I think everyone would agree that Billings is talented and probably our most talented but is it Richo stopping him converting set shots? It's more the make up of our side is so poor that Billings should be the cherry on the cake rather than the sponge. He's ideally a finisher who gets easy supply and hasn't run ragged to help out up field. We have 2 senior players who are AFL standard in Carlisle and Stuv, a few mid career in Robbo, Webster and Ross and a couple of talent kids coming through in Billings and Gresham. We then have the new draftees that could be anything. Our list is on the very poor side and with injuries on top of that our large group of B grade talent has been decimated. It would be a miracle worker that could get up the team we had out on Saturday night unless we were playing one of the bottom teams.
Totally agree with this. I didnt think we played too bad.
There were some good signs last week. We have so many players injured and were really blooding youth now.
TBH all this over the top reaction to our performances started after North smashed us but since then we can clearly see North actually turned out to be a pretty decent team in 18.
Alot of us myself included over reacted and i think because weve gone so far that way supporters are now having a hard time acknowledging that even though we lost were actually playing better footy.
Just look at Newnes v pies.
Then again it could be we looked better and kicked more goals then all year because we had more smalls than bigs in the fwd half.
We started to get our fwd defensive stops going and the whole 50 just looked way more open and dangerous.