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So I can’t work out - are Dogs a good side?  because they didn’t blow us out of the water when we were abysmal In the first half. 🤷🏻‍♀️

And imo we let them cut loose in the last 5 mins of the game.

My biggest concern is regarding how mentally weak a number of our players are. They lack fight & grit when it is most needed and this has a habit of spreading across the remainder of the team.

When things aren't going well, we just seem to "go through the motions" and when it is a particular player's turn to really deliver (e.g. kick that important goal or make that desperate chase & tackle), we just don't do it. We lose momentum, we lose fait and we lose belief.

If our players ran on the field with the same attitude and gusto that Voss & Power played with, we would be winning way more than we are losing.

Three of our players took set shots for goal and did the kick across the body thing, they didn't even score. 

manning up is a 90s style perspective on football.

If you man up you chase a player that breaks your structure and allows quick transition play whilst players aimlessly follow guys around the park and get pulled out of shape.

It also isolates men one on one in certain areas of the ground and usually results in players like the bont getting one on ones against guys that have no chance of beating him in a contest.

Going man on man is very simple and I don't think a team has won a flag doing it without having the best players in the competition since the turn of the century.

Our players look as lost as they did playing for Bolton. The criticism back then was the game plan was too complicated.  Our guys must just be dumb.

I think in the scheme of things we are doing okay. Some problems in the forward half as I think defensive game is very solid.
Forward of centre is a bit of a mess and depending on Charlie and Harry every game is not good.
We need to find a Breust, Rioli and Puopolo combination. This mix isn't working - Owies, Cunners and Martin would be my best small forward mix - if Cunners and Martin can't get on the park every game after the bye then we need to find players that can.

manning up is a 90s style perspective on football.

If you man up you chase a player that breaks your structure and allows quick transition play whilst players aimlessly follow guys around the park and get pulled out of shape.

It also isolates men one on one in certain areas of the ground and usually results in players like the bont getting one on ones against guys that have no chance of beating him in a contest.

Going man on man is very simple and I don't think a team has won a flag doing it without having the best players in the competition since the turn of the century.

Our players look as lost as they did playing for Bolton. The criticism back then was the game plan was too complicated.  Our guys must just be dumb.

Dunno about defensive game being solid. Young was ok, Saad made a howler costing that goal, but admittedly redeemed himself. We are shaky and simply struggle to get it out. I was real close to the ground (bottom of leave 2 behind the goals) and as a group, they looked lost at times.

Dunno about defensive game being solid. Young was ok, Saad made a howler costing that goal, but admittedly redeemed himself. We are shaky and simply struggle to get it out. I was real close to the ground (bottom of leave 2 behind the goals) and as a group, they looked lost at times.

Saad had three kicked on him....not good enough.

Attacked a few hard and saved just as many