I went to yesterdays game and it had proven one thing....
We can not Defend for S**t.
Obviously we can't blame the youngsters because we had 3 debutantes who all tried their hardest, otherwise it was just plain Laziness and Selfishness, our players just won't play for each other, they played as individuals last night and it made my blood boil knowing that they were only playing for a spot in next weeks team (2 weeks
).
These guys are the one's that were plain selfish last night:
Monfries (Just plain selfish)
Stanton (He's a disgrace, always plays for himself)
Slattery (Always trying to be the hero)
These 3 must be dropped next week if we 'want' to play and develop as a team, they only play for themselves, just so that they can get a spot in the team for the round ahead.
Just by looking at the score we know what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong. Its obvious that we can score big numbers with our new game style (BTW, I love it), then again its obvious that we are just plain bloody Lazy when it comes to defending. (For example. there was always at least 3 metres of space between our defenders opponents last night and Port just took easy advantage of it, especially Motlop, 7 goals, WTF.)
I'll give Courtney Johns some credit here, he never gave up once last night and it's gonna get him a spot in our next game against Sydney, he ran as hard as he could and never gave up (either did Mal), he even got a few clearences which shows some positives to his game.
In the end, we can prove that we can be a very attacking side, but I am deeply hoping that Matty Knights and whoever our Defencive coach is will teach our players (Especially our Midfielders) over the break, how to defend when the opposition have the ball, I'd be stoaked even if its a zone off, honestly I just want some sign of teamwork in our defencive half and more numbers around the ball.
We can not Defend for S**t.
Obviously we can't blame the youngsters because we had 3 debutantes who all tried their hardest, otherwise it was just plain Laziness and Selfishness, our players just won't play for each other, they played as individuals last night and it made my blood boil knowing that they were only playing for a spot in next weeks team (2 weeks
). These guys are the one's that were plain selfish last night:
Monfries (Just plain selfish)
Stanton (He's a disgrace
, always plays for himself)Slattery (Always trying to be the hero
)These 3 must be dropped next week if we 'want' to play and develop as a team, they only play for themselves, just so that they can get a spot in the team for the round ahead.
Just by looking at the score we know what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong. Its obvious that we can score big numbers with our new game style (BTW, I love it), then again its obvious that we are just plain bloody Lazy when it comes to defending. (For example. there was always at least 3 metres of space between our defenders opponents last night and Port just took easy advantage of it, especially Motlop, 7 goals, WTF.)
I'll give Courtney Johns some credit here, he never gave up once last night and it's gonna get him a spot in our next game against Sydney, he ran as hard as he could and never gave up (either did Mal), he even got a few clearences which shows some positives to his game.
In the end, we can prove that we can be a very attacking side, but I am deeply hoping that Matty Knights and whoever our Defencive coach is will teach our players (Especially our Midfielders) over the break, how to defend when the opposition have the ball, I'd be stoaked even if its a zone off, honestly I just want some sign of teamwork in our defencive half and more numbers around the ball.
