View Full Version : Don't get carried away.
Despite the fact we won, we were attrocious. I have never witnessed such stupidity in a game of football, especially in the forward line, since 97/98. And spare me the s*** about injuries, our backline was fine, apart from jacobs who looked clueless in that first half. We'd work it fine donwn the wings, then for no reason what so ever decide that once we'd reached 50 out we'd drill it back into the center square looking for Lloyd or cupido who, by then would have 2 or 3 blokes on him completely f***ing up any run we had allowing them to run straight up the center to score a point, or a goal. Shane Harvey did this more than twice last night. Why?!? What the f*** is wrong with just bombing it forward tothe goal square. And this handballing nonsense, which I call 'The Calthorpe sequence of s***' consisting of 20 f***ing handballs to 1 kick, it has to stop. Again, stipidity and constant lairising cost us a bigger margin and will not help next week and will end up getting f***ed over by those scum pigs next week by at least 40 points.
myTbombers
20 Apr 2003, 15:20
mate..u have to have some confidence, as far as i look at it, your only as good as your opposition, the bulldogs played a very scrappy game, and it was the type of game all night. Scrappy, but we won and the boys have to take some confidence out of this. We really should be 3-1 after the first month which would be the same as the past 2 seasons but we lost stupidly to carlton and they will learn, so we are still there, and next we should be a much much better game!
A lot of work still to be done. Am I ever gonna see a match this season where we play 4 complete quarters?
The short passing to nobody has to stop immediately
we are playin in patches, im not sure we have played more than 30 minutes of genuine footy in a game yet this year.
At least our aggression was directed more at the footy and we werent so ridiculously undiciplined last night. Starting games at the start and not 15 mins into the first would also help.
Good thing about playing is patches is that it is clear the class and ability is there - I have a good feeling we will work ourselves well into this season.
We havnt started it well, but Id rather peak in sept, not april.
Stealth bomber
20 Apr 2003, 22:09
I'd say the biggest concern I have right now is use of the ball and disposal. Particularly in games that we lose it is especially bad.
We seem to be having an inordinate amount of clangers so far this year. Kicks right to opposing players, kicks into double-teamed players, handballs to players who are closely guarded, usually resulting in holding the ball, ball-ups or turnovers.
Out of this has come a tendency to hesitate and be unsure of what to do with the ball. I don't feel that we are being assertive and confident enough in our disposal.
I think though that it is to be expected, what with the sheer amount of youth and inexperience in the side as well as new players. There were only 9 players on the ground last night from the 2000 flag.
The list we have right now hasn't played its best football yet.
With all of the flaws this side has at the moment, I think they are correctable, and I believe we may actually be a chance on Friday. Blindly optimistic perhaps, but optimistic nonetheless. I was there in Round 20 last year and don't see any reason why we can't do it again.
BomberGal
21 Apr 2003, 13:51
I agree with most of the above post. I'm just not sure about our chances on Friday.
My biggest concern is that we can't play 120 minutes of football. After four matches, we've started poorly, managed to play good second quarters, and patches in the third and fourth quarters. We're not going to win games like that. If we let teams jump the gun, we're just making it harder for ourselves everytime. No good building a comeback later, even if it does end up in a win - you can't do that all season.