That’s the dirtiest I’ve felt after a loss in 2 years. Didn’t take enough of our chances and Collingwood took all of their plus got given two more.
Game Day Round 21 v Collingwood
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The rate that the ball moved out of there was embarrassing. There is no urgency. None.
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Hibberd handball in defense and Fritch handball up forward on boundary line in last 2 minutes.
Simply overplaying the situation and coughing it up. Just take it over the line ffs.
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You just hope these pricks don’t go all the way…
We had a lot of shots from distance compared to how close they were able to get it in. Their counter attack style caught us out. We still should have won but it worked and Geelong will do the same.
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Basically if Collingwood get into a close game they’ll win. They have a style that allows them to win close games due to pace, transition, skill level, and just a desire to take the game on. We are simply far too one dimensional. We have heavy legged forwards who can’t chase, we have a slow and dumb approach that doesn’t stack up.
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We have Pickett and Spargo who should be running them down continually but Goodwin has them preoccupied with zoning and chasing further down the ground.
Brown either marks it or he's completely out of it.
Melksham is honest but too slow.
Other end they were all over us like a cheap suit.
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Our mids played their hearts out tonight but Goody needed them all to have 40 each for us to win.
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Our forward pressure is gone. What’s the *en change from last year? I mean, there’s literally still a ray of hope that something turns but Ben brown?!? Come on, he cannot defend. We just don’t have any dynamic forwards. We’ve got one gun and one hot and cold small. The 4 others are just witches hats when the heat gets dialled up.
Thought we were the better side. They were off the charts efficient with perfect counter attack. It was strategy but came off with every roll of the dice. Couple of free bets thrown in and we didn’t execute well enough again going fwd.
Getting sick of seeing Gawn slap it to the chest of a bursting oppo mid.
Getting sick of seeing Gawn slap it to the chest of a bursting oppo mid.
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How exactly were we better?
*en hell. Look at the scoring stats in the second half! They butchered us!
No chance they do
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Mate. We are so far off 2021 and Geelong choke every year! Nobody else is stopping Collingwood. You have to bury Collingwood early. 40 points up at half time type scenario. If you keep them in it they just hang in and win.
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Tbh I'd rather them than Geelong. Tonight was frustrating and annoying but a bloody exciting game to watch.
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I’d like Sydney to pull some left field performance and roll Collingwood to be honest. Geelong I wouldn’t mind. Neither Fremantle or Brisbane.
Am I basically saying anyone but Collingwood?
24 shots to 21 and we butchered more inside 50s than them. 65 inside 50s to 41. More possession. Time in front 92/110 mins. We didnt finish our work and they did, but we were the better side for the most part in a close game.
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Have to kick goals…
The type of game they win 2/10 rolls. Not denying they are playing well but their record flatters them.
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Hmmmm. Well I don’t think it does. How do we get to our best by finals is my worry.
In the last, Ben Brown, when tired has a couple of lackluster defensive efforts, that allowed the pies to take it forward and score. In a close contest, little things make big differences.
Brown is a liability around the ground in tight situations.
But our biggest issue thru the game imv, is the little give-handballs from the hot contest to another teammate, who is stationary and still within the contest.
The Pies just squeezed in to take the ball off us, after we won the first touch.
We have a habit of doing this hot-potato handball, when in pressure games, and Oliver is still one of the worst at this. It becomes infectious with our other mids. then they all do it.
Oliver gets a lot of the pill... but when he is not carrying the footy enough, his efforts have a habit of backfiring on us, under these circumstances.
My other gripe when playing a tight pressure side, is for our key defenders. The intentional little fumble of the ball to their feet when in tight situations backfires on us. others mid sized defenders come in to lend a hand and also intentionally lose the ball to their feet and they drop too knees, and fall on the footy.
In big game situations with a big crowd like the Pies, the umpires will pay holding the ball against us and within kicking distance.
This keeps putting pressure back onto ourselves, via these habits.
In my view these habits around the contest, cost a dearly tonight. And kept the pies in it.
Our key defenders need to start to practice a couple of things... playing man on man, relearning to beat opponents one on one without support, (they're forgotten how to)...
And on the high ball coming in, and we double or triple-team the aerial contest, our tall's MUST kill the high ball, with a smashing punch the the boundary, or thru the goals.
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Absolutely pin point
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Spargo and Pickett should hang their heads tonight.
Not just those two.. many many of our handballs thru the game in tight contests, went the way of the pies clearance.
The Pies always had the outriders, who could take the ball away thruout the game. We played like this late last year, when we were on song. We this season, are like flies to the honey pot, way way too much.
So much for one trick ponies and duck dinners, thank you Langdon for firing us up. thanks for that pal, oh and by the way , we are now 7-1 wins our way, against the Deees, last eight games, so there you go, see you all up the snow fields next week, how sweet it is.
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They’re the guys we rely on for that job…it’s awful
