Here we go, against the Old Enemy.
We are on free-to-air TV again, which must be some sort of record.
Arm chop! 😡
Not a great start by the boys but we're having a crack and we've got the shade this quarter 8)
We kicked to the wrong end with the sun directly in the eyes of our forwards. Hence dropped marks.
We come home in the shade.....
F#$%
Need to get Polson off Thomas..
We're getting smashed around the ball
I have sat there before. Worse than Etihad with the roof open.
We are very fumbly.
Fallen asleep in the last 5 minutes 🙄
Don’t like what I am watching.
Who’s playing on Thomas?
Good one Fisher !!
TDK definitely has something special
I think this is going to be ANOTHER nail-biter.
Do we have another option for Stephenson?
Plowman can't go with him.
Murphy giving it everything :)
agreed he needs to play every week for the rest of the year
And going IN for the ball. He is amongst our best.
Has Newnes won us over yet?? Very good first half. We have 2 strong wingers.
Agree.
Dow looking good too. So pleased we came back then, as had a flat period.
Feeling confident now, didn’t earlier!
Walsh is a ripper.
While Pittonet is going OK when in the ruck he gives us nothing down forward when he changes with TDK. I'd ruck TDK from here and rest him off the bench with Pitt. Stephenson worries me. Can Doc go with him? I don't know but Plowman can't stay on him. Bloody hell I just wish we could blow them away in the 3rd and cruise the last.
We have more upside still to call on than they have. We are also working Grundy over very well.
Martin, Gibbons, Dow all need to do more, along with Levi and Big Harry and backs need to tighten up.
Eddies playing well down forward as well
We ebbed and flowed a bit in first half. When we're in control we look every bit as good as the pies.
Stephenson is a tricky match up with his speed and our lack of speed. Thank goodness for the solid brigade down back.
Eddie's had a cracker game so far, as has Murphy. Setters is winning some important inside contests. His disposal is impressive, getting it to our advantage I.e Walsh, Ed, Gibbo. Crippa seems to have adjusted following a quiet q.
TDK is looking like a very unique ruckman. Hope he continues to develop his own brand, coz it's super exciting. Oh, and umpiring 👌
Keep it up BLUES.
I identified Stephenson as the one matchup issue before the game, and plenty of others have started to agree with me.
We need to find a better matchup for him, because it'll come back to bite us if we don't. He can kick a few and quickly.
9 day break.... should favour our second half
....and people can't see the BOWER similarities with Willo?
Really???
This could get ugly soon.
What the hell. Have a shot at goal Martin. Seriously stupid, hence no goal by us for the quarter.
So disappointing! crap kick.
The worst part of that play was he was trying to hit up Cripps!??
I think we've consistently run games out in the past so hopefully we've go the legs. Stephenson still a worry.
Casboult is having a poor one.
Timing going for his marks seems to be off today.
Don’t let this game slip away.
Dig Deep Baggers we can win this
He then takes 3 in the first few minutes of the last.
They are all over us. I think we're cooked.
We are done.
Plowman is hopeless
Can you say what i said about stephenson? jinx him instead?
Agreed we need to kick one now if were going to be any chance
Gee we've made some poor decisions option wise.
Disposals to players under pressure.
My powers only work on Carlton players.
We are playing to our level.
The usual suspects who can't stick a tackle.
No improvement with Dow. Can't tackle, won't put his head over the ball.
And Martin displayed what has irritated me for years, not just about him but all of them. In his case, you are a forward, you can kick 50 metres, take bloody ownership and go for goal.
Cripps, calf cramp ?
Oh no Cripps!
Plowman needs to go.
Adams and Daicos...
That's it.
This is complete crap. No goal in the second half. Does Daicos even have an opponent?
Game over
Reality check boys and girls... Next year. Blood a few more before another clean out....
Plowman is not AFL standard.
$hit the bed this qtr. Season on the line and haven't handled it.
back to kick and hope into our forward line
Plowman when he doesn’t have a match up looses confidence and plays dumb costly footy. Either plays too loose or gives away sloppy frees
They didn't want to play finals - it frightens this group. They still don't believe.
Still not mentally tough enough. Still too many passengers under real heat.
Well, finals pressure is off now. Probably finish the season on about 8 wins/10th-12th, which is about right.
Cripps misses again.
End of the year
Losing to the Collingwood B team. Embarrassing.
No, wrong matchup for him.
Her gets stuck with all the jobs that nobody else can do.
Which is why it makes him look bad.....but it'd make others look worse.
If there is no match up then.......
We also have players who just aren't up to it.
Plowman, Williamson, Dow, Murphy is gone, Kade is battling on but should retire at years end, Newnes hadhis moment of glory, but fact is he does little in a game.
Mcgovern will probably never reach his potential because of his continuous soft tissue injuries, Eddie, isn't the same Eddie and you can't expect him to be, bottom line we have got too many passengers, and we need to trade badly.
The jury is out on Teague as well. Sits in the box like he's comatose. reluctant to make moves.
Has he never heard of man on man. Pies have loose players everywhere. It's pretty simple coaching as a plan if they are cutting you to ribbons. Now he puts Cripps up forward.
