Poor kicking costs you games...nothing to do with coaching when you're missing shots like we did in the first quarter.
You end up playing catch up footy and if you look at just about every game where a team gets up by 4-5 goals they don't get rolled.
We got no reward for effort in the first quarter.
I don't know the end of game stats for inside 50s but up until 3 qtr time we were smashing them in inside 50s. We gave ourselves enough opportunities but didn't take them. This was all with so many poor users of the ball kicking inside 50.
Carrazzo was back to the old Carrazzo of chasing uncontested possessions. His handball receives would be fairly high given the way he chased the ball. Fremantle players actually allowed him the extra space as they would rather the ball in his hands than a Gibbs or Judd. Hadley was similar - was given time and space to kick (butcher) the ball. These players should not be chasing uncontested possession; they simply don't have the skill once they have the ball to be damaging. Walker was another who turned the ball over terribly; he's returned to the type of kicking he's been known for for most of his career. AJ again confused his ambitions with his capabilities, when will this arrogant flower learn to play within his limitations. It's such a shame because he did a terrific defensive job on Ballantyne. You would've thought after so many times of being caught holding the ball that he'd learn...obviously there isn't a lot upstairs with AJ.
The defensive group seem to have dropped off in the last 4 weeks; we appear to be losing more 50/50 contests than we did before. Teams are having a higher percentage of scoring shots per inside 50...it was a strength earlier in the season but for some reason we cannot kill the ball or rebound with any purpose.
We actually forced Freo to turn the ball over a fair bit at half back/wing but we then fumbled the ball a lot and were unable to capitalise on all the hard work.
There were so many marking contests where too many players went up for the spoil and there were too few at ground level. When this did happen often the spoil would be ineffective (the ball would go over the back)
You have to laugh at the flogs who wrote off Lachie Henderson after about 6 games.

SO many people at the game seemed so surprised.
