Braithy wrote:
sinbagger wrote:
Braithy wrote:
we really were gut running and trying our best. but you cannot play a man down in 2024. you cannot replace a mid who covers 15km a game with a slow lumbering ruck who covers 6km. missing our best intercept defender and our best line breaker in the team (gov & saad) pittonet was glued to the bench for the last 15 mins of the game - why? bcos you just can't use him.
the forward line was back to being too crowded bcos harry and charlie were down there together more for what they have been the entire season, plus with tdk there as well. ball hits the deck and rebounds out of there a million miles an hour.
people really downplay or aren't aware how including pittonet killed us. pittonet could have kicked 5 goals, but his lack of defensive pressure cost us 6 goals and we lose by 3 points.
people ask how did the crows kick just 4 behinds - their goals weren't difficult and most were from getting in over the back bcos we couldn't slow the ball down.
now we are pretty screwed. more soft tissue injuries and hammy's than what a pro sports team should ever have. cripps running on an empty fuel tank bcos there's a new born in the house, and our cupboard is bare. saad and gov are two injuries (along with the rest we cannot cover)
So if Owies was awarded the goal he kicked (or kicked a goal instead of the ground just before the end) that means you are wrong about playing two rucks?oh hell no ... if we'd won we'd have dodged a bullet, and maybe even tried to convince ourselves we could win again playing like that. we got dusted by a bottom 4 team, and a winless team. 3 point win, or 3 point loss that vital aspect does not change.
2 specialist rucks does not work, it's that simple. debate on who you want until you're pink inthe face, tdk or pitto. but only one can play.
look at the way the ball rebounded back past our F50 bcos we couldn't hold it in. look at how crowded the forwardline was with at times H, Charlie and tdk all there.
look at the pace on the ball through the middle bcos we had the slowest player in the AFL, who cannot make a tackle or mark the ball.
it's a disaster ...
I read Cazzemans post about hating the 3 tall forwards going up simultaneously, but Ive watched again, it wasnt that ofetn, yet its made to sound like it happend all game. Charlies easy 3 misses, Harry's easy shot that hit post, Owies misses, cost us how many goals????? Now remind me how much did we lose by.
Pitto didnt cause the rebound from F50. Just because you think we can argue till we are pink in the face. Tell me how it failed. When the ball isnt marked by the big 3...and you will see many dropped marks nothing to do with getting in each others way, but where were the crumbers. Fk we had 3 of them: Owies, Fantasia, and Durdin. Now how is that Pitto's fault again?
Strange but I saw the opposite to Cazz, I saw lots of separation between the talls and TDK flying while Charlie stayed down and won shots on goal. I saw TDK taking pressure off Charlie to be the only tall and being double teamed.
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