Their midfielders are consistently goal-side and kicking with time and space.
On track to give up another 140+ points.
Have no idea what we are trying to do...
Agreed mate.
I think the issue is the senior players aren't making a difference either. Why not play some younger players in there stead? I don't feel our overall competitiveness would drop off too much.
We seem wedded to the senior players like we are trying to win it this year and we need...
I reckon Clarko is feeling the heat and I think the lack of changes reflect that.
He's hitching his wagon to the senior players, the same ones that have regularly served up the garbage that we saw last week.
He sees it as our best chance to be competitive, to take the pressure off him.
If we...
I think the big question mark on Clarko at the moment is the inability to get the most out of our more experienced players (24+).
How many of them have driven our improvement this year? How many have improved their output to the benefit of the team and it's performance?
I would say 5/20...
Just caught Clarko's presser.
"It was our worst quarter of the year by a long way."
He is correct but we gave up 8 goals in quarter against West Coast, 9 against Geelong and 10 today.
Seems like this kind of effort is on-brand....
Strange that he seems to have gone away from using FOS as the tagger in the last 3 weeks. Seems like it is throwing the structure of midfield out of whack a bit and we are getting clearly hurt by the best opposition players.
Geelong - Holmes (822 meters gained), ran Simpkin with Smith instead...
They have absolutely dismantled our system and we didn't fire a shot or react in any meaningful way.
I would argue there is not a single player in the 23 that played at or above their expected level today.
They turned the pressure on and the entire team went to water and had no f***ing idea...
We are a bottom 4 side, who has beaten the 3 teams that are going worse than us, and a bottom 6 side when they were well off their best.
There is improvement but it has been grossly overinflated.
He's simply not a defender.
Poor positioning, and was often caught on the wrong side of the contest without contact on any opponent.
Matched up a lot on Mannagh (4 goals) and let him do as he pleased.
Have to think that Hardeman would be an upgrade in his role.
Comben, Logue, Daniel, Zurhaar, Parker, Corr, McDonald
3 of the starting defenders can't f****ng defend!
The other 4 can but have diabolically crippling deficiencies in decision making, skill execution, ect.
Comben is the only member of this group I would trust with some consistent level of...