Watched the replay. Sure we missed way too many opportunities against a good team to have any chance of winning and yes there were some dubious decisions/non-decisions that conspired against us, but at the end of the day we are better than this team and to be truly taken seriously as a contender we have to start winning these games. If Saad was fit I'd give Williams a rest. His 1st half yesterday was putrid. McGovern for Young is a no-brainer Motlop in can replace either of Durdin or Owies who are just not giving us enough. Hell I'd even give Boyd a crack as a small forward ahead of those two. Ollie Hollands is not doing a lot at the moment. Gee we need Jack Martin back ASAP There's a lot of blokes who can improve our side and I hope at some stage this year we get them back.
Never would I have imagined the Pitt / TDK ruck combination would've worked let alone worked so well as it did yesterday. Easily Pitto's best game for a while if not EVER. Was like a man possessed. Maybe his position was being questioned? Anyway, not sure if it will be replicated, but I guess we'll find out next week. Didn't think we were playing badly from the get go but just kept missing shots on goal and the Giants seemed to make every shot. Then the blitz in the 3rd. Just came out of nowhere and it is so exhilarating Cripps was outstanding. Just inspiring. Walsh magnificent. Like he's never been injured. George is having a really, really good year. Thought he was past it early on but he just seems to be motoring. Kennedy's best game for the year and couldn't have come at a better time Surprised the soldiers that came in to cover in Cowan and Young did pretty well. Just cameos all over the place. Cottrell, Durdin, Hollands x 2. Just brilliant. The boys worked very well. Can we produce the same effort next week as we play the undefeated top team again? I hope so! Glad it's at the G
Just watched the final qtr of the Croweaters game... coulda, shoulda won by about 4-5 goals but there was an element of cockiness/lairising which let the Croweaters in. Arrogantly, perhaps, I suspect this was a game we lost more than the opposition won.
The teams that GWS have beaten don't actually make up a Cox Plate field.... An underdone Collingwood, North, WCE, Suns, St Kilda. They are not in scintillating for and neither are we. We are most vulnerable against 6th - 12th ranked teams but seem to come to the party against the big dogs. They are due to drop one, we are due to rebound!
Not if we keep fumbling, dropping marks, miss hitting up targets and refuse to man up.
Our main problem IMO is we're just fumbling too much. Don't know why, but it's incredibly frustrating and looks like it's contagious throughout the team. Fix that and we'll return to form
Got a bad feeling about this game. Too much like last year. We weren't playing that well early on but we were getting the points. Then we played the crows and got spanked. Which just happened to be in round 5 no less. Things went pear shaped from there. For a while. Will history repeat?
