A great game that we should have won.

Ignoring for the moment that we blew three chances to win it in the last three minutes (Waite, Walker, Warnock), I thought we really lost it by persisting with dinking little short slow kicks for the first 20 minutes of the quarter while Geelong just kicked long twice to the forward 50 (same as the Pies in the second half). We didn't play to our stengths at all.

As someone who has been critical of Waite on occasion, tonight he was the player he is capable of being every week if he would just forget about his opponent and the umpires, tone down the agro a notch, and just play football. He was marvellous.

What tonight has taught me is there is basically nothing between the top three sides this year so we may as well win the flag just to spite everyone.

Choke kick cost us yes but have been saying it for a while now our forward entries are disgracefully disorganized unless bombing the ball is our tactic....other areas have improved greatly this year....midfield defense structures but when we enter fwd 50 we have no idea....we should have won by 2 to 4 goals tonight....

Agree totally, came on expecting a lot of praise for the team, about how we had improved and how we gave a top team a massive scare about how much better we can get.

But nooooooooooooooo.
And anyone who blames Warnock for the loss, simply has no idea.

The best players in many sports will all tell you it's about "the decisive moment".

Executing when it matters is what matters. Your logic is sound, but human emotions aren't logical. Pressure to kick the shot from 15m to win the game. It's an easy shot usually, but just enough angle to make it missable. Do you want to take it?

Warnock was sore, but my immediate instinct was that he didn't want it. When I saw he wasn't keen, I thought "Do a Brian Lake and stay down". Let Garlett kick it FFS. He looked miserable lining up. But he took the shot. He missed horribly. It was the match-losing miss of the year.

And that's the way it is. It's unfair because Robbie's ruckwork was beautiful at times.

Rubbish...he missed a sitter.


Kick the goal and we're in front

And yes, we have improved, but we should've won.

Also:
Generally I hate to blame the umpires, but in this case I agree with everyone.
The inconsistent crap they served up was terrible.

High contact, chopping arms, overstepping the mark, holding the ball, holding arms in marking contests, abuse, just pathetic in all areas.

Just heading back from the game, Judd spent lotta time in forward line in the last, did some great work forward but presume he was injured.. Is that right?

Come on BLUES time to continue growing as a team and Smash the Dee's nxt week.

yes he was injured. foot/ankle. hopefully just bruising considering he played on.

No way. Henderson shouldn't be played until he is white hot.