You don't like watching us pump teams?! I know it's not exactly the acid test but whatever.
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Game Day Adelaide vs Geelong "Catsablanca"
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You don't like watching us pump teams?! I know it's not exactly the acid test but whatever.
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Of course I do, but not when we fail to beat contenders like Geelong. We won't win a GF thrashing teams at 17th and 18th.
I'm already over tonight...wasn't ideal but at least it wasn't a final.
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What is it with Geelong's good players always performing against us and it's the complete opposite for our best players? Bartel comes in and gets 34 disposals, like seriously? Danger 36, Duckwood 34, Enright 31, Motlop 24, Guthrie 25, hell even Blicavs was good and he's been in shit form of late. Hawkins dominates just tops it off.
Marginally different. We were better in the first half at restricting their scoring but couldn't keep it up. They restricted us for the entire game with exactly the same method as at AO, and we had no answer. Again. Not so different, and at two different venues. You convinced the MCG would effect a significant change?
Well, that's kind of an excuse.
we are scared of them... plain and simply bullied into submission...
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Yes
We played the MCG really well - and in the West Coast game we had players running into plenty of space also
Geelong are very good at reading when to leave their direct opponent and run back to fill that space
In the round 8 game we were not ready for that
This time - because Skilled is long and skinny there wasn't the space to begin with
I think the shape of that " oval" is one reason they have such a good record there
Could be wrong though and maybe Cats are just a 4-5 goal better side
Do know if I was a Cats supporter I wouldn't be overly convinced after tonight
Nothing to do with being PC mate. Read my post again. It's about reepecting your own team. Not bagging them and calling them flogs when they lose. Regardless of how disappointed you are anout the loss. As we all are.
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Then why are you predicting him as an in ......you keep contradicting yourself
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Sydney won at Geelong becuase they have a super tough midfield .....don't have a good midfield and you can't win at Geelong ........ours are younger than both Sydney's and Geelongs, and they just played dumb fumbling footy tonight .........didn't help having one man short in the midfield either (Thommo) who never had great pace, but he "used to have" a reasonably first 5 mtrs
respect is earnt in my book... my team was pathetic tonight! plain and simple... just put me on ignore...
We can only hope and pray.
Nah I'm a bit thicker skinned than that mate. You do need to learn that there is a massive difference between being very bloody disappointed / angry, and calling your own players flogs though IMO. Did you respect them with 8 wins on the trot? But not after one loss? Right.
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In the last 1/4 I think we had 8 I50's to 0 at one stage - we faffed about for 10 minutes then Cats shoot down and get a goal with their first Inside 50 for the 1/4
It wasn't just the midfield tonight
Did I blame the loss on the ground? Or is that just your interpretation? Do you just enjoy being contrary?
Playing Geelong in Geelong is much harder than playing them at Etihad or the MCG.
Of course I'm not saying we lost because we played there, but it made it a heck of a lot harder. Geelong are a 3-4 goal better side at home than anywhere else.
Tonight we lost because we played into their gameplan, but despite that the game was even until half time. There are myriad factors that Geelong can take advantage of at that ground - anywhere else and we might have been in front at half time, and better able respond in the third when the game was decided.
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Agree
respected enough to think they would offer something up tonight... shows we've built yet again another house of sticks...
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Sauce's job when he goes into the defensive 50 is to be the goal keeper, to get back and try and fist or mark the long bomb. It two of stanley's leads were caused by midfielders not dropping back into the hole.
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Perspective peoples - perspective
Who would have thought 2 months ago one this game was ever in the win column ?
And then ask yourself why it wasn't
It's a shit ground - it's cold and it's a home town full Lindy feral fiesta down there
Get in and
Get out I say and hope you only have to do it every couple of years
Who would have thought 2 months ago one this game was ever in the win column ?
And then ask yourself why it wasn't
It's a shit ground - it's cold and it's a home town full Lindy feral fiesta down there
Get in and
Get out I say and hope you only have to do it every couple of years
Tonight just highlights how much we miss Danger.
Could've used his explosiveness and line breaking tonight.
Crouch will get there - but he's not yet.
Smith used to be one of the best in the league - he's not anymore.
Who are are linebreaking/gamebreakers?
