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- Apr 16, 2014
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Without letting the emotions of this game settle at all, I'll review our insipid performance versus Sydney
The Ugly
The Ugly
- Effort. We were behind our opponents all day, always second to the ball, always chasing, never close enough to apply pressure. Just despicable from every member of our midfield group
- Tackling. We are abysmal at tackling and have been for YEARS. Players can dish off clean disposals while we cling on for dear life, meanwhile we get tackled to ground (or just slip over) with ease. Part of this is because we pick players who are s**t defensively, especially through the midfield.
- Mackay. You are cooked. Back to the SANFL you go. A ******* house fly could push you off the ball, your tackling efforts are despicable, you provide no run despite being a reasonably quick player, and your disposal cost us today.
- Wright. I don't ******* care how many disposals you get, your defensive efforts are appalling and have been appalling all season. I see you watch players stream past you as you stand watching. For a 'senior' player this isn't good enough. Just * off back to the SANFL.
- Lynch. Get your kicking in order and you'll be a great player for us. But for now, giving you the ball is costly.
- Smith. Out of form and in need of a spell. Where has that laser boot gone? It's time for the blow torch to be applied because you're not up to it right now.
- Henderson. Soft and defensively unaccountable. Waltzes around the ground like the runner, not a player. Either harden the * up or get out.
- Jacobs, we know you're a good ruckman, but you shouldn't let yourself get towelled up by a part time ruckman in Tippett. Not a great effort today.
- Walker. You are the captain, playing your 100th game. Where were you today, to stand up and lift our team? Not what I want to see from a captain.
- A number of other players were mediocre. Sloane (not many disposals, are you actually right to play?), Cameron (no run, tackling pressure or goals), Thompson (rubbish defensively)
- It's hard to blame our forwards today because they got rubbish service, but some of our kicks for goal were awful. We're not confident in front of goal.
- Defenders were under siege when they never should have been. Did an okay job against against the big forwards after the first quarter, but we failed to stop the midfielders kicking piss easy goals from silver service delivery.
- Tippett kicking 3 goals in the first quarter. In what universe is Lever a better matchup for the big dickhead than Hartigan? What a basic coaching error that should have been corrected before the first bounce.
- Selecting Matt Crouch as the sub. Should have played last week and this week. Just appalling treatment of one of our better midfielders, and was sorely missed in a team smashed at the coal face today.
- Subbing Knight off. What the flying * were the coaches thinking? It's not like the game was in the balance, we should have had our developing players on the ground rather than spuds like Mackay
- The goal review involving Wright's clear goal was one of the worst I've ever seen. Despicable from the score review umpire
- And speaking of the umpires in general, they were trigger happy to pay holding the ball against us and were terrible all day. Didn't contribute to the loss but they crucified us at every chance
- Gold passes have cost us. If we decide to bring back VB this week it will just make things worse.
- Suggesting before the game that we rate some players on "non-statistical roles". I mean just have a good hard look at what you're saying David Noble. That's absolute rubbish and a poor justification for selecting bad senior players week after week. Time to smarten the * up.
- And finally, Scott Camporeale. I don't think you're up to a full time coaching role. We have reverted to some Sando-era bullshit following Walsh's tragic passing, such as dropping young players, putting young players as the sub repeatedly or consecutively, subbing out developing players when the game isn't on the line, inexplicable match-ups, not preparing players for the match, the list goes on.
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