Why are people angry and surprised?
We were never going to win that game. In a game where the opposition scores two goals for three quarters, you make sure they can't kick three to win the game in the last.
How?
Well for a start you drop back an extra man behind the footy so the ball can't get out the back, which it did three times.
I blame Teague for the loss. He is all structure and no match day flexibility. Cameron altered his team structure TWICE during the game to turn things around and Teague sat and watched like hr did last week. Teams get a run on because he has no idea how to put the brakes on, No idea.

Have a look at the centre bounces 75% of the time.
Cripps, Murphy, Ed.
Cripps Murphy, Ed
Cripps Murphy Ed.

Cripps couldn't get near it,
Murphy did OK again but turned it over three times early in the third.
Ed got poleaxed and was running around like a headless chook for a quarter and half. Meanwhile we have SPS rotting away in defence, Martin flashing in and out of the game, Polson and Cottrell who are hard bodies, Eddie who kept falling over at the ctitical moment and Setterfield who we know is a clearance player. Nothing,
Cripps, Murphy and Ed.

In the last three weeks, McKay has kicked something like 3-8. His hands were on tonight again but he has NFI about how to take a set shot.

The team is mentally shot. Has to be,
The pervading thought after the opposition kick a couple on the trot must now be,
'Here we go again.'
It certainly is with the supporters and commentators.

I haven't seen the presser but I can almost here it.

"We didn't take our opportunities when they came late in the game.
W wanted to play our way but in the end they got on top in the contested possessions and clearances.
We came out expecting to win nut just couldn't get the job done."

Sydney next up with their new game style running the footy. They will beat us for run and carry. We stopped that after the Bulldogs game. It was too successful. Run and carry, use the corridor and hit up a leading forward. It all looked so promising compared to the chippy chippy down the boundary and then bomb it long to (Haynes) and hope for a spill. That's the Malthuose formula from the last Collingwood premiership. Not even Collingwood still does it. Bolts did it after MM brought it over. Now Teague has fallen for it.

I watched the Collingwood game until I couldn't sand it anyy longer and the TV was in danger of having a coffee mug thrown at it. I watched this game impassively tonight waiting for the inevitable collapse.
The team is soft.
The club is a shell of its former self on field but the board is happy because we are heading towards being debt free.
I am just about done after supporting them since I was eleven, 59 years ago. It's almost like the day you realise your marriage is over.

Just exactly how many times in the 2nd half did we attend the centre bounce.
3 times in the 2nd quarter
5 times in the last.
You keep banging on about this but it is irrelevant.
Once the ball is bounced they are basically all midfielders .
Centre clearance were 6 to 7 all game.
These blokes you say Teague is killing are killing themselves by not running hard enough and presenting.
Look at Walsh he runs harder than anyone and he gets the ball.

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After the excessive Media for a 21yo, If I was Dow I would have given it everything with vigour till I ran out of fuel.

I would've attacked every contest with vigour.

He didn't. I want to see more of him, just not like tonight.

So your happy with a midfield rotation of 5 players??
Cripps,Murphy, Ed,Setterfield, Walsh, Newnes
It's a bit hard for a forward pocket to run like Walsh who plays WING.
Everytime Fisher is around the ball something happens.
Why play DOW if your gonna use him as a HF. might as well play Cunningham.
Cripps isn't running hard back. We only have Ed and Walsh as our hard running on ballers.

Why waste all these high end draft picks on midfielders who have speed and power which we clearly lack and yet 1 is at HB, another in a forward pocket, 3 wasting away in scratch matches and another at HF.

So don't blame the kids when they hardly play in there.
Remember when David took over HE said "Play to your strengths "

Well I would have thought an elite junior midfielders strengths are actually playing MIDFIELD

So your happy with a midfield rotation of 5 players??
Cripps,Murphy, Ed,Setterfield, Walsh, Newnes
It's a bit hard for a forward pocket to run like Walsh who plays WING.
Everytime Fisher is around the ball something happens.
Why play DOW if your gonna use him as a HF. might as well play Cunningham.
Cripps isn't running hard back. We only have Ed and Walsh as our hard running on ballers.

Why waste all these high end draft picks on midfielders who have speed and power which we clearly lack and yet 1 is at HB, another in a forward pocket, 3 wasting away in scratch matches and another at HF.

So don't blame the kids when they hardly play in there.
Remember when David took over HE said "Play to your strengths "

Well I would have thought an elite junior midfielders strengths are actually playing MIDFIELD

So your happy with a midfield rotation of 5 players??
Cripps,Murphy, Ed,Setterfield, Walsh, Newnes
It's a bit hard for a forward pocket to run like Walsh who plays WING.
Everytime Fisher is around the ball something happens.
Why play DOW if your gonna use him as a HF. might as well play Cunningham.
Cripps isn't running hard back. We only have Ed and Walsh as our hard running on ballers.

Why waste all these high end draft picks on midfielders who have speed and power which we clearly lack and yet 1 is at HB, another in a forward pocket, 3 wasting away in scratch matches and another at HF.

So don't blame the kids when they hardly play in there.
Remember when David took over HE said "Play to your strengths "

Well I would have thought an elite junior midfielders strengths are actually playing MIDFIELD

So your happy with a midfield rotation of 5 players??
Cripps,Murphy, Ed,Setterfield, Walsh, Newnes
It's a bit hard for a forward pocket to run like Walsh who plays WING.
Everytime Fisher is around the ball something happens.
Why play DOW if your gonna use him as a HF. might as well play Cunningham.
Cripps isn't running hard back. We only have Ed and Walsh as our hard running on ballers.

Why waste all these high end draft picks on midfielders who have speed and power which we clearly lack and yet 1 is at HB, another in a forward pocket, 3 wasting away in scratch matches and another at HF.

So don't blame the kids when they hardly play in there.
Remember when David took over HE said "Play to your strengths "

Well I would have thought an elite junior midfielders strengths are actually playing MIDFIELD