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Making finals or not there's no cracks to paper over. It's glaringly obvious what our deficiencies are regardless of how many more games we win this season. Making finals isn't going to change any of that.
Brayshaw may not have trusted his kicking. He has been pretty ordinary in that department this year, so he would have very little to base his confidence on. As you would know.All been said. Lost this at selection. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I'm not sure what was going on with Brayshaw, looked cooked out there at times. There was one passage in the last where he took a mark in our D50, camera is behind him, we're a goal down with about 5 to play, Switta (I think) is absolutely clear about 40M ahead of him in a straight line down the guts, Brayshaw just ignores him and dilly dallies before going sideways. Just summed up everything about today.
To be clear I'm not saying Brayshaw was terrible or lost us the game but I'm still scratching my head about that decision and why he seemed to be walking around without any of his usual hustle today.
Fyfe - I just get sadder and sadder watching him make poor decisions, throw the ball on the boot, not even compete in the air anymore. Makes it worse seeing Danger still bursting from clearances and taking powerful marks. Fyfe did a few good things but he's a shadow.
Banfield was abominable. Just awful. Did not do one thing right all game.
Taberner was a waste of a jumper. Ditto Voss. Admittedly both did one good thing each in 4 quarters
Jackson hasn't played a good game for so long I've forgotten how good he can be. Can't take a contested mark to save his life.
Clark was BOG. Heart of a lion. Chappy scrapped well and made some great decisions. Draper was solid, Walker did some good things.
Young amazing in patches but was well held at times. Ditto Serong. Johnson was decent.
Didn't even realise O'Meara as out there till the 2nd quarter. Not good enough.
Amiss, Freddy, Sturt all did a few good things but not nearly enough of them.
I think that's our season. No way we beat GWS or Port on current form and Hawks will take our spot in the 8.
I'm checked out mentally for the year once Geelong were 4 up. Did not once think we would win today even when we hit the front. Exciting game but ultimately devastating.
Such a nearly year. We don't lose Pearce and most of Darcy and maybe things are different.
I think he's done well developing the young guys but maybe it's time for a new voice. Someone with fresh eyes and ideas for this group. Someone who will come in and actually challenge the likes of Darcy, Ryan and Cox etc. to go to another level(More than just those 3 guys they were just the ones who came to mind). Feels a bit like everyone is too comfortable and it shows. Mentally we are very soft and fold far too easily.You're all smarts and no balls JL.
Brodie - 44 Disposals and a goal.
But no we don't like his defensive game, so no thanks.
Reidy - 54 hitouts.
You don't have what it takes son.
It actually hits worse because he's the best tactical coach we've ever had, he clearly bleeds purple but he will not play certain players due to an intrinsic belief they don't have it, when said players may actually have it. He will not move the magnets, he will not implement a Plan B.
If we miss finals this year then for me it sits squarely with the coach.
from the moment tracey went down we have absolutely sucked.Always disappointing to lose but I thought we dug pretty deep in the 2nd and 3rd to get back into the game.
Tbh when I sat in my seat and got the memo about Darcy out, I was pretty much ready to turn around and go home then and there.
Bit sad that the season is all but over. Treacy’s injury last week was a sliding door moment.
More Finals experience is better then none.everyone saying they want us in the finals, but then what? Can we really expect us to be in the Grand Final?? After last week and todays effort, we don't have a chance.
It's incredibly disappointing however if you take the number ruck, key forward and key defender out of most sides their performance would drop significantly.from the moment tracey went down we have absolutely sucked.
i think the players walk taller with tracey, pearce and also darcy (when is is right)
we need another player like that in the midfield, very hard take no prisoners (johnson?)
Seems to have hardly played forward the last 4 or 5 weeks. Interestingly, he's still kicked more goals this season than forward Freddy. Fred could do his major thing from Row 3 - observing.
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Then trading our only good picks and picking a key defender with what's left...Fully checked out now
pretty much hoping we miss finals at this point so as not to paper over any cracks
Not that anything would change because the narrative would be some spin about how developing and not ready yet
Or people pointing to how shite we have been historically, so we should be happy with 10th and 12.5 wins, losing 4 in a row to end the year, or hell maybe we can dream big and win a game then barrack for other teams to lose so we can finish 8th! Yeah get some sweet finals experience by getting smashed by the Bulldogs or Carlton in Melbourne, because that finals experience meant so much from 22 coming into ‘23.
