Just finished watching the replay and jesus....the commentary Whats a stronger word than biased?
I like how they continually blamed us for starting all the scuffles and how MM would be demanding it??? FFs have alook at how it all started you useless fwits!!
no mention of how we were getting the rough end of the stick with the umps but "oh Milera should have got a free for a high umpire". BT you useless O2 theif, he ducked his Fing head!!!
Aside from Watson, who I'll keep my powder dry on for now, I think our major weaknesses, based on last night, are:
Armfield Curnow - maybe OK as a tag but awful disposal Carrazzo.
There are obviously others who could be criticised, but replace the above with three hard at it quality players and we could be looking a lot better.
Carrots may be out of form ATM but surely his past 2 yrs have earned him enough credits to be safe. Simmo seems to have turned the corner. I reckon it's just a matter of time till carrots does too.
I too wasnt convinced we would win until late....very late in the game!
Talking to some supporters at the ground, a lot of them said the same thing...." where is our flair?? we dont play with any flair anymore. Its stand here, run there stuff. Very rigid stuff and a real lack of taking a risk type football" They've got a point!!
Thought Hendo and Rowe were great last night. Worked well together and looked for each other when the other had the ball.
Kreuz seemed to get first hand to the ball at every contest but appeared to be tapping it to the white jumpers rather than the blue!!
There was a boundary throw in right beside our point post and Kruez got his hand to the ball and tapped it toward the goal square, 5 or so meters out....beautiful stuff it really was, but the problem was that the Aints players all ran there and all our blokes were out in the pocket wanting the tap to go back the other way!! I dont know who to be critical of here but it definataley is making Kruez look stupid!!
Is that where he's being instructed to hit the ball ???Is it lack of talk with our mids??? Are our mids the stupid one's maybe? Dont know the answer but for the amount of times Kreuz gets a free ride to the ball through good positioning, the team in no way shape or form seem to be reeping the benefits!!!!!!
We still seem to be getting mixed messages out there.......either that or we really do have some dumb footballers playing for us. It was a win. Effort, skill, physicality was still way down on our effort against the Hawks but at least we won.
Armfield needs a rest. Curnow is poo. Cachia ok. Touhy some nice things and all in all beat Milne. McInnes was solid/dependable, thought Betts was great and gave us impact imediately when he came on.
Was Carrots injured or just taken off by MM???
Judd is a superstar. They say he carried WC for all those years. I'm sorry if we broke you Juddy. You truelly are a gem. Was an honour to watch you ork last night.
Where was Garlett tonight ?? Hardly saw him at all.
What did people think of the physical aggression in the first quarter ?? Thought it was a good sign but it didn't actually help us perform any better than what we normally do.
I havnt read 1 post here that saw the "physical agression" incidents as I did.......and I'm starting to second guess myself.
I was so irate last night...... AFAIC, we didnt instigate the agression, they did. I was behind the goals we were kicking to in the 1st qrt and all of the backs came out of there huddle making a beeline for Lucas inparticular. Lucas got hit with a few right hooks to which he duely replied with giving a few back. St Kilda tried to intimidate us last night. We didnt start any of that carp from what I saw!!
And the plicks just kept at it for a lot of the first half too. It's when we started getting on top that the Yarrans and Garletts were giving it back to them. More verbally than physically but they were just getting up the skin of the Aints from there on.
FWIW, we've gone down the tanking route before....not that that is what your alluding to but I'd be getting the boys to give everything they've got for the rest of the year. If you start giving games to guys who dont deserve it, it just sends the wrong message to the rest of the group I reckon.
Pick the best available team every fricken week and "learn" to win again. Learn the process, perfect the process. Teach everything that you want our players to do MM!!!!!.
Dont know the answer but for the amount of times Kreuz gets a free ride to the ball through good positioning, the team in no way shape or form seem to be reeping the benefits!!!!!! 