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Nico
Some observations from the game.
1. Errol looked flat and didn't have his 2 way running. It looked to me that Heeney carried that shoulder injury into the game. It appeared that he was reluctant to tackle until the last quarter.
2. The mids struggled to get back and help the defenders.
3. As mentioned by others we looked listless. eg. Lloyd really battled to keep up.
4. McLean: as good as he played he was the wrong focal point in the last quarter. His lack of agility found him out. He played from behind and his opponent twice outmarked him by playing in front. Again he was behind when the ball went to the pocket and spoiled out of bounds. When Logan chipped into mark to level the scores Hayden was again behind his man. With the 6/6/6 our tall forwards must play in front.
5. Adams has to be the worst disposal in the comp. In the 3rd quarter he was running into an open goal and inexplicably went sideways and tried to hook it arpund, and it goes out on the full. Then in the last quarter he kicked a grubber to a leading forward. Will JL have the guts to drop him, because both Mills and Parker have to come back in, and the sooner the better.
6. Our forward pressure looked way off and the Freo backs cleared it too easily.
7. My son said to me this morning. "Why does Blakey do dinky kicks when he should kick the ball to the top of the square". That kick to Grundy was awful. Why would you kick to someone who is not going to move the ball on quickly. Wrong spot, wrong player.
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