At 16:15 today, and not on TV. :(
Absolutely NO pressure in the first 5 minutes!!!
Yep
Very early in the game but the pressure and intensity at the contest is just not there at the moment.
Chalk and cheese compared to last week.
way too loose. dont look on early
Much more desire from the Crows at the moment.
They're switched on....we are not.
Crows running is waves off HBF, not much pressure on them coming from our F50 which is leaving our Mids and D50 outnumbered.
Not good enough Carlton, turn up every time or F off .
Had to turn off SEN, we cop enough shyte as it is without the failed fireman starting a pile on. Gees he hates Curnow, and Norf reckon Sheezel cops it....
Don't understand our tactics, Crows marking everything either side of wing, Harry and Charlie camped 50m away not competing!
Our bad old bomb it long tactic to players undersized or outnumbered.
All too easy at the moment for Adelaide. We are lucky it's only a 3 goal deficit. This will be a smacking unless we get going.
hes on the money with charlie
We NEVER EVER turn up to play against this mob here in Adelaide.
We never show up against these flogs. There is a mental issue playing them we always look clueless.
Awful.
Much to loose. Running in waves. They seem to be so much quicker than us and the impression is they're outnumbering us all over the field.
This will be very hard to turn around.
Positive is Adelaide looked gassed at the end of that quarter / hopefully they’ve overdone it in the first quarter and can’t continue it
You should try dwaaaaayne and riccuto on fox - crows cheer squad
They’ve got spares behind the footy and also free guys when they are running forward - not sure how that works
Crows have had 5 six meter kicks paid marks and we have had two called play on already
They're right on top, not allowing us to 'get going.' We look reactive and unsure. If we don't hit the defensive and high pressure button soon... they'll tear us a new one.
No Hewitt high, bull crap tdk review, hands in the back to tex. definitely gonna have to beat a couple of extra on the field today
Game's over...another for the "shyte effort and poor attitude" file I'm afraid.
Weitering happy to just smash his own.player.
Geez aren’t Dwayne and Ricciuto putrid to listen to!
watching a very average football team
We can't handle the heat and if we're being honest haven't since the 2023 finals. If our opponent doesn't roll over we do.
My God. I love Kayo over 7 but this is shocking.
Have to agree, Professory. They are all on the same offensive page, and we're just a bunch of individuals. Potential to get ugly.
Walsh 7 touches after an early corky
Cerra 7 after hurting his groin last week.
Docherty cooked
Acres is a legit D grader now.
KPD runs off Durdin in a ground ball contest in our F50! :o
I don't think we're giving the commentators anything to enthuse about. Hard to find any positives for us. Probably our worst first half for the season.
Back to bad McGovern 🙄
Jekyll and Hyde football club
Absolutely but their fawning over Tex is OTT and not much commentary about 4 missed head highs on George
Must be all those flags we've won recently that we can just not turn up to play....oh wait!
Lewis Young one of our better performers. Speaks volumes.
I'm not sure where to fir motlop but he robbed Elijah of a goal, and that run to goal was pretty weak.
Even his snap goal should have been charlies.
He isnt the lone ranger of being poor but fork me, we need to do better than this.
Why can we not play decent footy against this mob?
Every 50/50 bounce is going their way, they re kicking long bombs out of their whatever’s, their risks through the corridor are coming off every time, we can’t take a contested grab and they are single clutching them. Everything going their way
That said we need king, cez, Walsh, h and durds and mots to step up
Maybe we're just not as good as we think we are?
Motlop....i just don't see it.
Docherty is a real worry. If his contract is up this year...
Back to the bad old days of kick it to Charlie and Harry......
They've worked out their blocks and must have taken 10 turnover marks in our F50.
they play their best game of the year vs us every time.
We go to boiled lollies against them and they can't seem to put a foot wrong. Uppets like keays dine out on us, and we play fumble footy.
Too much expected of our better players. Our bottom 8 to 10 cannot take the initiative and make things happen…….all our small forwards are non existent. Think Kemp was a huge loss
We are simply not up to top4 standard.
This is not on Voss
Their young defenders are killing us.
I just don't buy the 'we just can't beat the Croweaters at home' scenario. This is a game that is exposing us. Unless we bring our A game, we're vulnerable... against anyone.
We've got six goals to make up in the second half - right there is a test of who and what we are.
Motlop needs to learn some new tricks in close, not quick enough to play the way he is trying to.
Need to start winning and scoring from clearances.
Outside of H and Charlie the other forwards are very patchy in output. Our small forwards go missing far too often to be considered decent.
Motlop...so slow and has the football IQ of a pinto bean.
Can't believe how ineffectual the small forwards have reverted to be, again......
Adelaide our cryptonite for sure. We are second to the ball, reactive and can't get any decent link up play going. Very stagnant. They have the defensive press set up, we need to change the angles and move the ball quicker
Just as worried about that big percentage that we racked up is going to be blown. That was a big asset.
Consistent throughout the fist half 🤨
were not. The ladder doesnt lie.
Pretty much how I thought this game would pan out.
Shows how good Silvagni has been
charlie will end his career with a great highlight package but thats about it. Overpaid underachiever
Agreed
But he would have 2 goals if the blatant hold was called when he was running on to that ball in the first q
Was going to say the same thing.
