david31 wrote:
MPH78 wrote:
Still flat as a tack this morning. Struggling to comprehend how we could be so, so poor with so much at stake.
We can mitigate all we like but the reality is we’ve been patchy since the bye.
Shitload of injuries, having to plug holes long term, reintegrating players back from long layoffs and no doubt players probably playing ‘sore’. Fully acknowledged and accepted. No excuse though for the lack of effort, intensity and pressure. And for playing so slow ALL game.
Hoping like hell we can respond. Honestly though hard to shake the feeling our season will now derail.
Agreed. Had the opportunity to lock in finals against a team we beat by 9-10 goals earlier in the year and didn’t fire a shot from top player to bottom player.
Hard to find many winners on the night beyond Cripps.
Our leaders and star players largely let us down on the night beyond Cripps. Walsh tried his arse off but just didn’t have the impact we know he can. Weitering pretty average. Saad lost the Keays match up. Doc got the ball but turned it over consistently. Harry was a non factor and his banana from 15 metres out deflated the team. Charlie wasn’t sighted after quarter time which was probably more a function of only getting 47 inside 50s.
Our bottom 6-8 also didn’t fire - Setterfield, Plowman, LOB etc
Really disappointing night topped off by 3 injuries too
Walsh won the hardest possessions on the night imo.
Then he tried to motor through tackles.
He won it where angels feared to tread. Guts
Ive said it before and I'll say it again.
Docs long bombs to anywhere as far out from the D50 are a waste of time.
Sure helps his stat for metres gained, but the team doesn't gain anything from them.
OK if he does it every now and then, but every @#$%&! time !!!
A few things must change.
Connection has gone missing and bombing it long has come back in vogue.