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I'm not going to imply it was his fault we lost, because that's obviously not the case but Luke McDonald was the player standing closest to at least half of those goals. That's because Fremantle were actively looking to play through him all day long. It's not fair on him and it's not helping us any more.
I noticed that McDonald was chasing and trying to spoil or tackle about 5 or 6 different opponents who were taking shots today - in most cases arriving late or not quite getting there in time to tackle but Shirley they can’t have all been his direct opponents at the time?

It was as if our backline players chose to be nowhere near an opponent at any stage of the match.

Fremantle probably did try to attack through McDonald’s opponent as much as possible - it’s a legitimate tactic and would certainly bear fruit but let’s face it, Chom probably beats his opponent 30% of the time and Logue wasn’t within 10 metres of his opponent while the ball was in motion more than 2 or 3 times for the whole game. In fact he struggled to get to man the mark most of the time.

None of those three are equipped to play as KPDs and Pink is also nowhere near being the solution, so we’re stuffed, as we have been for years now.

Edit: I forgot about Dawson.

He might be a defender in a few years (hopefully for his sake and our’s) but he’s not a defender yet.
 

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I noticed that McDonald was chasing and trying to spoil or tackle about 5 or 6 different opponents who were taking shots today - in most cases arriving late or not quite getting there in time to tackle but Shirley they can’t have all been his direct opponents at the time?

It was as if our backline players chose to be nowhere near an opponent at any stage of the match.

Fremantle probably did try to attack through McDonald’s opponent as much as possible - it’s a legitimate tactic and would certainly bear fruit but let’s face it, Chom probably beats his opponent 30% of the time and Logue wasn’t within 10 metres of his opponent while the ball was in motion more than 2 or 3 times for the whole game. In fact he struggled to get to man the mark most of the time.

None of those three are equipped to play as KPDs and Pink is also nowhere near being the solution, so we’re stuffed, as we have been for years now.

Edit: I forgot about Dawson.

He might be a defender in a few years (hopefully for his sake and our’s) but he’s not a defender yet.
Yeah. I don't know, I suspect it was intentional but only going off how it looked on the TV.
 
There's no way we drop Larkey or McDonald even though it's painfully obvious Larkey is in a mental gorge and McDonald is absolutely cooked physically and mentally

Fisher shouldn't ever play for the club again. It's wild that he was the best choice for this. It very much seems like he was given a free trip to WA because he is from there

I would say **** it and get Goater in. He's taped a few together at VFL level. One things for sure - where I have previously understood minimal charges for team chemistry and opportunities for redemption, there's no way they can justify not dropping a few from yesterday
 

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Any chance of sneaking Goad over .
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