Kapow!!!
Brownlow Medallist
I know I'm a livewire when Freo are losing but this display currently taking place is nothing short of pathetic. We are being beaten all over the ground, showing no signs of wanting to win either.
And here we were not just 2 weeks ago thinking Top 4. With this performance we should be thinking about trying not to get into the Bottom 4. Fair enough Hawthorn are the most underrated side in the competition but to be beaten like we are at the moment is garbage.
2 weeks ago we were saying McPharlin forward was a master stroke when in reality it was a temporary fix to a permanent problem. He kicked 10 goals in 2 weeks against mediocre defence, put a semi-decent Full Back on him and he's out of the game. All of sudden we are being shown up for the front running soft c*cks we are.
In a way I guess we deserve the crap we are going to cop. For the arrogance shown by some of us after saying "Top 4" this and "If/When we beat Essendon". But then again why do we always have to be the team that is just the mockery of the competition? (no Eagles or other team trolls to comment please either) Why are we the whipping boys that whenever we start to look bright there's always something that shoots us down?
This may just be the temporary madness running through my system after a beating but my anger towards Chris Connolly, some of our more arrogant supporters and the players in general is at boiling point. We don't deserve to make the finals this year after today's effort alone.
To respond to Imperial Purple by saying Justin Longmuir is our most important player, you're dead on the money and whenever he plays a bad game we play bad. Sandilands is winning the hitouts with ease but our midfielders aren't reading his taps. Is that Sandi's fault? No. Sandi's job is to get the tap to where our midfielders are but most of the time either our midfield just can't get the footy due to a muffled tap or they are too slow to react to get the ball, hence the ball gets sharked by the opposition midfielders meaning we lose the clearance. And that's a significant stat against us. We've dominated the taps but lost in the clearances, even when we thumped Collingwood. I think the problems are deeper than just Sandilands in the ruck because even when Longmuir was moved there today and won the tap our midfielders just didn't react quick enough.
And finally, to get out of my system, to all Freo supporters. Do you think we can bounce back? Do you think we can make finals after today's effort? Do you think that even if we bounce back that we won't deserve another beating? This is 2004 all over again
Had to get that out of my system.
And here we were not just 2 weeks ago thinking Top 4. With this performance we should be thinking about trying not to get into the Bottom 4. Fair enough Hawthorn are the most underrated side in the competition but to be beaten like we are at the moment is garbage.
2 weeks ago we were saying McPharlin forward was a master stroke when in reality it was a temporary fix to a permanent problem. He kicked 10 goals in 2 weeks against mediocre defence, put a semi-decent Full Back on him and he's out of the game. All of sudden we are being shown up for the front running soft c*cks we are.
In a way I guess we deserve the crap we are going to cop. For the arrogance shown by some of us after saying "Top 4" this and "If/When we beat Essendon". But then again why do we always have to be the team that is just the mockery of the competition? (no Eagles or other team trolls to comment please either) Why are we the whipping boys that whenever we start to look bright there's always something that shoots us down?
This may just be the temporary madness running through my system after a beating but my anger towards Chris Connolly, some of our more arrogant supporters and the players in general is at boiling point. We don't deserve to make the finals this year after today's effort alone.
To respond to Imperial Purple by saying Justin Longmuir is our most important player, you're dead on the money and whenever he plays a bad game we play bad. Sandilands is winning the hitouts with ease but our midfielders aren't reading his taps. Is that Sandi's fault? No. Sandi's job is to get the tap to where our midfielders are but most of the time either our midfield just can't get the footy due to a muffled tap or they are too slow to react to get the ball, hence the ball gets sharked by the opposition midfielders meaning we lose the clearance. And that's a significant stat against us. We've dominated the taps but lost in the clearances, even when we thumped Collingwood. I think the problems are deeper than just Sandilands in the ruck because even when Longmuir was moved there today and won the tap our midfielders just didn't react quick enough.
And finally, to get out of my system, to all Freo supporters. Do you think we can bounce back? Do you think we can make finals after today's effort? Do you think that even if we bounce back that we won't deserve another beating? This is 2004 all over again
Had to get that out of my system.
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