
- Nov 16, 2015
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Just trawled through 17 pages of review. Can we stop with the we lost because Bevo loves his b grade, lost at selection, this player should never play again blah blah blah.
How about that fact that most of our best players did not show up at all. Forget the lesser likes, each team has players who fill the 16 to 23 spots on game day. Yet our best players were soundly beaten by Melbourne best players. We just don't cover the big MCG well at all, we didn't work anywhere near as hard as Melbourne.
Most disappointing aspect for me was the same old safe game plan around the boundry. No one wanted to take the game on. How about a chip inboard, through the middle for a change.
I expect a response this week, its a long season and its only 1 game, yet the signs were bad. Maybe the Bevo message is stale.
The game plan wasn’t to play it safe round the boundary.
We clearly looked for options inside that either didn’t come or were closed up by Demon players.
At some points, all our potential targets were standing still asking for the short pass by foot. Absolutely no one worked hard to get separation, no one put blocks on, no one made an effort to get the ball moving down the middle. This leaves the only option to go wide where teams usually have a spare number.
This isn’t how we played the practice matches. We clearly wanted to move the ball quickly and usually used the middle of the ground. Come Rd1, our piss weak team go in to their turtle shells and shit their pants.