Round 4 positives

[ugg]

Originally posted by cruiser
But it was a close game against a team that hadnt won a game yet. Our four games so far have been against ordinary teams at best. The top teams will crush us. Geelong will slaughter us.

Yes this is exactly what I've been thinking. With all due respect, I don't think any of the 4 teams we've played will make the top 8 this year. And we're 1-3! I think the Geelong game will provide a truer indication of where we are. The one thought that is comforting at the moment is that we seem to step it up against the better teams.

[punter257]

playing ordinary football in april and not september

good to see the eagles get 2 consecutive april premierships as well

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by ScottH
(No hird) we lost.
(No Tredrea) we lost.
(No Neitz, mostly) we lost.

Is there a pattern here?

We lost.

[cruiser]

Originally posted by punter257
playing ordinary football in april and not september

good to see the eagles get 2 consecutive april premierships as well

I know what you're saying and I want to believe we can improve, but I'm having trouble now.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by cruiser
But it was a close game against a team that hadnt won a game yet. Our four games so far have been against ordinary teams at best. The top teams will crush us. Geelong will slaughter us.

That's right. It's not correct to make the comparison to previous years on W-L record, as we are playing some very ordinary teams. On current form, even with most of their spine missing, Geelong should smash us. Then again, we seem to get up for these big underdog games.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by punter257
playing ordinary football in april and not september

good to see the eagles get 2 consecutive april premierships as well

It's not mutually exclusive to play good football in both. West Coast went within a whisker of winning last year and are more on track than we are at the moment.

[anne]

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Hopefully some of the players ARE hurting. But by the looks of things at today's after-match thing could not be further from the truth. The players were both giving themselves a pat on the back for how WELL they played today!

JF [/B][/QUOTE] And that is the major problem - they are not playing well and yet it doesn't seem to worry them or Roos at all. They need to be told they are crap (being beaten by lower teams) and it is not acceptable. If they were in Melbourne they would be torn to shreds and maybe they would react to it. They just sit back and think that because everything worked out last year after a slow start that it will just happen again - but that is a dangerous way to go about things.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

I though Schneider was really excellent today, although I hope the umpires don't take revenge for that 50 metre penalty he milked.

[Captain]

Originally posted by cruiser
I wish I felt like that.

It's really weird but I seem to be ok with losses this year. I was totally pi&ssed off with yesterday, but I think that was more because I lost a hundred dollars on the Swans rather than the game.

I think I have a premiership hangover.

[katie-scarlett]

Originally posted by Captain
It's really weird but I seem to be ok with losses this year. I was totally pi&ssed off with yesterday, but I think that was more because I lost a hundred dollars on the Swans rather than the game.

I was pissed off because the last time I had heart attack(s) (yes, plural) like those was at the Geelong SF last year. But they actually won that 1.

[floppinab]

Missed the game today took the biggest boy camping up in the Blue Mntns. (beginning to think it's a good idea making the most of the Autumn long weekends doing other things than watching the Swans), but caught the last q. on radio and some snippets on the tele.

Looks like we soundly beat them generally on the stats (in a game where the uncontested possies were relatively equal) and given they had about 17 or 18 fit men in the last q. I would've thought we should've run the game out and won.

Too many MFU's by the sound of things being the main problem probably typified by Mr. MFU himself, Matthews in giving up that handball which netted the Dees that winning goal. My guess would be we made too many costly clangers compared to them, simple as that.

[giant]

Originally posted by Captain
It's really weird but I seem to be ok with losses this year. I was totally pi&ssed off with yesterday, but I think that was more because I lost a hundred dollars on the Swans rather than the game.

I think I have a premiership hangover.

LOL. I'm the same - but perhaps yesterday there was a feeling of guilt that it would have been a travesty to win the game after that disgraceful 50m penalty.

But unlike last year, I gave a sort of resigned shrug afterwards. Then I noticed that my 9 yo nephew who had flown over from Perth for the game was actually crying. I felt a little ashamed that I'd lost my passion for the game, so I decided to at least look a little sad.

[The Big Cat]

I thought that this year I would be able to take a loss without it seeming like a death in the family. But it hurts just as much. Why? Then I remembered - We haven't won a flag since 2005!

[msb]

Originally posted by Captain
It's really weird but I seem to be ok with losses this year. I was totally pi&ssed off with yesterday, but I think that was more because I lost a hundred dollars on the Swans rather than the game.

I think I have a premiership hangover.

Yes know what you mean......i hate losing yesterday but then you just think of last year and what happened. A year like that could never be topped. Realistically we are not and were never going to get back to back flags and perhaps this is a year where we are just going through the motions whilst being the hunted. Every team we play this year is going to move heaven and earth to beat us (which is always the case with the reigning champ) so wins are going to be hard to come by, but it is only round 4 so things can be turned around and it could of easily been a win yesterday.

[hammo]

Its dangerous to keep comparing to the slow starts in previous years.

Unless the players pull their finger out, we'll be well off the pace and playing russian roulette when guys go down with injuries.