And when will someone get hold of Cripps and tell him that he always , I'll repeat that just in case they read this stuff, always hooks the ball when shooting for goal, and he has done zero to correct it.
i dont think we can play Harry, levi , TDK and Pittonet in the same team , just doesnt work
Could not kick a goal for the whole second half. Says it all really
We picked Dow over Stephenson. Jeesus.
Once again like we've seen so many times before. Saved our worst game for the year on the most important game of the year.
Will never be more than a good reserves player.
Pathetic. Plowman ... free to a good home. Ordinary coaching Teague
Squashed pummeled
What a circus show clowns. 4 points in the second half. What a laugh. What a joke.
Weak as piss.
Murphy, Simpson need to go immediately
Plowman delist
WANTED .. One Forward Coach .. absolutely no method or setup .. NOTHING .. 43 vs 40 inside 50s. 22 scores vs 13. Pathetic.
Haven't got the experience playing for a spot in the finals. Showed in the last qtr. Too much panic under pressure playing for a finals spot. That was my worry all week that such a game would see us $hit the bed. Half expected at our stage of development.
We should go 8-9, 9-8, which we have taken at the start of the year, but it shows we have plenty to learn to hit the next step, especially mentally.
Dow? Poulson? ...........
Key is to get it in there properly to give them a chance.
I have no idea who is on our selection committee but they've taken any hope we had of playing finals this year and set fire to it today.
Can't blame it all on them though. The sheer stupidity of a significant number of our players - particularly those in the backline was on show again today.
Plowman - just pack your bags mate. Been fun but mentally he is just not up to it. He's had the chance to mature and progress - the mental implosion repetition does not get any easier to watch. Turning circle of the Queen Mary and too slow.
Jones - athletic but mentally not up to it, cannot concentrate and panics.
Everyone who kicked the ball into the forward line in the entire second half may as well have been playing for Collingwood. We couldn't hit up anyone. When we tried we missed and most of the time just gave up and bombed it.
Teague has sat there and watched this for the past 2 months and hasn't fixed it. Why?
We have no composure or efficiency and if we did we could have won even with the bizarre team selection.
The annual sh!+ Show rolls on. When you have a club that makes Stephenson, Phillips and worst of all Thomas look like superstars, tells you exactly where this club is at.
All the draft picks and all the years at the bottom and here we are...
The worst is yet to come. I've predicted an Adelaide loss and I'm sticking by it. This team has nothing special about it even after all those draft picks.
No "it" player, no real match winners. It's just a team of nothingness. It's all about good blokes and if we have a win, great Gee we did well, but nothing hurts to this group of players. This is after years and years of absolute shyte that their supporters have had to put up with...
You have wonder why these 2 weren't "managed" this week. Not that I thought SPS was a loss but Cottrell gives us more leg speed and maybe he could been played on Stephenson. Polson was a ghost. Dow not so bad but hardly staked a claim for a future regular. Lots of players had zero impact and quite frankly it was as pi$$ poor an effort as I've seen for a couple of years.
It won't matter who we get back from injury or recruit in the off season- if we cant stop annihilating the ball going forward not a thing will change.
This wanker turns up now we've lost. Respect nothing that you say.
Should be following up with the "Murphy" bashing soon ... Yawn...
Good to see you too "laj". Tell me how your best mate Murphy went today. Did you kill it? Lol
Well done rocky. You've hitched your wagon to a superstar. I admire your Titanic type heroism in defending the indefensible...
Yaaaaaaawwwwwwn !! Oh and here's goes. Nah nah nah nah nah nah.
Dude, tell me how great he was today. I'm itching to hear your take on his contribution on how such a seasoned campaigner turned the game. Surely he was electric and lit up the Gabba today....
DUDE, Let me reply in really really easy terms for you. I'm hoping it will help. Mentioned previously in this thread a couple of posts back that he perhaps should have been "managed" out of the team. Not a fan of his. Think his days are numbered. Wouldn't give him the extra year. Lot's of deficiencies have crept into his game. etc etc. Still not the worst in our team by a long way but won't shed a tear when he goes. I will however applaud him on his last game (if I'm there) as I remember when he first started how great he was and he he bled blue until he got smashed to bits over the years. OK you got that bit clear. You understanding me? Got it?
OK now that we've cleared that hurdle. Your inane, repetitive criticism of the bloke after every game is BORING. IT'S BORING. You get it? BOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNG. As I suggested previously start your own Murphy bashing thread and post in there to your hearts content. That should keep you happy, no?
Hesitant, second to the ball and total loss of composure. Tactics non-existent.
Completely unprepared. Never thought we'd win, but neither did I expect such a poor effort
sMurph wasn't too bad today, Simmo had a shocker, Simmo's problem is never courage or wining the football but his decisions once he has got it.
His DE might be OK, but if you take out the 20m kicks to an unmarked team-mate, and then look at the hot potato stuff, it'll be very ordinary. It's the sort of thing that opposition clubs can take advantage of.
Williamson had a shocker,
Dow just average today, Poulson was better using the ball very well a couple of times which is nice to see first game in.
Me made the forum that we all post on.