Had this game...

[ImperialPurple]

...by the throat, and then let them back in.

When we get it going, we are looking like we did in the second half of last season... yet they are only 5 points down.

I'm not sure why, but we had this game and only needed to keep up the intensity, and the quick ball movement, and it would be almost over already now at half time. But instead, we go in pretty much on level peggings.

Oh - and KICK STRAIGHT... PLEASE!!!!

 

[Purple Passion]

Yeah we don't have a good history with 2nd and 3rd qtrs unfortunately hopefully we can bring it home but the Bullies have pace to burn and thats definately a worry

 

[ImperialPurple]

This is deadset killing me....

 

[Freo Big Fella]

Fair dinkum, who was that pigshit of an umpire? If Pav had dropped that mark.....

 

[ImperialPurple]

30 scoring shots to 21 and we are losing...

Bloody kick the flipping thing straight!!


C'mon - we are playing the better footy overall, just can't finish. Get that right this quarter, PLEASE!

I hate these tight games on TV... I don't cope well at all...


C'Mon Freo!

 

[Scham]

30 scoring shots to 21 and we are losing...

Bloody kick the flipping thing straight!!


C'mon - we are playing the better footy overall, just can't finish. Get that right this quarter, PLEASE!

I hate these tight games on TV... I don't cope well at all...


C'Mon Freo!

We clearly haven't addressed this problem from tha last two games!

Des is doing his usual good one week absolutely crap the next routine!

 

[ImperialPurple]

Dogs intensity has gone up, and Freo are going to pieces...

 

[raffrox]

We clearly haven't addressed this problem from tha last two games!

Des is doing his usual good one week absolutely crap the next routine!

It's not Des. Really, whats the deal with singling out Des?

How about Dodd and few others crap roosts into the forward 50?

 

[raffrox]

Great goal Des!

 

[ImperialPurple]

Please someone explain, cos I really don't understand, how did this all turn to shit?

 

[Freo Big Fella]

McLaren gifts one to Hahn to knock us out of it aaaaaand.....yep, heads are down. All ****ing over.

 

[Wizard]

We clearly haven't addressed this problem from tha last two games!

Des is doing his usual good one week absolutely crap the next routine!

Oh for god sake, he was as good as anyway bar Belly tonight. Easily in our top half dozen tonight. This Headland bashng is the bggest ****ing joke. Pull your ****ing head in.

 

[ImperialPurple]

Frickin 46 point turnaround to lose this one...

One and a half quarters of "last year's footy", then 2 and a half quarters of the kind of footy that has seen us bottom dwellers for the other 12 years of our existence...

Such indecision, and too many handballs through the middle getting ourselves in deeper and deeper muck, then finally they kick, but it's just a long bomb into the 50, but it's over the top of the forwards heads, or to a 1 on 3 situation...



Geez Brad Johnson is good...

 

[Ysaye]

Please someone explain, cos I really don't understand, how did this all turn to shit?

Quite simple really. Both teams chose to play attacking football and consequently both were allowed free shots at goal from around the 50 to 40 mark. It embed and flowed a bit, but eventually they started to take more of these long range shots more often and were more accurate with those shots. Instead we chose to try and pick out our key forwards from this distance instead, often doing this quite poorly by kicking to guys that were double teamed or just going to the opposition. Confidence and hope dropped as they took the lead, and they started to win it more out of the centre.

Both teams tried as hard as each other.

Honoury mention to Brad Johnson who played an outstanding game.

 

[nezasaur]

what happened to mcpharlin?

 

[ch1ko]

des headland was one of the best players in the league when he played for a team that wanted to win. what a lousy attitude we,ve had this year, theres about 4 players on our list that want us to win and one of them isnt playing till round 13

 

[legitimatic]

Don't use this loss as an excuse to attack Dessie, he was one of our best tonight believe it or not.

 

[Ripper]

Don't use this loss as an excuse to attack Dessie, he was one of our best tonight believe it or not.

Yep 19 possie , 2 goals , 6 inside 50's (game high) , 3 tackles.

Far from our worst player

 

[dominguez]

Please someone explain, cos I really don't understand, how did this all turn to shit?

Guys being played when their form didn't warrant it.

Accepting mediocrity. The Chairman giving a bottom 8 finish "a big tick".

Players not being dragged/dropped for putting individual glory ahead of the team.

The coach picking fights with opposition coaches when our season is on the line.

Less than 100% commitment on game day being tolerated.

 

[Scham]

Oh for god sake, he was as good as anyway bar Belly tonight. Easily in our top half dozen tonight. This Headland bashng is the bggest ****ing joke. Pull your ****ing head in.

He was crap! You should be demanding him to pull his head in! How many targets did he hit? How many times did he fumble under no pressure at all? Have a bloody look at the result of his possesions, you headland fans just see that he got the ball and thats good enough for you! Well you just keep on accepting the mediocre crap that headland dishes out and see how far we get. I'm don't accept mediocre when it comes to my footy team, I want us to succeed! We will never be successful with headland in our club! he's a self centred joke! Trade the crab!!!

 

[Belnakor]

Yep 19 possie , 2 goals , 6 inside 50's (game high) , 3 tackles.

Far from our worst player

for gods sake stop using inside 50's as a defense for Des. I thought Des was OK in the first half and went missing in the second. His impact was very minimal, and when you play across the half forward flank you WILL get quite a few inside 50's. Its nonsense to keep using that stat to defend des because it means nothing. Did he hit people on the chest? how effective were those disposals into 50? We don't know. Useless stat.

 

[Ripper]

I am also sick of the Headland supporters hiding behind useless statistics.

They pull out a stat to defend his game even when he has clearly been below par.

Headland was pathetic in the second half. With Carr out of action midway through the second qtr, senior players like Headland needed to step up. But he didnt, instead he did another dissapearing act.

But they will make an excuse for him no doubt: "Oh, no you cant look at the second half because he had a new pair of football boots on, so we can discount that performance as an outlier..."

What rubbish. Headland actually had more of it in the 2nd half than the first.

 

[dugrene]

Guys being played when their form didn't warrant it.

Accepting mediocrity. The Chairman giving a bottom 8 finish "a big tick".

Players not being dragged/dropped for putting individual glory ahead of the team.

The coach picking fights with opposition coaches when our season is on the line.

Less than 100% commitment on game day being tolerated.

As soon as I heard about his verbal on Wally, I had a sensation of DejA Vu.
Sometimes I think he must be some sought of obsessive compulsive who gets in a position of normality then just self destructs.
Which makes him the perfect coach for our players.

As things turned out my premonition was correct.

 

[pinkus maximus]

who did CC have a go at? and when

 

[inferno66]

Our accuracy at goal is killing us. If he had kicked straight in the second quater we would have had more momentum for the second half. Other problem is we are still bombing the ball into the fowardline instead of spotting up Pav and Taz