I also have a question...............Will that change your lists?
Kruddler partly answered the question for you but the key issue for me is that a leopard doesn't change its spots.
We definitely have 6-8 who have to go and should go (eg. Saad, Fogarty, Boyd etc), however, there are some who have been playing for their career and have played a little out of their skin doing a Jake Stringer impersonation.
We can wax lyrical or pontificate in theory over why this has happened but when it all boils down, the same question keeps coming up, why have some of these players not done this before ??
In the main, we are not talking about the young chaps either, it's the more mature players who were coasting and terribly inconsistent earlier in the year.
I accept that I am "old school" here but I have always had concerns over players who don't dig in when the going gets tough preferring to just take the weekly pay packet without any remorse or commitment.
These are the players who, IMO, will let you down in a cut-throat final, it's their natural fallback position.
For that reason, I still see a handful of other players who should be shown the door anyway bearing in mind that 10-12 changes is the limit in any one year when it comes to list changes.
Factoring in the need to address the onfield deficiencies we currently have should also have a serious bearing on how many goes and who they are.
Unfortunately, I have seen a few of our players either not prepared to put their body on the line or completely unsure of what to do in these conditions.
The Hawks were obviously smarting after last week and were determined to make amends. They were on from the get go. I didn't think we'd win, but I was hoping for a much closer tussle than this.
I think everyone was expecting us to give them a really good run for their money, sadly, we have gone back to the Voss era standards.
I try not to pile on the umps but those two late calls against the Blues were really bad.
Haynes did no worse than a gazillion defenders have done all season yet the umpire decided to ping him, that is another of a handful of rules that needs to be thrown out completely.
As for Campbell being grabbed to high, the replay clearly showed he "did a Ginnivan" and ducked well into it and early too. Really poor call from the umpire and it is a serious concern because if they can't get stuff like that right, then you have to question what is going on behind the scenes ......... match-fixing, betting etc.
Blues should have kicked straighter and held a 5-goal buffer, made hard work of it and never should have been in that position.
Kudos to the young Tigers for fighting it out, big raspberry to Lynch who is getting grossly overpaid for the woeful kicking at goal he showed us.
