I'm not sure where this is coming 9from, the media has blown smoke up the ar5e of footy fans about the Filth being on the slide and the fans have sucked it up like a fresh breeze of Frankincense.
The Filth aren't as bad as the media make out, and with good fortune they will be in and around the finals again.
This result was writ large way before the first bounce, nothing that happened tonight was surprise, it's a tell and a dose of reality.
It's not coming from the media. It's coming from the fact the Magpies, are on exposed form a far more ordinary team, admittedly, based on their last game but that's all we have to judge on for this season. There are other facts in my post which u don't acknowledge or provide a view on. I'm not sure why?
Its inexcusable to lose against a far inferior team, but ours managed to do it. Our inability to defend against small forwards is unbelievable, but Buckley knew this and hence he loaded up in that area. Teague was inept in stopping that rot. Levi isn't right. O'mac should have been in the starting lineup without question, especially given his results last week. We are 0 and 2 for something like 10 years in a row. We cannot deliver 4 quarters of unrelenting, determined, effective football. Teague is far too passive. His presser was a joke. He should be breathing fire, and stating without doubt, that was UNACCEPTABLE, but we get the " I believe in this group" and other meaningless platitudes . Its rubbish! I'm just flabbergasted at this effort and result. I love this footy club, I really do, but wow, they give me a huge test of my love, when they play like this!
Ticker (attitude/endeavour/guts/passion) does not know about nor care about age or experience. Look at Walsh.
If Kreuzer, Simpson and Newman are the difference between a hiding and winning... god help us.
I never said they are the difference. logically, their absence given our team makeup/profile/age/ has a significant impact.
Kangabies also lost a key defender... earlier than we did.
Kangaroos have a much more experienced line up overall and it was only one key player. incuding jones we had 4, so your point is moot.
As for Stocker and Williamson... mates played with a poor attitude so you can't judge them at all, that kind of p1ss weak attitude goes through a side like a pandemic flu.
Are you saying they played with a poor attitude? Maybe. but my point was neither should have been selected. Fact is the players we have out and the lack of depth we have available to cover them made it necessary to play these guys. They certainly werent in the category of like for like in regards to who we have out injured.
Had very little influence on the outcome of the game. When it comes to finding excuses for poor performances our files have every known justification known to humankind and beyond!
As was reported by one of the boundary riders in the media who was at the game, he said you could see the fire in the belly in the Kangaby players, it was palpable, and as soon as they hit our blokes we 'backed away'. Dawks applied heat in the 3rd qtr and we 'backed away'... and so the story goes. That's who we are and who we have been for a long time.
Our problems are solely above the shoulders.
We fielded a team which included 14 players with 50 games or less AFL experience.
We were without Kruezer, Simmo, Newman - key players in our team
We lost Jones for half the game
We debuted Stocker and played willow. Stocker was nowhere near AFL ready and Willo had llittle or no match fitness.
Im not happy about the general lack of heart shown by the team and the loss overall, however, those points I've raised are not excuses, but fact and had a significant bearing on the result.
Happy to see Kruze back, but I wonder about the wisdom of bringing him back for this game, given we have the by next week. Perhaps another game or two in the ressies would have helped his preparation for seniors better and come back after the bye.....
