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It didn't help going with only five forwards for most of the day 

That’s exactly as I saw the game
I’d also throw Plowman in with the ta ta group

The truth is that all of Setterfield, Curnow, Martin, Plowman, Newnes are barely AFL standard, whilst Kennedy, Newman are too often average. Fogarty ison the cusp. Martin hot and cold

Way too many passengers

shocking coaching.

Teague confirmed to me he's not up to it....

Prematch no one on the site gave us a chance, most predicted a 3-4 goal loss. We lose a key defender and backup ruckman prematch and have no adequate replacements in the wings and are forced to use two spuds…  and what did we lose by???

I'm tired of the injuries excuse.   If Martin is injured - as some suggest - then dont play him. If he is fit,  then drop him,  his work rate is not up to scratch.

I’m actually impressed with blokes like Martin Williams and Cripps who put there hand up to play while injured all on big money and are willing to risk further injury to do the team thing. If we had someone else great rest em but don’t bag them they don’t select themselves bag the selectors

Yet, it was just bad kicking that cost us.

Fremantle could say the same against us last week.

Prematch no one on the site gave us a chance, most predicted a 3-4 goal loss. We lose a key defender and backup ruckman prematch and have no adequate replacements in the wings and are forced to use two spuds…  and what did we lose by???

If players are injured they need resting, the season was done a while back.....Martin was ordinary, Williams fair and Cripps was banged up from last week and shouldnt have played.

Agree but if we kicked 5 straight as we should have, we would have put real pressure on them and we would have believed we could win. Not saying we would have won, but it would have looked real different. Instead, all the they had to do was kick one every now and then and they would maintain a lead. Scoreboard pressure is like no other form of pressure.

Did you miss the soft, insipid repeated turnover coming out of the back line all night?

And others all over the ground really.

That's nothing to do with losing a few players.

Our guys are mentally very weak.

Picking blokes like Setters doesn't help - hope that bloke donates his pay check to a charity this week.

What the other side does is not our problem. We control only thing that are under our control. We were the better side most of last week anyway. That just had that 10 min burst of 3.5 that made it closer than it was. Even then we kicked 2.5 in the last qtr anyway.