Toxic and imo wrong thread title. A good judge of the coaches in this game and it’s prep was the excellent first half. This is what happened:
1.We came out and were on top. Excellent forward pressure. Prevented their intercept game, defence alright on repeat entries.
2. After our second key defender was injured due to one of many filthy plays by the excellent Toby Greene, it all went south.
3. Lobb moved back and played fine. BUT these are the effects of having to do that:
- brought their intercept game into it
- the intercepts lead to the goals on the break which is hard to prevent even if it’s not your team weakness (but it is ours)
- English less rest. He fought manfully despite that. But that’s how they got on top in the guts.
- down a rotation, everyone was cooked
Yes, we missed our shots. We fumbled a few. Not coaching errors.
We couldn’t really chip it around because we were physically shot.
When you have an alright look at the sticks to win the game which we did, you weren’t out coached. Especially when all that goes against you. We were brutally unlucky and GWS are a very good team I respect a lot.
There are always things you can do better in a game of footy and we’ll rue that.
But I am proud of the boys and have no gripe with Bevo in this game.
Keep your head up lads. You have my support.
Brother we lose the same way every game. You have to make adjustments and deal with these things. The giants aren’t a dynasty team they barely have a FF. They’re a decent team but not very good without Hogan and Green by any stretch. If a coach can’t implement anything to try and stem the flow and the answer is to put Lobb back when you have Naugton, it’s laughable. This is purely coaching.
Obviously there are other reasons we lost but accepting mediocrity shouldn’t be the way.