too right now. He has made every post a winner against us and it pains me to say.
His trading this year was plain genius. He loaded up on bigger bodied recruites at a time where a lot of clubs over the next few years will go down this path. In other words he has beaten teams to the punch. This also allows his youngster, in which he has a few, time to build and grow over the next 2-3 years before they are ready to step up and by then he can start topping up again. Have a look at the Brisbane list and you will see what I am saying. The guy is very footy smart and a very, very good coach.

His trading this year was plain genius

I know a lot of people aren't going to like this but Voss has continously bent us over ever since taking over Brisbane.

turn overs killed us . Agree with that but we needed Brown to be double teamed at all times
That didnt happen and that is dumb footy.

Bottom line Brown was the difference. Turn overs didnt help but Thornon didnt get much help from his teammates

White would have been more likely to leave his man to help as well than Armfield.

Brown is an intimidating footballer.

Brown would have killed any footballer Thursday night.
Thornton needed more assistance and didnt get it

I think its the calling things DUMB is what gets me about your posts. Like you know better than 4 coaches. I am sure the knew thornton couldnt stop Brown alone. They would have loved to get a player to peel off and help him and that were the instructions. Anderson was in the packs many times. Sometimes Brown beat them all. Other times the ball was turned over by us and there was no chance of getting a player to the Brown contest to assist.

You suggested putting Warnoch in front of him. Now in my opinion that is DUMB. Dropping a man back behind the ball like that frees up one of theirs to do damage. Up until 3qtr time we had them. Brown had 4 but Ratts backed his men. If Ratts had of went defensive at that stage and put a ruck in front of Brown and tagged Rich ( who hadnt had a kick to that stage) in fear this board would have went into meltdown. Massive melt down not just a Keogh calling our coaching Dumb or Juddy and the Kruezers pushing his anti ratts agenda.

Ratten gets some things right sometimes 29 like moving Simmo up forward to favour his left foot. That was brilliant coaching and was partially the reason we got back into the contest.
However Ratten IMO doesnt have a feel for the crucial elements of the game. The 2 keys to this game were Fev and Brown. Jamo had Fev cold every time unless it was delivered laces out. One goal from a dubious free one off the ground. It was pretty obvious that Brown was going to be the difference. Didnt help that we coughed it up and he kicked beautifully. but Thornton had no real help accept for Anderson as you have stated.
Cazzeman reckons that if Betts andYarran had kicked straight we may have won. True but what is the difference in saying if we doubled teamed Brown everytime it wouldnt have made the difference.
Warnock was useless around the ground. Why not put his 206cm frame to use rather than having runnin around like a lost giraffe. I dont reckon a loose Leunberger would have made much differnce to the result.
Not enough guys were prepared to take a hit for the team and help Thornton out.
Brown would have got a hard-on looking at all the space around him

As for Armfield being included instead of White well a 20kg difference plus the luxury of moving off Staker might have prevented a couple of Brown marks and goals.

Waite wasted playing btw the arcs on Brennan.

Betts n Yarran did nothing.

Anderson and Thornton 2 errors/turnovers each in 1st half killed us. That is 2 weeks straight now Anderson has coughed up the ball and it's resulted in a goal

Warnock poor game IMO

The good thing is we won the midfield without CJ.

But as promising as Setanta and Hendo are, I really think Waite needs to play fwd. Poor decision by Ratten to not use Waite as a weapon.

And we still don't have a gorilla to match up on the Brown's of the comp

It would be a sad state of affairs if our midfield was not winning when you look at our recruiting over the past 5 years it has been predominantly midfielders. What is required is a stronger backline and ironically Maguire was on the paddock for them when we had a chance to get him. How many times will JB kick a bag of goals on us before we realise this. Brett Thornton has been fighting outside his weight for far too long. We get one injury and there is no back up plan that will work!

Armfield is a ripper and his body on body contact has markedly improved year on year. He is getting this game, is in our best 22 for sure and had to come in when fit.

At the end of the day Brown and Fevola kicked 10 goals between them and O'hAilpin and Henderson kicked seven between them and Brisbane won by three goals. Upon reflection, it was a really close game and if Brisbane are serious contenders in 2010, then we aren't that far behind them.