ahhhhhhhh........................perspective is a wonderful thing............yeh sure a loss on a Monday night - when the week has only started - stings.

but then again the reality of it all is that we were not good enough. our clearance work this year has been average to say the least.

until we get a better quality midfield we will struggle. carrotts is a big loss, cant expect scotland to go on forever and curnow.....well he has to go!

You're only as good as your supporter base.

In which case, we're incredibly soft, fickle, only go when it suits us, take the soft, cheap option without fail, turn on our own at the drop of a hat, snipers left right and centre, and more concerned about our own individual performance in looking good, rather than how the team went.

Pissweak.

Poor tackling with the Saints consistently getting their hands free and losing possession to drop the ball. So much for our grappling and tackling work we did in the pre-season. Lack strength in the contest.

Armfield shouldn't be allowed to kick in the backline. You could see the turnover coming as they pressured him and forced him to kick wide. Ditto for Bower with the poorly weighted kicks that show too much to the opposition. Need Yarran and Laidler back. And some question why Gibbs is played back.

Coaches should have pushed Henderson forward and Waite back, but they just persisted with the set up that wasn't working. Have to go wide because we lack a big body there who can stand under the pack. Thornton was dropped, but he's another lead up target like Waite and Walker. He wouldn't have been the difference as a forward. Arguably more valuable than Bower.

Saints showed us up under the roof with Koschitzke, Riewoldt, Wilkes and Stanley forward. They went short, short and then long to tall targets in space. They separated our backline and got clean ball because no one was pressuring. That's why Saad, Milne and Milera were dangerous tonight. Russell had a shocking bounce, but it's inexcusable that no one was goal side and supporting him. IIRC, one of the tallest players on the ground in Stanley was free with no one between him and goals. Pretty unforgiveable set up.

Not playing team footy with four players going for the ball instead of blocking for each other.

Idiotic and reactionary to pot Carlton for not getting Saad who had a paddock to work in. He would have struggled if he was in Garlett's or Betts' shoes. Ellard did more because he's hungry for the contest.

Does anybody have Steven Kernahan and Brett Rattens e-mail?

Do you think we were often tackling cos we didnt have the ball enough???

When youre chasing arses tackles dont stick too well......

We checked out more arses tonight than a Greek in Brazil....

Fickle is not supporting your club through ten years of pain
Fickle is not letting your club leaders blow wind up your xxxx
However delusional is believing in a pipe dream that your coach president and board are incapable of delivering

BUT.. "our army of 190 cm athletic super freaks who can run and jump " according to Kouta on here... will give the opposition PAIN!

The head coach makes a difference.

Essendon*.

Hird.

It's that guy who coached Geelong to flags who is orchestrating Essendon*'s moves.

Fickle is not supporting your club through ten years of pain
Fickle is not letting your club leaders blow wind up your xxxx
However delusional is believing in a pipe dream that your coach president and board are incapable of delivering

I k now what should have happened if we were a good side.
I know what happened cos were not.

Its all bluff...

beating up on teams below par is nothing to proud of .

It just kids you.

Those kinds of games wont exist come finals.

Best to worry more about who's orchestrating ours....

10 years of pain and yet you only turn up when we lose?

Still too flakey. We are at our worse against middle ladder teams who hunt us and dont let us play the way we want to play. Bottom of ladder teams are just crap and we do ok against the better teams that have their own game style and dont make major changes for anybody.

Teams know how we want to move the ball forward. Eade was talking about on the telly. Teams are all over our stoppage and ball movement. They want to cut it at the source so they congest the stoppages. Strategic guy RIchardson needs to come up with a way to beat this our we are screwed. We will have our ups and downs this year like last year and the year before that.

On top of being mentally flakey we are also sadly out of touch. The amount of times we looked to have won the ball and then coughed it up while teammates are on the attacking spread was terrible. Costly too.
Our backline was not balanced and the coaches need to take the blame there. We needed two talls and the rest zippy midfielder defender types. Not Duigan, Henda, Jamo and Bower. Far too lumbery and the reason their zippy forwards killed us and the reason we had no rebound at all.

Big week next week. Lots of soul searching midweek and we deserve the treatment the Hawks got after the swans game from the media.

PS Sorry for boring you all last week about training loads. My theory was way off the mark. There is something to it but i clearly got it wrong when thinking it relates to CFC over the last few weeks.

Not to mention pretty hard to achieve.

Play the ball, not the man.

Go to the kitchen if you want a bite.

The head coach makes a difference.

Essendon*.

Hird.

Essendon* have a list that is not as talented as ours, yet they would be amongst the favourites for the Grand Final at the moment.

Make no mistake, I love Ratts and the contribution he's made to our club, but I have serious misgivings about his coaching ability.

This is a game we should have won, and comfortably. Even St Kilda at their best are a team we should've spanked.

We have the cattle, so that's not an excuse.

Tonight we were outclassed, and that's ridiculous.

If someone had suggested that we would be 5-2 after the first six rounds, given the opposition we've faced, as a prospective premiership contender, I would've said it's not acceptable.

Given the quality of players we have, it's a damning indictment on the coach and his staff that we lost tonight.