And let Lever peel off and take how many intercept marks?I dont think Lobb did compete that much to be honest..
At least Marra had some shots at goal
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And let Lever peel off and take how many intercept marks?I dont think Lobb did compete that much to be honest..
At least Marra had some shots at goal
His shots flattered him Lever peeled off him and killed usDelivery didn’t help our forwards JUH kicked 1.3 shame he didn’t take his chances could have ending up having a good night otherwise.
Nailed it.Let's be honest here. This is and for a number of years has been a team that lacks the drive and skill set to knuckle and down and stay in the game when it starts to slip away from them. Once Max inevitably decided enough was enough and took control of the game. What did we do? We continued on with our determined strategy of proving to all the football world the very definition of insanity by sticking with the one paced centre combo of English, The Bont, Macrae and Libba. It was clear as the view from the top of Mount Everest on a sunny day that Max was spoon feeding his dynamic duo the ball out wide and that none of our centre combo had the speed to go with them. And here we found ourselves once again at purgatory station station going nowhere but with our thumbs wedged tight up our collective arses.
Did Beveridge switch things up and rotate any of Lobb, Bruce or even Darcy into the middle? Nope. Did he bring some counter pace into the middle with Treloar or Smith. Nope and ******* NOPE! Did he do anything to counter a problem that we knew we were going to run into at some point given how their big 3 in the middle dine out on us every time we play them. NOPE!
It really is tiresome how this side can just drop its bundle whenever there is a momentum swing in a game. However, its not nearly as tiresome as a coach who hasn't addressed this obvious problem over the past three years and just doesn't have any answers when it inevitably happens.
We're front runners who have all of the resilience of an ice cube in the Sahara, but none of its ability to spread.
If we're gonna play 4 tall forwards then we're gonna need small forwards who put on a ton of forwards pressure. This is how our smalls ranked for tackles last year:
Rhylee West : 3.8 tackles a game
McNeil : 3.4 tackles
Weightman : 1.9 tackles
Vandermeer : 1.8 tackles
Scott : 1.3 tackles
Hannan : 1.1 tackles
And guess which 2 Bevo picked...
Also I wanna give Baker a chance but the Dees have the best talent ID and coaching atm, so them delisting him is a bit of a red flag.
His pressure was supposed to make up for his poor disposal and decision making but 1 tackle for the game is just not good enough.
PS. Pickett and Chandler had more tackles between them than ALL our forwards combined (8 and 7 tackles each)
Same.Never thought I’d say this but I’ve lost faith in bevo
I dont think Lobb did compete that much to be honest..
At least Marra had some shots at goal
Yep it was a massive issue last year. Response: add another tall forward. Perplexing.I think we can consign the 4 forward thing to history already.
Our diabolical ability to retain the ball inside our forward 50 was an issue last year. Tonight the difference was wider than the Grand Canyon and looser than the rules of a Thai whorehouse.
That period in the 2nd quarter where we dominated and kicked 4 or 5 points in a row. Then they get there first inside 50 and bang, goal! ffsTough night. Looked right in it for long stretches. Hard to stomach conceding so many easy goals from centre square and D50 after it’s been such a known issue for so long. Melbourne are very good and if there is an upside then it’s that they really did not look better than us for long periods. They’re more efficient and that was a tough watch.
He displayed no tactical nous tonight.I think Bevo is a great coach and tactician but his team selection can seriously get stuffed.
Toby Mclean was pretty average as well to be honest
Let's be honest here. This is and for a number of years has been a team that lacks the drive and skill set to knuckle and down and stay in the game when it starts to slip away from them. Once Max inevitably decided enough was enough and took control of the game. What did we do? We continued on with our determined strategy of proving to all the football world the very definition of insanity by sticking with the one paced centre combo of English, The Bont, Macrae and Libba. It was clear as the view from the top of Mount Everest on a sunny day that Max was spoon feeding his dynamic duo the ball out wide and that none of our centre combo had the speed to go with them. And here we found ourselves once again at purgatory station station going nowhere but with our thumbs wedged tight up our collective arses.
Did Beveridge switch things up and rotate any of Lobb, Bruce or even Darcy into the middle? Nope. Did he bring some counter pace into the middle with Treloar or Smith. Nope and ******* NOPE! Did he do anything to counter a problem that we knew we were going to run into at some point given how their big 3 in the middle dine out on us every time we play them. NOPE!
It really is tiresome how this side can just drop its bundle whenever there is a momentum swing in a game. However, its not nearly as tiresome as a coach who hasn't addressed this obvious problem over the past three years and just doesn't have any answers when it inevitably happens.
We're front runners who have all of the resilience of an ice cube in the Sahara, but none of its ability to spread.
Look I don’t mind that we are tanking for Harley Reid. It’s kinda smart. Would give our midfield the added speed and mongrel it desperately needs.
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Libba is only player with mongrel left.No mongrel in this team at all.
Too damn nice..
We don't have any natural and aggressive small forwards to make the structure work. Four talls can work if they had better delivery, actually moved around creating space, and had genuine smalls under them. Call Picketts hit on Smith dirty all we want. But the fact he applied a lot of physicality was awesome. Along with his speed, skills and constant in your face pressure, it shows what we are lacking.I think we can consign the 4 forward thing to history already.
Our diabolical ability to retain the ball inside our forward 50 was an issue last year. Tonight the difference was wider than the Grand Canyon and looser than the rules of a Thai whorehouse.
English was one of our bestThe bad:
-Lobby is a bust. Absolute waste of space
-English is not an A-grade ruck by a long shot
-Darcy is 3 seasons away (been saying this all pre-season)
Jamara playing like a millionaire
The good:
Naughton took a few good marks
-Bruce didn't look horrible down back
-Libba
p.s. I was at the game pretty sure Treloar did a slight high hammy in the last few mins
No mongrel in this team at all.
Too damn nice..
Compare the pair.That period in the 2nd quarter where we dominated and kicked 4 or 5 points in a row. Then they get there first inside 50 and bang, goal! ffs
We get horrendous value for money from Macrae and Daniel. Both horribly overrated based on some brilliant footy they haven’t produced since 2021