Re: Will it stand up?
Reply #84 –
It actually concerns me a bit (a lot) f we didn't do anything radically different
It means that a lapse in concentration and intensity and we're back to the Melbourne and Essendon results.
Now subsequent form has shown both those sides are mediocre at best.
Really good sides will test our ability to apply that level of intensity and if we fail to come up that could get really ugly.
A lapse in concentration and intensity costs any side games, the better sides have fewer lapses and more consistent skills.
We played poorly against Essendon and Melbourne, against Richmond we simply failed to convert our opportunities, we did against Footscray and it was our best effort for the year so far but Footscray still managed to kick 90 points.
We are an average or slightly below average team, there will be more losses and some are likely to be heavy.
At the end of this season we'll need to cut the list again but at least now with the likes of Bell, Cripps, Docherty, Buckley and Menzel coming through we have some promising youngsters to build on, if one or two others step up it will be all the better.
A few years ago it was Yarran and Garlett then daylight.
Malthouse is the man for the job, but it will take him a while.