_RT_
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What I meant by 10 minutes of footy is it seemed we would have a crack for about half the quarter and then ease the foot off the pedal, which probably has something to do with the club having the players peak for round 1 in 4 weeks time, not now to win the NAB Cup. I think that Wallace went about it quite smartly on Thursday night, played most of the kids for the majority of the match to see how they handled it. Despite limited input from a number of the more senior players we were able to hang with the Pies for the first 3 quarters and had it not been for poor conversion would have led at 3/4 time and may have gone on to win. However once the Pies got on a bit of a roll it seemed that the message had gone out to the players that the cue had been put in the rack and that there was little point going all out to try and reel them in. Now that we're out of the NAB Cup and into the challenge phase I'm expecting that the side will play in the style that we will want to play in the season proper although I expect next Friday that a number of senior players will be missing.[/b]
Gee your drawing a long bow there RT.
Listen i'm as hopefull as anyone that we've turned the corner, but i've also played a lot of QAFL state league footy where the standard isn't too bad and the players and coaching staff are def switched on. i think even for the current list its a little fanciful that they might be tuned in enough to play in 10 min bursts.
the facts are that we are stil making crap decisions with the ball when going forward and were getting hurt badly on the rebound.
Although i'm pleased with some of the young talent we have running around this year, we still have to drill the boys to make the correct decision under pressure, and either perfect or change our overpossesive game plan before we can consider ourselves a chance.