one of our smallest was one of our bravest tonight

!@#$%& i love simmo

one of our smallest was one of our bravest tonight

!@#$%& i love simmo

Too many soft players in our mob.
Name 1 hawthorn player who squibbed at any stage tonight!
From our mob, Garlett squibbed a couple of times, Carazzo once with the goal mouth open.
Yarran - now where do i start? its awesome to have this bloke running his nuts off from the back half but not when he squibs every marking contest. He is suspect to say the least as a defender. no good with the ball in the air. He had a HUGE chance in the second quarter to jump into Franklins back and hurt the bloke fairly in a marking contest but simply backed off and let him mark it. We wont win a flag until EVERY player on our list is unsociable, tough, and unforgiving.
Get off T-birds back, certainly not in our bottom 5 tonight
Think Duigs, as much as i love the kid, needs a spell.
For those who will take positives from the end margin are kidding themselves. Game was done at 10min mark of the second quarter, they did what they had to do and held us at bay.
Very disappointed. We are a fair way off from tonights effort

It's called "being scared".

Disgusting half of football? Geez you're a !@#$%& sad sack!

Was watching the game with friends and they all looked at me at half time (after they looked at the scoreline...which is what I'm sure most of you did) and said you must be shattered.

No, I'm not.

Scoreline wasn't really indicitive of the way the game was going. We created scoring opportunities, but kicked a lot of behinds because they weren't good scoring opportunities. If we'd created better, put a score on the board then everything changes.

The thing I was amazed about was when they had time and and patience, they could pinpoint passes, may have been short, but they kept possession of the ball. We were doing ok, but turned it over, or kicked to 50-50 situations too often. We succumbed a lot to inferred pressure too often and rushed kicks because of it.

We've got a long way to go, but to say it was disgusting is being lazy and over emotional.

Premierships aren't won or lost in the first half of a game in Round 22.

Truth is that a game like this is a good learning experience about the type of pressure we need to apply, and withstand, to become a good side.

You guys talk about the draw and how we've had it so tough. I'd rather play Collingwood, Geelong, Hawthorn and West Coast twice throughout the year so we know where we're at before the finals. The more big games we play the better for us. !@#$%& easy games against Melbourne and Richmond. Would rather finish 8th being tested than get an easy draw in and not know where we need to improve.

You appear very easily pleased if you are happy with that first half.

For mine, we've had enough chances to 'learn' and simply haven't been good enough too many times against the top sides.

Tonight was a huge opportunity and we blew it. That's my view of the game. We didn't handle the finals type intensity and pressure. That's highly concerning for me.

How many more opportunities do we need before we win these type of games?

Being the good judge that you are, I'm sure you'll enlighten me.

Oh purlease.......

Shattered.

I really thought we would win the premiership this year. Now I am shattered. In a million pieces.

Mope. Sob. Mope.

Actually I'm okay. e are not there, but I didn't think we were, am impressed though that we stuck at it.

I would ruck with Kruise and play a more mobile tall. I think Kruise and Warnock are ruckmen - if fit I prefer Kruise in the ruck but not forward or if forward then they cannot have a spare man in defence.

We need Waite in and a CHF - Austin? Setanta?

and we need JR Lucas and Curnow back in that side, perhaps Touhy also.

I just hope next year we get all the top four sides twice in the regular season. The players need to get consistent exposure against these sides.

I especially hope we get Hawthorn twice. It was said in the Age yesterday, and it is true, they isolate each team's three or four weakest links and just intimidate them. We could all name our blokes in that category, and in my opinion they have all been shown up consistently in games against the top 4 (incl Eagles) this year.

So the only way to a flag is to get mental steel into those blokes or to turn them over. Given who they are, I'd be surprised if we turned them over. So the trick is to put them in the cauldron as often as possible so they know what to expect and how to work their way through it. I'm pretty sure the coaching staff would also be thinking about ways to get them to work harder against more inferior opposition.

Finally, full credit to Andrew Walker who escaped joining the pretenders list by working his way into the game quite brilliantly when moved out of the forward line. It shows exactly what we need from the softer tier.