MIL, what are you on??
Did sauce do any worse than what knockers did for the first 5 rounds??

AJ = 4 kicks, 4 hb's, 4 marks, 5 tackles, 1 free against.
Davis = 5 kicks, 5 hb's, 0 marks, 4 tackles, 3 free's against
If you ask me he did an outstanding job on a AA small forward who killed us last year.
What more do you want??
On this performance you must think Davis is not very afl at the moment too??

Back on the game! That was very hard to watch. Nothing more I hate than getting done by the Filth.

The issue is is that what happens when you have such a young side. You get inconsistency.

A couple of points:

1. You ever recruited McLean should have their position questioned. I have friends at Melbourne who couldn't believe what they got for him. They said he was so slow that he wouldnt last another year in the game and it had gone past him. Hard to argue with them after what I have seen this year. Surely Grigg, Hadley, Robbo or even Ellard would be better?

2. Though Sauce did some good stuff and was great around the stoppages and gave Judd an armchair ride.

3. Kruezer - I know he is our best ruckman but we look better as a side with him up forward.

4. Henderson needs to go back for a while and get some confidence. Looks shot at the moment.

5. White after struggling down back went fwd and looked okay kicked a goal and then went straight back to defence. Why?

6. Missed the run of Walker badly. Looked good when Armfield ran the lines.

7. Lucas will be a star. Indictment on others that this kid stands out already.

8. Judd, Simmo, Murphy and Gibbs are genuine stars and with them as the basis we will eventually overtake C'wood.

9. Houlihan - showed why he polarises people. Looks great in space but if he has to tag or shut down someone lacks pace and mental toughness.

10. We will beat St Kilda next week.

They have been April/May premiers for about 45 of the last 50 years & how many flags have the flower won

Everything to do with the coach. Matlhouse is the best in the business and we saw that today.

They have been April/May premiers for about 45 of the last 50 years & how many flags have the flower won

Go have a look...I think I'm safe....tired of it Duc can't be stuffed...too many sensitive types in the house..

I got the impression that we lacked any real physical presence in contests and when tackling, we seemed to get brushed aside easily.

I am trying to work out if it was lack of intensity, smaller bodies than Collingwood or an inability to cope with the pressure that they applied, and they applied plenty.

I can't decide if we were just beaten by a better side or if it was a poor performance, having said that it doesn't feel like a 9 goal belting and I think the scoreboard flattered Collingwood a bit.

the one thing I am seriously dirty on was our decsion making and errors, we gifted them a lot of scores by those two things.

I am genuinely confused about how to take this loss and what to take out of the game, other than sugar Lucas, the kid appears to have real talent and desire.

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dont include me in that group thankyou very much. i was just stating a fact.
by the way i am of the opinion that EVERY thread on this site is "littered with private little bullshit adolescent in-jokes"
but what's one to do?

they were very strong, our tackles were weak, its the next thing for us, that and stoppages. We left to many stoppages to too few players
finally entries into our forward 50. How many times did we kick it to them?

I agree, too many times some of our mids went forward yet we hadn't won the stoppage, win it, the run!

I don't like to bag players usually but geez Murph can be guilty of exactly this most times...now I don't know whether its just laziness or playing to instruction but it happens too often..