Also wondering why we haven't made the sub considering Moo is a defender, and their forward line is embarrassing us. Why not add an extra defender into the mix? What are we waiting for??
Embarrassing. Pretenders again.
He is a dual coleman medalist.
Not sure how you can call him an underacheiver considering he was basically out of footy for 3 years before that.
Matt carroll being scored heavily through
Harsh but true. Totally agree. Doesn't work hard enough or impact the game enough.
Just a few cameos here and there.
I said the same thing to my Fathrr in law. He would help with the kick ins and delivering the ball out of defence.
Pretty sure Newman did most of the kick ins for the last couple of years.
Boyd is a nice kick need to get him back in.
We’ve got just too many ordinary players and not enough class. Not premiership material.
YEP. good with ball in hand, but no idea under a high ball
Imposters
Up till now, it's our worst performance for the year. I can't think of one aspect in which we are ahead. They have dominated everything : inside, outside, ground ball, aerially. Ugh.
How do you go home at 3q time when you are sitting on your couch? Asking for a friend
If it's any consolation we are doing way better than Brisbane were this time last year....lol! They had 3 1/2 wins from their first 10 games.
Not really alot of consolation but sounds good.
Dwayne just basically said that our win v cats doesn’t count because myers was out
Also said it should have been deliberate on Cripps even though he missed the ball.
Bottom five performers
Carroll, Lord, White, Motlop, Durdin for a collective two tackles for the game so far.
We are done. No coming back from this.
Need to play the kids now and we might have a crack next year.
Can we move Motlop on, his negatives far outway his positives?
1 good game every 5
Yeah that pretty much sums it up
Why does it happen EVERY TIME we play these Cows in Adel?
Bit of the old 'same old, same old,' about this effort: the word 'effort' is loosely applied.
We so easily slip back to the dark days.
Resilient. Mentally tough. Not.
EOS
Guvs kicking in today awful
ive been thinking that for 30 years.
Besides us having an absolute shocker
The 15m ruling is so fking sporadic it does my head in! There is absolutely no consistency!
Adelaide have 9 of the top 10 ranked players on the ground.
Cripps is 7th.
We've lost 14%.
They've had the wood on us recently. I wish I knew. In our other losses this season there's been some good aspects. Tonight, it pains me to say it, has been a demolition.
No its above the shoulders. Our players get trash talked and mentally cannot win against these guys.
We've been smashed all over the field.
To dot point this. We have no spares any where and every time the ball moves around the field, we have been outnumbered everywhere
The Croweaters have moved the aggott far too quickly for us to be able to tackle! And to this moment, they've only laid 36 tackles! Well, I guess they can't lay too many tackles when they've got the ball most of the time!
Last Sunday must really have taken it out of us. Efforts are chalk and cheese.
Yep, as soon as we're up against scoreboard pressure... we drop our heads. Seem familiar?
So much for having a good percentage
After a good win, we love drinking our own bathwater.
The first 3 on your list have how many games between them?
Let’s look more Closely at our senior players letting us down - McGs stupid errors cost us goals, Acres has been terrible, Charlie and Harry have done nothing much, Doch has been missing!
Some of Our senior players just do not set a standard consistently enough,
We've had a 6-day break and had to travel, and lost a couple players from last week. Game off a big win last week.
Crows have had an 8-day break and are playing at home. They are coming off a bad loss with something to prove.
Lets not throw all the toys out of the cot without looking at some of the facts.
Yes it sucks.
No we don't have to sack the coach and half the playing list.
On to next week.
Not so hard to understand. If it’s gunna cost us a goal, it’s not 15
this still doesn't explain our bad manning up where our opponent has 3 talls yet somehow weitering is chasing smalls out of forward 50.
We've failed structurally today which is of greater concern than a short break.
We've had a mare. Everyone is entitled to a couple a year. This is our second after having a mare for 3 quarters against Richmond.
Hopefully that's our shocker for the year done and dusted.
Not a heap from Walsh or cez either
Been able to hang our hat on centre bounces all year. Killed out of there tonight
Ps fck off and shut up riccuto
Right? Is he not on the board at Adelaide? Pretty sick of listening to commentating from people that have affiliations with the club we play against
No, but in that game we had opportunities and a million chances to win. In this game, we have been comprehensively outplayed in every facet of the game.
Gee our midfield got smacked.
Inside 50's: 58-36
Clearances: 38-30
Centre Clearances: 16-6
Uncontested Possessions: 255-192
Did we touch the football?
Clearly a small forward issue.
I'm not saying the reason we lost was a 6-day break.
I'm saying there is a lot of contributing factors, not least of which was our own effort/performance.
I'm just saying, it was a bit of a perfect storm and as you said, these things happen sometimes.
Hopefully, we've got all of our bad juju out of the way in 1 game and move on with life.
Yep, cause and effect, Mids run off their feet chasing the unattended opposition HBs and BPs.
We must have been physically dead set flat after last Sunday. That was a brutal game and the first time we had gone that hard physically for 4 qtrs. We just had nothing this week.
That's all I got unfortunately.
16-6 centre clearances.
Cripps hasn't been right for a month, but was probably one of his better ones.
Walsh copped a knock early and played like it hurt.
Hewett was good albeit down on his elite form.
Crows played well.
Our backline played its worst game of the year.
We'll lock this up.
Move the discussion over to the post match thread.