I have been a pessimistic cvnt for a long time about us, But even though we didn’t play to our best, if we kicked straight that would have been a 10 goal win without even playing close to our best. The signs were good tonight imo, we could of fully gone into our shells when we looked terrible but we found a way to still play good, attacking footy minus the reward. That’s fixable. The thing that impressed me tonight was our defensive efforts running the other way. We slipped in that area for a big part of the second, but apart from that we did really, really well
Zaka is in career best form. Love the bloke ATM, it has changed with him. His defensive stuff has gone up 10x from what it was
I think laverde looks a mile off it. his endeavour is fine but the lack of decision making is killing him.
I don’t think green is a big loss, he’s ordinary for the most part. I’d do a straight swap with colyer and just hope like hell trav produces, and as much as he’s been absolutely terrible this year with Fanta and green gone, you have to back him in and hope he can produce
Heppell was poor for the first half and provided a excellent second half when it mattered. Happy
McKenna is a fkn gun. GUN
Not too sure what else to say but I’m fkn happy we look like we’re gonna play finals. How can you not
It’s all nerves and playing within himself at the moment. Not playing his natural game and it’s stifling him a bit, learning how to not be too kamikaze.
Remember how he came out and just could not miss??
He’ll get back there, … and anyone carrying on about him being cooked trade etc,… has a very short memory, and absolutely no idea.
Selection will be interesting next week with green seemingly in big trouble. I fear to bring colyer straight back in. I hope they blood Mutch out give Stanton a send off.
A wins a win, can’t be too disappointed considering our knack for going full Essington in the past. We played better than what we did against Carlton, we just didn’t put them away. Joe had probably his worst game for the year also.
Weird in that I think he should have been given a fortnight in the magoos for the last 16 or so weeks.
So we drop him, but don’t play him at the lower level.
The guy doesn’t need a rest, he needs to remember how good he is…
Because it’s a lot better than this.
One more thing to add. If we play finals, which we probably will now, it’s gonna be the biggest 2 week build up in history on this forum and rightly so. It’s scary to think our worse will see us beaten by 10 goals week 1, but our very best will absolutely wipe the floor with anyone
It’s gonna be a interesting ride the next 3 weeks. We’re unpredictable, which makes us dangerous. Hold on and enjoy what could come
You may add that we are also the highest scored against of all the teams in the eight plus the three teams o/s the eight contending for a finals birth.
Oh, I was giving the coaches more credit than to be forcing a guy to play at about 50% of his level to the detriment of the team for most of the friggin’ year.
But sure. That might have happened.