Navy Blue Horse wrote:
keogh wrote:
Here is the deal in simple terms
In today’s football you have to bat deep in the middle.
We don’t and eventually the weight of numbers tells.
The dogs won the inside 50 count by 16.
Cuningham
Kennedy
Dow
SPS
O’ Brien
Setterfield
All picked with quality picks or trades
Have failed to deliver
That essentially is the main reason we arnt good enough
SOSs fingerprints are all over this rebuild
Add the decision to trade away picks and give up plenty of salary cap space
for Williams
Saad
Martin
McGovern
Fogarty
We are simply a dumb club and have been a dumb club for a long time
In relation to these new players
Fogarty after a good start is starting to show signs as to why Geelong were happy to part with him
Just average
Martin injury prone and soft
McGovern ditto
Saad very one dimensional player. You need more than that from a guy on a big long term contract who you gave up pick 8 to get him
Williams clearly injured but you play a guy on $850000 a season. Another dumb decision
If I was Teague I would play Honey whose form in the twos the last month has been good
Play Stocker in the guts
I thought the effort today was actually really good but in the end the lack of depth in the middle is telling
Cripps looks spent to me
I love the guy but in the end maybe the best thing is to let him go get a compensation pick
When Curnow is still your number one mid in a game like he was today it shows how poor our recruiting has been over the last 6 years in relation to mids
If it wasn’t for Weitering and Jones it would of been a eight goal loss
Don’t blame Teague
Blame the recruiting department
And as I said the Board is where the problems originate
Agree re the midfield. If we had that part right we wouldn't be taking about Saad, Fogarty and Martin. Pockets and flankers are there to play a role, not win the game.
i agree to an extent, but think a few players are abit stiff in that apprasil
for mind ... and i hate to say this .. but Cripps has become a liability ... he is a star, but something isnt right with him. as others have said, either injured or checked out (at the moment, if it was Freo 1st pick and one of Cerra or Serong id say go for it .. build around walsh who is now our best midfielder at 21)
We look like a more damaging midfield when Cunningham plays through the middle. Perhaps the other players arent banging down the door, but Cunningham gets better with every game and looks better again when he is on the ball.
I have noticed abit of talk about how Teague didnt have Cripps on the ground at the start of 3/4 time. For mine, i thought we played some of our best football without him on the field. dogs where coming from half time, despite what the reviews might say about the score, the difference being is not only did we defend and defend well, but we increased our lead. It was possible the best football we have played for sometime ... and cripps was off the ground for large parts of it. Perhaps that was part of the plan by Teague, to give the players the evidence they need to know they can do it without him, we need to compliment cripps, not rely on him for everything.
we are so close, those who think we are miles off are over-reacting. we are so close.
we continue to play players that arent fit and constantly playing 2 or 3 players down each week. It just doenst make sense to me. Cripps, Williams, Levi ... not only where we outnumbered around the ground, but we where two down in the midfield, against the one side in the comp that probably goes 10 deep in the midfield. to be in the position we where was incredible. Losing Silvagni ... who was on Daniels ... was the turning point. Daniels was non exitent until he went off, then absolutly dominated when he went off. That combined with the dominance of their midfield is why we lost. Im not sure any coach could remedy that.
dogs had next to no-one out injured either. It makes a difference. Newman, TDK, SOS (for the whole game) Fisher, Martin, Curnow into that side, not even including some of the kids we just dont know about yet, and its easily could have held on. Really when you think about our forwards (whilst having the no 1 forward in the comp) have had zero games together. Get them all on the park and we are different side.
... oh and one last thing ... when are we going to start calling cheats, cheats and "professional free kicks" are call for what they are ... cheating.
Hunter, is a dead set cheat. Twice he did everything he could to get a free kick and twice the umpires got sucked in and two goals the result. instead of people coming out a calling it for what it is, cheating.