Should have said it from the outset....contested possessions that connected with a team mate....now its 8 and the handballs don't hit his team mate.

Their strength is our weakness. Their midfield smashed ours and when you look at their players standing up in tackles or Goldstein giving them silver service for easy clearances, the loss wasn't unexpected.
We've lost 5 of our previous 6 games to North by an average of 58 points. (Not including yesterday) It's why I absolutely expected us to lose and stated so here. (In fact, I rarely bet but I put $500 on North as the odds were stupid)

For those advocating Clarkson, let's not forget Hawthorn also lost to North with far fewer injuries than we have.

We needed a counter to their strength and we didn't have it. Not because of coaching but because of personnel. We were smashed in the midfield, the 6,6,6 didn't give us an opportunity to protect our back half and when we won the ball in defence, a lack of a tall target robbed us of an opportunity to move the ball forward.
So we tried to widen the ground, chip the ball forward and hit up short targets. The trouble is when you want your players to have constant movement, to lose their opponents and to create space, it's easy transition for the opposition when you turn the ball over.
Look at Norths scoring profile yesterday. Most of their goals were coming from our forward half. We had no defensive integrity when we turned it over.

I know some posters wont listen and we're all hurting but taking out the frustration on Teague and calling for his head achieves nothing. Let the review run it's course. Let yesterdays game be properly scrutinised and we can make informed decisions based on the outcome. Does anyone truly believe a different coach would have made a big difference yesterday?
It's personnel that would have mattered. Any of Harry, Curnow, Casboult, McGovern, Pittonet. A couple of our talls would have made a huge difference. We needed structure to compete in the middle. TDK will be a player but he's a boy and Goldstein was always going to take him apart. We needed structure to compete in the air so our smalls could have a reference point coming into the front half. As I said elsewhere, the loss of Harry was the eventual tipping point and it played out as I expected.

Cripps kicked well for goal.

Cripps used to win 20 clearances all up in a game?

Wow........

Shit loss - but somewhat expected. No training session to train and plan without key position players.

We just have to soldier on and yeah I support the boys - not their fault drafting and recruiting has been poor.

Yep - his tackling and contested possessions are not where they used to be and in a funk for some reason. Should get it back soon though he is top quality. One player I won't write off.

Yep - his tackling and contested possessions are not where they used to be and in a funk for some reason. Should get it back soon though he is top quality. One player I won't write off.

Sad, but I suspect Weitering has lost any chance of being all-Australian.

Most of the game Weitering wasn't on Larkey.

Good post BV and let the review run its course but given the season we are entitled to be disappointed with the effort yesterday and for the season

Yes hit the tipping point with personnel yesterday but the margin and lack of effort is damning

The review will hopefully be in respect to all matches for the whole season and therefore can’t use excuse of personnel in WC game PA game GWS game and first collingwood game
In my view team has underperformed this year with its talent base and the deficiencies of last season were not rectified over the preseason -that is on the coach

I will live with the clubs decision re the coach and his future but he is treading on thin ice and we would need to see much more commitment despite personnel an introduction of several new players and more innovation and better game plan or execution of it
No one doesn’t want him to succeed but there are serious questions and rightfully so about his capacity to do the job
Whether anyone else can do it with this dysfunctional group is another

Their strength is our weakness. Their midfield smashed ours and when you look at their players standing up in tackles or Goldstein giving them silver service for easy clearances, the loss wasn't unexpected.
We've lost 5 of our previous 6 games to North by an average of 58 points. (Not including yesterday) It's why I absolutely expected us to lose and stated so here. (In fact, I rarely bet but I put $500 on North as the odds were stupid)

For those advocating Clarkson, let's not forget Hawthorn also lost to North with far fewer injuries than we have.

We needed a counter to their strength and we didn't have it. Not because of coaching but because of personnel. We were smashed in the midfield, the 6,6,6 didn't give us an opportunity to protect our back half and when we won the ball in defence, a lack of a tall target robbed us of an opportunity to move the ball forward.
So we tried to widen the ground, chip the ball forward and hit up short targets. The trouble is when you want your players to have constant movement, to lose their opponents and to create space, it's easy transition for the opposition when you turn the ball over.
Look at Norths scoring profile yesterday. Most of their goals were coming from our forward half. We had no defensive integrity when we turned it over.

I know some posters wont listen and we're all hurting but taking out the frustration on Teague and calling for his head achieves nothing. Let the review run it's course. Let yesterdays game be properly scrutinised and we can make informed decisions based on the outcome. Does anyone truly believe a different coach would have made a big difference yesterday?
It's personnel that would have mattered. Any of Harry, Curnow, Casboult, McGovern, Pittonet. A couple of our talls would have made a huge difference. We needed structure to compete in the middle. TDK will be a player but he's a boy and Goldstein was always going to take him apart. We needed structure to compete in the air so our smalls could have a reference point coming into the front half. As I said elsewhere, the loss of Harry was the eventual tipping point and it played out as I expected.

For instance the last quarter when he played full forward.