where was the captain to sort out the team falling to ■■■■? oh just playing an ok game for himself i guess.
Exactly!
It’s happened once this year
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We are NOT a young building team. We have 1 player on the list older than 30 which is the direct result of shyte drafting 2010 - 2012 but our actual team is average age of 25ish. We had an older side than Melbourne last week is that why we won? We had 2 kids playing today and it was Collingwoods kids who again showed they have us covered. We have 11 players on our list with little to no senior exposure so no real reason to just expect they will all come on. This is what drags the average down but we are not fielding a young side. We have 17 players aged 24-28 which is the prime age to challenge.
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He easily won his position, honestly putting him on-ball in hindsight might have been a good idea.
The panic in the last was led by Heppell early and we never recovered. Needed a steady hand from a veteran and he couldn’t provide it. Then we just panicked our way through the whole last term.
Worse than losing is feeding this stupid mythology around Collingwood and their comebacks
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Yeah, they are so confident they can come back. I hate that confidence.
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If we pat ourselves on the back after another capitulation I will spew up.
You should never lose a game when you are 5 goals up at 3/4 time.
It says a lot about my club that i always thought collingwood would come back and reel us in.
It was way worse than i expected. Absolutely shambolic performance.
Collingwood were fitter, smarter, more skilful, made better decisions and were always there to help a teammate.
I hope i dont hear coaches preaching the whole developing team / learning bullshit.
Give them a rocket
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I’m usually a burn it to the ground kind of person.
Today was predictable. But from what I’ve read, the team had a dip, and it’s not a surprise that the lack of polish, fitness and youth caught up to them.
The first part of the season, I feel we’ve played with something half resembling a structure and plan.
I’m actually think they will try hard against the Cats. They may not win, but this isn’t our year to focus on win/loss. It’s a year to see structure, discipline and learning composure under pressure.
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It happens all the time.
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‘always there to help a team mate’, yep.
Not us, oh no, let’s just see if he can do it on his own, ffs, drives me mad.
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You’d hope they don’t need a rocket after that. It should be galling enough to motivate them on Sunday.
Not to good teams
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Also, I hate saying this because he plays for Collingwood, but Nick Daicos is going to have a Judd/Ablett/D.Martin level career.
He is ridiculously good for a second year player.
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We were the better team for 3Q
In the fourth we didn’t play Draper in the ruck enough
Game over
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It could be worse.
A Bomber supporter and his wife are staying at the same hotel here in Melbourne central as me. They travelled down from Wagga Wagga and got scammed $500 for on-line tickets and were refused entry into the ground.
They then watched Essendon’s performance on some hotel pub TV.
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Love your words. I’m sick of the praise I’m seeing on Facebook. We shouldn’t be satisfied with playing well for 3 quarters. It’s not being disloyal, it’s called passion and todays loss was a shambles.
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What about last year and the year before that? We have players that seem to lack backbone when the pressure gets cranked up and lose their appetite to compete. Today is another example that’s all.
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To continue that comparison: Melbourne had not been the same after badly treating one of their greats [Norm Smith). We had crap years before but certainly a decade of crap after the AFL stitched up one of our greats [James Hird).
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