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I haven't watched a minute of todays game, and I don't really intend to, I think the score and stats say enough, and when you have a game like today when 6 guys get injured, and can't rotate really for a half you aren't really beating anyone.Obviously wasn't great today but in his & the teams defence players in the modern game especially mids have to get off for a rest .
49 interchange rotations for the game assuming roughly 35 at the half .
Means not too many breaks at all after half time.
Thats not sustainable they where clearly gassed after half time .
Combine that with the fact we weren't playing well to begin with coming into the game against a side that has been red hot for 3 months, you have your end result.
Today looks more like a culmination of all the chickens coming home to roost. Strength and conditioning a massive fail, no other way to look at it, and too many guys not up to the rigors of being able to get through a full AFL season on the list. It had us peaking round 15 and steadily getting worse and barely any fit and firing players left now.
We rolled the dice on many of the injury prone guys who were available most of the 2nd half of last year in Marchy, Martin and Cuningham, which hasn't paid off either.
I thought we were cooked after the Pies loss, the way we played was bad enough, as well as the in game injuries and Russell annoucement during the week made it clear to me that internally they know the playing group is cooked physically for the season.