Your saying we were shot before we ran out, that may or may not have been the case, if that is the case is it not the responsibility of the players to take care of their own mental attitude especially after a solid win the week before, or does the coach have to have 22 emergencies available in case the precious little darlings don't feel like it on the day, does he have to hold their hands and help them put their jumpers on in case they break a nail, I don't think so!
These blokes are being paid large amounts of money to do their jobs, so it is on them to bring the right attitude to the game.

It is fine to plan for the game all week but those plans are not worth a fanny full of cold water when you lose 3 players inside a half of a game and are already carrying in 2 players who have missed a fair bit of footy and you are scraping for tall players, and playing a side with a tall forward line and one of those forwards is looking like having a day out, moving Henderson back was a rob Peter to pay Paul situation and where has Henderson played his best football for the club? In the backline if my memory serves me correctly.

It makes it difficult for players to have confidence and play to structures when changes have been made, but those changes weren't made for the fun of it, they were made because our original structures went to the shithouse when we lost those players and the coaching panel were trying to find a way to make things work.

What would have you done that would have been able to limit the impact that North's forwards had on the game, give us a target to kick to and solve the problem of being 2 down for half a game and still keep freshness and run in the legs of our on ballers, but you must also allow for the fact that one of those on ballers has been out for seven weeks and was going to run out of puff later in the game.

We tried to get ourselves back into the game and at one stage had got to within 13 points we couldn't sustain it, simple as that.

You talk about the North players being able to know what each other was doing and that is largely due to the fact that the side has had continuity, we have not been able to field a settled team since round 4 so of course there will be problems with players gelling with each other, but to you that is just another excuse.

Ratten and the match committe have made mistakes and decisions that we have found confusing to say the least but it !@#$%& pisses me off that every time we drop a game it is their fault, when do the players get treated like adults and made accountable for their poor decisions, I'm pretty sure the coach didn't have those shots at goal that missed and I'm pretty sure it was Jamison and not Ratten that dropped his knees into Petrie's back, who is responsible for those actions?

Please tell me what positional moves could have been made last night to change the outcome.

If you can't please get off the coaches back and place the blame on the 22 adults that went out on the ground, if you still feel you need to blame someone or just face the fact that it was a horror night where nothing went right.

Synners, with your sunny disposition I wouldn't let you coach an under nines side, there would be mass suicides after one loss.

You can't be coach you're not even dedicated enough to be a member!

words cannot expressmy joy, now that Freo have overtaken us on the ladder.
The weekend just keeps getting better.

Ratts there next week = Duigan CHF again....

Slap.

we have adjusted our seasons goals once again
We have gone from top 4 to making the 8 to now finishing on top of the bottom 6

That's disgraceful. Mods get this guy off!!!

How did those indigenous boys go tonight
Crap and guess what we lost

Sorry cant have 5 in the one team if you want consistency

They determine if we win or lose

That's disgraceful. Mods get this guy off!!!