We’re saying the same thing.
Just in a different way.
We do play teams who could wipe the floor with us. Which is not good.
But it’s a great challenge to see where we sit against them compared to last year. Last year, I saw the resistance in our team up until the bye. Then we fell away.
This year we’ve seen the resistance mixed in with a pretty sustainable forward press up until the bye.
If we can continue that form ahead, I think we could win more often than not. But it’s tough to have that confidence after last night’s showing of resistance in conjunction with how we’ve finished seasons recently.
I think one bad loss and it’ll snowball. Having said that, 1 great win and it’ll snowball.
The weird thing is that it was working really well in Q1. Lots of communicating, leading to space, entries came in with lowering the eyes, 4 goals in no time.
The lack of effort gives me horrible nightmares of last year’s game against GWS which I had the misfortune of attending. Just when I was starting to think we were over that sort of thing they waved the white flag again.
But they have another chance. If they can rebound and beat Collingwood then I will be satisfied that improvement has been made. But another meek surrender when the opposition kicks a couple of goals or gets a couple of dodgy frees then it’s another season of treading water I fear.
I believe structures and competitiveness has improved, not to mention fitness. To me Last nights scoreline doesn’t reflect the closeness of the game, what was most noticeable was that Geelongs class players like Stengel, Miers, Danger, Stewart amongst them made the most of opportunities created….we don’t have anyone on our list like Miers or Stengle. It is easily the biggest deficiency on our list and it doesn’t surprise me that we have such bad conversion from inside 50s as our forward 50 only has 1 X factor player and that’s Stringer.
I am no great fan of Heppell, Kelly, Hind or Menzie but I do trust that Scott has them in place for structural reasons and I believe our structure has largely held up throughout the year….we have managed to be fairly even or better on inside 50s, clearances etc (except the Port game) and to me that shows the improvement over last year, where I don’t think that was the case.
I don’t think in one off season we can expect Scott to correct poor list decisions from the previous 15 years. He inherited a very unbalanced list with plenty of glaring holes and a real lack of elite players. He has in Durham, Caldwell, Perkins, Tsatis, Jones, Caddy, Cox, Reid the makings of some elite talent, indeed with so many of these players being top 10 picks you would expect them to be elite……but we have to remember who our list manager was and how poor his record is with high end draft picks. As much as I hate it, we must be patient, did we really expect to win a final or even make the 8 this year, I certainly didn’t.
Well Corbin…… I decided to go to the Geelong vs Essendon game at the G last year. I was running 10 mins late and when I walked into stadium, The game was already over.
Yep, I’m sure glad I took the 2 hour train ride to the game.
I thought we were set for something at least fair given last week the turds only paid us 4 free kicks in 3/4 of footy - after we kicked away we got gimmies as usual to even it all out once the game was over.
Honestly I’d love a win against the Filth but if it happened due to ridiculous circumstances like last night I’d be pretty flat, the team should win mostly on their merits as opposed to on the back of umpire rogering
