Preview Rd 5. Suns vs North Melbourne @ Metricon
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Yep not going to have a go at Lemmens for that, he shouldn't have been isolated there
Ogopogo
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This sucks....:-(
Lindsay Thomas still dives..
With Jäeger and Dion Watching these games..
Is this hurting our chances of them recommitting?
Is this hurting our chances of them recommitting?
Not sure if I am more upset with tonight's effort or last weeks where we lost belief and made this s**t stain possible
So much talent so little heart
So much talent so little heart
Why would they, poor effort and 5 years of development and we are still s**t
Ogopogo
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It's been so long....does Jaeger even remember how to play? I have forgotten what it looks like to see him on a footy ground.
Firedude8422
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We let them walk over us in the final quarter, something could have still been won. I suppose when our midfield is complete and May and Thompson return we will be a better outfit, will be that much harder keeping them fit. Focus on finishing the game as best as possible, which isn't good enough.
Ogopogo
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7 quick goals and we got this....
I understand your point but Hawthorth doesn't make excuses they just put the next guy in line in, I am sick of the excuses.
That's a massive overraction, we've faded late but certinly not s**t. North are the top team ATM
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We're playing a bit better now with 7 minutes to go. North applied a lot of pressure this game and we didn't handle it. We still did ok though.
I think our talent is very overrated personally. And we have no depth.
Firedude8422
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Generally the Hawks will lose two or three key players at the same time, I really have never seen them lose 8 key players for an extended period at the same time. But we do need that depth, not a complaint, just pointing out our lack of fitness.
Ogopogo
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Depth is a problem. The other problem is that we always have several of our best players out with injury. That is a bad combination
We give list cloggers like Shaw, Russell, Stanley long-term contracts, draft forward pockets in the 1st rd and recycle the wrong players (Rosa excused)
Don't think it's quite the doom and gloom many are saying. North are a quality team, we are admittedly struggling for depth. On the upside we are very soon going to have a great double team up forward in Lynch who's already there, and Wright who's on the up.
Malceski, Rischa, Ablett, Rosa and Harbrow were some of our best players tonight i thought. Russell was terrible though.
volkerball
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Wright showed he should be getting more time. Hell of a performance. That's about all that you can say that was positive though. Defense was a dumpster fire all game long. How many times did North kick it over the top to find a 4-1 matchup where all they had to think about was which way they wanted to kick the goal? Not sure what needs to be done to fix it, but we've had this same problem pop up every single year. Need to contest better and ease up on the damn turnovers.
By recycles I meant the blokes after the foundation Suns.
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Turnovers are because of pressure and that comes from experience. North have a shipload more experienced players than we do. Talent doesn't make up for that.
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Left at 3/4 time
I usually have to drag the kids but they were ready to go
I've gone past being disappointed these days
I think we all know what the problems are, but we'll have to face up to the fact we're unlikely to be challenging the top teams for a while
This year we'll have some unexpected wins, some expected wins, some unexpected losses and the expected losses
Which sums up a mid tier team
This was expected
Same old same old
Too many injuries to stars that means we can't delist them and they're impossible to cover
You can't plug an $800,000 gap with a $150k player
Too many soft outsiders
A middling skill set
And unless something amazing happens GAJ won't be winning too many games off his own boot anytime soon if ever
Having said that, I'll take tonight's loss to see the emergence of Peter Wright
That is a huge bonus
Please do NOT drop him for the rest of the year
I usually have to drag the kids but they were ready to go
I've gone past being disappointed these days
I think we all know what the problems are, but we'll have to face up to the fact we're unlikely to be challenging the top teams for a while
This year we'll have some unexpected wins, some expected wins, some unexpected losses and the expected losses
Which sums up a mid tier team
This was expected
Same old same old
Too many injuries to stars that means we can't delist them and they're impossible to cover
You can't plug an $800,000 gap with a $150k player
Too many soft outsiders
A middling skill set
And unless something amazing happens GAJ won't be winning too many games off his own boot anytime soon if ever
Having said that, I'll take tonight's loss to see the emergence of Peter Wright
That is a huge bonus
Please do NOT drop him for the rest of the year
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