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Too pissed off...
No umpiring can deflect on how insipid we played.
No umpiring can deflect on how insipid we played.
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Official Driver Of The "Who Gives A @@@@ As The Player Will Get Delisted Anyway" Bandwagon.
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Another statement I can agree with!Originally posted by Jeffers1984
Too pissed off...
No umpiring can deflect on how insipid we played.
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Perhaps you were focusing on the second half of the third quarter onwards when the game was lost and players were trying to cover their arses. Watch the game during the period we were destroyed and rather than focus on who kicked a goal or whatever, watch the Sydney players when port are in possesion. The players I named were also lazy SOBs.Originally posted by Q...
LegsAkimbo - Where you watching the same game?
- O'Keefe was there all day
- J. McVeigh - One of the notables in the 37 minutes of football that Sydney played today.
- O'Laughlin - it would be nice if he didn't, but really...
- Schnieder (see comments on O'Keefe)
- Ablett - had the best entrances in 50 all day
- Dempster - did fine
- Fosdike - (see comments on McVeigh)
- LRT - What did he do wrong?
- Crouch - only bad thing he did is show some dedication to the ball which apperently should be penalised in the AFL as of this year!
And thanks for the fly by night post Gary (not that I can comment on that front).
As for ROK, he has a problem with his kicking for goal and has had for some time now. He needs to fix it.He had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.Comment
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Just got home ...
my thoughts are:
the whole thing came apart because the boys didn't play as a team. they let the port adelaide scum get to them (lots of biffo and verbal abuse going on), and as soon as that happened they made bad decisions. They didn't run into play, just stood back and let things happen around them.
That said there were some brilliant plays but for the most part it was incredibly dismal. There was also lots that the umpires didn't pick up and I don't know if it was televised. Someone (Jolly?) got a punch to the head while running down the wing (without the ball) ... total shocker, should be reported!
Chambers was very unimpressive.
Edit: The reserves looked good, maybe we should have had Spriggs/Malceski in ....Comment
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Simon Phillips looks special. Put him in the Forward line to crumb. Wish we could demote Chambers to give way to him.Originally posted by swannieserin
Edit: The reserves looked good, maybe we should have had Spriggs/Malceski in ....Official Driver Of The "Who Gives A @@@@ As The Player Will Get Delisted Anyway" Bandwagon.
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We could delist Chambers..
We really need a second (Genuine) tall forward.Comment
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I think someone just has to have a word to him that it is okay to pass it instead of ping away sometimes.Originally posted by Legs Akimbo
As for ROK, he has a problem with his kicking for goal and has had for some time now. He needs to fix it.I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his timeComment
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Clearances were actually pretty even. The 2 to 1 hitouts was pertty telling. Loose loose loose checking. PA hardly ever had to kick to contest.
Don't agree with negativity re Fosdike actually thought that he got us moving forward more directly when he was on.
Baz has got to STOP trying to break 40 tackles and handball off to free players.
Where was Kirk for 3 qtrs?
No talking out there - I'd love to count how many times we've been caught in the last two weeks.
Miss Tadhg badly rebounding out of defence.
Most annoying thing was how indirect we were to goal. Why of why were we going out to the wing when the centre corridor was clear? We kept holding it up when a couple of quick kicks would have got it down there.
Davis and B1 worked hard all day and thought LRT did ok also.Comment
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I agree with all this. We know from experience this is not a team that can be written off easily.Originally posted by Matt79
Just got home from the match.
Game observations..
*Got smashed at the clearances
* Lacked pace or so it seemed
* The backman in particular B2 got flogged
* Struggled to run to space
* Forwards unprepared to work hard when Barry Hall is struggling with 3 men around him.
HOWEVER...
I am still prepared to grant them a loss today for less preperation time than other clubs (WC had the same I know, but I'm trying to be positive!), we are slow season starters at the best of time.
IF we lose to Carlton next week then we are suffering a hangover and may struggle in 06.
COME ON BOYS!!
Yet, we look very very slow at the moment. The new rules certainly seem to be focussed on our game plam, and we do seem to get pinged more than other teams, but we are struggling big time with the increased pace of the game.
We won last year by generating a lot of tough stoppages and slowing the game down. That doesn't seem like a tactic that work this year (unless the umpires do their typical thing and return to the old rules half way through the season).Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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Was she really that bad? I don't remember seeing her...Originally posted by Lucky Knickers
Miss Tadhg badly rebounding out of defence.Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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Sorry, should have clarrified. When the ball was being pumped into the forward 50, there did not seem enough willingness to work hard to find space. We were very clogged up, Hall had 3 playing on him so we must have spares somewhere running around.Originally posted by stellation
Are you including O'Keefe and Davis there?Swannies for life!Comment
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At least a few times there was a bunch of players at the top of the 50 ... standing there watching their opponents and team mates struggle for the ball - very frustrating!Originally posted by Matt79
Sorry, should have clarrified. When the ball was being pumped into the forward 50, there did not seem enough willingness to work hard to find space. We were very clogged up, Hall had 3 playing on him so we must have spares somewhere running around.Comment
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I tend to agree with most of what's been said on here already. Too slow, no communication, no confidence, not enough work to create space as options for players with the ball, over-reliance on handballs, too loose in defence, lots of fumbles, compared to Port's clean hands....the list could go on.
Can't help but think the 3/4 time speech was "Pull your finger out or you could find yourself out of the team next week".
Wouldn't surprise me at all to see either Malceski or Moore or both come into the team next week. Don't know what Chambers gives, but hopefully that will become apparent soon.
I'm on the Chandwagon!!!
If you cannot compete for the premiership, it's better to be young and exciting than middle-aged and dowdy.
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Is there anything to add?
For me, the most frustrating thing was a lack of risk taking while the game was still there to be won. That was what changed in the final term, and I realise that Port had slowed a bit by then, but at least they were chancing their arm a bit and things happened (even if the forward structure had gone completely to pot).
For the first three quarters, most of the players were static and play coming out of defence was very staid and tentative.
If I'm looking for players who just about muster a pass mark I'd probably nominate:
Monty - no-one else has, but I thought he was one midfielder who worked reasonably well for 4 quarters
LRT - I know he was badly beaten in the contest but I liked the way he didn't drop his head. Except for once, he looked reasonably assured with the ball in his hands and thought he was constructive in trying to move the ball forward.
Davis - as others have said. Now if only we could persuade the team not to spend the first half kicking only to a Hall who is being triple-teamed.
B1 - it's not a game for his tape collection by any means but he was the one guy who stood out in the final term as absolutely determined to win a little respect back. Small comfort I know, but we are scraping the bottom of the barrel here...His first 3 minutes of the game was pretty good too!Comment
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At least I spelt it rightOriginally posted by NMWBloods
Was she really that bad? I don't remember seeing her...
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