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Lefau for sure.His good players. So that's Lynch, Baker who wasn't there today, and...who else was missing from our best team? Tom Brown, Maurice Jnr maybe. Lots of injuries to key players earlier in the year but most of them are back now. We can't use that as an excuse for today's pathetic "effort".
It's literally the second last game of a season which has been fully over for 3 months where almost every player has been injured at one point or another. You honestly can not expect them to put in the same effort as a team trying g to lock in a finals spot.
Also missing players bring more than just their individual performances and impact. We do not have a forward line which changes how our entire team plays.
For example, the midfield has no targets going inside 50 which makes them second guess and are unsure of how to move the move forward which leads to making mistakes.
Lets say Nank taps it down Tarantos throat who breaks out of the pack and streams forward and.......what. Who's he going to kick it to?
Having a target like Lynch + Lefau + Maurice makes the entire team better. We actually have targets which means you can play more confidently.
Through injury, age, changing game plan we've had an awful year and it means no one can play to their potential. Every player, including guys that have been good for a decade, didn't suddenly become shit. A few additions can make the entire team much better due to being able to play confidently. By the time we've had those injured guys start to come back, our confidence has been shot and our year already over. It's hard to get them to turn it around by the mn