All I know is, there may be plenty of excuses, but we have to find an answer for those excuses......
Get tough and do it! FFS, if McGovern kicked the goal after the siren and we'd held on against the Saints, we would have been playing Port Adelaide in the Qualifying final.
We need to find the ruthless edge again - for me, we play too nice......
I think we could have put up a better effort Shawny with better planning and selection, we were never going to win imho and I totally agree we need more talent but there is no use having extreme talent if your MC and coaching staff are not able to get the basics right which are a picking a fit team and having the majority of them in the right positions. I want a reset of the list and a cull of players who are not going to take us any further and we need an injection of fresh players to rebuild depth in our weak areas which we all know about.
It had already become a handicap event at team selection.
I wholeheartedly agree with you but you cannot just play like a limp lettuce for near on a half and gift the opposition a 10-goal headstart, it was a ludicrous scenario all-round.
Who here considers an elimination final a "handicap event" ??
Because that's how our players approached it .............. if you have forgotten what the scoreline was late in the second quarter, it was 60-0 ............ yes, that's right, we gave the Lions a 10-goal headstart ...................... and it went on for so long that it appeared that our players weren't even affected or angry by that situation .......... it was a goodam cut-throat final FFS, where was the discipline, the fight & the will-to-win when the game was still there to be won.
60-0
60-0
60-0
And those guys get paid exorbitant amounts of money too !!
Some papers were stamped tonight, there will be casualities, or there should be.
I'll refrain from giving the full ten barrels right now but there cannot be any glossing over any of this performance tonite and the lead-up to it.
In fact this has been an extremely embarrassing & lacklustre second half of the season and there is no acceptable reason why it happened
There has to be a serious review of our coaches, match committee & playing list now because it beggars belief how we have gone from raging flag favourites to winning only two more matches for the season and they were against the two bottom teams.
We only fell into a finals spot because Freo crapped their dacks, we didn't earnt it and we played like that tonite.
There is so much more to write but I am far too livid, gutted & embarrassed by what this club has given us this season, enough's enough, we have been bypassed by the Hawks already.
Williams has been moved back into defence and he spuds it up like he used to do.
If can't make it as a small forward then he has no place on our list because he sure as hell isn't a mid and he is as loose as a bride's nightie in defence.
If we started the game the way we played that third quarter then we may have been well in this but to go into protection mode for the first half has cost us the win.
Heads have to roll after this, there can be no sugarcoating this effort.
All blues fans have been sold a team of imposters.
