Not feeling confident with half the team injured, but it is a two horse race.
Let's go
Started ok
I think we are 'ON!'
Small ground is suiting us.
Win the clearance. Long kick. Deep inside forward 50. Mark. Goal. Repeat
Ffs
Weitering in trouble
Weiters injured
We are on.....
Weitering is off.
Can't catch a break
Owies!!! Well done orazio
BT jinxed H
"Should've got 50. Didn't "
Weiters quad strapped
Tackles 18-1 Sydney
One of few dumb Boyd kicks
Great goal Walshy 👏🏼
No DeKoning free, no 50 to Harry and no bounce recall!!! All in 20 mins!!
Started well.
Pathetic end to the quarter undoes all the hard work.
When you turn it over against this mob they are dynamite. Its how we played last year.
We may do better if we decided to actually tackle someone. 5 lousy tackles for the qtr. They had 23.
Lucky they are kicking like we normally do.
I wish Charlie would compete more 1 on 1 instead of anticipating the spilled mark or expecting a Joe the goose. He does it far too often.
OF opportunity- nup
Weak as piss Marchbank
4 straight. Time to do something... but what?
Time to get Charlie and Harry into this game and get the crowd fired up.
Looks like everyone wearing navy blue is asleep, players and supporters.
Pretty sure McGovrn got a push on the previous one too.
We saw him sliding into shot without knowing why.
Zac Williams wtf
At least we know the pretenders for when our good players come back.
Cripp-to-night
Fantasia & Hollandsx2 not up to it
Fumbles and panic play
Spot on. He is a star but needs to work harder
That free kick involved Boyd being belly to belly suplexed out of the way (which was ok) but the fact Boyd held on to him on the way down was worthy of a free kick?
Goalkicking mids....
Game over
Since Harry missed we have collectively crap the bed.
Just 2 behinds this quarter.....one of them rushed.
They've kicked 4.2
......now 0.3
All because that '10m' penalty wasn't paid.
I said to put Williams forward a couple of weeks ago but I was wrong. He needs to play VFL
3 tackles in a row. 3 times the ball came out without a handball or kick. 3 times it was play on.
F*** me.
I have some serious dislike for no14.
Weitering is buggered. Pulls up short every time he kicks
WHy was that call finally made after the ball was marked by us?? It was there, but were they waiting to see where it went first?
Great tackle Marchbank.
Need to wake everyone up with some more of that.
Same old, same old. Start like a million bucks, then once the opposition wake up and hunt us... go to pieces. Can't sustain. Between the ears. Just not a ruthless side, mentally.
And how often, also, does this happen - deliver a soft qtr inviting the opposition in and giving them confidence. Tackle pressure from us, nil - not hunting the opposition or aggot. Trying to win without physical application.
Fantasia, Durdin & Marchbank... tourists. FFS, replace one of them with Carroll.
40pt turnaround
Somehow we've received more frees than Sydney
And in a half of footy how much of an indictment is that! Too many passengers, again.
Ahhh important ones in important places for us,
Missed!
Fantasia can go.
Durds and Marchy are working hard, Durds especially.
All have the fumbles, Charlie not doing enough, H fumbling, Kennedy very good.
Weird game.
Took a call from a cousin in Italy at the start of the 2nd, nekminut, 40 pt turn around. Any danger we can go on with game when we get a good start?
Positives.
- We have so many passengers, we are playing poorly. We basically did SFA that quarter.......HOWEVER.....its still only 14 points.
- We can't play that bad again for another quarter.
- We have the ability to sub out one of our current passengers. MUST be a small forward Fantasia/Durdin who have a total of 6 touches between them.
Sydey are the best team in the comp.....and we are playing poorly.....yet we are right in this game.
Wake up and we will be ok.
Durdin and Fantasia last 2 weeks ago. 4 touches between them. Sub Durdin off. Put anyone there, they'd have to be better. Put one of us CSC members there even, would still end up better. Who's volunteering?...lol.
I've got a dodgy knee and a slight current calf strain. Reckon i'd fit right in with the rest of our blokes. lol
You're on after half time...lol.
Ol mate Zac Williams doing well
Oh and that miss by Harry at the top of the square was unforgivable
At times he's very "built like Tarzan plays like Jane". Frustrate the fark out of me.
Why Durds tho? He is crashing himself around. fantasia I see doing sweet FA!
Weiters out Carroll on
Just not going hard enough at present.
Half the side going half hearted.
Of the top 10 tacklers 9 are Swans... ::) one is Kennedy
Bit more aggression/attack after half time. Hopefully we keep up the pressure.
With wieters off, we can't afford to get it into defence to often, so we need to dominate the midfield.
EDIT: Jinx
It’s so hard to watch Marchbank - glacial movement
Sydney just blatantly push opponents in the back and do not get pinged.
Absolutely smashed in the guts. This one is over, 40 pt plus loss
Thats embarrassing form the skipper
Why didn't we get the free from the 'stand' rule.
That was worse than what Williams got pinged for.
We cannot do a bloody thing right. Make that 140pt loss. We will get taught a lesson on how to torch sides.
Won't be in the 8 after the weekend.
Charlie playing back with 10mins to go lol
This is the wake up call we need. Rule a line through
- Fantasia
- marchbank
- Hollandsx2
- Williams
Utterly embarrassing VFL players at very best
This is the loss Voss needs. To show who can be trusted.
Luke Parker can’t break into this team. Pretty much all you need to know.
Too many stars in top form, no injuries, well drilled. Swans will torch plenty of teams this year.
10 of the last 11 goals. I fear this will get very ugly 🙈
Fantasia Fantasia Bla bla broken record. He has been better than Durdin.
The umps are taking the piss now.
We get kicked in the head and give away a free.
