Of course, we're a young side and you have young players making mistakes, which means the older players have to be pretty perfect, and ours are far from it at the moment (although Sir Dane sure as hell wound back the clock the other night.) So it's just a team-wide meltdown of turn-overs and poor discipline.
But these are necessary evils we have to face. We won't have those three veterans forever. We need O'Riordan or Stoddart to really step up as a clean user of the footy off half back in lieu of McVeigh. We need Melican to get out of his form slump and prove he can be the next Grundy, or at least he and Aliir build some sort of chemistry so that they can help each other out like Reg and Ted used to. And we need McCartin and Blakey to really learn their craft as forwards, because Buddy will play less games with each passing year from now on, and our only other option is Reid.
I'm excited about seeing these youngsters working through these challenges. That is, if Horse is smart and gives it to them.