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Why was the ball brought back?
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Why was the ball brought back?
Why was the ball brought back?
Turner pooh. No future. Get him out and see the change possible. He does worse than nothing.One of them I thought someone other than turner was on him and ran away leaving him on his own in the middle of the ground. Maybe Dumont? But could have been Turner can't remember - that was . One was jesus helping the other was a good pass to a forward. Abletts played games with nearly 3 times the possessions as many goals and more goal assists.
But so what... if we had kicked straight at goal and at field targets under minimal pressure those four goals wouldn't have mattered. We would still have won. And Ablett wouldn't have had the two or three times as many possessions he usually has. His games against us often have 3 or 4 goals, multiple goal assists and shitloads of dominant possession all over the ground.
Frankly he is a gun player and very hard to keep quiet. Turner did pretty well considering how good Ablett is and how little tagging KT has done. Playing a side with Ablett and Dangerfield in it means you will at some point give up goals, its about minimising the goals and the other influence those guys have on the game.
Oh I never said it was random. Just that that's the result we've got at the end of the match. Can't change it once it's done. But the flooding of negativity on here about every single thing that went wrong after every match does my head in - waaay more than watching our boys put in a 4 Quarter effort but miss the mark against the number one team in the comp. There were good things to be taken from last night, and that's what I try to focus on. I'm well aware that everything else that wasn't perfect will be more than covered by others on here.
I know there's stuff that needs to be rectified. I just don't feel like it needs to be focused on exclusively to the detriment of the stuff we did well, against the number one team in the comp.
The reason for the negativity IMO, not wanting to speak on behalf of everyone, is that it's the same problems that have been present for years on end are still present. It's appears nothing is done to rectify these.
You can put a positive spin on anything, just ask Brendan Bolton.Yeah, I get that. It's just that in some matches I feel like the negatives don't outweigh the positives (for me at least), and so I try to point them out in my posts, partly because I'm a person who tries to see the upside in things, but also because the negatives often get done to death on here. Yesterday's was a match where I saw quite a bit that was positive. Especially in our continued effort, which for me is the number one most important thing. But that's just me, everyone else is allowed to be in whatever emotional ship they choose. I just try to salvage some buoyancy is all.
And Scotts said in his Foxtel interview with Dunstal that if a team had poor skills it was the coaches job to improve them. He’s a self confessed failure.You can put a positive spin on anything, just ask Brendan Bolton.
At the end of the day we lost a game we should have won to the top team due to poor execution of skills.
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Sorry about that. Just to be appropriately respectful, I would like to say that I think the little master is a dirty sniping campaigner.It's a bit sad, every one posting about Ablett does not use his correct title of "The Little Master", almost disrespectful in fact.
We certainly had our chances. Your not going to beat good sides if you don't take your chances. We didn't. Its an old story.Strange game, we played pretty ordinary in parts, pretty good in other parts. We just didn't have some good matchups which cost us dearly, ie without someone like Jacobs to play on Kelly. Our intensity was pretty good, we weren't as accountable defensively as I would have liked, 16.8 from 47 inside 50s and only 10 marks inside 50 means you are pretty easy to score against.
At the end of the day we just blew too many gettable shots on goal and weren't able to sustain the scoreboard pressure on them, we had enough of the ball and of the play to win, which in part is pleasant against an in-form team, however, what continues to cost us are some of the basics which never seem to get addressed so not sure if we will ever make in-roads on that front.
That Brown miss from the goal square was something special, we had a few momentum killers today.
We fail at this consistently. It is the same old story, 1.9, 1.7, 1.6. It is demoralising and costs us time and time again.We certainly had our chances. Your not going to beat good sides if you don't take your chances. We didn't. Its an old story.
The reason for the negativity IMO, not wanting to speak on behalf of everyone, is that it's the same problems that have been present for years on end are still present. It's appears nothing is done to rectify these.
And Scotts said in his Foxtel interview with Dunstal that if a team had poor skills it was the coaches job to improve them. He’s a self confessed failure.
Sorry about that. Just to be appropriately respectful, I would like to say that I think the little master is a dirty sniping campaigner.
Its the same **** that always costs us. I dunno if its the coach, the players or a problem that is deeper inside the club but the coach has had years to fix it and hasn't.
He's a players coach. All ways has been.The other thing is this...
Scott clearly hasn't lost the players. They played their guts out for him while coaching against his brother's side on Mother's Day. Basically last playing first and we nearly beat them.
To me this was a test of their commitment to him and I think they showed they are.
The other thing is this...
Scott clearly hasn't lost the players. They played their guts out for him while coaching against his brother's side on Mother's Day. Basically last playing first and we nearly beat them.
To me this was a test of their commitment to him and I think they showed they are.
Perhaps we should refer to him as "the sniping little campaigner" from now on.
I disagree.
Strongly.
They looked flat walking off at half time even though they had the top side in every facet of the match barring execution.
They looked flat again when they ran back out to commence the second half.
They look to me like a team that knows the method is not working. They are frustrated.
Yep but what about next week and the week after?The other thing is this...
Scott clearly hasn't lost the players. They played their guts out for him while coaching against his brother's side on Mother's Day. Basically last playing first and we nearly beat them.
To me this was a test of their commitment to him and I think they showed they are.