Autopsy Rd 7 Blues lose after the siren in a thriller

[LanceRomance]

They will learn from that loss

 

[Ald Gardiner]

Should of lost by 5 goals in reality

2-3 at least, better team won, would have been a lucky win they did their very best to keep us in it, but we weren’t good enough to capitalise

 

[DirtyLeeds]

Completely gutted. How the f@#k we didn't maintain possession in that last minute I'll never understand, I lost count how many times they banged the ball down the line only to turn it over, and then in the last 30 seconds Gibbons (had an outstanding game though) just kicked it in the Harry direction AGAIN. Well if that's the best team in the comp, we are so close, but may ultimately run out of games........

 

[Bostonian]

We need Papley big time.

Too many times the ball is hitting the ground and the opposition players are the only ones around the ball.

 

[Beast__Mode]

Massively disappointing, the lack of composure at the end will provide a lot of teaching moments.

Brilliant games from Plow, Weiters, Gibbons and plenty others. Walsh is getting his teeth into the season now.

we’ve had a tough run of games, we’ve played most of the eight. We get Freo, Nth, Hawthorn 3 of the next four weeks (with maybe Adelaide on the way home). Rack up some wins and we’re in this season up to our eyeballs.

 

[TBellicious]

Extremely upsetting BUT

I don’t think we played the way that we want to play much at all during that game and we got done by the league leaders after the siren

 

[Blueing]

Its these Wins we need to fortify our belief and take the next step towards that winning culture......absoloutley gutted

 

[FRUMPY]

Shat the bed, simple as that. They were 3 down with a few minutes to go and we couldn't control the game. Dumbasses

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[RAPPA]

Captains not doing enough on the field. Midfield extremely poor defensively, apart from Setterfield and Curnow.

Too slow to get SPS into the game as a midfielder when we were clearly struggling to kick the ball inside 50.

Our talls let their defenders have a field day intercepting, also not helped by our kicks long the line being malpositioned.

Dixon should've had 6-7 goals and Weitering should have had him from the start.

Absolute waste not having SPS in the midfield.

 

[Raging Blue]

Very proud of the boys.

We will learn from this and only get better & better

 

[NavySteel]

Port one-dimensional through Dixon - no change made, even for a few minutes to see. He was the difference. Had Weiters had some time on him, then may have upset the port forward structure and rebound for us out of their 50 easier.

Composure going into 50 lacking... again.

Fairly even game - thought we outplayed them in the second half of the third and last.

Good teams know how to win, even in tight contests, and when to accelerate and when to hold the game up. We lost all composure and structure in the last 5 minutes trying to hang on.

Easy misses from Levi, Murphy and Martin show we aren't there yet.

 

[Revenant1965]

Don't know how to feel .. A game we shouldn't have won, yet a game we shouldn't have lost... But we aren't that far away now... Just have to do North...

 

[Mondyboy]

Soul crushing stuff..

Only if you’re basing it on this one game and not the season as a whole.

 

[mochacinolatte]

Bad luck guys. Your club is going places and you have a really good coach on your hands. Furure looks bright.

Btw, I suggest you head over and give this campaigner a sh*t canning. Been wacking your mob all year.

Just send her a picture of Dom Sheed kicking winner in the Grand Final. She is a collingwood supporter.

 

[SkyhorseTamer]

Plowman one of our best today, ball shouldn’t have been coming back in in the first place.

I usually like him. Didn't see it today. Thought he played a slow game rebounding and a selfish game defensively. Too often not helping out when he's in the vicinity of the Dixon targets.

 

[Red Bull]

WTF didn’t gibbons run the clock !!
One ....... backwards kick kills the game !!
DUMB !!

 

[new_blue]

Final result is bloody hard to swallow.

Loved the effort of the boys!

Shows how bloody close we are.

 

[Mr_Plow]

he gets beaten alot in one on one's doesn't he?

No, he was dominant for the majority of the game. Look to our leaders, midfield and tall forwards who let us down time and time again today.

 

[FRUMPY]

Lost count of how many times in the last quarter we kicked long down the wing and Port marked it. If you're not going to mark it at least halve the contest!

It was mainly the kicks though. We kept kicking it over our forwards or on top of their heads and easy pickings for the Backman. Our kicking from defensive 50 to the wings was atrocious all game and kicking into the 50 was even worse.

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[Wickzki]

Cripps is injured and should get at least a week off

Had no impact or power today.

Kennedy made massive mistakes today that were costly

 

[Sinjin Smith]

It is heartbreaking but **** we played well.

We took it up to them, they are a very good team. I dont think this will be a bad defining loss, I hope the boys know that they now belong in the upper echelons of the ladder.

As the great King Willie said in Predator 2......which I watched again last night as Tigers vs North was boring............shit happens. As a club we need to take away the positives from this game, there were a lot.

 

[Blueballs38]

40 seconds open the clock disappointed with Gibbons. wtf!

 

[RPCB]

I wish there was better time management at the end. Gibbons had the ball with 50 seconds left, could he have found a better option from that going up the line

 

[La Dispute]

Played 30 minutes of really good footy but Port outplayed us otherwise. Let them dictate around the ground.

Our midfield is still a long way off despite some big games from Walsh and Setterfield.

Amazing effort from our defence.

 

[no. 4]

Frustrated to lose after the siren. With all the chances Port had late it was clear that we needed one more goal to kill off the game.

I am bullish about the remainder of the season now. Every game is winnable for us.