Game Day Saints v Blues (Spuds Game), Friday night @ The G

[Saintbloke]

What happened to last week's defensive game- Lyon went back to the attacking game and it didn't work, lost it in the first quarter like a few games this season- we have real problems in the midfield, and just too many not working hard enough off the ball. Hard to find consistent players, Byrnes not bad, but few and far between

 

[Sarcoidevo]

Super disappointing loss

 

[triggering bro]

Blues are shocking we just suck more

 

[moirae42]

Like masterbating with a cheese grater.

 

[The Slug]

Have we ever won a Spud's Game?

Yes. Rnd 2 last year v pies

 

[marcus1232]

The last 10
Mins in particular was insipid
Like they didn’t want to bloody win the game
No dare would rather lose by 5 goals trying to win it than that crap

 

[SaintsSeptember]

4 minutes left. Need 2 goals. And we take it slow. Grrr.

We weren't going to beat them head to head.
They were winning the contests all night.

 

[beside the seaside]

This is the most pathetic loss I've ever seen. And I've seen plenty of those.

Slight overreaction?

 

[MrFoster]

We ****ed so much up that quarter it's not funny.

Basically just lack of skills and composure in the team, just bomb long when under pressure, rather than creating short leads and pick our way through the defence…

When we were 3 points down, Owens gets the free kick in the middle, rather than slowing it down, he kicks to a pack, ball gets rebounded and Carlton kicks the game winning goal.. really lacks any real mids that can win the first ball and contested ball consistently… We rely on pressure and numbers to win the ball.. they have Cripps, Hewett, Cerra.. De pinning killing Marshall.. night and day..

Macrae was a good get, but we really needed another experienced mid..

 

[hangdog]

No and we never will

Need to stop doing them.

There's other ways the club can honour Spud's legacy. But clearly there's something about the game and/or build up that produces this result year after year.

 

[Saint Shags]

The last 10
Mins in particular was insipid
Like they didn’t want to bloody win the game
No dare would rather lose by 5 goals trying to win it than that crap

I think they were more scared of making the mistake.
We need to teach these boys to welcome the mistakes. You won't move forward otherwise.

 

[denisp]

Have we ever won a Spud's Game?

Yep against those morons Collingwood

 

[Diehard Saint]

Need to stop doing them.

There's other ways the club can honour Spud's legacy. But clearly there's something about the game and/or build up that produces this result year after year.

We won last years game.

 

[Cleanupsoup]

I think they were more scared of making the mistake.
We need to teach these boys to welcome the mistakes. You won't move forward otherwise.

I think Brad Hill is doing a great job of showing that you can make that many mistakes and keep getting selected

 

[The Jack]

Lacked courage to run into space when it counted late. Our ball carrier never seemed to have too many options. We had plenty of opportunities.

 

[Hubnester]

Autopsy - Round 9 - St Kilda v Carlton *SPUD'S GAME*

Disappointing result, felt like we lost it more than they won it but you get that sometimes. Took a bit to get going but in the end it was too late, and our lack of composure cost us big time. Great to have the Pou back and hopefully he gets a good run at it from here.

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