Looks like with our intent to hold possession and defend well, we’ve forgotten what its really all about. The ability to kick a winning score.
Collingwood did well to close down the switch across the ground which meant the mids / defs had nothing but contests to kick the ball to which is not what our game plan is designed to achieve. Once this happens you could feel it minute after minute how it was just going to fall apart the wrong way.
Even when we were down by 20 with 10 to go we didn’t know how to attack more aggressively!
I can’t see how our current game plan will get us a winning score. A tweak is required.
Highlight was obviously Fletchers drop punt from the centre square.
Have we never been through a wet weather football situation or planned for these conditions? I cannot understand the decision making today. The message from the box was either very poor or the players were way ahead of themselves. On talent we crap all over that side. ■■■■■■ disappointing
Put the ■■■■■■ sprinklers on and start teaching the team how to play in wet. After all it is a wet weather sport. Collingwood made us look second rate and; we were. No more excuses and stop talking about playing finals until we can play four quarters.
The scary thing about all this is look back to last year’s post game thread and the comments would be pretty similar IMO. I distinctly remember this time last year that I hated Carlisle forward as he provided nothing most of the time and thinking that Bellchambers was a lazy player. We’ve been stuck in this mediocre rut for so long now and while other teams seem to improve or fade away we always seem to be poised for that breakout year that never happens.
I thought Gleeson was good today, people will focus on a few turnovers that he made, but at least he took on the game and contest when there were players who stood back.
If you call dumb footy good then fine he played well. It was a pressure game in the wet and he tried to dance around and feness the handball. Poor game.
Not alone by any stretch, so disappointing.
We need to bring back Myers, Cooney, Hocking stat!
meh as others have said, same ■■■■ different week/year.
This game was lost well before today. Was lost last week when last weeks performance was not deemed unacceptable.
If you continue to allow a team that doesn’t turn up prepared both psyhically and mentally, then you have no one to blame but yourself.
12 of collingwoods players today had under 50 games, and that side made ours who pushed sydney and beat hawthorn look 3 divison under 12 level today. IT’s ■■■■■■■ pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
I just want to know, when will the club learn ? from board, to coaches to players to supporters, when will you all learn that this is not acceptable ?
Need too toughen up, last year our contested ball was ■■■■, it has continued again.
Our forwardline is fine, it’s our ■■■■■■ midfield that is not playing great footy, they lose the clearances, and contested ball and bomb it in the forwardline. Harvey said just kick it to advantage, well bombing in long is not to advantage.
I’d rather bring in McKernan for TBell, we need more at ground level around the stoppages and from what I’ve seen of him he is very competitive on the ground. Stinker if shame, no good players at all