We're still alright.

[Thrice3]

Regardless of tonights effort, I still feel we are still alright to make the 8.
We will match up alot better on the Eagles. We're 7-3, not bad for the 2004 16th side. Just another learning curb, keep your head up Tiges.

 

[Stafford678]

Still lacking in the midfield

hyde needs to go back to vfl and get confidence, hopefully we can take brown being out as a postive and not drop our heads, greater responsibility onto pettifer and krak to be the goal sneaks

 

[Thrice3]

Our midfield did pretty well tonight, from the stats on the clearances, but we just kept turning it over. Just a matter of time till we get it right.

 

[Stafford678]

Interesting to see how much spud comes out in the players over the next few weeks, culd easily drop the heads and get belted to peices over the rest of the season

Browny will be a big loss, but hopefully it just opens up a chance for perhaps Hilton to come in as that forward pocket type.. I can accept that we lost to a far greater team in the dee's but i just cant accept that when we loose we get belted

 

[Bartel'sNo1Fan]

i hope you guys make the 8 and even better i'd love it if you made the 4.
melbourne were so rough and hideous tonight..
Good luck with everything and to brown as well.
Lets hope your team do their very best for brown

 

[jko'neal]

Dont panic guys we had a bad night and Brown is a huge loss no doubt.
The high rate of clangers were going to hurt us against a side eventually,and Melbourne with the way they play are the worst side to turn the ball over continually against.
Get back Hall,Stafford and Hartigan next week hopefully,we should be able to turn it around against the Eagles.

 

[JohnF]

We are mediocre, which is an improvement from last year.

 

[jezza]

I thought we did a lot of things right, gave ourselves a chance in the match, so there are certainly positives to take out of it. Our kicking for goal was poor, wasting plenty of chances when we had the momentum, against a side like Melbourne you can't do that as they are too efficient. Our kicking coming out of defence was also poor, at one stage we kicked about 4 in a row straight to a Demon. They are things we will be working hard on.

On a positive note, we have good structure this year and more depth, Brown is a huge loss, but not a catastrophic one. Someone else can step up. This is no means the end of our season.

 

[Crumden]

Interesting to see how much spud comes out in the players over the next few weeks, culd easily drop the heads and get belted to peices over the rest of the season

I thought the players looked a bit deflated in the last 20 minutes of the game after Brown got injured last night, though maybe it was just that Melbourne finally broke our back, or a bit of both. For most of the game, I though we kept challenging pretty well and coming back at them, even if Melbourne always managed to step up when challenged. We couldn't get the midfield matchups right in the first 10 minutes and Melbourne exploited that and rammed on 5 goals giving them a buffer all night. But up to the 10 minute mark of the last quarter, we didn't deserve a 10 goal belting. In the end we got punished for not running the game out.

The difference with the Frawley years is that Wallace won't just be trying to find positives in an empty box, he'll be working out what went wrong on the field and in the coaching box and he'll also be working hard to ensure the players keep their confidence. Also, while a player in Brown's form is irreplaceable in any team, Wallace has set up a couple of variations of the team structure that can still be functional if a key player gets injured.

 

[Tiger18]

I thought the players looked a bit deflated in the last 20 minutes of the game after Brown got injured last night, though maybe it was just that Melbourne finally broke our back, or a bit of both. For most of the game, I though we kept challenging pretty well and coming back at them, even if Melbourne always managed to step up when challenged. We couldn't get the midfield matchups right in the first 10 minutes and Melbourne exploited that and rammed on 5 goals giving them a buffer all night. But up to the 10 minute mark of the last quarter, we didn't deserve a 10 goal belting. In the end we got punished for not running the game out.

I agree, I thought we definitely dropped off after Brown went down. I just hope that this injury doesn't mean that the rest of the team drop off like they have done in the previous few years. It will be interesting to see how the players react next week against WCE.