Who’s bungles?It will be a wasted year when we get bungles out of finals
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Who’s bungles?It will be a wasted year when we get bungles out of finals
Who’s bungles?
Who’s bungles?
Yep spot on. So many times this year opposition teams exit our defense with no pressure at all then go forward for an uncontested mark while our defenders are nowhere to be seen. So frustrating to watch.It’s not just form of individual players guys, we play an unaccountable brand and it is our brand. It’s not going to change how we play.
So unless all the other finalists let us play our uncontested high possession brand which they won’t we will be left with what we have seen the last two weeks.
An unaccountable brand of footy is arguably the worse brand of footy you can play, we have so much talent that it is hidden a lot during the season.
I wish we could flick a switch and play four quarters for the first time all year. But this is a team that hasn't beaten a top 4 side all year (or 1-3 if Richmond lose today) and has a 4-5 record against the top 8 (as it stands right now).
You can't paper over that rubbish record by saying those loses were at the start of the year any more.
We just haven't been hungry enough.
Unfortunately the easiest way to find a reason is to point to our performances all year.
Couldn't beat your mob despite kicking 7 of the first 10 goals
Couldn't beat Collingwood at home despite having a 3 goal lead in the last.
Smashed by Brisbane, Port and Geelong.
4 goals or fewer wins against Gold Coast, Melbourne (twice), Carlton, St Kilda and Freo so couldn't build percentage
Lost to Sydney
Lost to Hawthorn when top 4 was on the line
Our best is awesome but playing well for a quarter (or less) a game isn't going to cut it
I hope we grab Tim Kelly so our midfield has depth.
I still think we have a chance if Brisbane win today and we get Nic Nat back for the Qualifying Final, but jeez. I wish we had 7 games straight at Optus.
Yeah based on the evidence of this year so far, we aren’t willing enough to get our hands dirty and dig in when it gets tough.
We have failed basically every ‘test’ other than winning the GF replay in Round 2.
Whenever we’ve been given a good opportunity based on other results, we’ve crumbled under pressure and we also failed to beat our SCG hoodoo.
s**t happens though - there’s always next year.
Not really confident that’ll do anything. They’ll just say fu** it and “we tried our best”. A lot of evidence to suggest we can’t be arsed, last week was sudden death for top 2, this week for top 4 and many other times during the year where a chance has opened up and we’ve failed to capitalise.
It’s not just form of individual players guys, we play an unaccountable brand and it is our brand. It’s not going to change how we play.
So unless all the other finalists let us play our uncontested high possession brand which they won’t we will be left with what we have seen the last two weeks.
An unaccountable brand of footy is arguably the worse brand of footy you can play, we have so much talent that it is hidden a lot during the season.
I reckon we're already there- Extra time semi in 2007, drawn final in 1990, 2 point win in 1994, close finals in 2011 and 2012,2 close games in last years finals series and this years 1 point epic!A lose to them would mean the start of a rivalry Sydney like
The manner of Simpson's speaking has been illuminating.Well, after a stiff coffee, a Panadol, a rollie, a cough, and a look around at the wide blue sky-
The pragmatist in me says we are the sum total of our season, how we've played is how good we are, nothing more, nothing less. It's as good as it gets. No miracle turnarounds, no 'finals mode', no hoping NN will sprinkle magic rainbow dust over the outcome eg- one player can't beat a team system or process like Hawthorn with a 6 goal win? They pulled our pants down in public! Outcoached, outplayed and spanked!
We can cite reasons like 6 day break, off a wet slog in a huge game, or Mitchell and Glass providing extra intel on us, or blame individual players, or selection ins+outs, equalisation, and the coach. But the time for doing all the good stuff was NOW! In fact it was last week. Yesterday was in one sense our last chance at redemption, at saving our own arses. But that train has left the station. So you could mount a solid case of this is how good we actually are, this is it, where we sit now. Look at the facts, look at the stats. To expect more is irrational, it's Dreamtime fairytale stuff?
But, the ever-hopeful loyal fan within me still clings to the slight chance we can somehow turn this around and repeat the magic (and guts) of last year. That's a lot of full 4 quarter efforts, by the complete 22 turning up each game, ahead of us, it's not impossible, but it's unlikely.
But that's why we're here, to dream! That's footy.
One game at a time.
Here's hoping.