Fogarty had two kicks for the whole game, his first was that set shot at goal where he hit the post.
I keep saying on here that for a small forward, he doesn't kick enough goals, low & behold, Montagna said the same thing tonite in the commentary box.
Is it any wonder that we are so crape when we keep putting our faith in players who give us that sort of rubbish return.
Keep playing O'Farrell, he will get better as he gets stronger and more experienced.
Good to see Cowan playing his attacking style again, he still has some improvement in him but he plays like it is his last ever game and that is the trait we need to see more of from his team-mates.
Curnow went goal-less again, that's over a month now.
Pittonet played his heart out despite his limitations whilst De Koning just ran around and did the mimimum required.
Thank god for George Hewett, he was massive tonite.
And don't start me on that umpire's positioning when Cowan ran into him trying to mark, FMD, that incident directly lead to a Lions goal.
Sam Docherty, please retire at the end of the season, you have nothing more to prove to anyone in the football world, your reputation is intact.
Flynn, Motlop, Fogarty, Durdin, Williams & Fantasia (6 small forwards) all have to go either this year or next, they are not the future and never will be.
I hope they persist with Moir in the seniors for the rest of the year so we all know whether he actually has it or not, however, I lost a fair bit of faith tonite.
Yep, we are all shattered at how the Blues are performing this year, but no point in mass depression or hysteria! Hopefully Voss & Co will use the rest of season 2025 to get games into the young talent waiting for their chance, incl. Ben Campo., O'Farrell, Moir, Flynn Young etc
Makes me embarrassed to admit I follow the Blues now.
From the admin to the coaches to the players, we are a goddam rabble and there is no sugarcoating it anymore.
Apart from Silvagni, all of those uncontracted at season's end have to go.
Time to play Lemmey, Wilson, Moir etc for the rest of the season to see if they have anything to offer, otherwise, they are being shown the door too.
Trade out the big names (keep Weitering though) and go back to the drawing board.
Graham Wright ............. you have a huge job ahead of you but I have some genuine faith in what you are capable of and will support whatever you decide is the right thing to do.
I generally agree. Leaving aside the obvious issue of not having insider knowledge of several key areas regarding the players, believing that Curnow or any other player is a slack ar$e with a highlight reel and no 2nd efforts, essentially condemns a raft of senor coaches, assistant coaches, team mates, and the like to charges of gross incompetence of professional malfeasance.
Curnow is a serial offender in this area, as soon as the bal lhits the deck he stops and lets the opposition defenders cler it without any fear of being accosted.
Players know when they can impact contests and are drilled to take the safest option if they can’t. Gout Gout would have struggled to have an impact in both of those incidents.
An impossible chase may look good to fans but it won’t win games of footy.
No, nada, zilch ........... not buying that cop-out excuse, our players are lazy and it shows.
Just letting the opposition do what they like when they like is a defeatist atitude especially when the ball was well within a reasonable space for them to challenge.
Nothing funny about it all Lods, its central to our issues it drives me to despair. A good mate mine tells me AdNauseam, we have some of the dumbest players in the comp, I try and defend them but I think he's right.
Not only are our players dumb, but they are lazy & conditional too.
I saw two glaring examples of this on Sunday night.
White had the ball on the far side of the ground, ran around in a circular manner and tried to kick across the body but it got smothered by a Bombres player. The ballwas on the ground with the opposition about to pick it up and instead of knowing he'd made a huge blunder and tried to rectify it by running over an tackling or applying pressure, he just jogged on the spot and let them clear the ball easily instead of running in and tackling or bumping.
The ball spilled over the back of a marking contest just in front of the goalsquare, an Essendon player was paddling the ball around near to the point line, even though Curnow had just had his marking attempt spoilt, he also jogged on the spot and allowed the Essendon player to clear the ball without any pressure or challenge instead of running in and tackling or bumping.
Both of these incidents were utterly sh1tful and tell me everything I need to know about our players.
Can you imagine the Pies players doing the same thing ?? I highly doubt it !!
Thing is, you can't teach that, the player either has the depserate will to win in his belly or he doesn't, we have too many who don't and it's why the opposition teams know we are always gettable.
To be honest, I can't see us winning a premiership while I live. I'm 64. There isn't the desire. There isn't the skill. There isn't the game plan. Our list isn't one that is going to challenge. We don't stop the oppositions' better players; we play them into form.
We are irrelevant. I never thought I'd be writing that, but it is accurate at the moment.
We're much better than we were not that long ago, but we've managed to get into the pack in the middle. That looks like as far as we'll get in this cycle. We need to learn and move on or we'll spend another cycle ending up nowhere.
Only 64 .......... got you covered there young fella.
Thing is, we may be old coots but between us, we have seen 8 flags in our lifetime, and the one thing we always saw with those premierships was as you so correctly pointed out, there was "desire".
We took no sh1t from anybody and all of our players played every game like their life depended on it. Not these days, they galavant around safe in the knowledge that they are going to be extremely well paid regardless of the result.
Unless the club is given a clean-out via a "culture enema", we will firmly become the new St. Kilda, content to accept mediocrity.
1995 ......... I had just moved to Sydney, it is a very long time ago now.
