Also Bomber Thompson was asked "how did Essendon* beat Carlton" I didn't expect him to answer truthfully but he simply said "we saw them the week before against the Pies and they were just allowed to run wild. Our plan was just numbers around the contest and don't let them run"

Pure genius.

So it became apparent after about 15 minutes that the Saints would do the same and we countered this tried and true tactic with.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................nothing until halfway through the last quarter and that didn't work.

Play the ball like our army of 190 cms running jumping super athletic freaks drafted???

Look... i know youre disappointed..!!!.. your dreams have been smashed!!!... bashed senseless by Essendon* and StKilda with the hard teams yet to come... but im pointing out your theory is full of holes....
Cos you didnt believe we needed guys that have to be capable of getting their hands on the ball..

In case you missed the point.......

Drafting Midfielders >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Drafting non specialist positioned army of 190 cms running jumping superfreako half back flankers....

We cant get our hands on the ball...

So we have to chase a super duper slow side like StKilda all over the park.

Take out all the bullshit...

football is simple.

Have guys find the ball.. (win the ball ) NOT ONE GUY CALLED JUDD !!!)... and execute....
Simple game.....

The other players are periphery types... (FLANKS is a peripheral area compared to centre)

But its ok... we have Adelaide this week....

On the bright side, if we come up with a way to counter this gameplan we'll be pretty bloody hard to beat

Some of the players on the park tonight were far from quality. Joseph is a battler at best, Curnow not much better, and what to make of Waite We seriously lack depth if we can't cover three players (Yazz, Carrots and Laidler).

Turn up one week, criticize player for being inconsistent and not being able to string two good games together.

Don't bother turning up next two weeks when we win.

Muy malo on my arithmetical part.

The point still stands notwithstanding my typo.

Yes, we were missing Laidler, Yarran and Carrazzo, but all good teams have injuries and still compete effectively.

Top coaches have their teams playing as a unit, which I think we don't do.

Coaches such as Mick Malthouse were able to get average players achieve well above their best.

Our problem is not playing talent.

Don't know what happened to the workrate from the Collingwood match where everyone worked together and swarmed all over them in numbers.



Cop out to bag Curnow who was working hard all night, but didn't have anyone running past to give it to. We had no targets and space inside fifty.

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.

Isn't Jobe Watson 190cm, Pendlebury 191?

This has been the most disappointing game in a very long time. We have all been waiting patiently over the last few years for the blues to become a real contender and give this premiership a shake. After the Collingwood game I started to really believe that this could be the year. After tonight, I have lost hope. We haven't been any good since that game and I don't see us finishing in the top four. My biggest concern is that our premiership window may close a bit sooner than we all expect. That would be a disaster. Sorry for the negativity. This one hurts.