- Apr 20, 2015
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Ok, so obviously we are sitting 2nd on the ladder i know that, i am quite content with the ladder positioning but i want to delve a bit deeper and dissect the form of our first half of the year. So we haven't really put together a 4 quarter performance and have been quite patchy in majority if not all of our games in my opinion, we get glimpses of our best and we start to think wow if we play like this we will be very hard to beat, but it hasn't happened often, just when we need it, a few examples of this are against Carlton and St.Kilda where we only played 1 good quarter of footy and still managed to win.
On our wins, they have been against Brisbane, Richmond, Port, Essendon, St.Kilda, Sydney, Melbourne, Dogs and Carlton. The first of the 3 are teams in the 8 so that's great and the remaining obviously outside. Our losses have been Geelong and West Coast who are both probably going to finish top 4 and Freo who i have finishing 8th in my ladder predictor.
As mentioned before every game we have played patchy in all of these games, we look great when we apply that high pressure and take the game on but always have moments where we just stop and start to chip it around which results in an eventual turnover. Back to my main question! Is it a good thing or bad thing? For me i am trying to look at it as a positive, you don't want to fire your shots to early and for us we have so much upside going into the 2nd half of the year, with so much talent going in and out of the side (De Goey, Elliott, Adams, Moore, Beams, Sier, Langdon etc) you get the feeling once these guys get back and we get some stability we can really start to play that consistent brand we want to play.
I believe our best is good enough, but i want to see more of it in the 2nd half, we will have some huge games coming up with teams that fancy themselves top 4 and it could be as little as % that could mean a home final or an away final first up. What do you guys think? Go pies!
On our wins, they have been against Brisbane, Richmond, Port, Essendon, St.Kilda, Sydney, Melbourne, Dogs and Carlton. The first of the 3 are teams in the 8 so that's great and the remaining obviously outside. Our losses have been Geelong and West Coast who are both probably going to finish top 4 and Freo who i have finishing 8th in my ladder predictor.
As mentioned before every game we have played patchy in all of these games, we look great when we apply that high pressure and take the game on but always have moments where we just stop and start to chip it around which results in an eventual turnover. Back to my main question! Is it a good thing or bad thing? For me i am trying to look at it as a positive, you don't want to fire your shots to early and for us we have so much upside going into the 2nd half of the year, with so much talent going in and out of the side (De Goey, Elliott, Adams, Moore, Beams, Sier, Langdon etc) you get the feeling once these guys get back and we get some stability we can really start to play that consistent brand we want to play.
I believe our best is good enough, but i want to see more of it in the 2nd half, we will have some huge games coming up with teams that fancy themselves top 4 and it could be as little as % that could mean a home final or an away final first up. What do you guys think? Go pies!