This year is an embarrassing write off when we were good enough to be fighting for a flag. The team choked. Over and over and over again.
Plus has favourites. Can’t fathom coaches that refuse to drop favourites.You're all smarts and no balls JL.
Brodie - 44 Disposals and a goal.
But no we don't like his defensive game, so no thanks.
Reidy - 54 hitouts.
You don't have what it takes son.
It actually hits worse because he's the best tactical coach we've ever had, he clearly bleeds purple but he will not play certain players due to an intrinsic belief they don't have it, when said players may actually have it. He will not move the magnets, he will not implement a Plan B.
If we miss finals this year then for me it sits squarely with the coach.
Not really.It's incredibly disappointing however if you take the number ruck, key forward and key defender out of most sides their performance would drop significantly.
Imagine if you took Stanley and Cameron out of this game (they were already missing De Koning).
Or if you took Draper, Langford and McKay out of last week.
Unfortunately I'm getting 2017/8 vibes from this season - all our talls getting injured in the second half of the season and the club falling in a heap.
Every player on our injury list except Walters is a key position player. That greatly concerns me and that's why I'm seeing shades of 2017/18.Not really.
It’s only Pearce and Treacy. There’s depth for a reason. Teams have won flags with key talls going down to injuries. It happens.
The team failed to play as a collective today.
Plus has favourites. Can’t fathom coaches that refuse to drop favourites.
JOM, Switta, Aish have been poor or meh for awhile. Won’t drop them.
I understand it's a pile on but Aish?Plus has favourites. Can’t fathom coaches that refuse to drop favourites.
JOM, Switta, Aish have been poor or meh for awhile. Won’t drop them.
Well when you put it that way it's even more tragic.Pull the first choice spine out of any team and they're likely to lose. Do it against 2nd, 3rd, and 4th on the ladder and you've got no chance. And yet we still had ourselves in the position to win. Even one of them plays and we win. It's so infuriating this season. Finally get our first choice team together and it lasts three quarters, and then we go on to lose a KPP every game since. If we get one extra game with one of them playing then we make finals. Now we're screwed.
They should go and watch tapes of Stringer. Half a sniff and he's all over it. Nothing will get between him and the goals. It's why I reckon Sonny out is hurting us more than we like to admit (and losing Schultz). They WANT to take the responsibility.It's quite disheartening to see so many of our forwards, including some of our forwards be too scared to take a shot on goal and look to pass it at every opportunity, why are you a forward if you're not even going to bother taking your chances? Why not let some of our forwards in the WAFL have a shot if you're not going to bother taking yours?
We can say what we will about Walters and his rapid decline over the last year or so, but one thing you can never take away from him is his ability to just go for it every time he has the chance, if he sees an opportunity his mindset is "**** it, let's have a crack."They should go and watch tapes of Stringer. Half a sniff and he's all over it. Nothing will get between him and the goals. It's why I reckon Sonny out is hurting us more than we like to admit (and losing Schultz). They WANT to take the responsibility.
Whilst I know where your coming from (it kinda really only looks like this way now tho) its more in relation to the rest of the competition and just how up and down every team has been this year, inc the more experienced ones.
I mean we possibly only needed to win ONE of these games we’ve shat the bed in and the team was genuine chance at top 4 and from there , in a season like this anything is possible (again fwiw I still had major doubts we could actually win it too but the experience of playing in big finals /potentially a pre lim would have been invaluable for our team.
And sped the whole learning process up
Not to mention the awesome excitement us fans would have garnered from the ride aswell!!
As it is ,next year is apparently our window fully opening (according to everyone who thinks we’re too young anyway) and as it stands the majority of the team will have played in 1-2 finals THREE full years ago by that stage
Now That’s just not the profile of a team ready to contend.
So in which case our whole timeline for contention realistically gets pushed back one MORE year…again… despite five year plans and 2 top 4 by 25’ and the entire organisation from the top down saying our youth is no excuse….
Your not owed anything no matter how much you plan and prepare for something, you still have to take your opportunities when they arise(we ve had a good run with injury maybe we get decimated next year??)
And right now this freo team is squandering theirs