Umpires are not the reason we are getting reamed
They're almost double our score and, embarrassingly, double the tackles 😳
Boyd gets penalised, 30s later a Swan does the very same to Walsh and it's play on.
Better than a traffic cone does not make him good.....or even average.
I'd drop them both without a second thought.
Bring back Fogarty.
Hope like hell Motlop is ready as well.
I dont understand why we get told to play on so quick
No, but they are making it a lot harder to try and come back or get some momentum with BS like that.
Fark off Hodge, dirtiest player to ever don a jumper
Dont worry about top 4, we'll be lucky to make the 8.
Syd are brilliant to watch when they are on.
One is a ten year 3 club player, the other is 22 in his 4th season, they have similarly poor output tonight, one should be hanging his head in shame.
Tough run of games plus all the other issues are taking their toll.
Why are we persisting with players that are not good enough - Durdin and Pittonet and few others are being feast on? Durdin isn't even good enough for VFL - I prefer Fabntasia and think Fantasia is a dud and that says something - and why did we give him a two year contract?
Mr Austin answers please... maybe you are not ruthless enough in a ruthless industry against ruthless competitors like Sydney that wouldnt up with non performers.
Currently 15 on our injury list. 3 are ACL's. How do you turn that?
We've shown we're prepared to bring players back underdone.
Where to from here?
Bar the first 15 min we haven't had a crack at all. Like with the injuries we had conceded before then start and gave up. Disappointing. Disgraceful attitude!
Sydney kept Alex Johnson on their list for 8 seasons.
Yep Fantasia is why we're losing.
We'll bring in a couple more underdone next week too. Motlop and Saad will be ready.
All those injuries plus blokes playing still underdone.
Voss trusted Williams and Marchbank and they failed him.
Time to play guys who earn their spot.
You could almost pick the moment they raised the white flag, when Weitering was subbed they have been stationary or pedestrian like since. Mind you, Sydney will be Premiers this year, nothing surer in my mind.
Like last year, we find ourselves in a mid year slump. Can we dig ourselves out of it in the second half of the year.
This is like a Legoland ground absolutely ridiculous one kick goal 🙄
Please stop this two ruck nonsense and under performing small forwards and come up with a plan that works - because this clearly isn't it
That won't be Fantasia then.
Fantasia has become so lightweight if BT swallowed him whole BT would probably lose weight!
Three small forwards is a dud strategy - needs to change next week we are out of the eight
Warner should get a week for that
Oh my God, Zac W laid a tackle
Rowbottom 14 tackles.....Swans have been tough inside and seem to get a lot of players to the contest to support each other.
Alex Johnson may have been on their list but we were the schmucks that picked him up. We haven't learnt a bloody thing.
Nah it's OK. Low impact brownlow chance.
Agree, Durdin beyond useless
Hollands is a joke at the moment, lets the best player in the comp just waltz into the fwd line whilst too busy pointing at people
There isn't anyone who is fit and have earned their spot.
Besides Binns, who is a monty for next week, there isn't anyone else left.
Not sure who you wanted in the side in their absence.
W.A.P
Charlie's kicking has become terrible. What's going on with that??
If I hear "Boyd is an elite kick" one more time Ill throw up. Shouldn't be in the side.
Agree anyone defending him Is conceding we are not a top 4 team. His finished and was finished 3 years ago.
You just see Florent back to the footy holding Kennedy one on one, umpire in clear view just 10m away, and they call play on.
Game plan broken as it has been from the start - even though some saw it from a mile away.
Now lost four of six with two rucks and three small forwards.... time for a change knucklehead coaches at CFC?
L:et's see if you can swallow your pride and make meaningful and impactful changes for the better.
Ahem - More RUN
I've been super critical since day 1.
I've given him the benefit of the doubt early.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt before tonight as well. If ever there was a time for him to prove himself, it was a game like tonight.
But no.....still SFA.
Stamp his papers.
File it under biggest duds recruited in the last 10 years and move.
Cripps and Walsh have been useless. That's the ball game.
Our worst performance for at least 12 months I reckon. Our stars have had shockers. Even the Swans look like they've lost interest.
Blah.
Marchbank and Fantasia can't play again. Playing two short.
You know who has been useless and has largely escaped any criticism.
De Koning.
6 touches. 3 hitouts, 1 mark, 2 clearances
Zero influence.
For the record...
Pittonet
18 touches, 18 hitouts, 2 marks, 9 clearances (game high)
From Batman and Robin to Laurel and Hardy in a week. Cant rely on them to shoulder the load every week.
I agree.
Doesn't change that Warner and Heeney are way better than Cripps and Walsh.
The Fluffy Ducks have done us a favour - exposed the papered over cracks with great aplomb. In fact they've exposed them not as cracks but chasms. Apart from the Kangabies game, none of our wins have been convincing.
And if they think another pow wow out at Ed's place will fix this... tell 'em they're dreaming.
I put this more on coaches/footy dept than the players.
Everyone wants to blame Fantasia because its easy, he'sa fringe player, outsider.
TDK has been restricted to influence the game on his merits from a well liked dud
Its their only bad game for the year though. They have some credits in the bank.
You can add Durdin and Williams.....
The opposition are playing through his opponents, it's like a 30m hole in the team structure travelling up and down the wing.
It was far from his worst game. He put it on Cripps' chest 5 minutes ago and our captain turned it straight over.
That mob play well anywhere.
Got a few mates has Fantasia...McGovern putting in the short steps early in the game in a marking contest set the standard for the evening and you wont win games vs the Swans at the SCG with poor contesting.
Time and time again, we fail against the contenders.
Giving Durdin a two year contract extention is a straight up sacking. Don't know who intitiated but whoever did needs to go.