Some good signs with Caddy, May, Kako, Roberts, Johnson, Lual, Clarke
You add Reid, Merrett, Durham, Duursma, Draper (or Vigo), Caldwell, McKay, Bryan, Ridley (if fit) and there’s the foundations of a decent team
Explore what we can get for Langford, Wright, Parish, McGrath (likely won’t move him on but that’s ok as he can play back pocket), Redman, Tsatas, Hobbs, Jones
Move past Lav, Gresham, Goldy, Davey,
Get us much top end talent over the next 2-3 years pre Tassie and be calculated with free agency
Really happy with the young guys’ energy and enthusiasm today. They’re building.
As a whole though, our players still look scared of making mistakes. They’re hesitant to make physical contact with the opposition, wait for their opponents to attack the ball, stand flat footed and, as is blatantly obvious to everyone, overdo the handball. Has all the natural instinct been coached out of them?
Just as an example, Mason Redman, who was someone who used to attack the contest at every opportunity, is now almost apologetic when competing.
Why is our team becoming so timid? I just hope these young guys are not over coached. The best players in the league are those who still rely a lot on instinct.
Good signs for 3 quarters and seeing Caddy and May both play well at the same time was promising. Ultimately the midfield, again, were really poor defensively and with their disposal.
I thought Clarke was decent, probably should have had 3 goals, missed a gettable one then had his head ripped off and no free. Johnson did a few nice things too.
We need our poorer kicks to be looking for him, how many times did we work the ball to Hobbs to make an important kick?
So frustrating that our mids just can’t deliver a ball to a forward. It’s all bomb it in and hope for the best! Lower the eyes and get forwards to at least lead. Get Harley Reid … though looks impossible!!!
Youngsters have real talent and have at least been given exposure, but surely conditioning staff must go.
Effort was there for 3qtrs which was great to see, last qtr was terrible.
Young players all showed something, and quite frankly carried the team
A lot of senior guys let us down…again
Lav got beaten easily by king all day, yet Ridley was never moved on to him
Our structure is still all over the shop
The mids and forwards have no cohesion at all
I still don’t know what our game plan/ style actually is. Going forward we look like we have no structure at all. We look like we have zero clue how to defend in either a zone or man on man as a team
