Game Day Round 23 - GWS Giants v Essendon, GIANTS Stadium, Saturday 19th August, 4.35pm AEST

[Beerfish]

Great quarter guys. Tight stuff.

 

[Vindicater]

****ing lol at that quarter.

 

[MiguelM]

Awful,

Zero fight.

Broom needs to go through this club starting with Kelly & Lav.

Kelly isn't even VFL level, slow as a truck.

Durham twice did not attack the footy.

 

[Blind Turn]

This is depressing to say the least. It’s enough to send me to a therapist.

 

[Zach Package]

Man was wearing the wrong jumper

Certainly the wrong jumper number

 

[Shanghaistu]

The second half of the season is a carbon-copy of last year

 

[silk]

Plain and simple. This isn't a gap in skill. It's a gap in effort, It's a gap in true desire, it's a mental gap.

 

[boncer34]

Ill offer 20

It's at 34 atm.

 

[ghostdog]

Some lazy efforts defensively. McGrath casually jogging back to the pocket was infuriating.

Dyson, please retire.

 

[jarka11]

please let this be over now

 

[TheGrizz]

The entire midfield, Merrett and Parish included, need to give themselves an uppercut with that quarter. Defensive running was non existent and I have seen a group of seagulls fight harder for a chip.

Defensive turnovers have been poor, but the amount of ball and lack of pressure eon it coming in is a tough ask.

 

[Yoda_]

Special Heppell moment. Experienced players really standing up tonight.

Was just about to say that our leaders in all thirds of the ground have really stood up today

 

[frodos gardener]

It is the same issue I have been talking about for 5 weeks.
Can not find a player to mark forward of the ball. Sides just set up a strong midfield zone or man on man and force us down the line and then run forward as we can not mark it.
Until we can get someone to be some sort of chance of marking it and allowing us to move the footy forward a bit more quickly we will be ****ed.
Forget the poor defending. The first issue is actually having someone outside of the defenders who can mark the ball. Until we do we are easy to stop and then score against.

Actually the first issue was centre bounce clearances. I don't disagree that we need more marking options but the issue you've described was the least of our problems that quarter.

Peahearted efforts and shoddy disposal was at the heart of it.

 

[Vindicater]

A key defender for a small defender is brilliant

Mate a 47 year old ruckman would be better than Kelly.

 

[eastaugh36]

Well this is effectively a final for us so no surprises with the performance

 

[raskolnikov]

Darcy parish

Hope we can trade him for a stale vegemite sandwich.

 

[Beerfish]

It's at 34 atm.

You went too soon

 

[MattyB3150]

First thing in the preseason is learn to stick a tackle and play with heart

 

[MiguelM]

Geelong all over. We don't deserve to make finals.

Need to recruit players willing to go at a contest.

 

[Yoda_]

The entire midfield, Merrett and Parish included, need to give themselves an uppercut with that quarter. Defensive running was non existent and I have seen a group of seagulls fight harder for a chip.

Defensive turnovers have been poor, but the amount of ball and lack of pressure eon it coming in is a tough ask.

Today should be the evidence needed that sure a big KPD would be nice but geez the midfield avoids criticism for a fair bit of the scoring the opposition does

 

[ghostdog]

Awful,

Zero fight.

Broom needs to go through this club starting with Kelly & Lav.

Kelly isn't even VFL level, slow as a truck.

Durham twice did not attack the footy.

Holy shit Kelly's f****** dump kick to no one. Ugh.

 

[Happyskeret]

It’s not even the butchering that is upsetting it’s the total lack of intensity across the whole team excluding a couple of individuals.

 

[sacka]

Ffs have some ****ing pride in yourself guys. Lazy footballers.

 

[Yoda_]

Well this is effectively a final for us so no surprises with the performance

winning meaningless games since 2004

 

[sameolds33]

Plain and simple. This isn't a gap in skill. It's a gap in effort, It's a gap in true desire, it's a mental gap.

It is a gap in skill too.