Stone Free wrote:
Went to the game last night, and whilst I am no footy guru, a did notice a few things:
They came back at us when Waite went down. I just wish maybe some of our other forwards could lead instead of sitting back and waiting behind the defender for the ball.
We got our act together in the final 1/4 when Thornton went to Reiwoldt and shut him down, so kudos to T-Bird for that, White tried, but ultimately failed to do the same thing. It was pretty obvious that Jack had White's measure, yet it took Ratts an entire freaking quarter to do something about it.
I could see Ratts tried having Warnock in the goalsquare, yet Warnock refused to stay there and kept running up the ground. There were a number of times that he should've stayed there and yet when the ball eventually got to the goalsquare, he was half way up the ground somewhere.
Our tackling is freaking abysmal, always has been, and I don't see any improvement in this area.
Our lack of a strong, tall leading forward hurts us every time. Hammer has the body for this, but he doesn't lead and needs to spend 8 hours a day for the next week taking set shots....in fact, make that the whole team needs to spend 8 hours a day taking set shots.
Not sure about the T-Bird, White observations Stonefree. As Wojee points out it was probably more about Riewoldt being starved of supply rather than anything our "tall backs did".
Riewoldt did make T-Bird look pretty silly with his fifth goal in the third and he also could have pushed back harder for Riewoldts six goal after we turned the ball over. White competing with Astbury and Russell competing with Riewoldt in the square isn't ideal.
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