R21 V St Kilda at Marvel Stadium

[Bangalore Swans]

Crows three goals up against Port

Big 2nd half.

[Foreign Legion]

Heeney needs to lift. He is an almost elite player but not done anything tonight.

Hickey not much influence besides hitouts.

Parker giving his all as usual.

Maybe we need to slow it up a bit and play like we did against Richmond early in the season - if St.Kilda let us.

[Maltopia]

Technically we are doing ok... we are behind the Saints by 18 at half time, and Port is losing by 19 against an inferior side?

[crackedactor 01]

Long bomb to our forward line and we get beaten every single time. Either in the air or on the ground. Can we win at least one.

[caj23]

We’re still in it and we’ve been coming home with a wet sail

Not many other positives to find

Need Heeney Kennedy Hickey and a few others to step up

[stevoswan]

Not at all, haven’t written them off! Was just pointing that out. Not even half time yet!

Exactly.

[Agent 86]

Sheesh - how many turnover scores?

I think getting the families back has softened us.

[Blood Fever]

Technically we are doing ok... we are behind the Saints by 18 at half time, and Port is losing by 19 against an inferior side?

We look a bit flat. Hard to win 6 in a row on the road.

[Ludwig]

Poor Stephens. He just can't handle the game at this level. He needs the Saints pressure to relent a bit.

The Saints pressure has simply been better than ours. And the only answer to pressure is to bring more than the other team. So lets see if we can do that in the 2nd half.

I thought the Saints backline would be a shambles, but it's been the opposite. They've been fantastic, both in the air on the ground.

[Bangalore Swans]

Beauty of this year is that every team is having a crack. The bottom 4 all want to win and there are 5 teams still trying to get into the finals. Makes for very competitive football.

[Nico]

6 goals from turnovers due to our inability to kick through the footy. I can't believe the number of times we have pulled our kicks and gone straight to a Saints player.

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Poor Stephens. He just can't handle the game at this level. He needs the Saints pressure to relent a bit.

The Saints pressure has simply been better than ours. And the only answer to pressure is to bring more than the other team. So lets see if we can do that in the 2nd half.

I thought the Saints backline would be a shambles, but it's been the opposite. They've been fantastic, both in the air on the ground.

We have won the centre clearances 11 to 3 but when we go forward the Saints backs are playing in front.

[dimelb]

Too much handling without gaining metres.
Too much Hail Mary nonsense, not enough people running past to collect ball and maybe kick, which Saints are doing.
Don't long bomb into front 50, kick to moving forwards.
We are really missing Mills - need an older head in defence.

[wolftone57]

Longmire being outcoached. This was some of the worst @@@@ we have served up in the last 3 years. This mob are a,?rabble and we are getting @@@@ on.

All the match ups are wrong. Hewett should be on Steele. Parker and Steele have both had 17 but Steele has been 10 times more damaging. A shootout in the mids is not good for us. We win the clearances but use the ball so badly out of the centre. This is a game we need to win but by the amount of missed tackles you would think the players don't care.

Ratten shutting down the corridor just like Sun's, Dees and Hawks did. Ratten is like Clarkson and will follow his lead. The forward line is @@@@. It is not working well. But also the delivery has been a disgrace. I think we will lose this one. I think they are hungrier and are handling pressure far better than us. What's more our players are allowing far too much room to their opponents.

We need to find a way to move the ball. They are setting up around the centre area and just putting players across the field. You can't go up the guts but you can't go outside either because they are manning up on the side and zoning centre and blocking the corridor. So how do you get over that you keep to layers back and create run and kick over the top of them.

But for that you need full effort which we are not giving tonight. Maybe there was too much family time I the last two nights lol.

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[AB Swannie]

As others have said, they have just out-pressured us. We’ve had a few very poor turnovers too and they’ve capitalised.

Stephens has struggled. I don’t know if he just needs a run of games to gain some confidence but this is not really the time of year to do that. If you can’t perform, you have to sit out. Hopefully, he turns it around in the second half.

[Agent 86]

Wow. 2 weeks for Greene and a fine for Selwood? Surely it’s the other way around?