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In the words of Andrew Gaze, TURN IT UP! Did you even watch that first quarter or did you just look at the stats? We absolutely dominated that quarter. Inaccurate goal kicking isn't Sumich's fault, there's a little word called pressure and believe it or not it gets to players. Mayne was missing easy shots that night, but hey, that must be Sumich's fault. Let's get this straight, are you saying when our forwards miss goals, it's Sumich's fault? So when Mayne missed that goal against Essendon, it wasn't his fault, even though the ball was in his hands and left his boot, it was still somehow Sumich's fault?
In the Sydney game the wind was an easterly and our players where not lining up their kicks for goal because they where not allowing for the wind . Hence 9 points .
Someone namely Sumich as the forward coach should have had the runner out there .
The GF was much the same . kicking points when we needed goals .
The situation was very different as almost none of our players have experienced a windy MCG so there are excuses for missing .
RTB has a lot of experience of the MCG and if the home work was done then we would have played the MCG the same way as Hawthorn in that when ever they went into their forward line they played on 1 side of the ground to reduce the risk also they passed the ball to the top and front of the goals to have easier shots at goal .
I don't know if you noticed but balls kicked from the pockets where going all over the place because the wind swirls left to right so the ball gets blown across the goals and its almost impossible to kick a goal from deep in the left hand pocket and judging the breeze from the right hand pocket is even harder as our guys found out in the first quarter .
The shots from dead in front or slightly left or right of the goal posts aren't effected by the wind until it is almost through the posts .
To highlight my point when Pav had his first shot at goal from dead in front all our forwards where indicating to him to kick the ball to the out side of the left goal post because they felt the force of the wind against them . Pav kicked the ball at them and it went straight over their heads .
Before our guys went out there some one with knowledge of the MCG should have been advising the forwards of this .
Hawthorn knew this and played accordingly .
Yes they play there more often than we do ,yes Victorian footballers know these conditions and have played in them all their football life .
The Victorians on our coaching panel would have known what to expect and how to play the ground so the question we need answered is what where the players told .
To answer your questions ,Yes I was at both the Sydney game and the Grand final .
Yes I believe that the coaching panel let the boys down if they didn't advise them on the best way to play the MCG in those conditions .
Yes I was at the elimination final against Geelong the previous year .
Yes in that game the wind was not a factor in that game because it was not a windy night.

